Darby Allin has done a lot of crazy things on AEW programming. But there is one thing that Tony Khan wouldn’t allow him to do.
All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan was a recent guest on the Way of the Blade Podcast. While discussing Darby Allin, Khan recalled that back in the early days of the pandemic, Allin wanted to be hit by a car, which Khan turned down for a variety of reasons.
“Darby in the pandemic, early in the pandemic when we had a very light crew,” Tony Khan recalled. “The April 2020 shows that we filmed in QT [Marshall] and Cody [Rhodes’] gym in Georgia, they had just under 30% of the roster there. Darby wanted to get hit by a car in his program with Sammy [Guevara].
“I said, ‘That’s not something we can do right now because we really need you. Not only can I afford for you to not get hurt. I can’t even write you off for a week to sell. You need to wrestle on the show every week, so I can’t do that. We don’t have anybody else, and you’re a major part of what we’re doing week to week.’
“I think that would have not made sense when you have a handful of people there and there are very few of the name wrestlers and he wants to get hit by a car. Not only can we afford for him to not be injured. We really can’t afford for him to be off TV for a week.” [H/T: Fightful]
Darby Allin’s crazy antics in AEW
While Khan wouldn’t allow Allin to get hit by a car, he’s done plenty of crazy things in AEW over the last several years. Including crashing a car, using a flamethrower to set someone on fire, and falling off a ladder through a giant pane of glass.
Darby Allin has been off AEW programming since being thrown down a flight of stairs by Jon Moxley and the Death Riders at the end of 2024. Allin is currently on his climb of Mount Everest and isn’t due back until sometime this summer.
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