Darby Allin on his AEW Title victory: “I felt nothing, and that’s because my body was so depleted”
Former AEW world champion Darby Allin did an interview with Forbes.com. During the interview, Darby was asked about his experience of winning the title, including what he remembered feeling while standing in the ring with the title as members of the AEW locker room came out to celebrate with him. Here is what Darby stated…
“It’s funny because I felt nothing, and that’s because my body was so depleted. I was so beat into the ground leading up to that week, dude. It took everything to get to that point. So afterwards, it felt numb. It was crazy.
But moments after, when I finally got to the back and started to decompress, I realized that I climbed to the top of AEW without having to compromise myself, and that meant everything to me. Because to me, what’s the point of becoming a world champion if you’re just an industry plant and what you’re doing is not from the soul and isn’t pure?
Like, hey, we’re going to tell you what to do every step along the way, and then we’re going to put something on you. Well, what’s the point of that? So the fact that I was able to do that in AEW without compromising anything was everything to me. So yeah, that night was incredible.”