Darby Allin has done many crazy stunts during his AEW career, from fall off ladders to being tossed down steps to crashing a car.
However, there is one pitch that Darby made that Tony Khan turned down, feeling it didn't make sense at the time for the company.
"Darby in the pandemic, early in the pandemic when we had a very light crew. The April 2020 shows that we filmed in QT [Marshall] and Cody [Rhodes'] gym in Georgia, they had just under 30% of the roster there. Darby wanted to get hit by a car in his program with Sammy [Guevara]. I said, 'That's not something we can do right now because we really need you. Not only can I afford for you to not get hurt, I can't even write you off for a week to sell. You need to wrestle on the show every week, so I can't do that. We don't have anybody else and you're a major part of what we're doing week to week.' I think that would have not made sense when you have a handful of people there and there are very few of the name wrestlers and he wants to get hit by a car. Not only can we afford for him to not be injured, we really can't afford for him to be off TV for a week," said Khan on the Way of the Blade podcast with Phil Schneider.
Allin is currently off AEW television as he is climbing Mount Everest.
Elsewhere during the interview, Tony and Phil announced AEW is collaborating on upcoming DEAN~!!! events. You can learn more here.
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