So Darby Allen enrages me.   But I'd probably end up getting COVID on the way. So what's good, George? Well, Ross, back again with another video. So we're going to check out Jim Cornett, review Sting's retirement match with Darby Allen versus Young Bucks at AEW Revolution 2024. Now, y'all know I had to check this one out.  I really want to see what he had to say. Me personally, I enjoyed the match. It was nonsensical, overbook, none, nonsense. But it was Sting's last match and it was fun. The crowd enjoyed it. I know I enjoyed it, even though a lot of what was happening made no sense. It was still definitely fun just to see Sting one more time in the ring, man. And the right outcome, in my opinion, was correct. And Sting and Darby winning, but definitely wanted to see what Jim Cornett has to say. It's a long video, 27 minutes, so we're going to sit back, relax and get right into this one. Appreciate all love, sport. See what Jim Cornett has to say about this. They got bigger problems over in the tag team division. Brian, because there's big things on the horizon after this main event match of the pay-per-view Sting's retirement. That's why they sold the tickets. That's why the crowd was there. That was the interest of the pay-per-view. The rest of this stuff has just been bad in time. As I said a little while ago, they had one job. Yeah, one job. Just give Sting a nice send off, right? Well, we shall see. The opening legend to enter was Rick Flair in Greensboro at the Coliseum. And down the aisle, he comes and he gets a nice ovation. I'm sure you heard it very, very nice. And then the second one to come out is Ricky Steamboat. And he got a bigger pop than Flair. Do you think is it just that no one's sick of him? Well, I was about to say they've seen Flair so much on TV, even if it wasn't live, whereas Steamboat has the goddamn good common sense that God gave a goose, as Mama Cornette used to say, to stay out of sight most of the time and rest on his laurels as a retired legend.  And you don't hear much about Steamboat. He'd be chilling, bro. He did his time in the business and he chills. You don't really see too much of him. So that is a nice observation. He did get a much bigger pop because you don't see him much. He just be chilling, man. So I have all the people involved in this. He's the only one that I felt bad and embarrassed for. The other ones brought it on themselves. But I can't imagine what he's thinking when he sees this and just shaking his head. Anyway, Nikita Kuloff, Magnum T.A. And Scotty Riggs were in the front row. One of these things is not like the other. They couldn't even introduce them.  Reportedly, WWE turned down Kevin Nash's request or at least when he asked if he could go, they said they would prefer if he didn't because he's under a legends deal and Sting wanted him to be there. Well, yeah, but would he have been in the front row? They could do the parade wave for a brief on camera or what the fuck? Nikita Kuloff. Next to Scotty Riggs. Well, but Nikita and Scotty Riggs should have been in the front row. I mean, you know, all do love and respect Scotty Riggs. But what does he have to do with this? Magnum and Nikita were two of not only the biggest stars to ever wrestle in the Greensboro Coliseum, but Nikita and Sting had some interaction and anyway, they're anyway. They spent plenty of time on the buckaroos entrance. Here come the lollipop guild. They had glorious music. They were wearing satin robes. Their hair was dyed black. They look like two children cosplaying as Gomez Adams. And they had cannons to shoot off their business cards. So the robes were reminiscent of. You know, in the days when when Rocky was a hot movie, you know, you might see some kids wearing these robes or whatever. But now they fancy themselves boxers or was this just to get. Heat for looking as like as big a douchebags as possible. They've already got that trademark. So then, oh, man, here came Darby. Yeah, and he gets his entrance at his introduction and then blackout. And piano music starts playing and it wasn't Billy Joel. The longer it went, the more I believe that somebody's friend or cousin is taking piano lessons in the company. It wasn't me.  It wasn't me.  Like exactly. So then they went to the dramatic video where Sting is in a theater. And he's watching on the screen and they open the. You can tell Darby had to shoot this because. Yeah, there's a germ of things there. But, you know, the curtain opens and he looks at all the his career on the screen. They had pictures of him when he was in WCW because they don't own the footage. And then some highlights of him in Japan and stuff that he's done recently. And I was I just made the note. This looks so amateur hour for something of this magnitude or a legend magnitude. And the WWE would have made magic here with some. Here's the thing. I enjoyed that. I did, but I this is something that's been, I guess you could say the issue with AEW for a while is their promo packages. You can tell the level of creativity and in how they're done in WWE, obviously a bigger company. In a sense of when they do promo packages, they go in with the promo packages and AEW. They're more kind of simplistic with their promo packages. But nevertheless, me personally, I enjoyed this for what it was. So I'm kind of production, right? But this is, you know, one of the guys that went to film school shooting it on his off day. What the I didn't think this was that bad. Yeah, this is all right. Yeah, this is. I mean, it was better than what you normally see on AEW television.  