Darby Allin

Darby Allin is the ring name of Samuel Ratsch, an American professional wrestler born on 7 January 1993 in Arizona, who is signed to All Elite Wrestling and has won the AEW TNT Championship three times, the AEW World Championship once and the AEW World Tag Team Championship once with Sting. His wrestling persona draws on punk rock and skateboarding culture, and outside the ring he has pursued interests in filmmaking, skateboarding and mountaineering. In his youth he took part in track and field and football, and after attending a film school in Arizona he left to pursue a career in skateboarding. Trained by AR Fox and Buddy Wayne, he made his debut in 2014 under the ring name Darby Graves for Blue Collar Wrestling in Portland, Oregon, and signed with AEW in 2019.