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I became a fan of wrestling at 5 years old and my favourites were Bret Hart and Sting. Still are as a soon to be 39 year old. I found WCW VHS harder to get than WWF in shops but I remember vividly my parents getting WCW The Great American Bash 1990 as Sting beat Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and WCW Halloween Havoc 1990 as Sting defended against Sid Vicious. Sting appealed to me through the face paint, the bright colours, the flat top blonde hair and the energy he had. My favourite version of Sting however was Crow Sting particularly September 1996-December 1997 as Sting representing WCW battled the nWo. This Sting grew out his hair long and brown, wore black and white, he didn't speak. Sting vs. Hollywood Hogan was the best built match in wrestling history with the worst payoff in wrestling history at WCW Starrcade 1997. Fuck Hollywood Hogan and Eric Bischoff for that more so Hogan pulling a "That doesn't work for me, brother". Sting should have run through Hogan in winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. WCW Starrcade 1997 was the beginning of the end for WCW. My least favourite version of Sting is nWo Wolfpac Sting, Sting in the nWo just wasn't right and the red facepaint looked like he'd overslept in the tanning booth. We now turn to TNA. My two favourite periods of this part were Sting briefly ditching the long singlet for tights as an amalgamation of his gimmicks from October 2006-November 2006. Sting regained the NWA World Heavyweight Championship for the second time 16 years after his first. The second was Joker Sting. Kudos to Sting for reinventing himself like that. Naturally (no pun intended) appealed to me as a huge Batman fan. In 2014 Sting made his WWE debut at Survivor Series which we never thought possible. Sting would have his first WWE match at WrestleMania XXXI and there's a lot I hate about this. The wrong opponent in Triple H, the wrong winner, the nWo helping Sting. Fuck it all. It should have been Sting vs. The Undertaker. The man who never left WCW vs the man who never left WWF. Worse still was Sting suffering a severe spinal injury vs Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Night of Champions 2015. Sting somehow finished the match. Sting would headline the Hall of Fame 2016 class announcing his retirement. Cinematic matches became a thing and that's how Sting thought he'd get his match with The Undertaker but sadly never came to pass. We were all taken aback when Sting signed for AEW in December 2020. Sting had his first match in six years at AEW Revolution 2021 in a cinematic match and wrestled regularly in 2021-2024 in tag team matches with Darby Allin and jumping off high things. I'm so glad Sting was able to go out on his terms and get his flowers. Sting had his final match ever at AEW Revolution 2024 three years after having his first AEW match there. Thanks for reading.

We’re probably lucky that his last match isn’t jobbing to Jericho.

Exactly. This isn’t the “fuck the fans for being invested in this story” promotion. End the show with a Sting send off and worry about the title stuff on Wednesday.

Angelica Risk is a good name for her because boy howdy would I risk it all

It's 2024. I'd say there's more value in fan perception and brand trust to having AEW treat a legend on the level of Sting properly than to have him put over someone established on the way out.

watching 1987 UWF matches with Sting. My body is ready to ugly cry tonight.

was never disproven

The fact he's wrestling in his tighty whities is also distracting.

I was a little Stinger. I'm still a little Stinger. And tonight is going to be very emotional for me. Hope you all have a great time watching tonight. Did I ever tell the story about the only time I met Sting?

He might want to go out on his back ( "TRADITIONNNNNN" ) but it isn't really necessary here, and I think he's smart enough to see that. We'll get a tournament with a NEW BIG SHINY PAIR OF BELTS.

When I was in college, a friend and I were at the mall in Champaign. We went into whatever Sam Goody to Sam Goody-like record store the had there at the time. The clerk ran up to us as soon as we walked in, and said, “Do you guys watch wrestling?!!?” We said yeah. He said do you know who The Giant is? I remembered that WCW had a house show in town that night. Clerk went on to tell us how The Giant had just been in there. Said when he shook hands with him, his hand engulfed his whole forearm. I asked the clerk, what did he buy? “The City of Angels soundtrack.” Paul must’ve loved him some Goo Goo Dolls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMgU4RlGGp0&ab_channel=ThePlayers'Tribune Sting listens to voicemails from his loved ones

You're not showing up in the invite attempt for some reason, I asked Niko to help. Here is another link https://discord.gg/yuFvyYNW

It's Hogan, so 95% yes, though at the very least Patterson really worked the show where Hogan had his first match (at least according to cagematch). On the Hogan-lie-scale this at least hits the mark "does not violate obvious facts like the laws of physics and does not require necromancy".

Boston's win probablity on Yahoo sports model hit 109% with 6:21 left. In the second quarter.

I'm sure in Taya's case she just didn't want to sign over her naming rights to WWE, and happily smashed the NXT random name generator button. It's also kinda funny that Sasha took the Monet name to another company not long after.

