Sting = good angle opportunity

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

think about it. A few months from now when the nwo is running rampant, out comes sting telling everyone he really was the only one opposing the nwo during the wcw era. A good chance at getting over and a last hurrah.

[Guest Tony149]

Are you saying have Sting join the WWF forces to take care of the nWo? I don't think Sting would sign with the WWF, but it would be interesting seeing Mr. WCW in the WWF.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

I like Sting...but to be fair...when was his last good match?

[Guest Army Eye]

if he's willing.. yeah that would be cool.  They could whip out the WCW tape archive and show old clips of Sting punking out the NWO.  I'd go for it.

[Guest Angus Podgorny]

I would like it if Sting did his rafter routine.  Of course, I don't think the WWF will ever put anyone in the rafters again.

[Guest Tony149]

If the WWF ever signed Sting, they would probably let him do his coming down the rafter entrance. Since they know he got training for months just to do that.

[Guest dreamer420]

Signing Sting wouldn't be too bad of an idea.  I would like to see the following teams collide:

 

nWo

McMahon

Hogan

Hall

Nash

X-Pac

Justin Credible & Lance Storm (Impact Players baby!)

Mr. Perfect

Big Show

 

WWF

Flair

Rock

Austin

DDP

Sting

RVD

Kane

Undertaker

[Guest Army Eye]

You guys think they'd let Sting do the rafter entrance?!  I sure don't.

[Guest Tony149]

I wouldn't want them to do anything from the rafters, but I could see Vince letting this one happen.

[Guest dreamer420]

Dropping from the rafters would be really bad taste and surely someone in the WWF has enough balls to say that something like that can't happen.

[Guest MikeSharp12]

Dropping from the rafters would be really bad taste and surely someone in the WWF has enough balls to say that something like that can't happen.

Are you shitting me?  It "can't happen" because Owen died?  So while they're at it, why not "take a stand" against powerbombs, because of Droz?  Or never allow piledrivers because of Stone Cold?  Or no more superkicks because of Bret Hart?

 

Come on, man.  It was a freak accident.

[Guest BlackRainbow1025]

Actually, they don't allow piledrivers and tombstones (with a few exceptions) b/c of Austin and others with neck injuries.  I just think it'd be in bad taste that's all.  And Bret Hart wasn't injured with a plain superkick, it was Greenberg's spinning Concussion Kick.

[Guest Tony149]

Bret got hurt by a Goldberg superkick because Goldberg didn't pull the kick like your supposed to do and ended up superkicking Bret with full force.

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

well, I read on the torch website that Sting has announced his retirement. Tough luck, the Stinger, one of the best wrestlers in modern day wcw, has finally closed his wrestling chapter. farewell to someone who could have been the best but chose to stay quiet and follow others.

[Guest Badd Company]

I for one, would love to see Sting in one last program, and it would be fitting for it to be against the nWo.  I always have been a huge fan, and my feelings for him more reflect Scott's than the annoying (and according to a great commentary on him by Lance Storm posted this past fall, untrue) cynical attitude towards the man.  I just don't see how you can watch some of his best matches and say "his heart was never in the business", it's just retarded.  The only thing that kept him from achieving true superstar status was not lack of heart like Keller says, but his blind loyalty to WCW, no matter how many times they screwed up.  I have no qualms about his newfound faith, in fact I share it, but he "turned the other cheek" for WCW management waaaaaay to many times in his career, and it pretty much cost him a solid legacy.

[Guest J*ingus]

Hey, he got to pin Ric Flair clean in the last match on the last show in WCW history.  How could his exit from the sport have gone any better?

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

I think they need to stay away from recreating past angles.

[Guest Tony149]

Man, just read the announcement of the Torch website. Too bad Sting retired. But like Jingus said, in his last match, he beat the man that turned him into Mr. WCW and a star, that man he beat was "Nature Boy" Ric Flair. Sting was cool.

[Guest AM The Kid]

He shouldn't come to the WWF, if he's retired he should stay retired. He had a great last match and proved himself loyal to the WCW, it should stay that way.

[Guest MikeSharp12]

Bret got hurt by a Goldberg superkick because Goldberg didn't pull the kick like your supposed to do and ended up superkicking Bret with full force.

 

Yeah, and Owen fell because of some problem with the cords and shit.  Same thing.

 

Also...

 

"Actually, they don't allow piledrivers and tombstones (with a few exceptions) b/c of Austin and others with neck injuries."

 

Yeah, and there are those exceptions, which is why I italisized "never."

[Guest theWCWRaider]

Sting was my favorite wrestler...so if he's retired, than thanks for the memories.

 

I don't want to see Sting in a WWF ring, fighting the NWO, we've been there done that.

 

And BTW, they wouldn't drop Sting from the rafters because the press would be all over that one.

 

There is a big difference between dropping someone from the rafters, and outlawing wrestling moves because people get hurt.

 

The fact is, its hard to have wrestling matches without wrestling holds.

However, if they never would've dropped Owen Hart from the rafters, they would still be able to have wrestling matches.

