Tony Khan sees Sting's eventual retirement match as a huge event for All Elite Wrestling.
The AEW and ROH President hopped on a media call to promote Sunday's AEW Double Or Nothing 2023 pay-per-view, during which he spoke at length about the inclusion of "The Icon" Sting in the promotion.
As far as how long fans can expect Sting to remain active, Khan noted that he wants him to compete "as long as he wants to do it."
"I am going to try and keep Sting wrestling and active as long as he wants to do it," Khan said. "He hasn’t really given me a set time. He’s mentioned it at times that he’s not going to wrestle forever."
Khan continued, "Truth be told, I would like Sting to compete as long as he wants. I really think he adds so much to the company and going forward, as we add more TV shows, more presence on TBS and TNT for AEW, having somebody like Sting in the company, such a great star and a great business asset for the company, but also a great person. We love having him here and I would love for Sting to stay as long as he could."
When The Stinger does decide to hang them up for good, Tony sees this as an opportunity to put on one of the biggest events and moments in all of pro wrestling.
"Whenever he does decide that it’s time for his last match, we would definitely want to make it a big event and I think it’s one of, frankly, the biggest moments out there in pro wrestling right now; Sting’s retirement match," Khan said. "I think if you took all the big ideas, and I’m not just talking about in AEW, I’m talking in the entire world of pro wrestling, if you took all the biggest things and biggest ideas and put them on paper, I think you’d be hard pressed to come up with things more interesting than Sting’s retirement match or the kind of things that would get fans all over the world more interested or excited."
He added, "It’s definitely something that will eventually be a major asset to the company, but in the meantime, Sting himself is a major asset to the company and I don’t want to try and leverage his retirement for short-term gain. Right now, the person we’re getting is so incredibly valuable to the company."
Check out complete highlights of the AEW Double Or Nothing 2023 media call featuring Tony Khan here at Rajah.com by clicking here. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
