AEW: Sting Confirms Injury Suffered at Dynamite, Grand Slam 2023 Date & Location Confirmed, Fuego Del Sol

Jun 29, 2023

Sting Confirms Facial Injury at AEW Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Hamilton, Canada featured a main event tag team match of Sting & Darby Allin vs. Sammy Guevara & “The Painmaker” Chris Jericho, which was won by Sting & Allin. During the match, Sting leaped off a ladder onto Guevara but landed awkwardly hitting his face onto Guevara’s legs and edge of the table and the table itself not breaking.

Following the show, Sting gave a post-match speech to the crowd confirming that he had suffered a facial injury and would need some stitches on his lip and had a loose tooth.

“I’m gonna have a bunch of stitches and my lip, and a tooth that seems halfway knocked out, and it was worth it to be right here. Thank you to Tony Khan for allowing me to do this.”

standing ovation for STING after #AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/xv1P4QaDP4
— AIR (@AEWGold) June 29, 2023

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

AEW Confirms Date & Location for Grand Slam 2023

AEW recently confirmed that this year’s Grand Slam special will be taking place on September 20th at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York.

It was also announced that tickets for that night’s Dynamite and Rampage tapings will officially go on starting on July 22nd.

NEW YORK CITY!#AEW returns to the historic Arthur Ashe Stadium for one of the biggest nights of the year:#AEWDynamite Grand Slam LIVE & #AEWRampage Grand Slam on Wednesday, September 20th!

Tickets will go on sale Saturday, July 22nd at 10am ET!
🎟️ https://t.co/UN1cNj1kQq pic.twitter.com/UvCAeDjA7q
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 29, 2023

Fuego Del Sol Comments on Departure from AEW

As noted before, Fuego Del Sol’s contract with AEW will be expiring at the end of this month and he will be leaving the company.

Fightful held a recent interview with Del Sol. One of the topics discussed included Del Sol’s thoughts on his decision to leave AEW.

“Listen, me and Kenny have been butting heads for a long time. you know? We’re both born on October 16th and I was like my graphic needs to be put up. No love. Even before I got injured I wasn’t being used as often and we have an incredible roster. It’s a giant roster. You know, when you have guys at the top struggling and fighting for moments and TV time, you know, it’s knowing that you might get lost in the shuffle. Wrestling is a rollercoaster ride, there’s ups and there’s downs. But the more down you are, the more you start to realize you got to switch things up. You got to try some things.
When you’re not being used, your mind goes crazy in a lot of ways. You want to be better and so I was trying to take more indie dates to stay on top. So just in case my number got called. I would be ready but all also in the back of my mind, I was preparing that, hey, my contract is coming up. So if this is the way they want to go, I have to prepare myself and unfortunately, I got injured. Luckily, you know, I was under a deal where my contract, they paid me throughout my injury and I’m very thankful for that.
Absolutely. Very respectful, very professional. All the credit to AEW. I have no ill will. Nothing bitter to say about them. I could would’ve, could’ve, should’ve all day long about character stuff or this, that and the other. But at the end of the day, it’s a business, and if, at this time, they feel like they can do business without me, then I’ll go and try to do business without them as well. It’s all good. There’s ebbs and flows, I understand the situation. I wish I could have done more. Of course, I feel like some people are fine in certain situations. But I’ve always aspired for more in wrestling, I’ve always aspired to move up the card, I’ve always aspired to create bigger moments, get bigger matches. If that’s not the direction they wanted to move in, at the time, I understand completely. I feel like I have a lot left to prove, I have a lot left to show. I wish I could have done more. Like I said earlier, I am very confident I can do it all. I could have been a manager, I could have gotten a tag team, I could have gotten a group. I could have done babyface, I could do heel. Over time, I hope to flex those muscles a little bit more, especially on Indies and wherever I may end up down the line on TV.
At the end of the day, and I have no clue if this is true or not, I’ve always felt that I was able to win over the online crowd, I was able to win over a lot of higher ups in the back. I just don’t know if I ever fully got Tony to buy into me fully. You know what I’m saying? He definitely signed me, and I’m incredibly grateful for that. I would love to ask you. But I just feel like I never fully believed in it. It’s his company, it’s his vision and he’s got so many great talents that are he’s got to figure out and puzzle piece to get on the show. So, I understand at the end of the day that you know right now is my time to leave and try to go do other things.”

Del Sol also gave his thoughts on his current plans for the future of his wrestling career.

“I’m definitely going to survey the landscape. I definitely am constantly seeking the best opportunity. You mentioned some of the TV time I got, I think maybe overall I had just a little over 11 or 12 actual AEW TV matches, and none of them, maybe two of them, got over 10 minutes on the show. So it’s like I still don’t feel like I got enough time to really showcase or breakout the way I would wish I could have. So I felt like I have so much more to show and so much more to offer. I cannot wait for the right company to and right, higher ups to see that and to give me a chance and for me to really show them I’m going to try to bust my ass on the indie scene. I want to hit all the big indies.
I never really got to have that real run. I was always a grinder. I was always traveling around the indie circuit—Texas, Oklahoma, Mexico, Canada—but never hit any of those major organizations with a ton of exposure to really cement my name on the indies. So that’s the plan for now. Maybe when the hiring freeze with WWE and NXT comes to a close, maybe if Impact has interest. I’m willing to do it all go wherever they pay me to be. But I’m only 27, Sean, I got so much left in the tank. Again, I feel like I barely scratched the surface. People don’t even know. If I can create all these moments on a vlog just wait to they give me some proper television time.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com