Anyone who isn't Irish (and that's Irish Irish, none of them American plastic paddies) is going to have a hard time getting that a name spelt Aoife is pronounced Eefer.

Thanks for this. Glad there's no nWo Wolfpac Sting. My least favourite Sting by far.

So apparently Virgil had been kayfabing his age even through his death. He had told everyone over the years he was born in 1962, but he was actually born in 1951. Most reports list him dying at 61, but he was actually 72, thus making him one of the oldest guys on the WWF roster in the 80s and 90s, older than Hogan, Piper, Jake, Dibiase, Savage and only two years younger than Flair. He was 40 when he won the Million Dollar Title at Summerslam 91, which is absolutely crazy.

My only qualm with that is that, on paper, letting a sexagenarian go completely undefeated over your roster for a couple of years is odd booking. But then, it's Sting and everybody loves him, so why not?

Fair enough, there's a lot not to like

Thanks for the recommendation of Vader's autobiography. On the subject of wrestling autobiographies, the five best for me are: 5. A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho. 4. Walking a Golden Mile by William Regal. 3. Hitman by Bret Hart. 2. Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley. 1. Yes!: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania by Daniel Bryan.

That's what I'm hoping for plus Tony Khan loves his tournaments. Sting should go out on a win.

God, there are so many reasons why I hate this angle (the "Rock is the boss" part of it anyway). I'll keep it short and go with: 1. If they can just change the winners, there's no point in the conflict. Why remind us of that fact? "You know this doesn't really mean anything, buy our shit anyway"? 2. It's already been done to death by someone everyone hates now and will be reminded of whenever they do it. 3. "Fighting the man" doesn't play when these assholes can't even get together to unionize.

I’m pretty sure we’re heading towards the titles getting vacated myself.

[Inner monolgue Dana [Inner monologue Dana Delaney voice...] Wait... when La Parka is around Mike is nowhere to be seen. Could Mike Tenay be... Lois Lane, what are you thinking. Sure Mike Tenay is The Professor of professional wrestling but La Parka is... well LA PARKA! [Pull back to reveal Mike Tenay, back to camera before he turns around and winks] James

The best thing for the match is for Sting to go over and the tag belts get vacated after. The worst case is for Sting and the Bucks to decide to make the match a Christian parable about the bucks finding salvation and then winning and being reborn as the young bucks again, there is a non-zero percent chance of this happening

injured in September, wrestled in October, November & December, and only got treatment four months later. Fuckin' what??

So what you are saying is he made it elsewhere... and nothing else matters?

Had a pretty terrible day at work which spells out a terrible week+ to come. As a result I missed the first hour. Turning on my TV just in time to see the Curry Man dance brought a much needed smile to my face. I'll get to the rest ten days from now when I get a day off.

I am old and sometimes just post shit for my fellow old dudes

Just want to point out his autobiography is one I would classify as a must read.

assuming we are going off of currentish storylines. BUT because you said dream I’m treating it rightfully like Athena biggest show of the year. Free on television and it puts WWE out of business. Imagine I built everything up perfectly. YOUTUBE (technically not) DARK wrestling: Dante and Darius Martin (612 chants ensues) vs Platnum Satnum & Jay Lethal (managed by Jeff Jarrett Nyla Rose vs Kiera Hogan Nick Wayne vs Mark Briscoe QUAKE BY THE LAKE 2 - We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat (Dynamite) Show opens with WHAT THE FLIP? LUCHA MADNESS El Hijo Del Vikingo vs Komander vs El Soberano vs Mox?!?!?! Mox does a “I’m gettin too old for this shit promo” and gets his vacation. Chris Jericho honors the legends of the AWA. Bockwinkel chants fill the arena. Jeff Jarrett comes out and calls Baron von Raschky a pussy. They’ll fight on Rampage for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre belt. Nothing saws AWA like that unnecessary gimmicks and a Jarrett…. LANCE ARCHER IN ACTION. He eats Serpentico. Challenges Eddie Kingston for future fun Kingston comes out and flips him off. They brawl and get separated. Uh oh, the match scheduled next is Angelico vs Eddie Kingston for the Triple Crown or Continental whatever. Kingston is hurt and Angelico picks him apart. But Kingston’s American King’s Road is too great. Archer watches from the ramp and they will kill each other later. Fun Toni Storm segment. WHAT THE HECK WHAT IS ATHENA DOING IN THE DYNAMITE ZONE. They fuck each other up. Holy fuck they hit each other good. Scissor Fuckers vs Bang Bang Gang to unify the trios belts and end the stupid conglomerate that they have now. Daddy Ass and The Acclaimed to lots of taunts. Neat. Bang Bang Gang win with a returning Juice Robinson kicking Billy in the dick. FTR do a promo about family. Young Bucks says no family fun on company time. Tension. They’ll match at a future PPV. ~RaNdOm DrEaM mAtCh~ BRYAN DANIELSON VS EL SATANICO Kris Statlander & Willow Knightengale vs Serena Deeb & Thunder Rosa. It seems random, but the intrigue I create by the build will be written about for ages. At the end of the match they are all limpy and toe to toe. Then Brit Baler comes out with A RETURNING JAMEE HAYTER and oh shit everyone fights. Continental Classic for the women’s Division coming up. MAIN EVENT: Samoa Joe vs RUSH FUCK YEAH! RAMPAGE - STILL QUAKIN’! Penta vs RVD vs Claudio vs Big Bill (w/ Starks in his corner) stuff happens Deonna Purrazzo vs Hikaru Shida. Good Stuff. CHRIS JERICHO VS JEFF JARRETT IN A TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE DEATH MATCH FUCK YEAH.

