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Post by Alice Syndrome on Mar 17, 2016 15:10:39 GMT -5
Guy hear me out, What if Sting was supposed to be Shane's proxy against Taker?
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Post by Hot Noodle Truck on Mar 17, 2016 15:13:21 GMT -5
Man, that's a real bummer. Sting WAS WCW to me, same with Ric Flair, but it seems like it was just a matter of time as others have said. Didn't see much of his TNA run aside from the .gifs that make the rounds here but I thoroughly enjoyed the short time he spent in WWE. Really hope he stays around in some way.
Thanks for everything, Stinger.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 17, 2016 15:50:28 GMT -5
Shame we lose Daniel Bryan and Sting to both career-ending neck injuries. Those are two guys who deserved to go out on their own terms. I hate being nitpicky, but Bryan's career ended because of brain injuries. The rest of his body is ringworthy. Tyson Kidd, on the other hand, looks to have wrestled his last because of neck and spine issues.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 17, 2016 15:58:53 GMT -5
Guy hear me out, What if Sting was supposed to be Shane's proxy against Taker? Not a chance. Sting flat out said he was "lucky that a catastrophe didn't happen", and it's accepted that the exact same injury killed Mitsuharu Misawa. Even if Sting was crazy enough to want to get back in the ring after that, no way would WWE clear him.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Mar 17, 2016 15:59:44 GMT -5
WWE never even considered using Sting again after the Rollins match, not that he could have returned to the ring anyway.
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Post by The Ichi on Mar 17, 2016 16:02:48 GMT -5
I'm just gonna say it, after Edge and Bryan, I don't really find retirements sad anymore. At worst they're bittersweet.
Nobody should be wrestling for long. Rock absolutely had the right idea.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 16:08:27 GMT -5
I'm just gonna say it, after Edge and Bryan, I don't really find retirements sad anymore. At worst they're bittersweet. Nobody should be wrestling for long. Rock absolutely had the right idea. I think The Rock might be the smartest man in all of wrestling. Think about it: He got over as hell with catchphrases that would sound utterly ridiculous coming from anyone else, he left with his health intact and is making more money doing less physically strenuous work. The kicker? When he gets the itch to step back into the ring again, Vince pays him through the nose. You can't tell me that if Rocky took the call from Vince tomorrow and said "Yeah, sure, I'll main event Wrestlemania, but I want the heavyweight championship, and I want it to shoot sparks out of the front of it every time I raise my eyebrow" that Vince wouldn't bend over backwards and fly him out to Stanford in his personal jet. Sucks about Sting, though. I mean, I think the match with Hunter was incredibly stupid in terms of its booking and did no one favors, but I do think that the WWE had much bigger plans for him down the road. I honestly think he could have been the champ by now, had it not gone wrong with the buckle bomb spot.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Mar 17, 2016 16:13:06 GMT -5
Guy hear me out, What if Sting was supposed to be Shane's proxy against Taker? Not a chance. Sting flat out said he was "lucky that a catastrophe didn't happen", and it's accepted that the exact same injury killed Mitsuharu Misawa. Even if Sting was crazy enough to want to get back in the ring after that, no way would WWE clear him. No, I mean before that
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Post by The Ichi on Mar 17, 2016 16:16:42 GMT -5
Not a chance. Sting flat out said he was "lucky that a catastrophe didn't happen", and it's accepted that the exact same injury killed Mitsuharu Misawa. Even if Sting was crazy enough to want to get back in the ring after that, no way would WWE clear him. No, I mean before that I'm convinced that current WWE does not book anything longer than 2 weeks in advance. That's probably being generous.
