Darby Allin on ‘four pillars of AEW’ label: ‘It takes more than four’
Darby Allin says he doesn’t really like the term “four pillars.”
As four relatively young, homegrown wrestlers, Allin, MJF, Jack Perry, and Sammy Guevara have been referred to as the four pillars of AEW.
During a recent interview with TMZ Sports, Allin was asked about the term and said it has taken a lot more than four people to bring AEW to where it is today.
Allin said:
“I really don’t concern myself honestly too much with that term. I really don’t like that term, four pillars, because I believe it takes more than four to actually get this thing up and going.
The beauty to me with being on the ground level of AEW is you could see when the company got to the highest points, it was just through us. It was not through us as in the four pillars, but through everybody on the roster working together because this wasn’t a machine that was built years and years and years ago. This was only in 2019.
So the fact that we got to 81,000 plus people at Wembley is incredible. And I think people really don’t stop and think about that.
As high as we go and then as low as we go and now we’re going back up, it’s so rewarding when you’re a part of something from the ground up and it truly feels like your baby.
You can’t have an ego with this because when there’s egos that’s when the ship starts to sink. But if we all work together it pulls it up and you can feel that energy. So that’s why it’s important for me to lead by example more than anything, and not have any ego with anything.”
Up next for Allin is a match against Andrade El Idolo at AEW Dynasty. The pay-per-view takes place Sunday, April 12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The stipulation for the match is that if Allin defeats Andrade, MJF will grant him a shot at the AEW World Championship. Kenny Omega, who challenges MJF for the title at Dynasty, has also said he will honor the stipulation should he win the title on Sunday.
Allin’s full interview with TMZ Sports is available below. The video is queued to his comments about the four pillars of AEW.
Ian Carey is a writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, whose work has been featured in NOW Magazine, The Huffington Post, and more. A lifelong wrestling aficionado born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he has covered the industry for a decade and a half. He joined the f4wonline.com team in 2019.