TMZ Reports that Sting is retiring from wrestling

[KevFalcön07]

STING RETIRING FROM WRESTLING ... Neck's Too Jacked Up




Sting's wrestling career is over ... TMZ Sports has learned.

Long story short ... the wrestling legend messed up his neck real bad at his "WWE Night of Champions" match against Seth Rollins back in September -- and was never able to recover.

Sources connected to Sting tell us he was evaluated by several doctors who all agree -- it's just too risky for the wrestler to get back in the squared circle ... so, he's decided to hang up his singlet.

We're told the 56-year-old was formally diagnosed with cervical spinal stenosis -- a condition affecting the nerves that can result in extreme pain and discomfort.

In fact, it's the same condition that forced fellow WWE superstar Edge to retire in 2011.
Our sources tell us Sting may make his official announcement next month at the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony in Texas ... but we're told it's a done deal.

As far as Sting's future -- it's up in the air. We're told Sting is open to a non-physical role with the company ... but we're told no formal offer has been made.

Sting was a legend in the ring ... rising to superstardom in the late '80s before becoming the face of the WCW and a huge fan favorite in the WWE.

#Respect

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As much as I hate TMZ, they seem to rarely be wrong.

[Ben Wyatt]

Given the ugliness and severity of his neck inury, combined with his age, I am completely fine with this

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Can you blame the guy suffering such a bad injury at his age?

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

This was pretty much a formality. He was done as soon as he took that Turnbuckle Powerbomb.

[thirteen3]

The fact that this WWE run of his has been terrible makes this even more sad.

[froggyfrog]

How will people turn on Sting now that he's retired?!?

[lionelp]

So freakin annoying because he didn't even NEED to have that match with Rollins

This whole Authority-Taker stuff should be happening with Sting

[mhamm05]

That's truly a shame. As I was born in the late 80's and mainly watched WWF during the Wars, I never really got to appreciate a majority of his career until later. It's a shame his in ring work is done as he seemed to still pretty well have it at WM. Good on him for taking care of his health first though. Long live the Stinger!

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Mar 17, 2016 6:15:59 GMT -5 froggyfrog said:

How will people turn on Sting now that he's retired?!?

His local welfare office stops all his social security payments?

[Push R Truth]

Mar 17, 2016 6:15:59 GMT -5 froggyfrog said:

How will people turn on Sting now that he's retired?!?

If they can't do it normally they make little blue pills for that

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Mar 17, 2016 6:15:59 GMT -5 froggyfrog said:

How will people turn on Sting now that he's retired?!?

The mail man will draw on his magazines, the stock boys at the local Kroger will throw grapes at him, the person who mows his lawn will only mow his neighbors lawn, and at the cinema they'll give him empty boxes of candy.

[Pushed to the Moon]

It's a good job HHH beat him or he might have retired with everyone thinking that WCW was the best thing ever! Phew. What a relief.

[Heartbreaker]

Mar 17, 2016 6:15:59 GMT -5 froggyfrog said:

How will people turn on Sting now that he's retired?!?

His spirit lives on in the form of Bayley.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

If anything, this gets me a bit frustrated that Sting spent so long in TNA. If he'd just jumped ship a year or two earlier, we probably would have gotten that Undertaker match (while both men were slightly younger and The Streak was still active, to boot) and maybe another dream match or two with some other talents. Instead we're left with one decent showing in an overbooked loss to Triple H, one great showing (but another loss) against Rollins, and a bog-standard RAW main event tag win (set up by a preceding DQ win) as the sum total of his WWE career, all because his neck gave out on him taking a bump he'd probably taken thousands of times before on the turnbuckle.

[MrElijah]

Mar 17, 2016 6:29:23 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

Mar 17, 2016 6:15:59 GMT -5 froggyfrog said:

How will people turn on Sting now that he's retired?!?

If they can't do it normally they make little blue pills for that

Will you be serious?! I'll have somebody remove you!

[GuyOfOwnage]

And if Vince hadn't been an absolute tool, we could've gotten that dream match at WM last year.

[mcstoklasa]

In retrospect his WWE run was a disaster but at least good old Hunter got to f***ing go over.

[MrElijah]

If this is the end.......well It could be alot worse. The Stinger was one of the guys who go me into wrestling. When I first saw him on the SuperStation, I was like "who is this guy with the funky paint bouncing all over?". And man his energy had me hooked. Sting was damn specimen, strong as all hell, can fly like a Jr. Heavyweight get technical when needed and brawl with the best of them.

And his overness can't be overstated, you wanted him to kick ass, you felt bad when somebody betrayed him he drew you in with his infectious energy, ya wanted to wear paint and get weird!(his words). This hits a little harder than Bryan due to how long I watched Sting from the Muthersheep to TNA and now the WWE. Man, now Liger ia left on guys who got me into wrestling.

[thecrusherwi]

I think that's for the best at this point. Even if he didn't have the injury, he's turning 57 on Sunday.

I wish he could've come in sooner, but they had a year to use him and they booked him like it was a rib WCW.

I just hope the multiverse exists and somewhere in the cosmos, old washed up Triple H has been brought in by WCW for his first major match in 15 years for a big Starrcade match with Sting, only to lose after a failed assist by the Nation of Domination.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Surprised he didn't wait until his Hall of Fame speech to confirm it. Would have made it more emotional.