Darby Allin is arguably one of the crucial popular stars in AEW, and among the many more successful; since joining the promotion in 2019 he’s had two reigns with the AEW TNT Championship and a notable AEW World Tag Team Championship reign alongside Sting, with many shots on the AEW World Championship besides. That success didn’t stop Allin from taking prolonged time away from AEW to climb Mount Everest, nevertheless, and he explained why during a recent interview on “The Ariel Helwani Show.”
“I wasn’t getting anything — anything — out of being a champion in wrestling,” Allin confessed. “If I won a championship? I didn’t feel a single thing from it. Performing in front of 81,000 people at Wembley? The subsequent day, I didn’t feel a single thing. After which I used to be identical to ‘No, I want to do something about this!'”
Reflecting on his journey, Allin said he learned to be present in the present moment and appreciate where he’s now as an alternative of looking toward the long run.
“You get into AEW, otherwise you get onto any, like, national TV level, you get so fixated on like ‘Ooh, I gotta, you already know, the celebrity, I gotta try to be a star’ … you see how empty and hole all that’s,” he explained. “It does not imply s***. It does not imply a rattling thing. The celebrity does not imply a thing and it’s just so empty, and it just made me appreciate the true human behind the camera, and being at peace with yourself once the cameras are done rolling.”
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