Darby Allin Responsible For Most Of The “Heavy Lifting” During Production Of Street Fight Match
AEW TNT Champion Darby Allin and Sting defeated Team Taz’s Brian Cage and Ricky Starks in a Street Fight, which was filmed as a cinematic match and aired last night as part of AEW’s Revolution PPV.
Following AEW’s Revolution PPV, Tony Khan participated in the post-show media scrum where he talked about the cinematic Street Fight between Sting & Darby and Team Taz.
Khan gave a lot of credit to Darby Allin, when asked how much involvement Allin had in the production of the match, he stated that Darby had about 90%.
Tony went on to talk about how the match was perfect for Sting, and that he had been planning this cinematic match for several months, since he and Sting first started talking about his debut with the company back in late 2020. Khan said that he told Darby about the match, and they started planning it out, but that Allin “really did the heavy lifting on planning shots and storyboarding this thing.”
“This was the perfect match for Sting. I had been planning this cinematic match for several months from when [Sting] and I first started talking about Sting debuting in AEW in late 2020.”
“When I told Darby about this, he and I started planning it out and I gave him the basics of it, the finish, and some key stuff, but he really did the heavy lifting on planning shots and storyboarding this thing. He’s a great visionary. That’s what I always say the great connections in wrestling when you really see the great creative partnerships. When there’s somebody like that who’s a great star and is a visionary, and is a great star and has a plan, and what I can do as a booker and promoter and TV producer is not just share the resources, but share a vision with him. It’s like I’m saying there’s not a personal life that I have less in common with than I do with Darby in real life, but I know when he’s got something that’s cool and he’s often got really really cool ideas and I really like collaborating with him.”
(h/t Ringside News for the transcription.)
