Summary
It’s Sttiiiiiinngg! And you’ll discover exactly how he came to be at AEW, and all that went into The Icon’s surprise debut! Sting recounts his conversations with Tony Khan, his first steps backstage at Dynamite, walking through Gorilla on his way to the ring, the snowfall at Daily’s Place, and the fans’ reaction to his appearance. He also talks WCW, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, and his surreal, final match at WCW. And Sting shares stories about the evolution of his character (from neon surfer Sting to The Crow version), his relationship with Dusty Rhodes and the Rhodes family, his early days tag teaming with Jim Hellwig (aka Ultimate Warrior), what Hacksaw Jim Duggan said to him the first time they met, his Wrestlemania moment, WWE Hall of Fame induction, and Vince McMahon.
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| 0:00.0 | This is AEW Unrestricted, the official podcast of All Elite Wrestling. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm here, Aubrey Edwards, with my good pal Tony Chavani. |
| 0:19.0 | And we're here today with a man that literally I don't think I could properly introduce ever if I tried. |
| 0:24.5 | I think the only one who could potentially introduce him is Tony Chavani. |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah, uh, sting is with us. I know what you're wanting you're wanting to say, |
| 0:31.1 | it's sting! Got it? Yeah yeah there you go but sting is here with a sting it |
| 0:36.7 | is great to be talking to you again my friend how are you I'm doing great you know as |
| 0:40.6 | you're talking about introducing me and all that I just can't help but go back in time and remember very first like one of the first matches we ever went to with Jim Helwig and I you know who became the ultimate warrior. We're in Alexandria, Louisiana, we walk into the Coliseum there. |
| 0:55.4 | We're meeting all the guys shaking hands with everybody. |
| 0:58.4 | Shake hands with Jim Duggan. |
| 0:59.8 | His eyes are kind of crossed and he's got sweat all over him he's just fresh out of the |
| 1:04.6 | ring and he goes what's your name brother I go sting he goes Steve no sting and |
| 1:10.1 | well sting stink heck of a gimmick brother. All right. Only hacksaw chimed again. It's |
| 1:20.2 | there's there's millions of stories I know that we can tell and we want to get into some of those. |
| 1:26.7 | The first story I want to talk about is getting into AEW. |
| 1:31.2 | That's kind of how we always begin this podcast when we talked one of our |
| 1:34.8 | superstars. You arriving to A. E. W. was something that that surprise, I guess is the |
| 1:41.6 | right word. Maybe Aubrey shocked, I'm not sure. |
| 1:44.7 | There was a whole like gambit of emotions, I think, just watching the people in the back |
| 1:50.0 | was probably the best possible way to understand how crazy it was because you have like Wardlow who looks like a kid on Christmas |
| 1:56.8 | You have other people like no that wasn't staying. There's no way. There's no way. He's here and then just other people like yeah, what's up? He's here |
| 2:03.9 | It was nuts. I know from a talent perspective it was all over the place and the fans it was the first time it felt like a full arena since the pandemic |
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