WWE's use of Sting

Blame Sting for his pig-headedness in not wanting to sign after the buyout, and then wasting his time working for Dixie/Jeff all those years. When he finally got over himself, swallowed his pride and eventually set foot in a WWE ring, he was basically finished. Not much you can really do with a broken down, near 60 year-old, who ultimately ended up damn near paralysing himself... although he's probably completely healed now, and able to put on 5 star classics, now he's in the land of milk and honey, where everything is perfect Part of me is a little disappointed (although nowhere as near as when Jericho did), that he's signed on with that lot... but considering he spent so long in a glorified indy promotion - just so he wouldn't have to work for Vince, I shouldn't be surprised he's chosen to go small-time again. At least now, with their acquisition of Sting, AEW's transformation to WCW 2.0 is complete.


Even though, it was apparently 'Taker himself who was against the idea?

Cognitive bias. People believe the stories of wrestlers when it fits their narrative and ignore them when it doesn't, even though the person telling it probably knows best unless it's been proven they're a pathological liar or the like.

Everyone's guilty of it to some extent, some just more than others.

A match between Undertaker and Sting would have not been good if it happened 2015 or after. Undertaker seemed to want to work with people that could go and carry him to a good match. Sting in 2015 would not be able to do that. I’m surprised they had zero interaction with each other on wwe tv!

This was never it.

There was a number of "dream matches" between top WCW and WWF stars during the monday night wars. We either got them (Rock/Hogan, Sting/Bret) or they were very quickly never going to happen due to one of the guys being injured or retired (Goldberg/Austin, DDP/Rock). Sting and Undertaker stayed active in business for well over a decade after the MNW ended, and they essentially both became the very last active legends who could still go.

Not to mention that each guy very plainly represented loyalty to their company, and they were both among the best gimmicks in the history of the business and they were fantastic workers.

It sucked. I wasn’t hopeful they’d do right by him in the first place. The Triple H match and story was a mess and made no sense. I’m convinced It was just so Hunter could get his win over Sting. There’s no other logical reason why

Meh, I’d have to say it was bad. I know Taker didn’t want it to suck, but that was Taker in 2014. Taker has had numerous legacy-tarnishing matches since then, and has looked very broken down in every outing that he’s had basically since then, minus the Cena ‘match’ and the Boneyard Match. I understand his take, but that should’ve been the Wrestlemania 31 match, one and done, and I think that Sting would’ve been happy. Taker looked better than he did the year before, Sting still could’ve gone, it could’ve still been mostly theatrics.

Sting shouldn’t have faced Rollins, or had a title match. If I’d been able to book it myself, he’d have debuted at the Rumble, confronted Taker (who wasn’t there of course, but in this booking he’d be there) probably lead to Taker getting eliminated, and then had the match at Wrestlemania one and done. Or the other way would still see Sting debut at Survivor Series, face Triple H at the Rumble, win, and have Triple H force him to face Taker at Wrestlemania for revenge, and that would be it. My opinion, they missed an opportunity to do something great. This is a case where it would’ve been better to do it than not to. It couldn’t have been worse than Taker/Reigns, Taker/Goldberg, or Taker and Kane vs DX...or any of those times that he showed up with the high-cut shirt to hide how out of shape he was.

Like I said, by the time Sting got over himself, and decided to finally sign, it was all too late.

And make no mistake, AEW bringing him in is also a cash-in. He's already shilling his (rather crappy-looking) t-shirt.