AEW star Darby Allin is known for his incredible and often-frightening tolerance for pain, regularly taking some of the most spectacular and dangerous bumps in all of professional wrestling. In a recent interview, the former two-time TNT Champion looked back on some of the worst bumps of his career, both inside and outside of a wrestling ring.
Speaking on the “My Mom’s Basement With Robbie Fox” podcast, Allin was asked about the worst Coffin Drop he has ever taken.
“Oh my god… I was filming at my house one time. I climbed a ladder and I set myself on fire and tried to like coffin drop off the ladder. But the ladder shook and then I — Yeah, I’d say that probably was pretty bad. So, it was outside of wrestling… No, not unfortunately not [filmed]. I was just messing around in my backyard that day.”
He then identified some of the worst bumps he has taken in a match.
“Probably when I got dropped on my head from Moxley or something. I’d probably say that. It was at Evolve when I got dropped over the top rope. I got backdropped and then my back of my knees caught guardrail, and I flew onto my top of my head.”
Allin explained that this extreme style was born out of necessity when he was first starting out on the independent scene.
“You know, the reason I would always do that stuff is because I when I was like training in wrestling, I really didn’t — the style of training was all like the basics just done right. But I didn’t know the independent style, like you know, falsies and stuff. So I was like, ‘Man, I don’t know how to wrestle against these guys. It’s really intimidating.’ So I just had to rely on getting murdered. That ended up being the biggest blessing, because no one sold. No one was selling on the independents. So the fact that I was like, ‘Oh, here’s the guy who sells the whole time.’ That’s what I feel like really — because if I was just the hundredth guy to do a Canadian destroyer, I would just blend in with everything. But the fact that I was just selling, it really made me stand out. And that’s why I translate, I feel like, so good on live TV is because I like to sell.”
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