At AEW Dynamite Grand Slam 2021, FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) teamed up to take on Sting & Darby Allin.
Sting returned to the ring in a non-cinematic capacity at AEW Double or Nothing 2021 and had only two in-ring matches before stepping into the ring with FTR.
Speaking at the ROH Death Before Dishonor media scrum, Dax Harwood told a story of speaking to Sting before the match and boosting his confidence.
"Arthur Ashe last year, we had this match with Sting. I went to Sting the week before, in catering. He had relatively just comeback. I said, 'I know at 62, you probably have some doubt in your mind, and that's okay. We all do, we're all insecure, but if there's ever a night you want to go 30 minutes, next week is your night. I promise you, we can make sure...we know Sting better than you know Sting. We can make sure that happens,'" he said.
The match went just under ten minutes with Sting & Allin picking up the victory. Dax continued the story, reavling Sting called him later on to thank him for the talk and the match.
"We had the match at Arthur Ashe and I was on vacation with my family, I got a call from Sting. We were on the beach, I come back up, look at my phone and go 'what number is this?' I listen to this voicemail, it's a three-minute voicemail from Sting. I still have it saved on my phone. He said, 'I can't thank you enough. You guys went out of your way to make sure I looked as good as possible. I was so afraid that I embarrassed myself. Then I got on Twitter and read the results and the reviews, and people still love me.' I'm like, 'You're Sting. Of course people still love you.' He had that doubt. Those are the things that I remember. My hero from when I was a kid, has a voicemail to me, he took time out of his day to call me and say, 'You guys are the best I've ever been in the ring with. Thank you so much. That made my career.' Those are the things that mean the most to me," said Dax.
Cash joked that he picked up the phone when Sting called, so he didn't have a voicemail.
FTR successfully defended their ROH Tag Team Championships against The Briscoes (Mark & Jay Briscoe) in a two-out-of-three falls match at ROH Death Before Dishonor. If you missed anything from the event, check out Fightful's full report on the show by clicking here.
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