Wrestling star suffered convulsions and bleeding from brain in ‘worst ever injury’-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro

All Elite Wrestling star Darby Allin has reflected on the most painful injury he’s ever had, and why it left the daredevil so scared.

The 31-year-old wrestler, who will be at Wembley Stadium on Sunday as WWE rival AEW returns with its All In London event, is known around the world for his thrill seeking stunts in and out of the ring but one terrifying incident left him with major concerns for his own safety.

Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk days before Wembley, he said: ‘When I got a really bad concussion in 2017, I think that’s the most pain, because it’s so mental.

‘I would rather break anything than have your brain be messed up. I was wrestling on an independent show in 2017 and they had no pads around the ring at all.

‘And I do this dive, and my head just smashes in the concrete, and I start, like, convulsing on the ground for probably four seconds, and then I finished the match.

‘The finish of the match is a top rope Power Bomb. Like, my head is killing me. And I go to the hospital, and they’re getting bleeding from the brain. So I had to be put under and stuff like that. And it was gnarly. Man, that was insane.’

Even Darby Allin was scared in the moment (Picture: AEW/Lee South)

The dare devil star has falling through broken glass and felt no pain (Picture: AEW/Lee South)

Darby is no stranger to pain – just this year alone, he suffered a broken nose when he got hit by a bus in New York City while recovering from a broken foot he suffered just minutes into a match against Jay White back in March.

He was due to start climbing Mount Everest just two weeks later, and he was devastated to miss out on the challenge.

‘I broke my foot skateboarding before, and I knew something was wrong,’ he recalled. ‘And I’m mentally thinking, “Who do I got a call to let them know from the Everest team that this is over?”

‘And we were two weeks away, that’s the hardest part – I was surviving everything leading up to that. I jumped off the ladder, through the glass in Sting’s retirement match.

He emerged unscathed from this, only to break his foot in a routine match (Picture: AEW/Lee South)

‘And then I was like, “I survived that. Yo, everything is still on. Let’s go!” And then I break my foot. It was such like a mental thing, the mental thing was way worse than the physical broken foot.’

Fans wanted Darby to take the broken foot and subsequent bus crash as an omen not to risk his life climbing Everest, but he has refused.

‘Everybody’s like, “Everything happens for a reason. Maybe it’s a sign that you shouldn’t climb Everest,”‘ he said. ‘If I say I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it.’

He added: ‘I wanted to do it, but when it was taken away, now I really want to do it…Next April, I’m going to be climbing that mountain.’

There was still a ‘mental’ barrier for Darby coming back from his injury, but that was primarily to prove his critics wrong and avoid looking like he’s ‘lost a step’.

That’s not to say it’s been easy, particularly with the wrestler getting used to life on the road without WCW and WWE icon Sting, who retired at AEW Revolution in March and been his mentor on and off screen for years.

Sting was a mentor for Darby Allin (Picture: AEW)

Darby teamed with Sting in a Coffin Match at Wembley Stadium last year (Picture: AEW)

While Darby is glad to be showing what he can do again on his own, he admitted: ‘The one thing the fans don’t get to see is how I was with him outside of the ring, and it was so fun just to be in his locker room and play these pranks on him.

‘He’s such an amazing human and, there was no ego with the guy. And to this day, I still talk to him all the time.’

A year ago, Darby and Sting teamed up against Christian Cage and Swerve Strickland at Wembley Stadium in a Coffin Match, and he’ll be doing the same against rival Jack Perry – son of late Riverdale actor Luke Perry – this weekend.

‘Mentally, I feel great. Physically, a little beat up,’ he said ahead of the bout. ‘This year’s whole thing with Jack just feels so much more personal in a way. I can really sink my teeth into this.’

Darby has already set Jack Perry on fire (Picture: AEW)

Some fans questioned the first singles match of the rivalry being such a brutal bout, but Darby has fired back with a perfect pitch for Sunday’s carnage.

He argued: ‘Anybody who’s questioning why we’re having such a crazy match so fast – I lit the guy on fire. We had Blood and Guts. Do you expect us to go to Wembley and lock up and change wrist locks?

‘So any dumb ass fans out there that are trying to be like, “Dude, why the craziness so much?” Come on. Coffin Match, let’s keep the tradition going. I had one with Sting last year. Let’s make it an annual thing!’

AEW All In London 2024 returns to Wembley Stadium on Sunday, August 25.

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