PROMOTION: All Elite Wrestling DATE: 03.03.24 LOCATION: Greensboro, North Carolina
ON MARCH 3, AEW presented the 2024 edition of Revolution at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. During the heyday of the NWA and Jim Crockett Promotions, the famed Coliseum hosted numerous big-time wrestling shows, including the first four Starrcade events. It was also the venue where, in 1988, a young man called Sting battled to a 45-minute draw with NWA World champion Ric Flair. Fittingly, 26 years later, Greensboro got to say a final farewell to the Stinger.
Revolution opened with Christian Cage defending his TNT championship against Daniel Garcia. With youth and athleticism on his side, Garcia took the early advantage; however, the veteran chicanery of Cage—who feigned an ankle injury—soon allowed him to lure his opponent under control. But in the classic case of turtleneck-wearing boy who cried wolf, Cage legitimately started