Professional wrestlers sacrifice a lot to get to where they want to go, but for AEW's Steven Borden, he literally sacrificed his entire life to follow in the footsteps of his father Sting. Borden is only one year into his wrestling career after initially debuting in October 2025, but with the help of Darby Allin, he has already made the jump to AEW's main roster. However, during a recent edition of "AEW Close-Up," Borden detailed the life he left behind to become a full-time wrestler."I was managing a sports technology company for quite a while and we were growing pretty quickly, and I didn't, again, run from wrestling for so long. So obviously I didn't plan on feeling the pull in, but when I was pulled into it, it was probably maybe the worst time if you just objectively look at my life. We were sort of like on the precipice of good things happening with the company, I couldn't do both, and something that Darby and I talked about actually on the way to Blood and Guts in Greensboro, I was telling him this is killing me. It's like 80 to 90 hours a week of work, trying to train, and I just realized that I couldn't be good at both. Wrestling was what I wanted to do and kind of just walked away from all of that, and I'm glad I did."Borden has since learned the hard way what being a high-profile AEW performer is like as at AEW All Out 2026, he suffered a serious concussion that forced his and Darby's match with Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight to be stopped. However, he has since made a full recovery and is doing very well, though there is no word at the time of writing on when he will back in the ring to continue what is shaping up to be a promising career.Please credit "AEW Close-Up" when using quotes from this article, and give a H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
