Darby Allin was the latest guest on AEW’s Unrestricted podcast hosted by Tony Schiavone. He mentioned that his match with Pentagon Jr in Northeast Wrestling is what got AEW’s attention.
“I heard from a friend that Cody was asking to deal with me. I had a match with Pentagon Jr. at Northeast Wrestling on one of their more bigger shows,” Allin noted. “That was actually, I feel like, one of the first matches where I kind of held my own so to speak and wasn’t really so much just out there doing a stunt only. I put a lot into that match, and I was training for that particular match probably for a good two months just with a friend where I’m like, alright, you’re going to do all of Pentagon’s moves to me, and I’m going to try to find all these reversals out of them. I really put a lot of thought that match because those opportunities don’t come often, to have big matches like that.”
Allin adds that the match was brought to the attention of Cody Rhodes.
“Cody ended up seeing that match, and then he was asking some people about me,” Allin revealed. “I met Cody a long time ago, but when he first met me, I was just the crash test dummy. It’s like oh there’s the Darby guy. All he would say is hey, please don’t die tonight. That’s like the only conversation I’ve ever had with them. It ended up working out with this Pentagon match. I remember that was kind of a game changer for sure.
(Credit: WrestlingInc.com)
Darby Allin is the former Heavyweight Champion of Northeast Wrestling.