Nobody misses that entrance, it was just an extra part of the show.

Banning moves however, is totally different, because in theory any wrestling move done wrong can cause injury.

[Guest Tony149]

The mainstream media wouldn't be all over the WWF. BUT the wrestling media would. I think WCW had Sting come out from the rafters in '99 or 2000 and it pissed people off.

[Guest EI Cubano]

In response to "when was the last time Sting had a good match", I think the question should be "when was the lasttime Sting had a good opponent". Kevin Nash, Ric Flair, Scott Steiner and Rick Steiner were the main eventers at Sting's level near the end and they all had one thing in common, they were largely immobile and REALLY showed their ages in the ring. Sting was one of the few veterans who could still move around spryly and with the right opponent Sting was more than capable of having a good to great match near the end of WCW's days. Sting is the only other wrestler in NWA/WCW history that WWF fans respect anywhere near as much as they respect Ric Flair. I think the lights going out in a WWF arena and coming on to see Sting standing in center ring with a baseball bat with produce one the best moments of the last decade, but that is just my opinion. Especially if the nWo angle bombs, Vince McMahon could be like there is only one man who knows these three well enough and has enough respect for the sport to rid the WWF of their poison and then Sting appears, drives them out of WWF and becomes a pretty big face (without the makeup) as a result. Oh well, not like it's gonna happen but it'd be cool.

[Guest the living legend]

I don't think it would work the wwf fans are very uneducated and 50% have no idea who he is I say quit bringing in the guys we complained about ruining wcw and let jericho benoit angle storm RVD and edge shine. Vince is panicing because he can't get anyone over so hes going to the guys who "where" over. He should just put some effort into making a powerful stable that he created with the guys he has... oh well its not going to happen

 

I know that rambling probably made no sense

[Guest Army Eye]

There is a big difference between dropping someone from the rafters, and outlawing wrestling moves because people get hurt.

Right.  And there is also a HUGE difference between somebody being killed and someone being injured/paralyzed.  That's what some people here don't seem to get

[Guest Tony149]

Sting was one guy who managed to stay over his entire career. Sting would be better than a guy like Hogan, Hall & Nash, since Sting didn't have problems jobbing. At least I don't think he has a problem jobbing.

[Guest Haku]

Maybe after a few months Sting could come and join the WWF against the nWo. They could make it up like there is one person Hogan feared in his time in the WCW and he was Sting. I think it could work.

[Guest The Violent Gourmet]

I'm a Sting mark, so I (selfishly) want to see him wrestling again, and I completely agree with EI Cubano that Sting appearing suddenly would be a huge moment.

 

nwo interferes at NWO in the Taker/Rock and Austin/Jericho MEs (why not KA/HHH? Another post) leaving all four guys decimated and both matches ending in no contests.  They look like "poison" Jericho retains to face HHH at WM and a six-man is set up for WM.  Jericho is not too pissed 'cause he still is champ, so Austin/Rock/reluctant Taker are set to face nwo.

 

Leading into wm, nwo agree Taker is their biggest concern, so they focus on getting rid of him, and three weeks prior to wm, Taker is injured, removing him from the ppv.  Rock/Austin agree they don't care and will face the nwo two on three, but over the next two shows, Flair is seen talking on the phone trying to convince guys to come be a third man.  No one will agree until the Raw prior to wm, Flair gets a confirmation and tells Rock/Austin they will have a partner at WM, maybe writes it down for them or whispers in their ears who it will be.  They look smug, nwo concerned who could possibly

have the guts to take them on.

 

At wm, Flair seen on phone saying "I don't care what you do, you HAVE to get here.  We need you against these guys."  It becomes more and more obvious that "his" arrival is in doubt.  

 

During the match, which begins 2 on 3, Rock/Austin hold their own until one or the other is left for dead outside the ring.  The survivor is being double and triple teamed in the ring when the lights go out for a few seconds.  The lightning flashes, "Seek and Destroy" blasts from the speakers, and when the lights come on, Sting is in the ring with his trusty bat.  He lays out the nwo, and he and Rock/Austin leave the shmoz with the moral victory.

 

 

I know, I know, it's fantasy booking, it probably doesn't belong in this thread, there's no way in hell it'll happen, but if I saw it, I'd crap the couch.

[Guest Tony149]

That's actually a pretty cool idea. I would mark out big if that ever happened.

[Guest Downhome]

Man, just read the announcement of the Torch website. Too bad Sting retired. But like Jingus said, in his last match, he beat the man that turned him into Mr. WCW and a star, that man he beat was "Nature Boy" Ric Flair. Sting was cool.

Oh, come on. We all know that Sting isn't REALLY going to stay "retired". Sting has more years in him, and he as a hell of a lot more to give to the Pro. Wrestling industry.

 

In his "annoucement", he said it would take "a whole lot" to get him out of "retirement"...

 

...yeah, and that "whole lot" = the right sum of money, and the perfect storyline.

 

Sting will be back, and I think it will be while working under WWFE, and if not that, then somewhere...sometime.