A day before Darby Allin’s steel cage battle at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, the AEW star wed Sara Erickson in Seattle—then chaos spilled into viral clips with thumbtacks and tacks turned up alongside the celebration.
Darby Allin’s wedding didn’t stay a wedding for long.
Just a day before his high-stakes steel cage match at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door PPV. the AEW star tied the knot with Sara Erickson. The ceremony and reception took place in Seattle, Washington, with a lineup of AEW faces in the building. MJF, Tony Khan, Brody King, Swerve Strickland, Alicia Atout, Thunder Rosa, and Steven Borden Jr. were among those in attendance—along with Sting and Diamond Dallas Page.
At first, it looked like it would be a normal kind of celebration. Then the viral clips started moving, the kind of footage that feels less like a wedding recap and more like an extension of Allin’s own brand.
One clip showed Allin and Brody King chopping Allin’s father in the chest, while also slamming another man on tacks. Another video, also making the rounds, showed Darby Allin getting slammed on thumbtacks by his own mother on the same day as his wedding.
The chaos wasn’t completely out of the blue. Earlier this year. ahead of AEW Double or Nothing. Allin had revealed that he proposed to Erickson while he was on top of Mount Everest in May 2025. He also said the couple has known each other since meeting in high school. later reconnecting through Instagram after she spotted him “doing crazy things.”.
Then the calendar flipped back to the ring.
At Forbidden Door, Allin competed in a 12-man steel cage match. He teamed up with Mark Briscoe. Konosuke Takeshita. Orange Cassidy. Roderick Strong. and Kyle O’Reilly against MJF. Kevin Knight. Kyle Fletcher. Jake Doyle. Kazuchika Okada. and Andrade El Ídolo. In the end. Briscoe’s team won the team while Briscoe earned an AEW World Championship match against MJF next week.
And for Allin, it was another hit of the same theme—he was bodyslammed onto thumbtacks by his own mom, as one viral clip made explicit.
By the time fans reached the match card, the throughline was clear: while the venue changed from Seattle to the Forbidden Door steel cage, Darby Allin’s wedding day chaos didn’t stay behind him.
Darby Allin Sara Erickson wedding Seattle AEW Forbidden Door steel cage match MJF Mark Briscoe thumbtacks Brody King