Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and Bully Ray talk to your AEW world champion Darby Allin right here on the Busted Open Podcast.
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Chapter 2: What is Darby Allin's journey to becoming AEW World Champion?
I will start off by telling you to your face that, and I've been saying it on the show,
since you won that championship and even before you won the champion but since you won the championship you've been doing a hell of a job man balls to the wall never say die all gas no brakes pedal to the mother truck and metal the way it should be excellent job thank you sir thank you you got it no but what i love and actually bully and i were just talking about it before you joined us is these matches that you've been giving us every single week on tv
and just surviving you know you're winning but you're just surviving like there's no shame in like winning a match and not being able to get to your feet you know because you put 110 into the match so how proud are you uh on this trail that you've made since winning the championship
It's been incredible. Just the fact that my first title defense against Tommaso Ciampa, the bar that we set that night, it wasn't going to be like, oh, well, this is going to be chilling out, having a couple matches here and there. It's been like twice a week, every week. People think, oh, you're going to just take it easy and tell the pay-per-view. No way. No way. No way.
You know, that match with Tommaso just going crazy thinking, man, it could have ended that night just from injury. Yeah. From the craziness that we were doing. It was like, hey, we're not playing this safe at all.
Darby, when you're about to do anything, whether it's one of your stunts like jumping a fucking van over something or climbing the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, you have to have a plan going into it. Once you won the championship, did you have a definitive plan of what you wanted your championship run to look like?
Yeah, unlike anything that anybody's seen. And that's why I wanted to do every single week, twice a week. People are like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's the point of this? Because it's the exact opposite of what people expect a champion to do. They expect like, hey, we're going to work to the pay-per-view. But like, no, I want to go crazy every week.
And it's just like, but that's why I like to live the way because it could end at any moment. But I love to live in that state. It just keeps you like so on edge.
You know what I love, Bully, is talking to Darby here, is that he's got a smile from ear to ear. Like, you can tell you're just loving life right now. Listen, you know, Louis Armstrong Stadium sold out. You know, a sold-out stadium, you're the champ, you're in the main event. Like, that's got to feel great, knowing you're about to step into a full stadium and representing the company.
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Chapter 3: How does Darby Allin prepare for his championship title defenses?
No, I'm just grateful. That's all I can say is just grateful. And, you know, just to remain humble and chill and, you know, not let this game get the most of your head, you know, and your ego and just turn you into something that you're not. That's what I'm most grateful for.
All right, so, and Bully, I don't mean to jump in, but really quick. So you're somebody that had to work for everything you've achieved. And I'm not saying that Max hasn't. Max is amazing at what he does. But he's got a bit of a silver spoon in his mouth, you know? Like, he hasn't taken the same journey as you. And I could tell...
with the stipulation that we're going to see on Sunday, you want to embarrass him. You want to humiliate him, right? I mean, that's maybe even more than continuing to have that championship. You want to see that man humbled, right?
Yeah, every red carpet that man walks, every interview that that man does, if you take away some things that make him him and that ego him,
in being the most vain person that i've met we're talking about a guy who was so desperate to keep his hair that he flew to turkey you know so if you if you shave that off that's going to chip away and eat him alive and that's what i want because people thinking a hair verse championship isn't this more personal than just no because it takes away everything that represents that man so if we can humble him especially in his home state that's everything to me
Darby, the home state, we were talking about it earlier. Dave brought it up. Do you think that there's a good chance that those AEW faithfuls, the sickos in Queens might be behind MJF more than they might be behind you?
Absolutely. I love it, though. I love it, though, because I don't care if you're on his side, you're my side. I don't care. That's not what I'm here for. I'm not here for the fans like, Jeremy, I don't care. I'm just going to do what I always do, and that's risk everything. To be fair, Bubba, I don't know about you, but when I'm out there, I get confused. I can't hear the people.
I'll be real with you. I'm so tunnel vision. We're in Wembley and everyone's like, how did it feel to perform in front of 81,000 plus people? I couldn't tell you. I don't know. I don't feel it. You know what I mean? And that's the thing is I get tunnel vision. So it's like if they're booing, if they're cheering, there's one job and that's to hold on to this. You know what I mean?
So whatever people want to do, do it.
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Chapter 4: What is Darby Allin's strategy against MJF in their upcoming match?
Address the crowd. All I said is everybody stay in your seats because Collision is about to start. Goodbye. And I feel I had nothing left to say. I was so spent. I felt nothing. And that's not saying I'm not grateful. I was super grateful for it. But I exhausted myself to the point where I had nothing left to say. And that's the thing with this championship.
The moment I won it, I was like, I need to defend it every single week to show how grateful I am for this and to put the company in a spot where like, oh, whoa, this guy's going crazy twice a week. Because it's unlike, like I said earlier, it's unlike anything you expect a champion to do. And that's just me returning the favor of like why I love this place. I'm like, yo, I'll do whatever.
You won a championship every single night. Let's go.
Darby, lead singers of bands, when they're hitting those high notes at 22 and 23 years old, don't take into account that you might not be able to hit that same high note.
And wrestlers have moves that when they were young that they could do really well, but when they get older, like Scott, like Steiner and the Frankensteiner, it's just not happening anymore, although we'd love to see a Frankensteiner. Are you concerned that your style one day could catch up with you?
Absolutely. But I don't I don't I won't stop until that day happens. And I think, you know, the beauty of what I do is I made a very calculated decision early on in my career where I didn't want to look too pretty or dancey with my moveset. in the sense of being super, say, on the ropes and doing all this balance stuff. Because I know that is going to have a shelf life.
But if you're just going to cough and drop a fool, I feel like that's pretty hard to mess up falling backwards on someone. But as for the question of how long can my body endure what I'm putting it through, I think that just remains to be seen.
But look what you did with staying. Hold on, Dave. But the... What I get from you, Darby, which I think is very charming, is I almost feel like when that day comes that you talk about, you're going to just go, fuck it, I can't do it anymore, I'm out. Or will you adjust along the way, or do you think you'll adjust along the way, the way we're kind of seeing Will Ospreay have to do?
I'm out. If I can't do it the way I want to do it, I'm out. I'm out. And that's okay. And the thing is, it's like the biggest thing I've taken away from staying and being with staying is, hey, you have to be at peace with yourself life after wrestling. You have to. And then the thing is, it's just talking to Sting about it. It's like, I'm ready. If this all ended tomorrow, I'm ready.
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