Injury update on Darby Allin following AEW Anarchy in the Arena match
An MRI showed that Darby Allin did not suffer a broken nose during Sunday’s Anarchy in the Arena match at AEW Double or Nothing as some had feared.
Our Bryan Alvarez revealed the news during last night’s Wrestling Observer Radio, saying that while Allin’s nose did get “messed up” during the match, the MRI alleviated concern about a possible break. Alvarez said Allin got a “clean bill of health.”
Allin shared a picture of his face the next day on social media, seen above. He wore a protective mask adorned with tacks during the match as he was recently struck in the face by a bus.
Allin, FTR and Bryan Danielson fell in defeat to The Elite (Jack Perry, Young Bucks & Kazuchika Okada) in the night’s main event. The violent affair featured a flamethrower, an exploding chair, tables, sneakers with tacks in the bottom, and Allin hanging feet-first upside down for several minutes from a winch among the craziness.
Alvarez opined that Allin must have been in excruciating pain when he was hanging upside down with all the blood rushing to his head. He also noted that Allin doesn’t appear to be all the way recovered from a broken foot as he said Allin was sprinting down to the ring for Sunday’s match and then slowed down as if he realized he needed to.
The night also saw Adam Copeland sustain a broken tibia in his barbed wire steel cage match with Malakai Black when he landed nearly feet-first after diving off the top of the cage onto a prone Black laid out on a table.