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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 25, 2020 8:00:16 GMT -5
It would’ve been June 18, 2003, but you can either round to the closest Raw, PPV, or heck even big four PPV.
For reference the PPV that month was Bad Blood 2003 headlined by HHH beating Kevin Nash in the Hell in the Cell. There was also a UK exclusive PPV that month.
Summerslam would’ve been the closest big four PPV. That year HHH beat a bunch of guys in the elimination chamber.
So yeah smack dab in the reign of terror. Sting was destined to job to HHH or does he get put on Smackdown?
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Dec 25, 2020 9:04:08 GMT -5
There’s no way Triple H would pass up the opportunity to squash him. He debuts June 18th, he’s jobbed to Triple H by July 18th.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Dec 25, 2020 9:09:33 GMT -5
Would WWE even really want him at the time? Goldberg was in the middle of his run on Raw and I do not see much of a place to slot Sting in. I think WWE would have waited to debut Sting after the Undertaker returned to being the Deadman and built up a match for them.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 25, 2020 9:23:28 GMT -5
I feel like they would have put him on Smackdown, rather than Raw, just since having him out there on the same show as Goldberg would be diminishing returns if you're trying to court WCW nostalgia.
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Post by evilone on Dec 25, 2020 9:43:19 GMT -5
He would have been buried earlier than he actually was and that would be it.
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 25, 2020 10:07:27 GMT -5
There’s no way Triple H would pass up the opportunity to squash him. He debuts June 18th, he’s jobbed to Triple H by July 18th. If he can't get his win back from Warrior he would go for the next closest thing.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Dec 25, 2020 10:46:10 GMT -5
If Sting would've debuted in WWE in 2003, he still would've ended up in TNA by 2006. I don't think Vince McMahon had any intent on pushing any major WCW stars besides Goldberg at that point in time.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Dec 25, 2020 12:09:47 GMT -5
Would WWE even really want him at the time? Goldberg was in the middle of his run on Raw and I do not see much of a place to slot Sting in. I think WWE would have waited to debut Sting after the Undertaker returned to being the Deadman and built up a match for them. Sting said in a recent interview that he was in talks with them around the same time and negotiations fell through and that they stayed in touch basically every time he had the chance to negotiate a new contract. For whatever reason, it just never worked out until he finally joined years later.
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Post by crowley1986 on Dec 25, 2020 18:43:41 GMT -5
Would have got some interesting dream matches, Obviously Sting Taker but Sting/Rock (rumored Rock tried to get/suggested him or Savage for Mania 21), Sting Kane, Sting HBK, Sting Angle (in WWE), Eddie and later Edge, Batista and Orton
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Post by fw91 on Dec 25, 2020 19:13:26 GMT -5
With the way timing worked out, he’d probably debut to a feud with Vince who just “won” the Hogan/Mr.America feud
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2020 19:21:27 GMT -5
On smackdown he can get involved in the Undertaker/Kane storyline and as an ally or rival help facilitate the ABA to Deadman rebirth (redeath?) after that I see him trading the title a few times with JBL who doesn't get a near year long reign but comes out of his title run(s) looking a bit better.
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Post by Instant Classic on Dec 25, 2020 19:25:42 GMT -5
Damn he could have had some cool feuds if he stays until day 2007.
Undertaker Kane Cena HBK Randy Orton
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Dec 25, 2020 19:47:01 GMT -5
Damn he could have had some cool feuds if he stays until day 2007. Undertaker Kane Cena HBK Randy Orton I hadn't thought of that. He would have had a big ally in HBK with the faith based connection and may have been more protected as a result from McMahon and Helmsley politics.
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 25, 2020 20:11:45 GMT -5
Anything would have been better than that awful Jeff Hardy match. I am a Hardy Boyz fan but that match was so disgusting. Sting himself shouldn't have even went out to the ring if he knew what was going on before hand. If he didn't know until after he was in the ring, I understand how it went down.
Now that I think about it, if Sting had gone to WWE I don't see him being buried. He was an amazing talent for WCW. He wasn't just a guy who got over because he was in WCW and WCW was second rate. He was a major star. I can see Vince being all over him for being the one guy who didn't sign with WWF during the 1990s. Vince got a lot of second rate guys from WCW in the 1990s to 2001 but he could never get Sting. He probably would have salivated for the chance to get him in the early 2000s.
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Post by malloc on Dec 25, 2020 20:19:22 GMT -5
Sting makes his Debut big pop, big fan fair "good to be back, whoo!" Promo. Jericho comes out and eviscerates him him on the mic big fish dead pond promo, Sting looks like a chump doesn't even feud with Y2J Sting, forms friendship with Flair has terrible match with Taker at C level PPV that Goldberg interferes for no reason on Takers behalf Flair runs in for the save but betrays Sting. All the air is out of the Sting balloon in less than a month.
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Post by timelimitdraw on Dec 25, 2020 22:15:15 GMT -5
Sting comes in on a lighter schedule like Goldberg did - and although he has a similar bit of heat at first over the lighter schedule, his willingness to work with anyone and put over talent wins over the locker room. Sting has a two-year run, beats The Rock at WrestleMania 20 on his way to having a brief run with thr World title for a few weeks, helps induct Hogan in the HOF the next year, then steps away to take a break.
While on an open-ended hiatus, Spike and TNA want Sting even more and offer him more money than he made in TNA (closer to $650k a year instead of $500k) for the same 20-30 dates a year, so he goes there and has a phenomenal run. After he finally leaves TNA, he comes back as a surprise Royal Rumble entrant and to wrestle at WrestleMania. Sting has a handful of matches leading to a retirement match at the following year's WrestleMania and a HOF induction.
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Post by bob on Dec 25, 2020 23:26:21 GMT -5
Trips buries him
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Dec 25, 2020 23:30:39 GMT -5
Given how he was treated years after the fact, I can't imagine it would've gone well.
Basically becoming the highest profile JTTS ever before settling into a Midcard/perrineal contender role, although I doubt Vince's pride would ever have let him hold the top rocker.
Essentially he made the right decision by going to TNA, weird as that sounds. Although I wonder if New Japan or NOAH made offers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2020 14:25:40 GMT -5
He’d come in with Andrew McManus as his mouthpiece.Maybe the WWE vs World Wrestling Allstars feud we all dreamed of.
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Post by thegame415 on Dec 26, 2020 15:10:36 GMT -5
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