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Post by MrElijah on Mar 17, 2016 16:23:03 GMT -5
Cool tidbit about Sting, he was the only to wrestle from Jim Crockett Promotions to the WCW buyout in 2001.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 17, 2016 16:45:57 GMT -5
Not a chance. Sting flat out said he was "lucky that a catastrophe didn't happen", and it's accepted that the exact same injury killed Mitsuharu Misawa. Even if Sting was crazy enough to want to get back in the ring after that, no way would WWE clear him. No, I mean before that Considering I don't even think they even considered Shane as an option six weeks, also no. Sting did say last summer that he'd like the Mania match with 'Taker but I don't think it was ever really on the cards.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 17, 2016 16:50:25 GMT -5
Considering I don't even think they even considered Shane as an option six weeks, also no. Sting did say last summer that he'd like the Mania match with 'Taker but I don't think it was ever really on the cards. He's been saying it since he signed. He was practically begging for it during the WWE 2k15 press conferences.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 17, 2016 17:05:47 GMT -5
Considering I don't even think they even considered Shane as an option six weeks, also no. Sting did say last summer that he'd like the Mania match with 'Taker but I don't think it was ever really on the cards. He's been saying it since he signed. He was practically begging for it during the WWE 2k15 press conferences. Which leads me even more to the conclusion that they weren't considering it as an option. If they were, it would've made sense to do it last year, instead of Sting jobbing out and 'Taker being in a nothing match with Bray.
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Post by lemonyellowson on Mar 17, 2016 17:11:28 GMT -5
You had one f***ing job wwe. Book sting v taker before one of them was done. Good job. Sucks because sting went balls out against Rollins.
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Post by Ruthless Pessimism on Mar 17, 2016 17:16:25 GMT -5
For as short as it was and as disappointed an end as it met, Sting's run was alright.
Debuted in a big moment. Had a Wrestlemania match with one of the top guys from the best era in the WWE, who also went on to win the Rumble and headline Mania the following year. Worked RAW with the face of the company, one of the more skilled "new" guys to come in and another guy who is a guaranteed Hall of Famer. Went on to face the WWE champion later in the year, putting him over (was the intention before the injury).
The guy had a pretty good run for as short as it was. I still wish we could have gotten Sting/Taker at Mania too though.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Mar 17, 2016 17:48:44 GMT -5
At least he'll go down as the greatest 0-2 PPV guy in the history of WWF/E Guy hear me out, What if Sting was supposed to be Shane's proxy against Taker? Then he'd have gone down as the greatest 0-3 PPV guy in the history of the WWF/E
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Post by percymania on Mar 17, 2016 17:57:09 GMT -5
I still think WWE could still have Sting in some kind of hokey match that he wins by simply doing the scorpion deathlock on Heath Staler some guy just to get Sting an official win in the WWE. Bret Hart was US champ a few years ago, so it's possible.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Mar 17, 2016 18:10:15 GMT -5
This news has gone and made Robocop very angry
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Mar 17, 2016 18:23:35 GMT -5
I figured as soon as they put him in the HOF that the end was nigh. Dude went out main-eventing a WWE PPV for the WWE Championship against one of WWE's biggest modern stars. He performed his ass off in that match, too. Obviously you can't predict the future, but if Rollins had to give up the belt due to injury shortly after anyhow, it would've been cool to see Sting as WWE Champion for a day. The right guy won, though. That's another good thing about that match.
It was kinda cool to get that brief Sting vs Big Show match on Raw just for the weirdness of seeing Sting vs The Giant on Monday Night Raw and not Nitro. And hey, Sting won a tag match with Cena...I don't recall it being anything special, but it'll go down as one of those interesting factoids of cross-generational stars.
I think the main disappointment was similar to AJ Styles in that he really should have left TNA years before he did. As much as the outcome (and especially the handshake) of WM31 sucked, I did enjoy the idea of nWo vs DX, with nWo siding with their former enemy to take out the bigger enemy that was WWF/E in DX. It wasn't believable at all, but I got a big kick out of it. I know not everyone felt that way, but so be it.
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Post by evilone on Mar 17, 2016 18:27:06 GMT -5
All WWE cared about Sting being in WWE is the headline "Sting in WWE" and that's about it. Matches were just a huge afterthought. I'm sure he even got less money than what they had offered him few years ago when he had chosen TNA instead. The fact that he couldn't demand a win on WrestleMania is a giveaway he head no leeway in negotiations. He dropped WWE's offer because they couldn't come to an agreement what he would do after loss to the Taker. He probably wouldn't even speak with him if they have told him hmmm you are going to put Triple H over for no obvious reason while NWO comes down to save you and what not.
So no, Sting didn't have a run in WWE. He only had a headline.
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