Darby Allin on “Four Pillars of AEW” Label, His Feud with Don Callis Family in AEW, His Pain Tolerance in Wrestling For His Spots During Shows, His High Risk Spots in Wrestling, & If Tony Khan Ever Had Tried To Stop Him Doing Those Risky Spots

TMZ Sports held a recent interview with Darby Allin. One of the topics discussed included Allin’s thoughts about the “Four Pillars of AEW” label given to him and how it has taken a lot more than four people to bring AEW to where it is today.

““I really don’t concern myself honestly too much with that term. I really don’t like that term, four pillars, because I believe it takes more than four to actually get this thing up and going.

The beauty to me with being on the ground level of AEW is you could see when the company got to the highest points, it was just through us. It was not through us as in the four pillars, but through everybody on the roster working together because this wasn’t a machine that was built years and years and years ago. This was only in 2019.

So the fact that we got to 81,000 plus people at Wembley is incredible. And I think people really don’t stop and think about that.

As high as we go and then as low as we go and now we’re going back up, it’s so rewarding when you’re a part of something from the ground up and it truly feels like your baby.

You can’t have an ego with this because when there’s egos that’s when the ship starts to sink. But if we all work together it pulls it up and you can feel that energy. So that’s why it’s important for me to lead by example more than anything, and not have any ego with anything.”

Allin also gave his thoughts about his current feud with the Don Callis Family and his belief that the group is “cursed” in AEW.

“I feel that shit is cursed. Everybody that is in that family seems hurt in real life. It’s just like everybody’s getting hurt. I feel like, man, let’s just hope and pray that I can make it through The Don Callis family without getting hurt. Because I would love to fight for the championship. I’d love to do all this stuff. Right now, I can’t afford to get hurt. But there’s a curse going on in The Don Callis family, so I’m trying to get done with it as fast as possible.”

Allin also gave his thoughts about his pain tolerance level in wrestling for his spots during shows and what his doctors have told him about it.

“Nothing. Everybody always says I need to be tested in a laboratory because I’m able to just do the most outrageous stuff and keep coming back. I’m not lying to you when I say this. I don’t take any pain pills. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. Literally, it’s more mind than anything. Because if your mind goes, your body follows. So I just keep my mind very sharp with my meditating on my physical recovery aspects that I do.

I am very strict on all of that, and I feel incredible. Every day I’m not wrestling, I’m skating. If I’m not skating, I’m jumping off a four-wheeler, jumping off a roof, or something. It never ends. That’s the thing. It never ends. It’s not like I just sit at home and watch cat compilation videos on YouTube. Like I’m always moving, which I think is really good.”

Allin also gave his thoughts about the high risk spots he does in wrestling and how much effort goes into it.

“It’s more of a spur-of-the-moment, man. I’ve been living my life on the edge forever. I feel like if it’s too controlled and it’s too calculated, it doesn’t feel right. So, I like to just be as haywire as possible with a lot of these things. Growing up, watching a lot of Evel Knievel videos, and just how there wasn’t a lot of safety nets with that guy. So, it was incredible. That’s how I kind of want to live. Do or die by the sword.”

Allin also gave his thoughts about if AEW CEO Tony Khan had ever tried to stop him from doing something in wrestling.

“Well, you see my roof right here. I took a jeep and jumped over the house. You can insert that video. I took a jeep and jumped 96 ft over my house. Tony [Khan] was on FaceTime watching me do that because he had to be at the Super Bowl meeting. But I remember him watching me and being like, ‘Hey, can we just have a stunt double in that car before you do this?’ I was like, ‘Absolutely not. I could never live with myself.’ So, I jumped the jeep, flew into all these mobile home trailers. First thing I did, I jumped out of the jeep, and then I ran to the phone where Tony was on. I said, ‘Yo, I can make it Wednesday, so don’t worry.’”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com, Fightful.com 1, 2, 3, & 4