Sting Insisted On Doing Scorpion Death Drop Table Spot Despite Backstage Push

Sting is about to finish the final chapter of his in-ring career, with the multi-time world champion set to hang up his boots after AEW Revolution on March 3.

Since joining the promotion in 2020, ‘The Icon’ has repeatedly rolled back the years after a forced retirement in WWE after taking a buckle bomb, with Sting routinely taking table bumps and performing balcony dives.

In the build-up with his Revolution match aside fellow AEW World Tag Team Champion Darby Allin against The Young Bucks, Sting and Allin took on the team of Powerhouse Hobbs and Konosuke Takeshita on the January 10 ‘homecoming’ edition of AEW Dynamite, with Sting nailing a Scorpion Death Drop on Hobbs off a platform through two tables.

A report from Fightful Select suggested that the spot was Sting’s call, with some members of the AEW backstage team originally suggesting Darby take the bump instead, Sting was allegedly insistent on taking the bump, and has clearly been fine in the weeks following.

The February 28 edition of Dynamite is being billed as Sting’s last ever Dynamite, ahead of Revolution several days later.