Adrian Hernandez held a recent interview with Darby Allin. One of the topics discussed included Allin’s thoughts about his AEW World Championship victory over MJF this past April being a really short match in terms of length and how not everything needs to be a long slugfest for a title match.
“Yeah, absolutely. I think to me — and this is to me — so many things in the world of wrestling are more like 15-20 minute things. So, if you catch someone by surprise, everything is just like, woah. Shit, I can’t look away for a second. Think about when Mox beat Punk years ago. I didn’t know that was going to happen, I saw that like woah, this is incredible. Not everything has to be a 25 minute drag out slugfest. If you punch a homie in the balls and give him four coffin drops, I’m pretty sure he’s going to stay down.”
Allin also gave his thoughts about WWE’s counterprogramming efforts against AEW and how that doesn’t really bother him since he feels it helps everybody do their best work when their back is against the wall.
“I love it. I honestly feel like that’s when you do your best work. It’s no secret that everybody does their best work when their back is against the wall. I think it’s fun. My life doesn’t begin and end with wrestling, I have so much outside interests and hobbies and passions, sometimes I just laugh at all this wrestling stuff cause I’m like, there’s a whole world out there. It’s just like, alright man, whatever. But honestly, I feel like it’s going to be fun.”
In a separate recent interview with 8 News Now Las Vegas, Allin also gave his thoughts about how he almost drowned performing a stunt during last year’s Shark Week festivities for Discovery Channel.
“When you said the drowned one, I was filming Shark Week last year, and I was trying to kickflip at the bottom of the ocean with 15 sharks around my head, and then I ran out of oxygen, and I remember almost drowning there. I thought that’s what you were referring to.”
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