Steven Borden tells Sting he wants to wrestle

    by Sandeepx 💯: Sting

    On Up Close With Renee Paquette, Steven Borden says he told his dad Sting about wanting to wrestle right after AEW Revolution 2024. Sting was retired and didn't want him back in the game. He asked Borden to think about it for a day before calling back. Borden confirmed the next day, prompting an immediate call where Sting agreed to help with logistics and training. They even had Borden live in a tent in the front yard while doing challenges like running through the yard and using paintball guns. #Sting #ReneePaquette

    Transcript (en)

    Yeah, and you jumped in head first here. What was that first conversation you had with your dad? You said, this is it. I'm doing it. Yeah, that was a tough conversation. And I didn't wait too long after Revolution either, which really sucks because he just wanted to ride off into the sunset. That's the thing. He's like, I'm retired. I'm chilling. And then all of a sudden, his son wants to do wrestling. He's like, right back in. He was saying that was way more stressful for his son to get into wrestling than for anything for him to do. I could only imagine, like, just stay the fuck with us. Yep. And I felt so bad even telling him, but I couldn't wait. And I told him and he called me and he gave me every reason why I should not do it. And he did not want me to. And he said, don't say anything now, but I want you to think about it for the rest of the day and call me tomorrow. And the next day I texted him, I said, dad, I thought about it. I'm in. And my phone rang two seconds later and I said, hey, dad. And he goes, okay. and you know at that point he's known me and obviously he's my dad he's known me long enough to know that I don't I'm not gonna say something unless I'm dead certain that that's what I'm gonna do so then it went into more like all right how do we move forward yeah find the logistics when this guy steps in and then I had him live in a tent in my front yard why did you why the tent why did you honestly don't know why the tent we had a lot of bedrooms I don't know why the tent It was like, and we would do all these like challenges where I was like, all right, we got to work on your cardio. So he's run through the yard. We're shooting with paintball guns. Oh my God. There's just like,