AEW debuts ‘Tales from the Top Rope’ episode on Darby Allin
The first episode of Tales from the Top Rope: AEW Origins has been released.
The series was originally announced in January as a joint project between AEW and Adult Swim. The first episode was released on AEW’s YouTube page on Thursday and features the new AEW World Champion Darby Allin.
Narration from the episode includes:
“There is more to pro wrestling than what happens inside of the ring. It’s in the shadows where things get weird. Moments that break and bend wrestlers into something else, leaving behind scars that never fade. These are the tales from the top rope.
Darby Allin has been cheating death his entire life, and death has taken notice. Most people spend their lives running from death. But death means nothing to a person with a dream.
You can hesitate, or you can jump.
Never before, since the beginning of time, has a soul not flinched at the face of death. Death has met Darby before, and Darby always survives. Death offers Darby a bargain: cross the pit and live again, death-proof. Fall, and Darby’s soul will belong to death forever. Darby accepts.
Darby realizes the trick too late. Where others would see certain doom, Darby sees salvation.
Death tries to stop him, but Darby just keeps going. Death built the pit. Darby turned it into a weapon.“
AEW and Adult Swim have previously worked together, including a Rick and Morty-sponsored episode of Dynamite in 2019, as well as an activation at San Diego Comic-Con in 2024. Adult Swim is a Warner Bros. Discovery product.
The full episodes of Tales from the Top Rope: AEW Origins on Darby Allin is available below:
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