7 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (6 March - Review)
6. Darby Allin Preps For The Climb
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It was high time - if you’ll pardon the pun - that Darby Allin introduced the factual severity of his Everest expedition into the fictional world of his day-job.
Leaving the scale of risk attached to his next big step to one side in an effort to help elevate Sting’s last match, Allin’s pathway in AEW now looks clear regardless of the perilous one that awaits. Allin’s fortunes on the microphone have been mixed, but this was as effective as anything he’d done with ‘The Icon’ during that legendary stint.
He put over that relationship in his surrendering of the tag belts, but that development has smartly already been talked around by virtue of the Tag Team Title tournament set to take place over the weeks ahead. Details were scant at this stage but the Continental Classic restored an awful lot of trust in the process, Best Friends don’t look like they’re going to be that much longer, and The Young Bucks instantly became the team to beat by virtue of an enormous development elsewhere on the show.
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