An article from Sports Illustrated offers an inside look at Sting’s final match, which took place at AEW Revolution on March 3.
Highlighting the moments throughout the encounter between The Young Bucks, the Icon, and Darby Allin, the article breaks down the discussions going into the AEW World Tag Team Championship main event of the pay-per-view, including the decision for the champions to retain.
After Sting’s remarkable run in AEW, all parties ultimately agreed that the circumstances called for a beautiful ending. If anyone in wrestling deserved to go out in celebratory fashion, with parallels to the finale of a great sports film, it was Sting.
Per VenuesNow.com, the show generated more than $1 million in gross ticket sales for a sold-out crowd of over 16,000 inside the Greensboro Coliseum.
Sting recently took to social media showing his gratitude for the show and for the love from his fellow wrestlers, the staff, and the fans: