The recently-retired star revealed to Kayfabe Friends that he inked the new licensing deal with the company, continuing the relationship after stepping away from in-ring action earlier this year.
“I did a multi-year deal with AEW obviously not to wrestle anymore, it’s like a licensing deal, a legends deal if you want to call it that,” he said. “I’ll do appearances with them on and off depending on what they want and all.”
Sting wrestled his last match in the main event of AEW’s Revolution pay-per-view back in March, teaming with Darby Allin to defeat The Young Bucks and retain the AEW Tag Team titles. Afterwards, the titles were declared vacant following their victory. Since retiring from the ring, Sting has remained largely out of the spotlight. He did make an appearance at All In back in August, however, and aided Darby Allin in fending off an attack by The Young Bucks and Jack Perry. When next year’s All In was announced for Texas, Sting took to social media to say he’d be watching from “somewhere.”
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