10 Wrestlers Who Are The Best At Precisely ONE Move
2. Suicide Dive
Darby Allin.
Honestly, might as well just write those two words down there and be done with it because there aren't even any honourable mentions. There are wrestlers who do a phenomenal version of it, and they're still not close.
It's a move that gets over, so almost everybody tries. Hell, CM Punk said to the Sunday Night's Main Event podcast ahead of his match with Darby at AEW All Out 2021 that "Everybody in the wrestling world needs to never do a dive again because you can't do it better than Darby. Stop doing dives, everybody."
Punk, veteran, did not take his own advice, and injured himself doing one at All Out 2022 against Jon Moxley. Mox himself does the not-great flying high-five, a move he shares with former Shield stablemate Seth Rollins. Ember Moon in contrast does an excellent, frenzied lopé, and Dragon Lee's propulsion was best-in-class - before Darby arrived on the scene.
Darby's execution isn't just godly in and of itself - he looks like a bullet firing from a gun, no hyperbole whatsoever - he folds it into the death-defying element of his character. A more than capable mat technician, he nonetheless gets monstered in most matches and draws on the dive because he has to.
He has restored meaning to the crucial - fundamental - idea that it is a risk a wrestler must take as opposed to a cool-looking move.