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Top AEW star says Swerve Strickland is 'not their leader'

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Ahead of Blood & Guts, former two-time AEW TNT Champion Darby Allin says AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland is not his leader.

On AEW Dynamite 250, Darby Allin came down from the rafters to officially join Team AEW against The Elite for the Blood & Guts Match on the July 24 episode.
Team AEW will now consist of AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland, Mark Briscoe, Darby Allin and The Acclaimed’s Max Caster and Anthony Bowens.
On the July 20 episode of Collision, Allin made his in-ring return for the first time since Double Or Nothing when he scored a win over Beast Mortos.

After his bout, AEW cameras caught up with Darby Allin who had some words for The Elite as well as his Blood & Guts teammate Swerve Strickland. On his road back to join Team AEW, he said:
“Blood and Guts is Wednesday. It’s kind of funny because I’m talking to my doctors and I just got back from Anarchy In The Arena where I was hung upside down and super kicked in the face and my nose blew up like a faucet.”
“The same nose that I broke getting hit by a bus. It’s just sounds like the universe is against you right now.”
“I got out of that match. I was pulling thumbtacks out of my lip and then I told Tony Khan. I want to come back just in time for Blood and Guts.”

“Tonight I had to be on Collision. You know, that’s the thing about Collision. The Young Bucks, all these EVPs, they never show up. I thought this was their baby. I thought AEW was their baby. They don’t seem to care.”
“I tell everybody they never do radio. They never do TV. They do the bare minimum of… No, man. AEW’s my baby. I’ll stop at nothing to make sure everybody knows that.”
“Because this is the same company that let my family retire. I bought them a house. There’s nothing I won’t do for this place.”

On Swerve not being his Blood & Guts leader, Darby said:
“But you know what really pisses me off? Is we got Swerve. I hate all these ads for Blood and Guts. Team AEW led by Swerve. Swerve doesn’t leave. He’s not my leader”.
“As far as I’m concerned, I was the one who put him in a coffin last year at All In and closed the casket. Not saying I should be main inventing this All In. But you know what? I am back. I want the TNT Championship, I want the World Championship, give me all the belts.”
“As far as Blood and Guts is concerned, I’m gonna put my history aside with Swerve just for one night.”
“So we have bigger fish to kill, and that is the Elite. Jack, I said it out there tonight, I wanna see your ass at Wembley.”

Team AEW will face The Elite’s Kazuchika Okada, Jack Perry, The Young Bucks and Hangman Adam Page in the Blood & Guts Match on this Wednesday’s July 24 episode of AEW Dynamite.
Allin also challenged Perry for the TNT Championship at AEW All In London on Sunday, August 25 at Wembley Stadium.

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