Darby Allin Addresses Fans Who Don’t Like His Wrestling, Doesn’t Understand the Spike Dudley Comparisons

During a recent interview with Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Darby Allin discussed fans who dislike his wrestling style, and he was also asked about comparisons of him to former ECW and WWE Superstar Spike Dudley. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Darby Allin on People Who Don’t Like His Style of Wrestling

“Oh, I don’t know. There’s so much different things to like or not like. You don’t have to pay no attention to me if you don’t like it, just go complain about something. There’s just nothing to say. I’m just gonna keep doing what I do.”

On If He Thinks He Will Ever Have To Adapt His Style

“I think everybody has to shift their style to a degree, absolutely. But that’s the beauty of wrestling, to me, is you can’t have a pro athlete playing NBA or NFL at 64 or a skateboarder. But you can have Sting going out there having a memorable retirement match at 64, so there’s ways around it, obviously. But also, you got to look at Sting. He was jumping off balconies, which is something he never did in his early years. He was doing that at the very end. So there’s ways to keep the craziness, but also, you know, mirror it. I’m not going to be able to run as fast or do my dives as hard as maybe I want to. But that doesn’t mean I can’t jump off 30-foot balconies. There’s just ways around it.”

His Thoughts on the Spike Dudley Comparisons

“Yeah, I don’t really see it to be honest, because I’m way more of a wrestler, wrestler. I don’t feel like Spike was ever a technical wrestler.”

On How They Both Would Take Some Nasty Bumps

“Definitely, but I definitely feel like I’m way more of a wrestler’s wrestler than that. I sh*t you not. I feel like I could out-wrestle a lot of people from a technical standpoint, but ain’t nobody want to see Darby Allin do a lot of technical wrestling. But when I do, it’s super fun, because I feel like people always forget that I know how to do this. But I got a ring at my house, and I train all the time. So, yeah, I don’t personally see it, but that’s just the nature of the business. I feel like a lot of wrestling stuff is very small-minded. You think about, oh, he’s with Sting because they have face paint. It’s like, Dude, it goes way beyond that. I feel like, yeah, a lot of people are very small-minded in wrestling.”

Darby Allin last wrestled on AEW Collision on January 31, beating Clark Connors in a singles bout. After the match, he was attacked by Gabe Kidd, who dropped Allin onto the steel ring steps.