Darby Allin is the resident daredevil of All Elite Wrestling (AEW), but the self-belief required to take such dangerous risks didn’t apply to all aspects of his career evenly.
It does now. A leap of faith off a 20-foot ladder comes a lot more naturally to Allin than speaking with conviction on a microphone.
Now a self-anointed “promo guy,” Allin finally believes in the full scope of his talents. It’s an exciting development for an artist who walks, skates and freefalls to the beat of his own drum.
Allin challenges for the AEW World Heavyweight Championship — the company’s top prize — at Sunday’s “Double or Nothing” event, headlining a card chock-full of legends like Chris Jericho, Christian Cage and Bryan Danielson. “At one time, when AEW first started, I probably would have thought I wasn’t ready for that,” Allin tells ET Canada. “I thought I didn’t have the confidence within me.
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