Again, can you imagine what this would look like on Fox on Smackdown or on any of their premium live events? They would have they would have sent a crew and a few trucks and they would have shot for a few days and they would have come up with something that they could have nominated for an Emmy. And Sting says, it's showtime for the last time. Let's do this. And they go back to the arena and they play the music again. But now it's it's seek and destroy, right? And out comes Sting dressed as Surfer Sting with the red, white and blue, the great American Bash 90 type of look, the blonde hair.  When he came out, it looked like because they had the long shot. It could have been Sting. It could have been Sting dressed up in his own and the people popped, right? But then they go to a close up with one of the handheld cameras and you can tell it's not Sting. And then the crow Sting walks in. Well, now you know that the other one ain't staying. And so that one probably ain't either. They they botched their opportunity if they had kept the long shot.  And then when real Sting walks in between them, then they would have gotten that visual pop of the people couldn't tell that it were fake Stings, obviously one of them had to be. But then they could have said, oh, it's Sting's sons.  They had the opportunity to do a little production sleight of hand and they dropped the ball on it. Am I being too critical, critical here?  It was perfect, probably not. But it was a nice thing. And yeah, you know, I will say I started laughing maybe for the wrong reasons when this was going on. Because again, it's a nice tribute. But where else would where where else would someone retire? Their children in their thirties would show up dressed like they used to dress and then just start doing their moves.  Well, we ain't got that yet. You told me before and you watched it before I did. You said you enjoyed the ridiculousness of the spectacle that it was or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's get same here. Like I enjoyed that part. They're just seeing his sons out there. That was pretty cool.  It makes absolutely no sense. But you enjoy it. This is one of those wrestling matches where you just like, this is fun. I can't even be hypercritical because once again, this thing's last match. I would have been disappointed if this wasn't fun. This was just boring. Oh, yeah, I was definitely been disappointed. But this was fun. And I enjoyed it. Get there, then, as by the way, Sting's AEW record 28 and oh, he never put anybody over. Selfish thing. Old selfish thing. No, he was never asked. I know, I know, I know. But goddamn, that's the thing. Of course, he shouldn't lose his retirement match. Yeah. But all that money you've invested, they could they never set one guy up to get the young guy on the way up to get the rub of beatings to MJF when he was a heel. Yeah. Nothing. Nobody beat him. Anyway. No, in fact, there was a promo once where Sting kind of punked out MJF and I said, oh, wow, they made you something with these two. And then they never did anything with those two. But I guess Tony, when he started AEW, was just obsessed with the idea of getting a WCW legend and giving them a long undefeated streak.  So he's doing good there. So at the bell to ring to start the match, Darby hit a dive on both of the buckaroos on the floor. Yeah. And then Stinger started hitting Stinger splashes. And then his sons jumped in the ring and they did Stinger stumbles. They did back and forth.   I was waiting for it. You got a 65 year old legend that you're trying to give a great match to on the way out. So there's always going to be smoke and mirrors.  And the mirrors usually don't have real glass in them that people are thrown through. Oh, boy. Sting got the scorpion on both bucks at the same time and then beat both of them up on the floor with chairs while his sons were setting up tables. And Darby was putting a 12 foot ladder up at least 12 feet, maybe 15. And then everything came to a complete halt while Sting and one of his sons and some of them, they all started pulling out panes of glass from under the ring.  And they've got one pane of glass leaned up against the ring. And they've got on the other side of the ring three chairs lined up on one side and three chairs lined up on the other side. And they put the pane of glass in the middle of that. You knew what was about that. And then Sting's got his baseball bat. And they do a spot where he swings at one of the buck arous and he moves and Sting hits the metal stairs real hard for the sound, right? But then he turns around and the other one's behind him and he swings at the other buck arous. And that one ducks. And he hits the glass with the bat, but it doesn't break. So he draws back and just hits it again and breaks it on purpose. And we'll talk about the glass and see if we can figure out what's fucked with it here in a few minutes. But at that point, they walk-fighted or walk-fought all through the arena to go back to the stage so that all four of them were on the stage. And Nicky suplexed Darby off the stage through two tables set up with black cloth over the top of them. But then Maddy suplexed Sting off the stage on the other side through two tables covered up in black cloth. And then Darby and the buck arous go back to the ring and they buckle bomb Darby on a ladder in the corner. But moments later, he's up, making a comeback, beating up both of them.  