Sting: My AEW Run Has Been Surreal
The Stinger has rolled back the years in AEW
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Dec 23, 2021
Since making his debut at AEW Winter is Coming 2020, Sting has enjoyed somewhat of an Indian summer, with ‘the Icon’ rolling back the years through a series of highly praised performances alongside Darby Allin.
Most wrestling fans assumed we’d never see Sting in the ring again after his WWE run was cut short after taking a buckle bomb from Seth Rollins, and it seems that Sting himself thought the same, telling Sports Illustrated’s Justin Barrasso:
“This means the world to me, I never thought I’d be back here like this. I thought I was just going to disappear from wrestling, and I didn’t like the thought of that. Then I came to AEW, and originally, we were just going to explore cinematic matches. And I got in the ring. I can still hear Cody [Rhodes] telling me about my kinetic energy and that I could wrestle a match. I was like, ‘Ease up now, Cody.’ Then I heard Darby say, ‘Steve, you can do it.’ This entire stretch, and now coming back to Greensboro, it has all been surreal.”