The Nature Boy wanted one more turn for old times’ sake.
Sting had his final match of his professional wrestling career at AEW Revolution where he and Darby Allin remained undefeated and retained the AEW World Tag Team Championships against the Young Bucks in a tornado tag match in the main event.
According to Conrad Thompson, Ric Flair, who had been alongside Sting for the final journey had wanted to turn on The Icon one last time.
“In talking to The Nature Boy, boy, he desperately wanted to turn on Sting. ‘Conrad, will you go talk to Tony [Tony Khan]? You’re friends with him. Just go talk to him.’ ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘Just go talk to him, try to convince him me turning on Sting is best for business.’ I go, ‘Ric, you work here, you’re in the storyline. I think maybe…’ ‘I told him! I told him I should turn. I think if he hears it from you.’ ‘I’m not going to talk to Tony about this.’ ‘No, no, seriously, hear me out. Hit him with this line, Tony, it’s only worked ten other times.’ ‘I think that’s why he doesn’t want to do it.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘You’ve done it ten times.’ ‘One more.’ That right there is Ric Flair in a nutshell. ‘One more,'” Thompson said on What Happened When.
Flair did sign a two-year deal with AEW, it is unknown at the moment if he will continue to appear on AEW TV.
h/t from Fightful.
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