AEW World Champion Darby Allin IN-STUDIO
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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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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.
Yeah, no, it's incredible because I feel there's no lengths I'm willing to not go for this company. The day before I won this championship in Seattle, I was hanging flyers around the city in the pouring rain. Think about that. Think about the egos and people like, oh, I'm above that. That's someone else's job. There's a street team. No, I did that. I'm the one who is taping the flyers to these posts in the pouring rain. There's nothing I wouldn't do for this place. And I feel just to be in that spot means everything to me.
Darby, let's talk about Max for a second. As great of a job as you have been doing since day one in AEW, Max has been doing as great of a job also. He's a former world champion, and he's passed every single test that has been thrown at him in the ring, whether that's going 60 minutes or a hardcore match, you name it. Is there anything that you can throw at Max that hasn't been thrown at him before?
I think I showed that in our championship match. You talk about 60 minutes, would we go four minutes? And the thing is, you can't train for a Darby Allin. There's no strategy, because everyone's like, what's your strategy? There is none. For me, there is none.
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