Darby Allin speaks on coming to Australia
AEW’s resident daredevil had a chat with WrestleRadio Australia recently and gave his thoughts on coming to Australia for Grand Slam as well as the Australian Wrestling scene.
Allin and who is opponent could be at AEW Grand Slam in Brisbane
It’s got to be one of the Death Riders, I don’t care which one it is, it’s got to be one of those guys that’s for sure. This whole thing, I have a feeling it’s just getting started.
Moxley took your title shot at the last Grand Slam event, there has to be some bad blood there right?
Absolutely, the big thing about it is, my dream match, everybody always asks me, who would be your dream match, and I would always say Bryan Danielson. The fact that he’s gone now, and I like never got the match, there’s just so much things about it like you know. I like the craziness of what AEW has become, I embrace it, I would rather not have people have their face put in a plastic bag but in all honesty, I’ve been through worse so I’m ready to rock it and I love the battlefield that is AEW at the moment.
Talking about you climbing Everest next year, is there anything else you have on the docket maybe to do in Australia? or are you just taking it as it comes?
For me when I think of Australia I think of skateboarding, the skateboarding scene down there is so big, so I definitely want to bring my board and have enough time to skate around and experience some of the spots in Australia. Literally Mt Everest is on the top of the list, I can’t jump the gun here I have to approach one thing at a time here, Everest is definitely that. Training for Everest and also going crazy every week in the ring like I’m doing in no small feat, it’s very tricky to navigate but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
It’s your first time coming to Australia. Do you feel like you’re running out of first times?
I’ve never even been to Australia, there’s a lot of places I haven’t been but there’s also a lot of places I have been, but I feel like the world is so massive that there’s a lot of time for first times, so I’m excited about it. Whenever we go down to Australia, Brisbane for Grand Slam just to have the opportunity to perform in front of a country that I’ve never been, on a big level is something I don’t take small, I’m going to go out there and put everything on the line.
Do you think that the Australian crowd will take anything differently from the Darby Allin character?
I think their going to embrace it more because its more in brand with the culture, just the craziness, hopefully they’ll be like kill’em Darby. We’ll see, we’ll see. I do think they’re going to embrace the wildness as opposed to a lot of fans tell me here “stop being so crazy! Stop it!”. “You already won us over; you don’t need to do all those stunts”. Who says I’m doing it for you? I’m doing it for me! With or without wrestling, I’ll still be going crazy, so.
How does the Straight Edge lifestyle effect you when travelling to these big shows?
It doesn’t really. To me the whole thing of peer pressure is so far gone that was some junior high / high school stuff I don’t even think of it. It’s so natural of me not to think of it. There’s no such thing. If someone says to me in a different country “Do you want a beer?” I’m like nah dude, I’m good. They think it’s weird, but I’m so used to it at this point, it’s no big deal to me. I think it’s very fun to be the craziest guy at the party when you’re the most sober guy.
Do you know much about the Australian wrestling scene? Is that something you’re interested in at all or are you more focused on what you’re doing in the ring?
You know, I’m only pretty much focused on what I’m doing. I respect all outlets of wrestling, but I kind of only watch AEW. I don’t really watch anything because I keep my wrestling intake very, very small because it’s my life already and I don’t ever want to get burnt out on it, so when I’m not wrestling, I’m watching skateboarding or doing something along those lines. You can’t argue with guys like Kyle Fletcher just taking the ball in the last year, and you know with his partner Mark getting taken out with an injury, it’s kinda like you know, the fact he was able to forge his own path was really, really cool. That’s the cool thing about AEW, it’s literally up to the wrestlers. You can take it as far as you want, the world is yours, whatever you want to do with it, it’s all up to you. It’s pretty cool he’s a guy who’s kind of taken that.
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