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AEW star says that he threw up backstage prior to his match with CM Punk

Aaron Rift

During an interview with ITRWrestling, Darby Allin reflected on his match with CM Punk from the 2021 AEW All Out PPV event…

“That was very insane. In an interview recently he said that was his favorite moment in AEW. I just remember how insane that day was and just everything that was going on. I was the most nervous I’ve ever been for a match, because I was like, oh man, I never thought this guy is going to return to wrestling and then you’re having his first match back. I was super nervous and I was puking because I was so nervous. Sting is a religious man, and I’m not, I’m not religious at all. Sting saw how nervous I was and he’s like, Darby, do you mind if I say a prayer for you right now? I was like, Yeah, go for it, anything. I just had my head down, I’m so nervous. Then he said the prayer, we went out there, and we had such a fun time. It was so fun working with Punk, it was really cool. I saw him a few weeks ago, it was fun to just catch up and be like, thank you for kind of giving me that opportunity to be the first guy to bring you out of, I’m not gonna say retirement, but you know what I mean, whatever hiatus he was on from the world of pro wrestling. So it was really cool.”’

Darby also commented on his interaction with Punk after the match…

“Right when we got done, he gave me a big hug and he said thank you. Then it was just like woah, we did it. When I broke my foot and I was gone for two months, when I came back for my first match back I was like oh man, I’m kind of nervous. He took a break for seven years. I couldn’t even imagine how that must have felt for him from the nerve level. So it’s really cool that he had the trust in me to kind be the first one to do that. I think there was definitely for both of us that relief of it’s over. We got that over with, and we killed it. It was super fun and it was awesome.”