Darby Allin On AEW Locker Room: You Just Gotta Keep The Egos In Check, This Is A Team Effort

Darby Allin opens up about the AEW locker room.

AEW has always touted itself as a different promotion from WWE, saying it is built for fans, by wrestling fans. While most wrestlers have only had good things to say about AEW, there was a time when its locker room was filled with controversy. Since then, the company has grown so much and has left that turmoil in the past.

Speaking with TMZ Sports for a recent interview, Darby Allin discussed the state of the current AEW locker room.

“I just feel like as long as everybody can keep the egos in check and actually understand that this is a team effort, and if you just take your ego out of the equation… dude, honestly, that’s the only thing that’s going to hold anybody back. To me, that’s not ever what AEW was built on. It was never built on, ‘Hey, I want to be this A-list celebrity.’ It was always built on, ‘Hey, I just want to give the best pro wrestling.’ Because to me, I look back at the ’80s, you see the stuff that, say, Tiger Mask and Dynamite Kid were doing in Japan. The fact that we’re able to do our version of wrestling on national TV in the US, and it’s not like – because, at the time, New Japan also, way back like in 2014, the in-ring wrestling was so amazing, but it was in Japan. But now that the fact that type of wrestling is in the US every single week, that’s what the beauty of AEW is to me is that we can actually form our version of this art on national TV every week. So, it’s nothing that I take for granted, and yeah, you just gotta keep the egos in check, man. That’s all you got to do.”

In another interview, Darby Allin spoke about AEW’s momentum. Fans can check his comments here.

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