This is a parody. So then Darby set up the ladder. Oh my god, here we go. And in the middle of the ring and went to almost the top of it and just Nicky for no apparent reason is just staggering in front of the chairs with the pains of the pane of glass. Darby does a cannonball off the top and the other dipshit brother pulls one brother out of the way and Darby goes back first off a 15 foot ladder in a ring through the glass, through the chairs and to the concrete floor. Oh my god, bro. And everything explodes everywhere. And they also at some point, there was another pain of, yeah, they throw him and through glass later on sting that was leaned up in the ring in the corner.  Now, here's two things. Was it real glass or was it fake glass? Well, to be honest, I don't know.   But besides that, I legit think on, at least for that glass pane, I do think they use real glass, bro. Cause he was cut up. Like there was no, he had no time to blade.  Like they had to, at the end, you know, you can see they obviously cut away from him. But when he gets back into the match, he has all these black little bandages to kind of hold the blooding, but like the, not the bleeding, the bleeding.  I don't know. It blew into a million pieces.  I'm not, the karate has sliced from the inside out. Yeah.   Yeah.  And here's why I'm finished with Darby Allen. Because unlike most of these guys, that AEW has jerked off the indies, he's got some talent and some charisma. He has an appeal.   But they've made it so preposterous that nothing can stop him. And the littlest guy just comes back from everything.   He ought to be put away somewhere for his own safety and those of others.  Oh my God.   So I cannot continue to support a guy that has some talent and some charisma that refuses to use it and refuses to set any kind of example and refuses how to do this the right way or to learn how to do this the right way. And now after he's goddamn done this, he's gonna come back and finish the match, by the way. Yeah. And then he's got sewed up and he's put out on the internet that this shouldn't interfere with him leaving next month to go climb Mount Everest.  Is the thing I forgot, I forgot about that.  And I honestly don't think he should be doing that considering he's not an experienced climber and even experienced climbers. A lot of times they end up dying up there. Like, I don't know, but it's his life.  Stay as far away from me as possible.   He just wanna get hit in the nuts over and over.  It's worse to waste talent and opportunity when you have it than not to ever have it to begin with. Oh my God, bro.   Yeah, he's really good. I like him. I think he should just do what he does.  And then he climbed the ladder. But one of the bucks caught him and they power bombed him through a table, but he didn't sell it. He just stood up and made a comeback. But then they threw him through the glass and gave him the scorpion death drop and got it. What's making this funny is someone, if you're watching the match live, you're just having a great time. But if someone reads off what happened in each moment in this match to you and you didn't watch it live, you would think it's the most nonsensical match of all time.  It's hilarious, but I watched it and I just had fun.  To count. And then one of the bucks tried to grab the belt from Steamboat, but Steamboat chopped him. So the other one hit him with a chair and Ricky actually sold something. And then Flare rolled into the ring and covered Sting up so that the buckaroos couldn't beat him up anymore with the belt. And this took forever. And then they finally decided to double super kick Flare and then Steamboat. There's more. The buckaroos hit Sting with the belt and got a two count. They did another double super kick to him, but he didn't sell it and he made a comeback on it. Then they gave him the double knee lift and he kicked out of that. Then they gave him another double knee lift and he kicked out at one. Then they gave him a double super kick. And then they tried to give him the big double team that used to be the Meltzer driver, but now they've renamed it the Tony Khan driver. And they were gonna go for that, but Darby pushed whichever one of the- I thought that was Jimmy Jacobs, the Tony Khan driver. Oh no, no, no. That's only in automotive terms. This was actually a wrestling move. But Darby came back from the dead and pushed whichever buck was on the top rope off through a table and then Sting hit the death drop on the other one and got a two count. That's it, Jesus Christ. And then Darby, who's still covered in blood and his back is bleeding everywhere in this knit-wit. I wouldn't have got anywhere near him.  So there's hepatitis for the future. Hey, Darby was homeless. Don't all homeless people have hepatitis? Or is that something else that the homeless people are getting mad at us for throwing around? Yeah, they'll get mad at you because I'm not saying it and of course that's not true. And well, of course it's not. But I bet Darby does. And finally, Sting got to scorpion on whichever one of the buckaroos was in the ring at the time and finally it was over. And Sting and Darby Allen retained the tag team title and you'll never guess, Brian, we could never could have seen this coming in a million years. The tag team title has been declared vacant and will be filled in a tournament on TV in March. Yep, sounds about right. So Darby Allen enrages me.   