Darby Allin Talks About Sting's Condition After That AEW Dynamite Ladder Dive

The pairing of Darby Allin and Sting has been a fun partnership to witness on AEW TV, as one generation passes the torch down to the next. Though Sting might be passing that torch, he's not quite ready to ride off into the sunset just yet, as he's proven with the spots he's willing to perform during his matches. Topping the list was a recent AEW Dynamite where Sting dove from a ladder onto Sammy Guevara on the floor below, who laid across two tables. Sting hit one table, but his chin smashed into the other, bloodying his lip and worrying fans that the WWE Hall of Famer might be seriously hurt. Fortunately, he got up and finished the match.

During an interview on Busted Open Radio, Darby Allin was asked how Sting was doing after such a brutal bump. “He’s actually doing great. We talked the day after and he said he was feeling great which is awesome because I pulled him aside after that match and said, ‘Yo, just be honest with me, how you feeling? Not just your mouth but your neck, every single thing about your body’ because people forget, he kind of retired in 2014, you know? When he took a buckle bomb, people kind of think that, you know?"

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Is Darby Allin Talking Sting Into Copying His Style?

No one takes bigger bumps in AEW than Darby Allin. If he doesn't look like he's near death after a match, even when he wins, then he's not doing it right. With him jumping off and through anything, it's understandable to wonder if he's backstage trying to get Sting to be just like him.

According to Allin, that's not so. "So for him to be going as hard and trust me when I say this, it’s none of my ideas, it’s all him. He’s just like, ‘All right, there’s a ladder here tonight, I’ll jump off it’ and a lot of people think it’s me being kind of being the bad influence but nah, it’s him. He’s got that hunger, he’s got that want to give the fans something and he’s feeling great and I’m stoked.” (h/t Post Wrestling)

After Sting's ladder dive on Dynamite, many came out to criticize AEW for not better protecting a wrestler who's now in his mid-60s. It seemed incredibly risky for him to pull off such stunts at his age, especially when he narrowly avoided serious injury twice just a few days before at the Forbidden Door pay-per-view. Sting's an all-time icon near the end of his career and it doesn't look like anyone's going to be able to tell him no. Let's just hope that he stays safe and one day gets the fitting sendoff he deserves.