Darby Allin's First Week as Champion | Sol Ruca's Fall
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What happened during Darby Allin's first week as AEW Champion?
Yo, what's going on, Busted Open Nation, and thanks for tuning in to another edition of the Busted Open Podcast. Today, the B&B Connection returns Bishop and Bully talking AEW and NXT. Lots of real positive talk surrounding MJF and Darby Allin. And on the NXT side, Sol Ruka, ready for the main roster, but taking the monster Nestea plunge was the risk worth the reward me and bishop will break it all down right here on the busted open podcast this is the busted open podcast the very first thing i'd like to get into with you is dynamite. Now, in order to talk about dynamite from last night, I think we need to set the table and go back a week and talk about last Wednesday night, where out of nowhere, not really out of nowhere, they kind of, you know,
They were hinting at it. Darby Allin defeats MJF to become the AEW world champion. He beats him in like two to three minutes. A glorified high energy squash match. And there was a lot of back and forth. Was it the right decision? Was it not the right decision?
How did MJF react to losing the AEW Championship?
Was it done for, was it hot shot booking to try to get some headlines from the WWE heading into WrestleMania? Me, Mark, Dave, and Tommy were in the Sirius XM studios at Wynn Hotel on Thursday morning, ready to kick off WrestleMania week. And here we are spending the first half hour of the show talking about the title change. So AEW kind of forced our hand and made us talk about them instead of WWE and WrestleMania. But the minute that conversation ended, It ended and then it was wall to wall, WWE talk. So back to last week, how did you feel about the title change?
Look, I mean, I think MJF right now is one of the hottest performers in all of wrestling, top to bottom, in ring, backstage, on the mic, all of it. And I don't think you can necessarily hurt him in any fashion, right? I feel like he's pretty set where he's at, and he can just continue to get bigger and bigger as a star in and out of the wrestling world. When it comes to Darby, one, I've loved the emotion that they've been giving him and his promos have felt very raw and very real. And he's not known as like a promo guy, but I've been into his promos in the weeks leading up to this, talking about the need for the title, all of those things. Because it seemed like for a long time that wasn't his game.
His game was just to go out and have car crashes, right?
What was the significance of the title change in the context of WrestleMania?
And when he talked about, you know, what's it all for if I'm not going after that title? Like, there's that cool click. Like, sometimes athletes, whether it be in football, baseball, hockey, wrestling, whatever it is, there's that moment where it clicks and you go, oh, shit, I can be pretty good at this. And I think that's kind of what clicked in him in my head, in my story-driven mind. Him going, oh, man, wait. Not only am I great at putting on these matches, but I could be world champion. Like, I climbed Mount Everest, dude. Like, how many people can say they've done that? And so, one, I've liked the story of it all. And then, two, when you do put Darby over like that in four minutes, I think if it was a 30-minute banger, it wouldn't have had the impact that...
it had doing it in three or four minutes the four coffin drops the sting drop like all of those things I thought it was a perfect way to do it it didn't hurt MJF and it made Darby it put Darby and look there was some backlash from the fans why would you do it well I mean that's why we did it man like there's a shock factor now everybody's talking about it I thought it was a genius move genius timing with all of Wrestlemania going on and I'm interested in the story of how does MJF get it back so I feel like it was a complete success in the move to do that, to switch the title like that because it created conversations. It had the internet going bonkers left and right with who's on which side of it.
And then here we're still talking about it now. And I thought that the story they kind of drove with MJF last night gives us the complete circle. I'm excited for it.
So then let's move it forward right now.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened during Darby Allin's first week as AEW Champion?
0:00–1:22
2
How did MJF react to losing the AEW Championship?
1:22–2:57
3
What was the significance of the title change in the context of WrestleMania?
2:57–4:32
4
What went wrong with Sol Ruka's Nestea Plunge?
4:32–7:03
5
Was Sol Ruka's fall worth the risk in her career trajectory?
7:03–7:41
6
How did Tommy Dreamer feel about Sol Ruka's risky maneuver?
7:41–10:09
7
What are the consequences of taking high-risk bumps in wrestling?
10:09–11:44
8
How do wrestlers balance risk and reward in their performances?
11:44–39:28