AEW fans go wild over Darby Allin’s MVP-level skateboard attack on Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho and Darby Allin will have an AEW World Title match next week, and to close this week’s show, the up-and-coming star decided to attack the champion in a unique way.
While Chris Jericho is out to make the first AEW World Championship reign a special one with the help of his new stable, Inner Circle, but Darby Allin is also out to make a name for himself. Allin has already wrestled Cody Rhodes to draw, beaten CIMA, and defeated Jimmy Havoc to earn the opportunity against Jericho for the world title next week. So his stock is definitely on the rise.
But AEW‘s next star made an even bigger impact in the closing moments of the promotion’s second television show when he attacked Jericho while skateboarding down the ramp.
Yes, you read that correctly. Allin skated down the ramp with a skateboard, then leapt up in the air and attacked one of the biggest legends in the wrestling business.
Brilliant.
. @DarbyAllin is ready for @IAmJericho next week in Philadelphia! #AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/H0o3wf1jGO
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) October 10, 2019
And Twitter could not get enough of this moment.
Darby Allin riding a skateboard to a brawl is next level. #AEWTNT #AEWDynamite
— Rob Wolkenbrod (@WolkenRob) October 10, 2019
That’s our former editor chiming in, and, yeah, that was “next level” stuff. But everything about Allin, who lives off of pain as his gimmick, screams “next level”, yeah?
It's just crazy -- in a good way -- that Darby Allin, whom I've loved in Evolve for three past couple years, is beating up Chris Jericho with his skateboard on #AEW
— dave hitchings (@davehitchings) October 10, 2019
Yup, Allin’s rise in wrestling is truly something to behold.
https://twitter.com/CodyConlin1/status/1182115104357326848
We should definitely relive Private Party’s upset win over the Young Bucks, because that was THE biggest moment in tag team wrestling this year. Well, one of them, at least.
Every match was superb,Omega with a barbeored broomstick, Darby Allin skateboarding into ring well worth staying up late. Wrestling at it's best tonight on #AEWDynamite
— Matty Banks Banksy (@MattyBanks1988) October 10, 2019
Darby Allin riding down the ramp on a skateboard was hilarious and awesome #AEWDynamite
— Elmo Truther (@Helor145) October 10, 2019
nearly spit out my wine when darby allin skateboarded down a ramp and punched chris jericho. if you'd told a little me in the mid-late 90s that i'd be watching this happen to chris jericho, i would've been like, awesome, i hope i watch that while also drinking wine. thx #AEWTNT
— 💐 (@salsapantz) October 10, 2019
Darby Allin skateboarding down the ramp and ollieing into Jericho might be my favorite thing ive seen this year #AEWTNT
— TheLX_FENIX (@TheLX_FENIX) October 10, 2019
It’s honestly up there just in terms of, “Whoa, did that actually happen???”
Talk about innovativeness from AEW and Darby Allin. That’s how you get over as a young wrestler. Nobody is forgetting that one, especially since the attack came at Jericho’s expense.
There is no way I could straight faced say “Then Darby skated down the ramp and ollied into Jericho for the save” and it not sound like the dumbest thing.
— James Dator (@James_Dator) October 10, 2019
Yet it worked https://t.co/PPmNDQqG6S
Riho vs. Britt Baker will be a show-stealer, by the way. That Mandible Claw!
Always have to hear from my good friend Warren Hayes!
And yeah, that really was the moment of the week!
Darby Allin beating up Jericho with a skateboard is the millennial vs boomer content we need right now #AEWTNT
— annadyne (@anna_leslie) October 10, 2019
Next. WWE fans give Lio Rush their congrats after first title win. dark
Who doesn’t love that type of content? It’s too bad the “boomer” is going to “win”, but technically the millennials won this round with how perfectly executed the skateboard attack was.