But I'd probably end up getting COVID on the way. So. He'll beat you at a skateboard.   Hey, because I'm sorry, but. I was waiting for this because I knew Jill was going to be so mad at Sting and Darby.   If he's had it, he can't take Darby's skateboard.  It's right along with John Moxley and Kenny Omega.  But also he, he really can't do anything effective except getting beat up. We didn't really see him do anything except fling himself around and damage himself. It's not like he actually has holds and moves that he hurts people with. He just makes him tired out trying to kill him. Anyway, I will make other another comparison. This match, the way Sting went out. Sting got over as a major star in the wrestling business, working for the second largest promotion in the in the country. Did Sting get over by doing any of this shit? Any of it? No, that's the thing since Sting has come back. And again, he's an older guy and I guess had to hide a lot of the what he couldn't do through these matches. But these are kind of the matches we saw him work here and nowhere before here. Yeah, ever.  I mean, there were a few wild matches. Him and Abdul, him and Cactus Jack.  Is there an example of Sting going through a table before he joined AEW? Maybe in TNA? Yeah, with the Dudley's around probably. But the point is Flare made Sting a star in the same building 35 years ago in a 45 minute match that was twice as long as this one and seemed like it was a third of his long and they didn't even use a chair. Did they? No, no, any Haskell was sitting in the chair. Yes, and one of the penthouse pets. I'm sure somebody was sniffing that chair later on. I know Jason Hervey. But yes, you do have to have smoke and mirrors when you've got a 65 year old legend that you're trying to protect and make look good at a match. That's why you have great workers that can take bumps for him and put him in position for things and do everything for him.     So then, oh boy. He's got the opportunity now to thank everybody, right? Oh, here we go. There's chanting, thank you, thank you. And they played the music and let celebration go long enough for Sting to get some breath. And Darby once again is still out there. He sliced the ribbons and taped up everywhere but Sting starts his speech and he starts with thanking the fans in Greensboro. You've always been here since the start to blah, blah, blah, you know, in this same building and everything. And then he's starting to move on to the people that have supported him around the world and just then Darby leans over and whispers in his ear and Sting actually says on the microphone, Darby's giving me cues.  Yep. They ran over time on the pay-per-view. They cut Sting's retirement speech off the pay-per-view. We didn't say, did he hug Rick Flair? We don't know, is Flair still breathing? Yep. And I know they uploaded on YouTube, but that's a moment. They support time management. You don't, I shouldn't have to go to YouTube to essentially check out what Sting said at the end of that match. That's my only thing. I know it's on YouTube but that, no, if you're watching it live, that should have been a moment to watch live. They definitely, they gotta, I don't know what they gotta do, but they gotta work on that time management because that was not good. Freethan, we don't know. Where's Steamboat? What happened to him? What did Sting have to say? How did he end it with farewell? Did he say it's showtime for the last time? We don't know what he said because it wasn't on the air. Nope. You had to be in the building to see it.  We're out of time. Yeah. We don't know. That is the ultimate AEW goodbye. Yeah. They go off the air because they run over during your retirement speech.  Thank you Sting. Instead, we got copyright 2024 AEW wrestling and black. Oh man. And this time you can't blame fans for not setting their DVR.  What are you gonna do by the pay-per-view after the pay-per-view?   Well that was AEW Revolution. Tony contributed this out this morning, Jim. Last night at AEW Revolution, Sting completed the greatest comeback in sports history. Sting's three-year run in AEW. From ages 61 to 64, 30 matches, 30 and 0 record. 29 and 0 in AEW, 1 and 0 in Noah for the great Muda Sendoff, retired as AEW World Tag Team Champion in the best last match ever. Oh my God. I don't know about the best last match ever. But yeah. Oh man, that was great, bro. I just really wanted to see what Jim Cornett had to say about Darby. Do I agree? Not necessarily. Me personally, I enjoyed it. I had fun with this match. It made absolute no sense, but I had fun.  And I love it. Comment down below. Let me know. Did you guys enjoy Sting's last match, even though it was just chaotic, overbook nonsense? Did you guys have a good time? And is Jim Cornett's hatred for Darby Allen justified? Let me know down below. But I appreciate all the love, support, Roton, and 50K. And I'm seeing you on speedy, YouTube, RIP, and Jampard World. Appreciate y'all kicking in with me. See y'all next time. Peace.