Darby Allin’s daredevil lifestyle has made many people believe he isn’t fit to be the face of AEW since he’s a liability. However, the former TNT Champion has now addressed those claims and shot them down in a big way.
While speaking to Steve-O, Darby Allin stated that many people doubt he could ever be the face of AEW, calling him too much of a liability and warning that his extreme stunts would get him seriously injured.
Allin rejected that idea, saying he sees himself as the face of the company precisely because he’s willing to go places no one else would, including planting an AEW flag on top of Mount Everest.
“People say, ‘Oh, you can never be the face of the company. You’re too much of a liability. You’re gonna get yourself killed. You’re gonna break your arm, do X, Y, and Z.’ But I’m like, ‘No, dude. I’m the motherf***ing face of this company because I’m willing to go places no one else will go for this company.’ I put an AEW flag on top of Mount Everest. Ain’t nobody doing that, you know what I mean?”
Darby Allin told Tony Khan he sees himself like Bam Margera, who was a top skateboarder but became even more famous for his crazy antics outside the world of skating.
Darby believes doing wild things outside of wrestling can bring new fans from the action sports and adventure worlds. If AEW only performs for the same fans, it won’t grow, but stunts and outside projects get more eyes on the company. He said Tony Khan liked the idea and told him to keep jumping off things.
“I told Tony Khan, I used Bam Margera as an analogy. You remember when Bam was one of the top skateboarders, but his outside shenanigans were almost as big, if not bigger, than his skateboarding? That’s how I see it. If I can do all this crazy stuff outside of wrestling, it’ll just help me — and all of us — in wrestling. It’ll bring more eyes from the action sports world, the adventure world, whatever it is.
Because if we just keep performing for the same fans we already have, you’ve gotta do something different. That’s why I think the outside shenanigans help get more eyes on AEW. So I told Tony, ‘Yeah, like Bam — he did all this wild stuff, and it got more eyes on skateboarding. Ain’t nobody gonna have an Element skateboard.’ And Tony’s like, ‘Yeah, all right. Good business model. Go jump off whatever.’”
This comes after Cody Rhodes told Darby Allin that he couldn’t be the face of AEW because of his reckless stunts. Regardless, Allin has been back in the fold since All In: Texas and is currently feuding with Jon Moxley and is clearly happy with his current position in AEW, making it clear he couldn’t care less what other people have to say about his risky stunts.
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