AEW: Sting’s Final Dynamite Show Announced, Update on Hangman Page Storyline Injury, Madison Rayne Injury Scare Update, More News

Sting’s “Final Dynamite” Appearance Announced for Next Week’s AEW Dynamite Show

AEW CEO Tony Khan announced that Sting and Darby Allin will be making an appearance at next week’s AEW Dynamite show on February 28th in Huntsville, Alabama.

Khan also announced that this will be Sting’s final appearance on Dynamite as an active wrestler ahead of his retirement match at next month’s AEW Revolution 2024 event.

He may stop by in the future to say hello to the @AEW fans from time to time, but after next week, we all have to face the reality, it's over, Sting is retiring after #AEWRevolution and his last ever appearance as a professional wrestler on TBS is this Wednesday in Huntsville.

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) February 23, 2024

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Update on Hangman Page’s Storyline Injury Status

As noted before, Hangman Adam Page was involved in an injury scare incident at this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Page was initially believed to have suffered a potential ankle injury that was later revealed to only be a storyline injury angle.

Bryan Alvarez reported in a recent episode of the Wrestling Observer Live that his sources confirmed that Page’s injury was not legitimate and only done for storyline reasons.

Alvarez reported that the reason why AEW officials booked the injury angle was due to Page is currently dealing with a personal life issue that could end up causing him to not be able to work at next month’s AEW Revolution 2024 event. No other details were given regarding this issue with Page.

In regards to the backstage reaction over the injury angle, Alvarez reported that very few people were aware beforehand of the plans to do an injury angle for the show.

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Madison Rayne Feeling Okay Following Injury Scare Incident at Wed’s Dynamite Show

Besides Hangman Adam Page, Madison Rayne was also involved in a potential injury incident at this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During her match against Deonna Purrazzo, Rayne suffered a potential head injury following a DDT spot causing the match to be briefly paused while the referee quickly checked upon Rayne. Rayne was able to continue the match, which went right to the finish shortly afterwards.

Rayne recently provided an update on Twitter stating that she is currently feeling fine and also called out those who gave awful messages online towards her over her injury scare incident.

Hi 🙋🏼‍♀️ I’m okay! Thanks so much to everyone who celebrated my Dynamite return & those who checked in on me afterwards.

To those who have never stepped into a ring but tweeted awful things at me w/ zero knowledge of what actually happened- thanks for watching. Have a great day 🙃

— Madison Rayne (@MadisonRayne) February 22, 2024

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AEW News & Notes

AEW reportedly has sold and distributed around 6,205 tickets for their Dynamite Big Business show on March 13th at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts as of Thursday afternoon, according to WrestleTix.

Post Wrestling’s John Pollock reported that this past Wednesday’s Dynamite show drew 204,000 viewers on TSN 2. Pollock reported that this was believed to be the highest ever viewership for a Dynamite show in Canada in Dynamite history, surpassing the previous record of 197,200 viewers for their Match 13, 2023 show. AEW CEO Tony Khan confirmed on Twitter that this week’s episode was the highest ever viewed Dynamite show in Canada.

As noted before, AEW recently hired former WWE senior writer Jennifer Pepperman to be their new Vice President of Content Development. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Pepperman was in attendance backstage at this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

AEW recently released the second episode of their Johnny Loves Taya romcom series on their official YouTube channel.

In a recent episode of the What Happened When with Tony Schiavone podcast, co-host Tony Schiavone gave his thoughts about Sting’s upcoming retirement match at next month’s AEW Revolution 2024 event. Schiavone stated “Yeah, in many ways, it’s going to be. Sting’s family’s going to be there. He’s invited a couple of his friends to be there. So it is. It’s gonna be an emotional night for me, and it’s gonna be an emotional night for Ric Flair, who’s gonna be there as well, and the fact that, you think about Sting and Flair, Clash of the Champions, I was there to call it, and how much the Greensboro Coliseum means to me as a wrestling fan, that was my go-to place during all my fandom back in the 70s. It means a lot to me. So with that in mind, I really personally look forward to that night.” Schiavone also gave his thoughts about him feeling honored to have been part of Sting’s legendary career. Schiavone stated “I’m so honored to be a part of Sting’s career, Flair’s career, and many wrestlers’ careers. Arn, Tully, Barry Windham, Midnight Express, Jim Cornette, all of that. You see some photos of them, there I am, holding the mic. It was a wonderful time. It was a good time, and I miss it.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)