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Speaker 1: Why From the Parts Unknown Studios to.

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Speaker 2: The Double Battle Crown.

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Speaker 3: The Battle Found the Battle Crowd.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things

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Speaker 2: pro wrestling.

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Speaker 3: The Battle the Battle Brown.

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Speaker 2: Now making their way to the microphones.

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Speaker 4: Give it up for your hosts. Welcome to the Battle Crown.

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Speaker 3: What's up you guys?

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Speaker 4: Welcome back into iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast, the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 4: And today we have a guest on the show that

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Speaker 4: I think is about to actually break his bosses records

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Speaker 4: of most appearance on our podcast.

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Speaker 3: We've got Darby Allen on the show. Back again, Darby,

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Speaker 3: how are you doing.

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Speaker 2: Sir, honesty, I can't remember being here.

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Speaker 5: Well, the last time I was like, I've been here before.

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Speaker 5: The last time we ran into was in Nashville at Dynamite.

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Speaker 5: You met battles Sun backstage.

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Speaker 2: So your battle fun, no kid?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you met my.

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Speaker 3: You met my my six year old at the time.

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Speaker 3: He a big fan of yours and uh.

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Speaker 4: Before we do get started the whole thing, Uh, he's

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Speaker 4: a big fan of wrestling. And I told him that

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Speaker 4: I was interviewing you today and he's like, please make

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Speaker 4: sure you show Darby this And I want you to

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Speaker 4: know that he has your action finger and I had

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Speaker 4: to take it away from him because he's like, please

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Speaker 4: make sure. He's already lost the skateboard that came with it,

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Speaker 4: but he found a coffin and a sledgehammer, and he's like,

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Speaker 4: Darby likes coffins, so show him the coffin.

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Speaker 3: I was like, I'm not going I do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thanks thanks for supporting and getting.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely for sure, So let's go ahead and get this

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Speaker 4: out of the way real quick. With all due respect

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Speaker 4: to the T and T Championship, how does it feel

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Speaker 4: to be introduced as a world champion in ae WS,

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Speaker 4: being one half of the World Tag Team Champions.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's amazing. And the fact that I was never

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Speaker 2: setting out to be a tag wrestler, Like in my career,

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Speaker 1: Of being a tag wrestler, let alone being a tag

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Speaker 1: wrestler with thing, that's amazing. Sure, it's awesome. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's crazy. And I couldn't have had a better partner.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And of course a lot of people were excited

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Speaker 4: when you two tagged together, and you know, it's kind

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Speaker 4: of bittersweet coming up aw Revolution coming to us Live Sunday,

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Speaker 4: March third, from the Greensboro Coliseum with the Marque announcement

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Speaker 4: of this being Sting's final match. Of course, there's still

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Speaker 4: some tickets to remain aw ticks dot Com, where, of course,

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Speaker 4: you can watch it live from home on pay per view,

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Speaker 4: Bleacher Report Live and in the US and Triller TV

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Speaker 4: Plus internationally. What are some of the ideas that you

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Speaker 4: had in your head about how Sting's final match could

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Speaker 1: Ah, it scares me because I uh, you know, this

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Speaker 1: and I think someone might go to the hospital.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be it's gonna be a wild fight,

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Speaker 2: and I know I'll stop.

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Speaker 1: It nothing to make sure that it's probably one of

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Speaker 1: the most rememberable matches that he's ever had.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, man, people are always going to remember this.

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Speaker 1: If you crap the bet on the last match, people

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Speaker 1: are always going to remember that. So it's my mission

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Speaker 1: statement right here that I am going to make sure

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Speaker 2: And if I have to sacrifice myself, so be it.

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Speaker 2: A sacrifice must be made. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, and you know, heading into the final match on

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Speaker 5: this road we're on you know, you guys did become

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Speaker 5: tag team champs, and I think both of you would say,

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Speaker 5: within the world of professional wrestling? And you know, what

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Speaker 5: does a post championship victory party look like for Stinging Darby?

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Speaker 5: Like what do you guys go out for pizza? Like

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Speaker 1: Well, when we when we won the tag championships, I

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Speaker 2: I was in the back getting stitched up with my head.

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Speaker 2: So by the time I was done, he was long gone.

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Speaker 1: So I was like, there's our after parties spent bloody thanks.

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Speaker 2: It was more like an ambassador type role.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that he took my word and took

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Speaker 1: and everyone's like, oh, he should have stayed you know,

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Speaker 1: then he meant he's he's going crazier than ever.

