AEW: Sting on Darby Allin “Taught Me How To Live Life To The Fullest”, Nyla Rose on Her Current AEW Abscense & “Definitely” Wants To Be Back in Action for AEW, Backstage Update on Buddy Matthews & Kyle Fletcher In-Ring Return From Injuries Plans

Sting Comments on Darby Allin “Taught Me How To Live Life To The Fullest”

ESPN held a recent interview with former AEW wrestler Sting and AEW World Champion Darby Allin. One of the topics discussed included Sting’s thoughts about how he ended up being taught how to live life to the fullest while working together with Allin in AEW.

“At first, I was trying to talk some sense into him by saying he didn’t have to do these risky moves every match. But, man, he rubbed off on me, and I ended up taking way more risks than I anticipated myself taking. By the end, you didn’t know whether the young guy was going to jump off the balcony or the old guy was going to jump off the balcony. And sometimes we both did together. We’ll be friends until one of us leaves the earth. He taught me how to live life to the fullest.”

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Nyla Rose Comments on Her Current AEW Abscense & “Definitely” Wants To Be Back in Action for AEW

As noted before, Nyla Rose is currently scheduled to be competing in a match for Marigold at their upcoming Shine Forever 2026 event on May 23rd in Japan.

A recent episode of Thunder Rosa’s Take The Time show on her official YouTube channel featured Rose as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Rose revealing that she will be in Japan until June 30th.

“Till June 30th. That’s not that long. That’s not very long. Maybe I think it’s not that long because when I would come before, I was doing four to six months on average.”

Rose also gave her thoughts about who she would like to compete in a match against if AEW were to use her right now.

“If AEW were to use me right now, who would I wanna face? Um, Thekla of course. Get that championship back. Honestly, anybody really…”

In response to a chat user who wrote that they want to see Rose back in AEW badly, Rose responded stating:

“Aww, that’s so sweet. I definitely wanna be back as well.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2

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Backstage Update on Buddy Matthews & Kyle Fletcher In-Ring Return From Injuries Plans

As noted before, Buddy Matthews has been out of action for AEW since the Grand Slam Australia 2025 event in February of 2025 due to an ankle injury and surgery. Matthews made a surprise appearance last week for an event for World Series Wrestling in Australia and announced that he is expecting to be cleared from his injury by this October.

Besides Matthews, Kyle Fletcher also has been out of action for AEW since this past March due to a knee-related injury.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that Matthews is still working towards being medically cleared for an in-ring return in the future.

In regards to Fletcher, Sapp reported that those spoken to stated that Fletcher is expected to still be out for a while. Those spoken to reportedly also stated that Fletcher’s knee injury was described to have been “pretty significant.”