12 Ups & 1 Down From AEW Dynamite (November 8 - Results & Review)
9. Sting & Darby Allin Vs The Outrunners
If you can’t do great things in pro wrestling, at least do nice ones. That was Sting & Darby Allin Vs The Outrunners. Via Tony Schiavone via wrestling historian Jim Valley, this was the first time Sting had wrestled in Portland since 1989, and was sure to be the last. This was one of the nice things. The other was the agenting of the match.
‘The Icon’ didn’t fall on his back once here, and nor should he. The countdown clock has been set for his retirement, and any and all bumps the 64-year-old takes need to be worth getting winded. With respect to the wonderful and incandescent Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum, this squash wasn’t for that.
Booking him twice in a week was a funny idea, and having joined Allin for this simple dismantling of ‘The Youngest Men Alive’, he’ll probably get a little more involved in the Collision tune-up alongside Adam Copeland this Saturday. If the road to Revolution features as many good will gestures as good matches, they’ll have nailed this final farewell.