Darby Allin faced some bigshot opponents during his early days in AEW, and he felt like he had “made it” when he wrestled Cody Rhodes in his debut match at Fyter Fest.
Speaking on the “Lost Signals” podcast, Allin reflected on his AEW debut against Cody, facing Chris Jericho on the third episode of AEW Dynamite, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his AEW debut at Fyter Fest 2019 against Cody Rhodes: “Honestly, I felt like I ‘made it’ when I made my [AEW] debut against Cody because even though that wasn’t national television yet, just being on that stage and that platform, making the entrance, I looked through all the people and I’m like, ‘Whoa.’ I felt like, in my mind, I made it.”
On facing Jericho on the third episode of Dynamite: “For [AEW] to take a chance and for Jericho to take a chance week three, that’s not a lot of weeks, was very like special to me. So, that was another feeling of, ‘Oh, the company has like faith in me,’ so it’s cool.”
On the pressure of the match: “I pulled out all the tricks that I had in this brain and left nothing on the table because I don’t want someone to see that and be like, ‘Oh, Darby wasn’t quite ready.’ I want them to be like, ‘Yo, he’s ready.’”
