Sting was an inspiration for many wrestling fans and wrestlers, Lance Archer included.
AEW star Lance Archer recently appeared on the Sean Patrick Chats podcast and explained how Sting got him interested in wrestling while in high school, and the “Murderhawk Monster” said that Sting is still a good example of someone that’s an inspiration to many others in the business.
“You know a lot of guys and girls in this industry they start watching when they’re young but I did not start watching until I was a sophomore or junior of high school. Funnily enough, one of the guys in our company is Sting. Sting is the guy I kind of gravitated towards. He kind of donned the whole ‘Crow’ persona which is a kind of old-school movie and it just really captured my attention. As went into college and whatnot, I became a massive fan of him and of wrestling altogether. I was playing football because it was my dream and my goal to play football and it didn’t pan out. And once I was done with football, I found a wrestling school and as they say, the rest is history.
“It almost wasn’t because I didn’t realize how painful this was, back to your question earlier, and with all the wear and tear and damage on the body, I didn’t realize how painful pro wrestling actually was. I think a lot of people see what they see on TV and think it’s performed acrobatics and it’s not. If I pick somebody up over my head, I’m 6-foot-6 and if I chokeslam them, those people are at least eight feet in the air and come slamming down. Not on a trampoline, which some people think that it is, it’s steel framing and a canvas and it doesn’t move a whole lot. People think it’s bouncy but it’s not. But yeah, Sting is the guy who got me interested in pro wrestling and it’s really cool because I’ve had some opportunities both in my early career working with him in TNA, [it’s called] IMPACT Wrestling now, and now here with AEW and being able to share some my time with him. And hopefully, before his or my time is up, I hope to get to share some ring time with him.”
Archer admitted that he was a bit starstruck the first time he met Sting, adding that there’s people that will tell you to not meet your heroes, but Sting is a good guy that’s offered advice “surpassed my expectations of who he was and who he is.” Archer added that he’s a good human being and a good performer, and someone that you could always look up to and has never disappointed.
Archer faced off with Adam ‘Hangman’ Page for the AEW World Championship on the February 9 edition of AEW Dynamite. Check out full results from Dynamite at this link.
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