Hechicero Beats Darby Allin In Debut At Arena Mexico

Hechicero got his revenge on Darby Allin, pinning the AEW TNT Champion in Allin’s CMLL debut at the Día de Muertos: Rey del Inframundo event, held Friday, October 30 at Arena Mexico.

The CMLL World Heavyweight Champion finished off Allin with a guillotine leg drop, handing him a loss in his first match under the CMLL banner. Allin wasn’t a total stranger to the building, though — he’d already wrestled there back in August as part of AEW’s Grand Slam Mexico. For this appearance, Allin paid tribute to the late PAC, bringing a skateboard to the ring with “The Bastard” written across it.

The result flips the script on a feud that’s bounced between AEW and CMLL rings over the past few months. Allin beat Hechicero on the October 14 episode of AEW Collision in a match that carried real stakes, with the TNT Championship and a spot in Clockwork Carnage on the line. Before that, the two had crossed paths at Grand Slam Mexico, where Allin partnered with Místico and Chris Jericho in a trios match against Hechicero, Kazuchika Okada and Kevin Knight — a bout Allin’s team won.

Getting the win back on his own turf, in CMLL’s biggest building, gives Hechicero a measure of satisfaction after dropping that title match a couple weeks earlier. It also continues to reinforce just how much traffic there’s been between AEW and CMLL in 2026, with top AEW names regularly popping up on Mexican cards and vice versa. Whether that’s building toward something bigger — a rematch for the TNT title, or another multi-man spectacle — remains to be seen, but the back-and-forth between these two in particular has the makings of a continuing program if either side wants to keep it going.

The rest of the card saw Mina Shirakawa defeat India Sioux, while Xelhua won a four-way elimination match over Guerrero Maya Jr., Calavera Jr. I and Ráfaga Jr. to capture the CMLL Rey del Inframundo title. Soberano Jr. and Bárbaro Cavernario also came out on top in a three-way tag match, and Persephone won a three-way bout over Lluvia and Olympia.

Given how the trilogy has gone so far — one win apiece in singles action, plus the trios loss — a rubber match between Hechicero and Allin feels like a natural next step, whether it happens on AEW or CMLL soil.