Over the winter I've taken to making slow cooker chili, and never the same way twice. Yesterday I pulled out the crockpot and dove into making some chili. I used a lb. of Mushroom & Swiss sausage, two cans of kidney beans, one can of diced tomatoes, elbow macaroni, a can of Tex-Mex Corn(corn with diced green and red peppers), a chopped Serrano pepper, and a packet of Spicy Kung Pao seasoning. It cooked for four hours with zero remaining liquid. I let it sit in the fridge for a few days before I get into it. One nice thing about Walmart lately has been the display of $1 bottles of different types of sauces. The week before I did the chili I put chicken breast, pork roast and sausage in the crock pot. After each was done I put teriyaki and mild bbq on the chicken, a bottle of Blues Hog Smoky BBQ on the pork roast and nothing on the sausage. SInce there was a tone of liquid left over I poured in a cup of Basmati rice and let it absorb all of the goodness of the pork and chicken. Almost an hour later and it was done with zero liquid left over. Crock pots make life a hell of a lot easier.

Glad that wasn't any worse than it was.

I was at that show! Lance Storm told a story on this week’s Alvarez show where he asked Sting back in the day why he never signed with WWF in the 80s/90s and Sting told him something to the effect of, “every time I talked to them, they were more about how signing me would hurt WCW than about how it would help them.” GOD DAMN, we should all strive to be that good a dude.

Yahoo thinks that there was a 10%-ish chance that the Celtics would be given a second win? I dig it.

I think he is supposed to have such a gimmick. I thought of mentioning that scenario (but couldn't remember who proposed it). It would be sort of a best-of-both-worlds situation. I'd like to see it, though I'm not sure we will. Oh, certainly having somebody already established beat Sting would be pointless. But somebody who's popular but hasn't really been treated as a top guy? Like, say, a Darby Allin? That could do some good I think.

It would probably be a Mutoh/Chono post retirement style singles match but the crowd would probably eat it up. I don't expect that to happen but I'd certainly enjoy it.

I’ve assumed that was going to be the outcome since Sting/Darby won the titles I never thought the Bucks would go over since the match was announced.

Had my heaviest fall when out today in a while. When I do I jar myself but thankfully don't bang the back of my head/break something. Ironic timing as I have a friend with Cerebral Palsy and he fell three days earlier.

I watched the whole Fantastica Mania NJPW tour this year and was super impressed with the CMLL guys. They were also really good without killing themselves until they got to Korakuen Hall and Sobarnito Jr tried to kill Templeario off the hardest part of the ring.

Dave Meltzer: “The main event is Sting & Darby Allin vs. Young Bucks in a tornado match for the tag team titles.” Right choice.

We’re gonna get a fucking Cerebro Lock from the man himself in the year of our lord 2024 on a show in honor of DEAN. What a world.

Went swimming yesterday for the first time in a while. Went well considering that. Ached during, ached after, aching today. Was going to have a quiet one today but Laura asked if we'd go bowling. Always fancied it but never have even though one is 15 minutes away from where I live. Laura got a strike with her very first ball and I did later. Had a good time and laughs along the way. Will see about Pilates tomorrow when I wake up.

oh man, total other boat for me. i was hooked with the original HOX/POX miniseries and haven't even considered jumping off. i am sad to see this era close, it's the most i enjoyed the X books sincd Morrison. i assume it helps that i read by the storyline, instead of weekly/monthly as the books come out. and like @Craig, i didn't pay......much.

Not sure if I'm the only one but fuck it it's been forever and I'm watching the OG cartoon from the start. Knowing my viewing habits and attention span who knows if I'll see it all by then but might as well try. Right off the bat I realize how truly special this show was. Watching it as a kid it was 90s colorful awesomeness while kinda realizing I was crushing hard on Storm (don't @ me, I'm sure a lot of us were/are) . Well all that still rings true but I kind of hate that I didn't watch this until now as an adult. Five episodes in so far and it's super apparent how much this hits different which I fucking love.