Sting debuts at AEW Winter is Coming, will speak on Dynamite next week

“The Icon” has arrived in All Elite Wrestling.

 


 

WWE Hall of Fame legend Sting made his surprise AEW Dynamite debut during the “Winter Is Coming” special episode on TNT on Wednesday night.;

Featured below is a complete recap of the post-match segment that followed Darby Allin and Cody Rhodes’ victory over “Team Taz” members Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs.

    After the match we see Hobbs with a sneak attack from behind. As Arn Anderson loses his cool, he comes into the ring and Hobbs ends up getting some heel heat by attacking the legendary “Enforcer.”

    Now Dustin Rhodes hits the ring to try and even things up, but ultimately Team Taz has the numbers advantage with Starks, Hobbs, Brian Cage and Taz in the ring. Taz holds up the FTW Championship. Taz demands the guys hoist up Cody. They do.

    As they pick up Cody, the lights go out. When they come back on, a cool video starts playing showing trees and other landscapes while some music plays and the lights stay low in the amphitheater. The name STING then appears on the big screen.

    Holy sh*t! Out comes “The Icon” Sting as snow falls inside the Daily’s Place amphitheater in Jacksonville, Florida. The fans in Jax go nuts as Sting pulls a bat out from his side and begins walking down the ring to even up the odds in favor of justice.

    The announcers go nuts, as do the fans, which we see various camera shots of. Finally, Sting enters the ring and approaches Arn Anderson. He stands nose-to-nose with him and Arn is in disbelief.

    Sting turns and walks over to some of the fallen bodies in the ring. He acknowledges Dustin and then Cody, who he looks at without showing any emotion.

    He walks over to Darby Allin now, the man he is often compared to. Sting and Allin go nose-to-nose and Sting turns and looks at one side of his face with the similar paint and then the other side without the paint. This feels like an enormous moment, by the way. Huge.

    “The Icon” does his trademark howl to the fans, who do it back, and then he repeats this a few times before picking his baseball bat up and exiting the ring. He doesn’t seem to show any true alliance or emotion other than to the fans, leaving many to question what his purpose in AEW is.

    He exits up the ramp, turning one final time to look at the ring before heading to the back. On that note, we head to a commercial break.

After making his shocking All Elite Wrestling debut on the special “Winter Is Coming” edition of AEW Dynamite on TNT this evening, it was announced that “The Icon” Sting will break his silence and make his first comments since joining the promotion on next week’s show.

In addition to a stacked episode of AEW Dynamite on TNT announced for next Wednesday night, it is announced that Tony Khan has confirmed that AEW has signed “The Icon” Sting to a multiple year contract with All Elite Wrestling shortly after his debut segment on the show.

Then, the announce team informs us that for the first time, next week on AEW Dynamite, “STING SPEAKS.” A graphic is shown advertising Sting’s first words in AEW on next week’s Dynamite.

Make sure to join us here next Wednesday night for live AEW Dynamite results coverage featuring the first words by Sting since joining All Elite Wrestling.

Watch video footage of Sting’s AEW debut below.

Matt Boone
Matt Boone
Matt Boone has two decades of experience in wrestling and MMA journalism, dating back to WrestleZone.com and co-hosting Wrestle Zone Radio.

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