Darby Allin Reveals Why He Doesn’t Watch WWE

Darby Allin has been one of the rising stars in All Elite Wrestling since day one, and he’s worked his way to his first title run in AEW with the TNT Championship.

Allin’s unique persona has gotten him a lot of attention, and he recently explained to Forbes that he doesn’t watch other wrestling outside of AEW because he doesn’t want to be influenced by anyone else’s work.

“I just watch skating videos. That’s it. I don’t want to be inspired by anything. I want my body of work to be its own thing. I know it’s like that with skaters, a lot of skaters don’t watch certain videos because they don’t want their skating to be inspired just like I do with wrestling. I respect everybody’s hard work and stuff, but there comes a point where I just want to be in my own brain about things, I don’t want to be inspired by anybody.”

Recently Darby Allin has found himself crossing paths with Sting in AEW, and he revealed that the legend has shared some advice with him.

“I’ve gotten some advice from [Sting]. He’s seen some of of the videos I’ve done, and he’s a big admirer of those. He can be in the game for however long he’s been in the game and constantly keep people intrigued. So if you could pick his brain on that, that would be the No. 1 thing. Because he’s in a league of his own with that mystery and everything he controls. He controls the audience. When he walked out there and I’m just laying in that ring, and the music starts, I haven’t had a feeling like that in wrestling as long as I’ve been doing it…there’s nothing that topped that. That was like an out of body experience.”

Darby Allin will defend his TNT Championship against Brian Cage during night 2 of AEW’s New Year’s Smash on January 6th.

Stay tuned for updates.