All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star Darby Allin was recently interviewed by Uproxx to discuss several professional wrestling topics. Allin discussed his character being built through his real-life experiences, professional wrestling being therapeutic for him, and wrestling needing more outside influences.
Here are the highlights:
His character being built through his real-life experiences:
A lot of people start wrestling when they’re eighteen or something like that. I started wrestling when I was twenty-one and people are like, ‘Do you wish you started when you were eighteen?’ And I’m like, ‘no,’ because from the age of eighteen to twenty-one there’s crazy sh*t that happened in my life that, like, shaped me.
If I started when I was eighteen, I probably would have been, like, just an average wrestler, you know, wearing tights or some shirt, with like no story or anything like that, but a lot of sh*t happened in those two years before I started, so I just took my life experiences and I put it into my wrestling.
Professional wrestling being therapeutic for him:
It’s like the sh*t that I love in moves, but in front of an audience. You beat the f*ck out of each other and it’s just fun. It’s seriously the only thing of its kind. Because you can do plays, you can do Broadway, but you’re not going like fly through a table or something like that, you know what I mean? It gives you that rush. Because I like living, like, risky, like doing crazy sh*t. I used to do crazy sh*t by myself all the time, so now I can do it in front of an audience.
Wrestling needing more outside influences:
I feel like wrestling needs more outside influences brought into it, because a lot of people just recycle wrestling back into wrestling and I feel like it just gets kind of, like, stale at times, but if you do something with a skateboard, for example, people are like ,’What the f*ck is that?’ and it’s going to get people talking.
