Steven Borden recalls telling Sting that he wanted to become a wrestler and says he told him shortly after AEW Revolution 2024.
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Steven Borden says he got a little bit more involved with wrestling as Sting was approaching retirement, after being pushed away from it.
“For my whole life, it was something that I was pushed away from. Not in a bad way. I think my dad wanted something different for me. So I played football, and at some point, I feel like I was so removed from it that I almost didn't even know what wrestling really was. I started to get a little bit more involved as he was approaching his retirement because it's like, ‘Man, this is something that's really important to my dad. This is his whole career. And I've been so removed from it for my whole life.’ We were at the Phoenix show. We got involved a little bit leading into Revolution, and then being there at Revolution, I started to see what this business actually was, and see also some of the different sides of it that I hadn't understood as a kid. I think just watching my dad, realizing this guy's been in the business for decades. Those same decades are gonna fly by for me. If there's something that is pulling me into it, I think I need to stop running from that. I probably did run from it for a long time.”
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Steven Borden says he was pushed away from wrestling for his whole life, felt he needed to stop running from it after Sting’s retirement:
“For my whole life, it was something that I was pushed away from. And not in a bad way. I think my dad wanted something different for me. So I played football, and at some point, I feel like I was so removed from it that I almost didn't even know what wrestling really was.
I started to get a little bit more involved as he was approaching his retirement because it's like, ‘Man, this is something that's really important to my dad. This is his whole career. And I've been so removed from it for my whole life.’ We were at the Phoenix show. We got involved a little bit leading into Revolution, and then being there at Revolution, I started to see what this business actually was, and see also some of the different sides of it that I hadn't understood as a kid.
I think just watching my dad, realizing this guy's been in the business for decades. And those same decades are gonna fly by for me. If there's something that is pulling me into it, I think I need to stop running from that. And I probably did run from it for a long time.”
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Steven Borden on following the path of his father, Sting, into professional wrestling.
"I'm gonna blink and I'm gonna be 65. And so, having that sense of a urgency, it's sink or swim, you have to take the step at some point."
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Steven Borden on Sting's experience with AEW.
"I don't want to speak for him [Sting] necessarily, but to me that's the happiest I've seen him with whoever is managing a company. His relationship with Tony [Khan] was so good."
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the fact steven got the wrestling bug after his father’s retirement match already in his 30s is so interesting to me hes so passionate abt it in such a short time even tho it was exposed to him his whole life