AEW Talent Pay Emotional Tribute To Sting

The Stinger calls time on his legendary career later today at AEW Revolution.

by Andrew Pollard
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With Darby Allin having penned a phenomenal Players' Tribune article in celebration of Sting, a whole bunch of the Stinger's colleagues and family members have likewise moved to pay tribute to the Icon ahead of his retirement at AEW Revolution later today.

Also put together by The Players' Tribune, the likes of Dustin Rhodes, Eddie Kingston, FTR, and Arn Anderson were amongst those to leave a voicemail sharing their thoughts on Sting. Find a clipped six-minute montage of these calls below, or you can head to The Players' Tribune to hear each voicemail in full.

With a career which dates back to 1985, Steve Borden finally hangs up the boots and facepaint today as he and Darby Allin defend the AEW Tag Team Titles against the Young Bucks.

In a truly legendary career, Sting has shared the ring with a who's who of professional wrestling; from Ric Flair, to Harley Race, to Dusty Rhodes, to Terry Funk, to Antonio Inoki, to the Great Muta, to Nikita Koloff, to the Road Warriors, to Bruno Sammartino, to Jerry Lawler, to the Steiners, to Akira Taue, to Big Van Vader, to Tatsumi Fujinami, to Stan Hansen, to Rick Rude, to Mick Foley, to Steve Austin, to Lex Luger, to Hulk Hogan, to Randy Savage, to Kevin Nash, to Roddy Piper, to Goldberg, to Booker T, to Bret Hart, to Diamond Dallas Page, to Samoa Joe, to AJ Styles, to Kurt Angle, to Triple H, to John Cena, to Seth Rollins, to MJF, to CM Punk, to FTR, to Shingo Takagi, to Chris Jericho, to Naomichi Marufuji, to Tetsuya Naito, to Minoru Suzuki, to Orange Cassidy, to Jay White, to Christian Cage, to Adam Copeland, to to Ricky Starks, to... you get the picture.

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Words like legend and icon are forever thrown around in the wrestling world, but in Sting, such terms are fully justified and arguably don't fully do justice to an in-ring career that's inspired countless others and delivered at such a high level for so long.

 
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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main dayjob, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg.