Tony Khan has expressed some regret over Darby Allin‘s infamous spot at AEW Revolution 2024. In a new interview on The Ariel Helwani Show, Khan stated that he believes the bump went “too far.”

During the match, Allin jumped off a ladder to the outside of the ring, crashing to the floor through a pane of glass. It cut Allin pretty seriously, as the wrestler recalled during a previous Helwani interview.

“My insides were hanging out,” Allin said. “After I fell through the glass, the ref is looking at me like, ‘How do you feel?’ I’m like, ‘I’m feeling pretty good.’ He’s like, ‘Oh shit, your insides are hanging out, we’ve gotta bring you to the back.’ I’m like, ‘I can’t go to the back, this is Sting’s last match, I’ve got one more spot.’ So if you see me pop back up, I’m duct-taped. My side was completely duct-taped. Nothing ended up coming out but you could see the insides.”

With some time to reflect on the match, Khan still doesn’t like how extreme the moment was.

“I think [Darby is] a really a brilliant wrestler and also he takes these chances, and I think normally they’re very calculated chances,” Khan says. “The one that I thought was too far, and I would say this to him and I have said this to him a hundred times… in Sting‘s last match with the glass in Greensboro, off the ladder through the glass. That was so much and that was the one where I thought maybe it was too much and it wasn’t exactly the way it was described.”

“It was pretty brutal and that was the one after where I said, ‘I think you’re so brilliant about these chances, but this is the first time ever where I thought it probably was too much.’ But it was also the greatest night in history the promotion. He took a huge risk and it worked out and they won the match and Sting and Darby finished as an undefeated team and Sting retired undefeated in AEW as a world tag team champion. It’s my personal favorite night ever of all the wrestling we’ve ever done and Darby was such a huge part of that, but that was a big risk to take for sure.”

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When asked about the more gory moments in AEW history, Khan brought up the recent duo of barn-burning Blood & Guts matches.

“It has to make sense and almost everything we’ve ever done, I thought made sense,” Khan explains. “If there were ever a few that didn’t work out, I thought, well that probably didn’t make sense to begin with. Over the years I think we’ve really refined the process, but we have such great great wrestlers that 99.9 percent of the time I always think everything they do is awesome and I agree with the choices they make.

“The chances that the wrestlers take on Pay-Per-Views or a big night like Blood & Guts, they sacrifice and they do so much and that’s what makes pro wrestling so great. You have wrestlers that are willing to sacrifice their bodies for the fans with no off-season, 52 weeks a year, and then push it even further under these kinds of circumstances. Everybody on the AEW Blood & Guts show in particular I thought really set a great example of that and also, thankfully, everybody’s come out of it okay. It has a potential to be a career-ending match. It’s a hard-hitting situation, but thankfully everybody’s good.”

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