Ladies and gentleman, tonight I’ll talk to STING...

[Lance Uppercut]

And Darby Allen

Is it just me is not only is sting showing up too much, they’re way overplaying the Tony Schiavone calls, but they’re overshadowing Darby as Sting’s little buddy?

I mean, even in that graphic Sting’s name was way bigger bigger and billed before Darby

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Agreed on all counts.

AEW has an issue with giving promo/story segments to the same small group of wrestlers each Dynamite, with the rest rotating in and out. Sting has that issue, combined with the smaller number of ways he can be used (no throwaway matches, for instance), combined with being a mouthpiece who will naturally overshadow the wrestler he is paired with.

Sting needs more variety, and if that's just that there are more weeks where he is silently Around and Darby wrestles, that is for the better.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Well Darby looks to be taking more of a focus since he wants to have more matches with the Title, but I hope Archer saying "How many times are you going to interview Sting, Shiavone??" is AEW's self awareness of it all and Sting's doing something different this week

[Mozenrath]

I feel like this may have been bookending it, like with Team Taz seemingly set to move on. I also anticipate that Sting might move on to doing something with another character, since he and Darby are established by now.

[Yamashita Enforcement Division]

It became a comedic beat by running it into the ground so by the Archer one it pivoted into being an intentional joke that the segment labeled "Sting interviewed by Tony Schiavone" isn't going to contain Sting being interviewed by Tony Schiavone as the most important thing.

[Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite]

It's the only time Sting and Shiavone get to talk with one another.

Tony's been TRYING to tell Sting an amusing anecdote about a fishing trip he went on once, but people keep interrupting them so he keeps rescheduling

[Dave the Dave]

Yeah, having Cage ignore Darby to tell Sting he respects him didn’t help this feeling.

[deezy]

Mar 19, 2021 11:54:10 GMT -5 Dave the Dave said:

Yeah, having Cage ignore Darby to tell Sting he respects him didn’t help this feeling.

That's because Starks was calling Sting washed up, has been and doesn't have it anymore and Cage might of thought so too until after the match. They didn't say all that to Darby so there was no need to address Darby at that time.

That's just my view on it, I could be wrong though..

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Mar 19, 2021 12:38:16 GMT -5 deezy said:

Mar 19, 2021 11:54:10 GMT -5 Dave the Dave said:

Yeah, having Cage ignore Darby to tell Sting he respects him didn’t help this feeling.

That's because Starks was calling Sting washed up, has been and doesn't have it anymore and Cage might of thought so too until after the match. They didn't say all that to Darby so there was no need to address Darby at that time.

That's just my view on it, I could be wrong though..

Likely that's the intent, but it's very...particular that Cage gave a show of respect to Sting but not to Darby, who's now beaten him twice over. Even if he disagreed with Starks on that all along, it's something that would have been worth reiterating. It still came off badly, IMO, and diminished Darby's role in the whole thing.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Mar 19, 2021 5:19:14 GMT -5 Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite said:

It's the only time Sting and Shiavone get to talk with one another.

Tony's been TRYING to tell Sting an amusing anecdote about a fishing trip he went on once, but people keep interrupting them so he keeps rescheduling

Just give them a podcast.

[flowercity]

They definitely do it too much but I have just adored Sting in this AEW run. He’s so fun on the mic. And the action is a blast. I’m a little Stingwer
To OP’s point - they definitely could use him different ways rather than just Tony interviewing him. The “Hoodlum” vignette was so good. More stuff like that maybe?

[Mochi Lone Wolf]

Would be kind of nice to actually just having Sting talk without someone interrupting.



It was a funny gag for maybe the first two weeks. It's really old now.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

For a second I thought chazraps had scored another great guest for his radio show

[deezy]

Mar 20, 2021 19:14:37 GMT -5 Mochi Lone Wolf said:

Would be kind of nice to actually just having Sting talk without someone interrupting.



It was a funny gag for maybe the first two weeks. It's really old now.

Yeah, And every week I keep thinking "they wouldn't do this again, would they"? Then they do. Hopefully something changes soon.

[Hypnosis]

Mar 20, 2021 19:14:37 GMT -5 Mochi Lone Wolf said:

Would be kind of nice to actually just having Sting talk without someone interrupting.



It was a funny gag for maybe the first two weeks. It's really old now.

It very much comes off as one of those WWE tropes I hate.

[Deleted]

I swear Tony Khan was trying to pull a classic EWR/TEW move where you put your most over guy in an interview segment and it was a guaranteed 90+ rating (really good)

Doesn't work that way in real life lol. Those segments got old real fast. At least now Darby is picking up the open challenge mantel left by Cody. I kind of like that it's an unofficial rule of the belt. Cody established it, Brodie refused (heel), and Darby is picking it up now that he can. Gives some wiggle room for a good concept.

[chazraps]

Mar 21, 2021 9:07:43 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

For a second I thought chazraps had scored another great guest for his radio show

Hahahahahaha, oh if only!

[SAJ Forth]

Sting & that other guy with that other strap.