Justin LaBar

So as I watch this, like I said, I'm, I'm good with this, this detour, which is what it has been to me of Darby's the champion.

I've been fine with it.

It's also managed to elevate a few other talents in the process and in their own way, Brody King, uh, Kevin Knight.

Uh, it's just all a matter of follow-up with AEW is just, you know,

You can give somebody an opportunity, and even if they don't win the title, you still have to follow up with them.

Kevin Knight certainly has been followed up with.

Brody King, I believe, is going to be in the Owen Hart tournament brackets, which we'll touch on if we get a chance here in a bit.

So I've been fine with it.

And really, as I watch the dynamic and I listen to Max and Darby go back and forth and I watch the physicality when they break out into it like they did tonight, the best compliment of...

of past comparison that this makes me feel, and to me this is a compliment, is it gives me some feeling similar to that of late 90s, like 1999, Rock and McFoley.

where obviously MJF would be the rock.

The rock at the time was the corporate champion working for Vince and was the corporate asshole and holding the title for the most part.

And then, of course, Darby Allin being the Mick Foley.

Now, obviously, Darby, from a physical standpoint, nothing like Mick Foley.

Mick Foley obviously came off of a run of being heel-demented characters.

Darby's been a babyface his entire time in AEW, so there's obviously differences there.

But the common ground being...

Obviously, the reckless physical nature that Mick Foley always had, Darby has that, and maybe even to the point to where there might be stuff that Darby does now that maybe – I'd love to watch a Darby Allin match sitting next to Mick Foley.

Wouldn't that be a fun watch-along?

And to see what Mick thinks is, ooh, Mick, would you have done that spot?