AEW: Kris Statlander vs. Riho Announced for Wed. Dynamite Show, Will Ospreay Injury Update, Garrett Borden on Being Surfer Sting for His Father’s Final Match

Mar 6, 2024

Kris Statlander vs. Riho Announced for Wednesday’s Dynamite Show

AEW CEO Tony Khan recently announced one new match for Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Gas South Arena in Duluth, Georgia.

This is a singles match of Kris Statlander vs. Riho.

TOMORROW, Wed 3/6@GS_District Atlanta
Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite
TBS, tomorrow 8pm ET/7pm CT

Kris Statlander vs Riho

After a big win in Greensboro on Sunday, former TBS Champion Kris Statlander battles former @AEW Women's World Champion Riho in Georgia on Dynamite TOMORROW! pic.twitter.com/Q0lecNFZUd
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) March 6, 2024

Current card for March 6th AEW Dynamite show:

Will Ospreay vs. Kyle Fletcher
Kris Statlander vs. Riho

Will Ospreay Back Injury Update – Will Ospreay Cleared to Compete at Wednesday’s Dynamite Show

Sunday’s AEW Revolution 2024 event in Greensboro, North Carolina featured Will Ospreay defeating Konosuke Takeshita in a singles match. During the match, Takeshita hit a brainbuster to Ospreay onto the top turnbuckle resulting in Ospreay suffering a deep bruise injury on his back, which he showed off during the post-show media scrum. AEW CEO Tony Khan stated during the scrum that Ospreay was questionable to compete for Wednesday’s Dynamite show.

AEW CEO Tony Khan recently provided an update on Twitter confirming that Ospreay was medically cleared to compete in his scheduled match against Kyle Fletcher at tonight’s Dynamite show in Duluth, Georgia.

TOMORROW, Wed 3/6@GS_District Atlanta
Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite
TBS, tomorrow 8pm ET/7pm CT@kylefletcherpro vs @WillOspreay

It's official: After one of the best AEW matches ever vs @Takesoup at #AEWRevolution, Will Ospreay will fight the incredible Kyle Fletcher TOMORROW! pic.twitter.com/D2o5TC7ZKB
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) March 6, 2024

Sting’s Son Garrett Borden Comments on Dressing up as Surfer Sting & His Father’s Final Match at AEW Revolution 2024

This past Sunday’s AEW Revolution 2024 event in Greensboro, North Carolina featured Sting’s sons Garrett and Steven Jr. Borden coming out to the ring dressed up as Surfer Sting and Wolfpac Sting for Sting’s entrance for his retirement match at the event.

Garrett Borden recently reflected on his YouTube channel about getting to dress up as Surfer Sting for his father’s retirement match at the event.

“Alright, it’s time for an update and a bit of a reveal. Last night, my dad, Sting, retired from his completely legendary pro wrestling career. My brother and I got to play a small part of his final match as younger versions of his character. I’ve got the American outfit, my brother has the red (or, Surfer Sting and Wolfpack Sting for any wrestling fans!) It was absolutely insane, and by far the coolest night of my entire life. The admiration and love from the fans toward my dad made me even more proud of him than I already am.
So, this is obviously why I’ve been a bit absent the past month or so. I was largely focused on looking as good as possible for the show, so lots of hours that would have been spent grinding Destiny were instead spent in the gym haha. All that to say, thanks for being patient. I can’t wait to upload again soon, and I’ll for sure try to do a recap video that goes more in depth on this weekend.”

In a follow-up video, Garrett expanded on his experience dressing up as Surfer Sting and his thoughts about the match his father had with Darby Allin against The Young Bucks at the event.

“This last weekend, blond hair, let’s go over that. I was a part of my dad’s match, his retirement from pro wrestling. He goes by the name of Sting, so Sting is my dad, and I got to play a small part in his retirement match. So I kind of reprised a younger version of the Sting character. I played Surfer Sting, who has blond hair, and I wore a Sting jacket here. This is the same jacket that was worn at the Great American Bash in 1990. It was so cool. When I saw this for the first time a few weeks ago, I got chills. No, I’m not keeping this. It’s gonna go back to him. But I have it for now, and I just wear it around every night. I’m just kidding, I don’t do that. So I got to play Surfer Sting. My brother got to play Wolfpack Sting, and he looked amazing. He just looked so cool. But all of that, it’s all of the original. Everything that my brother and I wore was the exact stuff that he wore in his career, so it felt really cool to just kind of relive the Surfer Sting, and I tried to channel the inner Surfer Sting, so I hope did well. I didn’t want to ruin it, basically. I think my brother and I were like, ‘Okay, we gotta just do as good as we can here because we can’t look bad.’
Obviously, I was doing that this weekend. But the last seven weeks, I really haven’t uploaded too much because I was training for the last few years to be as strong as possible, put on as much size as possible, get all my deadlift, bench, squat, get those numbers up, and that doesn’t really look good on TV. So it doesn’t translate very well shirtless, live TV, in front of a lot of people. So I knew I had to go on a crazy cut, which really took away my time and my energy from making YouTube videos. I didn’t have enough to log in to do the normal game on my own. Getting up off the coach was a lot because I was on pretty low calories, and I was also working out twice a day usually. Cardio in the morning, lift in the evening.
Everyone we worked with was so good at what they do. If you didn’t watch the match, you gotta go watch it. It is crazy. Darby Allin is the craziest human I have ever met in my entire life. Jumped off a ladder in the ring on glass, bareback. So he did a front flip on the glass. He’s a madman. But my dad just had the greatest sendoff possible. He wrestled his heart out. He did some crazy stuff too. My dad is turning 65 this week, and if you see some of the stuff that he does, you’ll know that the saying, ‘Age is just a number,’ he proves that true because he just doesn’t stop. He just goes full send in everything he does, and it’s been an inspiration for me. I want to be like that when I’m 65. Whatever he does, that’s what I’m gonna do. So yeah, it was so cool, and getting to see all the other wrestlers’ admiration and respect for my dad, all the fans share stories, they all meant so much to him. For me, I’m just so proud as a son. Both me and my brother are like, ‘Gosh, this is just unbelievable.’ My dad couldn’t walk two feet without someone saying, ‘You changed my life,’ or ‘You’re my favorite wrestler of all time,’ and they’d have this unique story to share. That type of stuff, it was so cool. It’s perfect.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com