{"id":345116,"date":"2026-06-03T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=345116"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:06:43","slug":"darby-allin-felt-in-12-months-one-that-he-could-succeed-as-aew-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/darby-allin-felt-in-12-months-one-that-he-could-succeed-as-aew-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Darby Allin Felt In &#8217;12 months One&#8217; That He Could Succeed As AEW World Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2186287\/aew-darby-allin-world-champion-succeed-year-one\/\" data-post-title=\"Darby Allin Felt In 'Year One' That He Could Succeed As AEW World Champion\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2186287\">\n<picture id=\"p6a6871a1c45b1fc29ef62976af3e96ae\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/darby-allin-felt-in-year-one-that-he-could-succeed-as-aew-world-champion\/intro-1780452162.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/darby-allin-felt-in-year-one-that-he-could-succeed-as-aew-world-champion\/intro-1780452162.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">AEW\/Lee South<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>Darby Allin&#8217;s run with the AEW World Championship may need been short in comparison with a few of the previous reigns within the title&#8217;s lineage, nevertheless it&#8217;s secure to say that it was extremely memorable. A 39-day reign which included seven title defenses, a pay-per-view principal event, and rather a lot critical acclaim from those inside the company, Darby won over various individuals who thought that perhaps putting the title on him wasn&#8217;t such  idea.<\/p>\n<p>The now former champion was a recent guest on the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aif0qztOgPs\" target=\"_blank\">Battleground<\/a>&#8221; podcast where he was asked about his journey from being the underdog of the corporate to the highest of the cardboard, and despite claiming prior to now he didn&#8217;t need the world title to feel complete, Darby knew he might be the highest guy in AEW.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt it in my soul 12 months one,&#8221;\u00a0Darby said. &#8220;I felt it in my soul 12 months one, but it may take time for a non-televised individual that&#8217;s never been on TV like myself to truly show it to people. That is going to take time, but I felt it in my soul because I actually felt I used to be going to do greater than anybody. I used to be going to take the ball and run with it. Through the creative freedoms that AEW&#8217;s given us within the ring and out of doors the ring, I feel like I best capture what this place can do for one you understand?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Darby explained that it isn&#8217;t just within the ring where he&#8217;s allowed to live life to the fullest, hence why he achieved a private goal of his in 2025 by climbing Mount Everest. Darby stated that the great thing about AEW allowing him to do such a thing is what makes him proud to represent the corporate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please credit &#8220;Battleground&#8221; when using quotes from this text, and provides a H\/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AEW\/Lee South Darby Allin&#8217;s run with the AEW World Championship may need been short in comparison with a few of the previous reigns within the title&#8217;s lineage, nevertheless it&#8217;s secure to say that it was extremely memorable. A 39-day reign which included seven title defenses, a pay-per-view principal event, and rather a lot critical acclaim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[10436,32655,1470,18441,414,9185,813,822],"class_list":["post-345116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-aew","tag-allin","tag-champion","tag-darby","tag-felt","tag-succeed","tag-world","tag-year"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345119,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345116\/revisions\/345119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}