AEW: Sting Thanks Tony Khan for His Retirement Match, Paul Wight on AEW Transition, Backstage Reaction to Kazuchika Okada’s Full-Time AEW Debut

Sting Thanks Tony Khan for Retirement Match at AEW Revolution 2024

AEW’s Revolution 2024 event earlier this month in Greensboro, North Carolina featured the final match of Sting’s legendary wrestling career.

Sting recently reflected on Twitter about his retirement match and thanked AEW CEO Tony Khan for making it possible and their friendship over the past three years.

Still on cloud nine from last Sunday. But it would not have been possible without @TonyKhan. Thank you for the last three-plus years, for your friendship… for everything. Thank you Tony! pic.twitter.com/ohbZk5PiTc

— Sting (@Sting) March 10, 2024

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Paul Wight Comments on His Transition to AEW Being “Probably The Single Greatest Thing” to Happen to Him

The YES Network held a recent interview with Paul Wight. One of the topics discussed included Wight’s thoughts about how his transition from WWE to AEW has been for him.

“It’s been fantastic. I was blessed to work for a big company for a lot of years all over the world, and now, at my stage of the game, to find myself useful in a company that allows me to spread a lot of my knowledge to the younger talent, get a chance to get on the microphone every now and then and enhance them, help their characters and then get in the ring and mix it up, it’s probably the single greatest thing that’s ever happened to me. I’m blessed, grateful, and thankful for the fans that still like to see me do my thing.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Backstage Reaction to Kazuchika Okada’s Full-Time AEW Debut & AEW’s Plans for Okada

As noted before, this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Duluth, Georgia featured Kazuchika Okada making his official full-time debut for AEW.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that AEW officials were very happy with Okada’s first week of performances in the company going as far as to describe it as being a “home run.”

In regards to the current plans for Okada in AEW, it was reported that AEW officials currently have plans for Okada to do things differently than he did in New Japan Pro Wrestling and further cementing him as a top act in the company. In regards to Okada’s pairing with The Young Bucks, it was reported that those spoken to stated that AEW CEO Tony Khan has felt very confident in the chemistry between Okada and the Young Bucks based off of their real-life long-term friendship and work done during their time together in NJPW.