Sting retired after he & Darby Allin efficiently defending the AEW Tag Group championship in opposition to The Younger Bucks at Revolution again in March.
A person of his phrase, The Icon hasn’t appeared on tv for Tony Khan’s firm since that present in Greensboro, North Carolina. However that doesn’t imply he hasn’t been round…
With this week’s announcement that AEW’s largest PPV, All In, is coming to Arlington, Texas’ Globe Life Subject subsequent 12 months, Allin did an interview with native media the place he revealed that Sting’s been backstage at among the Collision exhibits AEW’s been operating from Arlington’s ESports Stadium this summer time, because the WCW legend & WWE Corridor of Famer lives close by. Darby additionally gave some updates about his ongoing work coaching his mentor’s son Steven Borden whereas speaking to WFAA, the ABC affiliate for the Dallas/Ft. Value Metroplex (of which Arlington is part).
Then, final evening (Aug. 16) Sting reposted one in every of AEW’s X/Twitter messages about All In Texas, including that he’ll be watching from… “someplace”…
The rafters, possibly?
Whereas there’s no want for Sting to wrestle once more (with the form he retains himself in, he definitely might though he’ll be 66 when the present comes round on July 12 subsequent 12 months, however greater than that, it might be exhausting to prime the Revolution’s major occasion and the moments that preceded and adopted it), it might be nice to see the Stinger round a hoop once more. Constructing an angle that will enable him to nook Darby — and/or Steven — would additionally put some butts within the 40,000+_seats at Globe Life, too.
We will see. In any case… The one factor that’s for positive about Sting is that nothing is for positive…