Why Hasn’t Sting Ever Tried Going To WWE
October 29, 2008 by Scott Wharton
Filed under MMA-UFC
Sting has been around for quite some time. He’s a big name in pro-wrestling and it’s always been a question of if or when Sting will be added to the WWE Roster. It’s getting kind of late in his career now and he’s been contemplating retirement. Do you think he’ll retire the face-paint too, or will he wear it from time to time at the house?
Sting recently told the UK Sun (Not the most reliable magazine for news) that he has plans on retiring sometime soon.
"I can not go on much longer." "I don’t want to embarrass myself, embarrass Spike or embarrass TNA. We all know it’s a wave coming in to shore. I don;t know when exactly it’s going to hit, but it’s gonna hit.
"I thought probably this year. Actually it’s over the last couple of years it seems the thought has been in-and-out, in-and-out, in-and-out these thoughts of retirement and everything else but under the circumstances I think that I want to stick it out for one last – and this is the last – hurrah. I don’t know when it will end for sure, but as long as I stay healthy into 2009. But how far into 2009 I don’t know."
So why have we never seen sting in the WWE? Good question.
There was always something in me that thought that Vince McMahon wanted me more to undermine WCW than he wanted me as a talent. I just always believed that.
I saw a lot of guys from WCW that went to WWE and that happened. Anyone who made it to a higher level within WCW and then tried to jump over – it just didn’t work.
The other thing was that WCW ended up giving me what I wanted in my contract.
Also in this interview, Sting talks about similarities with the Main Event Mafia in TNA and the WCW Millionaires Club and such. It’s a pretty good interview. You can read it here.
Image Used with permission from Newscom.com
I think Sting has been one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. I really like his character better when he was with the NWA during the Ric Flair years when he had the short blonde hair and cool face paint. During that period he was always 100% good guy. I wish he would go to the WWE and go back to that style. I think that would really kick ass, especially if he could be a third member of DX with Triple H and HBK, that would be way huge, they could battle Legacy. I think the fans would love it. It would boost their ratings for sure. Sting, if you are reading this, and still contemplating retiring, I would like to see you do what I just described because I think it would work! I think that you would create a title wave of fans.
thank you for reading it.
Dennis