Sting has been compared to a lot of people throughout his illustrious career, but this is the first time we’ve heard him compared to Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise.
All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan was a recent guest on the Rich Eisen Show. While discussing Sting’s retirement from professional wrestling at AEW Revolution, Khan compared The Icon to Tom Cruise.
“Probably the greatest night I’ve ever had in wrestling was this year in 2024, Sting’s last match. It was the greatest experience,” Tony Khan said. “In AEW I would equate Sting’s run to the recent run in films of Tom Cruise. Everybody was pretty much ever seen a movie knows who Tom Cruise is. And if you’ve ever watched wrestling, you know Sting. Both of them kind of look very similar now to what they look like, you know, just close enough and they’ve aged so well.
Sting and Tom Cruise have done some crazy things in the last five years
“And both of them decided in their 60s to become these crazy stuntmen and do all this wild stuff that they really didn’t do when they were younger. And probably both of them in the last five years did more crazy stuff than they had in the previous 25 combined.
“Sting was so great for AEW, so at Revolution versus The Young Bucks, Sting teamed with Darby. He ended his run in AEW undefeated, and he was the sweetest man backstage. I think all the fans could see how much all the wrestlers respected Sting. And to give him like the perfect send-off from AEW, I thought it was awesome.”
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