Sting is among the best expert wrestlers of perpetuity. Not even if he was an icon, however since he was never ever scared to alter.
The WCW, TNA and AEW icon battled the last match of his storied, 5 years profession at AEW’s Revolution pay-per-view occasion. It was pure phenomenon, a centerpiece befitting a legend from the minute the 64-year-old wrestler strolled onto the ramp to the guitar riff of his very first entryway tune; Metallica’s Seek and Destroy.
What followed was a match brimming with Sting homages– consisting of from his boys dressed up in various ages of Sting worry, battling legends like Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat and a list of damaged glass and shattered tables.
It’s showtime.
For the last time.
Order #AEWRevolution on PPV today!
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— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) March 4, 2024
The match was indistinguishable from the ones Sting placed on in the 80s or 90s. It was abstruse to think up when he seemed unwinding his profession in the 2000s. There he was, in his 60s, crashing through pushed wood and panes of glass.
Sting is 64 years of ages and still taking bumps like this #AEWRevolution pic.twitter.com/mQ9JkEjl6T
— Public Enemies Podcast (@TheEnemiesPE3) March 4, 2024
This wasn’t a male who cruised to his surface. He kept his foot on the gas, developing with the video game and leaving as one of the most engaging figures in the sport. In the end, Sting and Darby Allin kept their world tag group champion over the Young Bucks, enduring some genuinely unreasonable bumps on Allin’s part and a prolonged two-on-one beatdown from the AEW executive vice presidents on the sextagenarian opposite them.
STING IS BEAST #ThankYouSting #AEWRevolution pic.twitter.com/rWXWhj8j58
— The Real One ☄ (@WWEREALONE) March 4, 2024
A scorpion deathlock iced the offer, however the crowd viewing in the house was dealt with to one last touching throwback. In real WCW style, the pay-per-view broadcast cut off precisely at midnight ET as Sting was still unwinding his retirement speech. For the previous face of the business that mastered the “folks, we’re out of time” surface on Monday Nitro and who when needed to re-air a pay-per-view headliner on cable the next day after running long, it was a fitting hassle.
For us, one fan at ringside recorded his complete monologue:
Complete after #AEWRevolution section with Sting Darby Allin and Tony Khan thanking the crowd.
We like you, Sting! #aew #ThankYouSting pic.twitter.com/C6W0ZklKzg
— Christine (@ShiningPolaris) March 4, 2024
Sting can constantly return on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite for a correct bye-bye along with a Darby Allin who, a minimum of in theory, will have less open injuries. If he does not, fans took to Twitter to reveal their value for a guy who invested almost 40 years in the ring before going out on top.