Darby Allin: “I’m completely straight edge, I don’t take pain pills, I don’t take anything”
AEW star Darby Allin did an interview with Chris Van Vliet and here are a few highlights courtesy of ChrisVanVliet.com…
Van Vliet: “Are you in any pain as you sit here right now?”
Darby: “No. I’m not lying. I’m completely straight edge. I don’t take pain pills, I don’t take anything. I asked for this, and I want to deal with it mentally and with the human brain, and all the meditating and everything that I do, I feel like I can deal with anything.”
Van Vliet: “What do you say to those people that don’t like the way that you wrestle.”
Darby: “Oh, I don’t know. There’s so much different things to like or not like. You don’t have to pay no attention to me if you don’t like it, just go complain about something. There’s just nothing to say. I’m just gonna keep doing what I do.”
Van Vliet: “Do you look at your style and think that you will have to adapt it?”
Darby: “I think everybody has to shift their style to a degree, absolutely. But that’s the beauty of wrestling, to me, is you can’t have a pro athlete playing NBA or NFL at 64 or a skateboarder. But you can have Sting going out there having a rememberable retirement match at 64, so there’s ways around it, obviously. But also you got to look at Sting. He was jumping off balconies, which is something he never did in his early years. He was doing that at the very end. So there’s ways to keep the craziness but also, you know, mirror it. I’m not going to be able to run as fast or do my dives as hard as maybe I want to. But that doesn’t mean I can’t jump off 30-foot balconies. There’s just ways around it.”