'Anything is possible': Darby Allin, Sting and the unlikely journey that has shaped AEW
From sleeping in cars to winning the AEW world title 10 minutes from where it all began, Allin's improbable rise alongside an icon has turned a long shot into pro-wrestling's loudest statement.
In a world of professional wrestling that’s historically been dominated by giants, any dream Darby Allin had of becoming a world champion may as well have been destined for failure. At 5-foot-8 and 175 pounds, how could he even consider his chances against the 7-foot, 300-pound champions of yesteryear? And yet, even with the odds stacked against him, Allin was determined to thrive — or fail — doing things authentically his way.
“The first day of wrestling school, I said, ‘I’m going to make it in this world of wrestling as Darby Allin, or I’m going to fail as Darby Allin. But I’m not changing a single thing,’” he tells Uncrowned. “I set the bar with myself, like, hey, I've been homeless.
I've done all this stuff. I'm not afraid to go back to that. And if I have to compromise my soul to make it, I don't want to, I'm not, I can't, you can't make me.
… So to make it to the very top of where I'm at without changing a single thing is literally everything I've ever wanted in this whole life. ” It took everything, Allin says, to reach the summit of this proverbial mountain and win the AEW World Heavyweight Championship. The shocking full-circle moment came when Allin snatched the belt from his longtime foe, MJF, on the April 15 edition of “AEW Dynamite” in his home state of Everett, Washington.
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