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Speaker 2: Never in his career was he jumping on for fifteen

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Speaker 1: No, so let's just let's just wait till you're sixty

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Speaker 1: I'm very I'm very grateful for the whole experience. The

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Speaker 1: everybody on the roster watching this step your game up

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Speaker 1: because Sting is a is the outperforming you guys, and

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Speaker 1: playing the greatest heads.

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Speaker 2: But no, man like he's got. He's just showing everybody

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Speaker 1: And that's awesome for a guy like me because every

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and it's like for me being a fan since

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Speaker 5: since these days, you know, he probably still has enough

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Speaker 5: All I think is just that he's he doesn't look

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he told me, he looked at me and he said, hey,

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Speaker 2: Just like, let's just end it right now.

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Speaker 1: Like, and you know that was he felt comfortable with

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Speaker 1: gonna be bittersweet once it all happens, because I almost

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Speaker 1: forget what life was like before sting he's been every

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Speaker 2: I've learned to like know him so.

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Speaker 1: Much outside of the ring, which is like the most

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Speaker 2: He's he doesn't have a big head. He's not arrogant.

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Speaker 2: He's the nicest, humblest guy.

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Speaker 1: And I've met so many people that have done far

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Speaker 2: And I'm just like, screw you guys.

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Speaker 1: Like stay humble, Like how why is it so hard

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Speaker 2: Like why is it so hard to like stay humble

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Speaker 2: and kind? Why do you have to have this carne

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Speaker 1: Cut last night talking about family, I meant every word

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Speaker 1: I said of that. You know, the fame, we chase,

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Speaker 1: I wish more people have that because they just they're

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Speaker 1: each other for what for what? Like I thin can

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Speaker 1: buy a new boat, Like I don't. I really have

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Speaker 1: no clue. I'm just sick of the Carney' shit And

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Speaker 1: the fact that Sting has done everything there is to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the example.

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Speaker 1: That's the example we need for the next generation of wrestlers.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to grow up trying to screw each

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Speaker 3: Exactly for sure.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, speaking about Dynamite this past Wednesday, the promo,

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Speaker 2: The fact that he.

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Speaker 1: Wanted to talk about it is like, you know, I

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Speaker 2: And just like.

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Speaker 1: Once we started rolling and I said my piece, and

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Speaker 3: You know, so.

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Speaker 1: He it's like it's just really seeing what's most important

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Speaker 2: But just let the man speak from the heart.

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Speaker 1: And I try to like stay out of it and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to take anything away from him.

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Speaker 2: I just want this to be about him.

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Speaker 3: So right for sure.

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Speaker 4: And of course, uh, you know, it's Sting's last match

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Speaker 4: said and done, once we're all done with this, how

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Speaker 4: After he hangs his boots up and you're back out

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get a big ask. We're being tattoo on

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Speaker 3: Is that for real? Is that?

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Speaker 5: Was gonna say, I bet you he's thrilled about that.

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Speaker 2: Before Sting.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's always been there now and that's where

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Speaker 2: And once I come back down, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I'm gonna be a whole different beast and I'm

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Speaker 1: You know, he has every he's just he's been rocking,

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Speaker 2: While we're hot.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely yeah, and uh, you mentioned you're you're about to

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Speaker 3: How's the training going for that while wrestling at the

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody will truly understand how hard this

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Speaker 1: I just just go to Mount Everest with zero mount experience.

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Speaker 2: So I signed up. I sign up with the company.

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Speaker 1: The idea came late last spring, so I sign up

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Speaker 2: And I say absolutely not. And then they're like.

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Speaker 1: Well, the next climbing is happening in April, So you

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Speaker 2: I was just tired.

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Speaker 1: And then there's people that have climbed mountains, throwing up

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Speaker 2: So it's been crazy.

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Speaker 1: But by the end of the training, I finished everything

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Speaker 2: So the only thing that's going to stop me is

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Speaker 3: So we'll see, we'll see, we'll see.

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Speaker 4: Well, we don't want to take up too much your time.

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Speaker 4: I know you got a you got a lot of

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Speaker 4: things going on today. It's it's great to have you

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Speaker 4: clip of me showing you his action figure and uh, Darby,

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Speaker 4: we wish you nothing but the best, good luck with

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Speaker 4: climbing Mount Everest, and once you accomplished that, we get

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Speaker 4: you back here and we uh we could spend an

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