From: jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell)
Subject: Re: Questions I've always wanted answered....
Followup-To: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:22:52 GMT

In article <mjenkins.723911870@cunews> mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
#These are questions that have always vexed me and they haven't been
#discussed on the net since I've been around (late August).
#
#Any thoughtful responses greatly appreciated.
#
#1) Was Sting's big knee injury real or a work? If it was real, what
#caused it. If it was a work, was it just a set up to his big comeback
#and title win?

Sting's knee injury was real. It was an accident and was not the 
result of a shoot of a wrestlig move gone wrong. 

Way back on Feb 27, 1991, I posted the following to r.s.p-w:
# 
# From jewell Wed Feb 27 11:43:33 PST 1991
# Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
# Subject: Re: Has the NWA/WCW improved or not???
# References: <SHAHRYAR.91Feb25210951@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu>
# 
# In article <SHAHRYAR.91Feb25210951@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu> shahryar@sfsuvax1.SFSU.EDU (Persian Nightmare) writes:
#
# [stuff deleted]
# >		First they lie about how a wrestler gets injured
# >{the Sting incident last year}
# 
# Hold on a minute here. The Sting injury was REAL. If you look at
# the video tape of the incident, you will see a healthy Sting run
# in and a severly injured Sting be carried out. Granted, the hype
# surrounding the cause of the injury was fake. The Horsemen were
# not responsible for the injury as it was promoted. But in the Sting
# case, you have a more realistic injury than in the Hulk Hogan's
# "I gotta make a movie so I'm gonna get stomped" injury.
# 

More specifically, here's what happened to Sting's knee:
	-Sting was part of the Horesemen who at the time were faces.

	-At Clash of Champions X: Texas Shoot-Out, held February 6,
	 1990. "Tuxedo" Terry Funk hosts a special Funk's Grill. His 
	 guests are the Horsemen (Sting, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, and 
	 Ole Anderson,) come out, ostensibly to talk about their match 
	 that night with Muta, the Dragonmaster, and "Mad Dog" Buzz
	 Saywer (RIP).

	-Ole Anderson tells Sting that he has been kicked out to the
	 Horsemen. Sting can't believe it. Ole warns Sting that he has
	 about two hours to make up his mind. Next thing you know, 
	 Sting grabs Ole by the shoulder and the Horsemen (now only 3)
	 pummel Sting. Ric Flair does a great "grab the mike and yell
	 in somebody's face" interview.

	-Horsemen are now heels.

	-The Clash progresses and it's finally time for the Horsemen
	 (Flair, Anderson, & Anderson) vs. J-Tex (Muta, Sawyer, &
	 Dragonmaster) cage match.

	-The match is 2/3 over when Sting (wearing jeans and boots) 
	 runs to ringside. He starts jawing with Flair, who is standing
	 one the top rope and taunting Sting. The dressing room empties
	 and Brian Pillman, Tom Zenk, et al try to convince Sting to go
	 back to the dressing room.

	-Sting starts to walk back to the dressing room. When he is
	 almost back to the dressing room, Sting changes his mind and 
	 bolts for the ring. 

	-On his run-up to the ring, Sting plants his left (?) foot on 
	 the ring apron and lifts the other toward the cage. He doesn't 
	 quite get the foot planted on the cage and his boot slips,
	 sending his right (?) knee crashing into the cage.
 
	-As WCW's dumb luck would have it, Sting hits his knee on the 
	 cage just below the kneecap, severing the anterior cruciate 
	 ligament (I think).
 
	-Sting tries to hobble back to the dressing room, but very few
	 people seem to know what happened. To make matters worse, Flair 
	 has no idea what happened and he continues with the script, 
	 which called for him to go running after Sting when the match
	 is over. 

	-By this time, Sting is half way back to the dressing room and
	 has told a few of the "from the dressing room" wrestlers what
	 has happened. They try to keep FLair off of Sting, but I don't
	 think Flair figured out what happened until after it was all
	 over. Flair proceeds to kick, punch, and generally brawl with
	 Sting and the guys trying to protect him.

	-The Clash ends with no mention of the injury.

	-Sting goes under the knife.

	-The week after the Clash, WCW announces that the Horsemen
	 jumped Sting in the parking lot after the Clash and trashed
	 his knee. Lex Luger (remember him?) declares war on the
	 Horesemen.

WCW was REALLY screwed when Sting trashed his knee. They had planned 
to use Sting's run-in to set up a Flair vs. Sting match at WrestleWar
1990: Wild Thing, to be held February 25, 1990. (ie their next PPV.)
Due to the injury, WCW set up a Luger vs. Flair match (which ended due
to outside interference from the Andersons. 

If memory serves me correct, Sting came back at Capitol Combat: the
Return of Robocop (PPV).

Sting finally gets his title shot at the Great American Bash, held
July 7, 1990.

Sorry for the verbosity.

Now, back to the original questions:

#
#4) Whatever happened with Tommy Young's lawsuit against WCW regarding
#his injuries?

Dunno, but I was thinking about that this past weekend when WCW showed
some clips of '89 matches. Does anybody know if/how WCW and Tommy
Young have settled their differences?

-- 
Cal...
                                    "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball."
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