Sting took part in a post-show media scrum after the AEW Revolution 2022 pay-per-view on Sunday night.
Following the premium event from Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida this past weekend, "The Icon" sat down with members of the media in attendance to discuss his Texas Tornado Trios bout on the show, as well as other AEW and pro wrestling related topics.
Featured below is an excerpt from the media scrum where the WWE Hall of Fame legend spoke about working in matches in front of live crowds again as opposed to strictly doing cinematic experience bouts after a talk with Cody Rhodes gave him more self-confidence.
“No, I’ll just be straight up with everybody. I talked to Tony and I said, ‘I’m not really sure what I have to offer,’ because I’m not going to have these long 20-30 minute matches against these young guys. ‘What do you have in mind?’ He said, ‘How about cinematic matches?’ ‘Yeah, I think I could do that.’ We got halfway through the filming of that one and Cody Rhodes, followed by Tony, was like, ‘Your kinetic energy is still really crazy. You can still go and have a real match.’ That’s where it all started. Cody texted me today and said, ‘Gameday.’ It started with kinetic energy comments. I didn’t think I would be in here doing this, but I’m having so much fun. I feel like I’m in good hands. It’s great being with Darby."
“I don’t know of any [doubters]. There are out there, I guess. I don’t mean that in a prideful or arrogant way. I’m sure, there have always been (doubters) my whole career, even as a young man. There will always be people out there who will hate you no matter what, you’re never going to be able to do the right thing in their eyes. There will always be those people. I think wrestling fans seem to be very respectful and see that, at my age, I’m taking risks out there and I want it to be good and I wanted to be an entertainer and I’m having fun. What would I say to the pessimists, just tune me off when I’m on, watch something else.”
H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes.
