All Elite Wrestling promotion sent a shockwave through the professional wrestling industry by bringing back Sting on television. For the first time in more than two decades, he was back on TNT where he used to be the main event attraction on Monday Nights. This definitely was a key appearance and a huge signing on AEW’s part.
There have been some speculations over the legendary superstar making in-ring appearances in the future and confirmations about the same have now been received. Sting was the guest on a recent episode of the AEW Unrestricted podcast, where he talked about a number of things including his eventual involvements in competition.
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The former WCW franchise player revealed how he ended up appearing on AEW TV. He first spoke with AEW President Tony Khan five years ago when the latter asked him to sign a baseball bat for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Khan then contacted him again a year ago when he was under contract with WWE. So the situation had to be handled, carefully,
“[Khan] didn’t call me, he sent a text,” Sting said of Khan. “I was still with WWE so I’ve gotta be careful with how I handle this kind of stuff, so I just kept it superficial.
“I’d say, two months or so ago, somewhere around then, I reached out and said, ‘Hey, are you still willing to talk?’ [Khan] said ‘Yeah!’ and here we are.”
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Sting then admitted that he wasn’t happy with how his career ended in WWE. He said that he had been pushing for a cinematic match against The Undertaker. But with Vince McMahon not agreeing to the proposal, this match wasn’t going to happen. Khan then asked him if he was interested in wrestling cinematic matches in AEW and the answer was positive,
“I didn’t want it to end the way it ended,” Sting said. “I was pushing to get a cinema-style match with ‘Taker. And for probably a litany of different reasons, it just wasn’t going to happen and so when Tony called and spoke with me and he said, ‘Are you interested in doing cinema-style matches?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I am (laughs). I am.’ And so I thought that I’d like to come back and do that and not disappear again with my tail between my legs. I don’t have to go out on top, but I’d love to be able to go out in a positive light.”
The Vigilante praised the talents that are present on the AEW roster and he’s willing to help them out in whichever way possible. Perhaps, some of them will be fortunate enough to wrestle him, down the road. He also discussed his first entrance in AEW with the snow. Despite all of the innovative entrances that he’s had, the snow was a first in his career,
“I’ve made every kind of entrance under the sun,” Sting stated. “I mean, they’ve done everything except shoot me out of a cannon, but I gotta tell you, snow is a first for me. Winter is coming, and it is so cool. I’ve had more people say, ‘Oh dude! The snow! That is awesome.'”
