AEW Teases That Sting WILL Wrestle
The AEW website appears to have answered wrestling's most pressing question: what will Sting do...?
At AEW Dynamite: Winter Is Coming, Sting debuted for the promotion in a majestic presentation so effective - and so rapturously received - that it felt like it could have happened at any point, much less mid-pandemic in 2020. It was a suitably timeless introduction for one of pro wrestling's most enduring characters.
But we are living in a fixed point of time, and that time is December 2020 - a time in which Sting is 61 years old and has been retired for four years.
However, he also insisted in 2016 that he felt "completely normal" following the neck injury that had shelved him the prior year, and that he had suffered no lasting effects associated with cervical spinal stenosis.
Dave Meltzer stated in this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter that "he very clearly has to be protected when it comes to not taking bumps," but recently on Dynamite, both Taz and Arn Anderson have engaged in the physicality of the angle in which Sting has just became entangled.
Interestingly, the official All Elite Wrestling website lists Sting as an active men's roster member with a (thus far) blank win/loss record. This would appear to suggest that there are plans for Sting to wrestle, one would presume in league with Cody Rhodes and Darby Allin as pretext for a cameo appearance in which he can be protected. To reinforce that there is a distinction made, Taz isn't listed in that section.
AEW's website however isn't entirely inaccurate - recent recruits Top Flight aren't listed on it - and is only partially updated week to week.