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Sting chose The Young Bucks as his AEW retirement match opponents

Posted: Jan 13th 2024 By: Joseph Currier

In the new edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer explained how The Young Bucks were chosen for Sting's final match.

This week's episode of Dynamite ended with it being revealed that The Young Bucks will be part of Sting's retirement match. It was set up that Sting & Darby Allin will be facing Matt & Nick Jackson at AEW's Revolution pay-per-view this March.

The Young Bucks made their return to AEW television for Wednesday's angle. Meltzer notes that The Young Bucks were originally supposed to have more time off, but Sting asked them to be his retirement match opponents. Part of the reason for that choice is because Sting loved working with The Young Bucks in the trios match they had at Forbidden Door 2022.

Tony Khan was going to give Sting the option to pick whoever he wanted to face, and that would include pretty much anyone on the AEW roster or most other rosters besides WWE since Khan would have given him any match he wanted that involved talent he could have access to. When he was asked who he wanted to face, they were his choice, as he loved doing the Forbidden Door 2022 match in Chicago (Sting & Allin & Shingo Takagi vs. Bucks & El Phantasmo).

The Young Bucks were originally going to take more time off before returning but Sting asked them and they weren’t about to turn that down.

The Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina is hosting Revolution on Sunday, March 3. Sting's retirement match is the main focus of the PPV.

Jim Ross said on his podcast this week that he wants to call Sting's retirement match with Tony Schiavone.