Sting’s son Garrett has looked back on his father’s legendary final performance at AEW Revolution.
The Icon brought his unbelievable career to an end on March 3rd inside the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina. Due to the magnitude of the occasion, there were a few extra surprises for the fans in the build-up to and the match itself. As seen during the Hall of Famer’s entrance, two figures walked out onto the ramp dressed in two signature attires from Sting’s career. Steve was dressed as Wolfpac Sting and Garrett was dressed as Surfer Sting, complete with the same jacket worn at the 1990 Great American Bash, where The Icon defeated Ric Flair to win his first World Championship.
Getting revenge on the beatdown from The Young Bucks a couple of weeks prior, both sons hit Stinger Splashes onto The Jacksons in the early portion of the match and helped to set up the glass bridge onto chairs that Darby Allin went crashing through later on.
Garrett runs the YouTube channel KOTHAS, where he uploads Destiny 2 content among other video game content. Uploading a video to the channel, Garrett explained his involvement in the match and how he didn’t want to put a blemish on the monumental match:
“This last weekend, blond hair, let’s go over that. I was a part of my dad’s match, his retirement from pro wrestling. He goes by the name of Sting, so Sting is my dad, and I got to play a small part in his retirement match. So I kind of reprised a younger version of the Sting character. I played Surfer Sting, who has blond hair, and I wore a Sting jacket here. This is the same jacket that was worn at the Great American Bash in 1990. It was so cool.
When I saw this for the first time a few weeks ago, I got chills. No, I’m not keeping this. It’s gonna go back to him. But I have it for now, and I just wear it around every night. I’m just kidding, I don’t do that. So I got to play Surfer Sting. My brother got to play Wolfpack Sting, and he looked amazing. He just looked so cool. But all of that, it’s all of the original.
Everything that my brother and I wore was the exact stuff that he wore in his career, so it felt really cool to just kind of relive the Surfer Sting, and I tried to channel the inner Surfer Sting, so I hope did well. I didn’t want to ruin it, basically. I think my brother and I were like, ‘Okay, we gotta just do as good as we can here because we can’t look bad,'”
Garrett continued, noting how he had been absent from the channel for a number of weeks as he had to get TV ready for AEW Revolution, adding how the regime took its toll:
“Obviously, I was doing that this weekend. But the last seven weeks, I really haven’t uploaded too much because I was training for the last few years to be as strong as possible, put on as much size as possible, get all my deadlift, bench, squat, get those numbers up, and that doesn’t really look good on TV. So it doesn’t translate very well shirtless, live TV, in front of a lot of people.
So I knew I had to go on a crazy cut, which really took away my time and my energy from making YouTube videos. I didn’t have enough to log in to do the normal game on my own. Getting up off the couch was a lot because I was on pretty low calories, and I was also working out twice a day usually. Cardio in the morning, lift in the evening,”
Garrett would go on to credit Darby Allin for the crazy spot and how he was so proud of his dad for everything he had done over the years and at Revolution:
“Everyone we worked with was so good at what they do. If you didn’t watch the match, you gotta go watch it. It is crazy. Darby Allin is the craziest human I have ever met in my entire life. Jumped off a ladder in the ring on glass, bareback. So he did a front flip on the glass. He’s a madman. But my dad just had the greatest sendoff possible. He wrestled his heart out. He did some crazy stuff too.
My dad is turning 65 this week, and if you see some of the stuff that he does, you’ll know that the saying, ‘Age is just a number,’ he proves that true because he just doesn’t stop. He just goes full send in everything he does, and it’s been an inspiration for me. I want to be like that when I’m 65. Whatever he does, that’s what I’m gonna do. So yeah, it was so cool, and getting to see all the other wrestlers’ admiration and respect for my dad, all the fans share stories, they all meant so much to him.
For me, I’m just so proud as a son. Both me and my brother are like, ‘Gosh, this is just unbelievable.’ My dad couldn’t walk two feet without someone saying, ‘You changed my life,’ or ‘You’re my favorite wrestler of all time,’ and they’d have this unique story to share. That type of stuff, it was so cool. It’s perfect,”
Sting Receives Unexpected Shout-Out
With the career of the Hall of Famer being one of the greatest of all time, many names from the wrestling world have publicly paid tribute to The Icon and what his career means to them. In a move that few would have expected, Sting’s retirement match was referenced during a recent episode of WWE Raw.
H/t to Fightful.