Ahead of hanging up his boots on Sunday night at AEW Revolution, Sting has said all he wants is to entertain the fans and give them a night to remember.
The 64-year-old spoke to Joseph Staszewski of the New York Post for an article published on Saturday.
In the interview, he said of the match when he will team with Darby Allin against the Young Bucks:
I just want wrestling fans to be entertained. I want it to be a night to remember, a night where no one would say, ‘Ah man, it was just kind of sad. You can tell it just kind of passed him by. Well, good thing he’s done now.’
I don’t want that. I want them to go, ‘Oh my god, how does he do that?’ I want them to say, the Bucks, Darby, Sting all of them, that was so entertaining. That’s a night to remember. That’s all I ever cared about.
The veteran, real name Steve Borden, told the Post that he had originally signed with AEW in 2021 to do cinematic matches, but that, as his confidence grew, he agreed to work live matches and his deal was restructured.
We got halfway through filming and Cody [Rhodes] and Darby and Tony [Khan] and some of the guys were like, ‘Dude, you still got it.’ I’ll never forget Cody Rhodes saying, ‘Your kinetic energy, it hasn’t changed.’ At first I was saying, ‘Stop, stop don’t even try, don’t even try.’ But they kept on and kept on.
He gave Darby Allin great credit for the growth of his confidence during his final run:
He was more than willing to work with me. He encouraged me the whole way, ‘I think you can do this, you can do that.’ ‘Oh man, I don’t know.’ There were other times where it was reversed. Where I’m like, ‘I’m gonna do this’ and Darby is like, ‘Don’t do that. Don’t do that.’
Sting also touched on the promo during the February 21st edition of AEW Dynamite when he spoke of the recent death of his father, Robert Lee Borden.
I thought, I’m gonna be vulnerable maybe for the first time ever with wrestling fans out there in TV land and just mentioned, ‘Hey there’s some stuff going on in my life and I’m affected just like all the rest of you.’ I’m not invincible. This is making me consider my own mortality and on and on it goes. It’s a very humbling situation.
As for his legacy, he said:
I’d like to be remembered as Sting, the guy who brought it every night. Sting, the guy who never really changed. He was just rock solid through and through all the years and he was a man of God.
