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Veteran wrestling fans should know by now that there aren’t many wrestlers who stay true to their word when they say they’re retiring. However, it looks like Sting has officially decided to retire, as it looks like his last time in the ring will be when he and Darby Allin won the AEW Tag Team Championship against The Young Bucks at AEW Revolution 2024. This retirement comes eight years after the icon “retired” at the 2016 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, and in a recent interview with “Kayfabe Friends,” Sting revealed what he was up to during his first retirement. He revealed how he felt and how he felt when he retired. Call for participation in AEW.
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“We pretty much left it free,” Sting explained. “I didn’t really want to retire at the time. It was kind of a mutual contract that I had with WWE at the time. Vince (McMahon) wanted me to retire under his wing and I was fine with that at the time. “And I came back, more than five years after I retired, and as I mentioned in my little speech here, I got a call from Tony Khan and Cody Rhodes, and they Because he wanted me to come back. So I played it again. ”
Sting was also asked if he can’t turn down the energy of a live crowd, something he got a little taste of during his brief cameo at AEW All In 2024. The icon explained that in the crowd of liars there will be anyone who says that he will not miss that roar, he will definitely miss it. But that won’t be enough to bring him out of retirement any time soon.
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