Sting

Roster
 1- Taking down NWO and winning the WCW Heaviweight
 3-Defeating Vader and becoming
WCW Heaviweight champion for the first time at Starrcade 1992

## Fastest rising star in WWF history(1987-1988)

Sting debuted at SNME May after Ultimate Warrior squashed Paul Orndorff and Kamala came out to avenge his friend, the 2 JCP partners took care of the other duo. Sting's first match was the Money in the Bank match at SNME June, he was scheduled to win it but as a heel, when Vince saw that the crowd loved him the result was changed midway through and Jim Duggan won it.

At Superstars 100, Sting defeated Jim Duggan to win the briefcase in the most patriotic city so Sting could be booed, in the main event after Koko B.Ware defeated his mentor Ricky Steamboat to win the WWF title, Steamboat turned on Koko and Sting took advantage cashing in and becoming WWF champion in only 2 months and 4 matches on WWF.

Even with the boos at Superstars 100, in the King of the Ring PPV Sting had his first successful defense against Andre The Giant and the crowd was cheering big for him yet again as Vince decided to keep him as a babyface. Sting defeated Ricky Steamboat at Summerslam in 1987's match of the year. At G1 Finals, Sting shockingly defeated Hogan to retain the title cementing his place as a legend barely a year into his run, he lost the title at Survivor Series against Ted Dibiase after the ref did a fast count. Sting got his rematch at Royal Rumble 1988 and handpicked Barry Horowitz as the special guest referee since he knew he wouldn't screw him, still Dibiase defeated Sting.

At Wrestlemania 4, Sting was eliminated in the first round of the 16 men WWF Championship tournament by his friend Ultimate Warrior who went on to become champion by the end of the night as Sting celebrated with him.

## 2 time WWF Champion and departure(1988-1989)

Sting didn't do much in early 1988, he was in the MITB match which was also the MOTY, he was in the KOTR finals but was defeated by Mr.Perfect and at Summerslam him and Hogan defeated Twin Towers in a tag team match.

Sting managed to become special guest referee in the match at Survivor Series between Ultimate Warrior and G1 winner Big Boss Man, after many interferences and screwups, Boss Man managed to his his finisher and Sting was forced to count the 123 fairly, he left sickened by what he had done to his friend. A day later in a house show, Sting said Boss Man was only champion because of the help he got by Harley Race at Survivor Series, Sting defeated Boss Man becoming a 2 time WWF champion and the only man to win it in a house show.

Warrior won the rumble but refused to face his friend at wrestlemania, he was gonna compete for the IC title instead, after weeks of the heels teasing him that Warrior deserved this 2nd title reign and that Sting probably screwed him out of it in the first place, Warrior turned on his longtime friend and decided that he did want to take the title away from him and at Wrestlemania 5 in Sting's last WWF match, Warrior defeated him to win the title back.

## WCW and Four Horsemen(1989-1991)

During the weeks of buildup to mania, Sting debuted unannounced at WCW's tapings in the first ever WCW Saturday Night basically spoiling the main event of Wrestlemania weeks in advance because if Sting was already at WCW, there was no way he was retaining. In his first WCW match, he defeated Barry Windham to qualify for the tournament for the vacant WCW Heaviweight Championship.

Sting would defeat Scott Steiner and Brian Pillman to advance to the finals at Wrestlewar where he faced Ric Flair, Flair would become the first ever WCW Heaviweight champion and after the match, Sting, Flair, Barry Windham and Ole Anderson formed Four Horsemen turning Sting heel.

Sting got another title match at Great American Bash with Barry Windham as special guest ref and Ole Anderson as special guest enforcer, Flair retained the title and Four Horsemen were on top of the world until Ricky Steamboat debuted and took care of them. Over the months, Steamboat would introduce other former WWF talent like Junkyard Dog and Terry Funk, this all led to Sting's first 5 star match at Halloween Havoc as Junkyard Dog, Terry Funk, Ricky Steamboat and the debuting Warrior defeated Four Horsemen in a war games match.

Sting started challenging for the US title with a failed attempt at Starrcade 1989 as The Great Muta retained against Windham, Steamboat and Sting. At Wrestlewar 1990, Sting defeated Muta to win the United States Championship, Sting was still really over and was basically overshadowing Ric Flair every time, Sting only had 2 defenses under his reign but he held the title for 8 months. He lost it at Halloween Havoc to Vader, he got his rematch at Starrcade but failed to regain the title

Ric Flair and Sting started teaming up as Flair wanted the tag titles but by here Sting's overness, just like in WWF, was too big to hide. At Saturday Night 100, Flair and Sting defeated Fabulous Freebirds to win the tag titles after Flair cheated and Sting was tired of that so he scorpion death dropped Flair turning on him to a big pop, Sting grabbed the WCW Heaviweight title and held it up high, the tag titles were vacated a week later.

## Multiple failed WCW Heaviweight title shots(1991-1992)

Even with this big overness, Sting was mostly kept out of the title scene, at Superbrawl 1 Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko defeated Sting and Barry Windham, in the main event Sting assembled a crew of Lex Luger, Barry Windham and Dustin/Dusty Rhodes to face the new Four Horsemen, at Great American Bash they defeated them but it was Lex Luger getting the pin on Flair putting all the focus on him.

Sting got Flair's lackey, Sid Vicious at Halloween Havoc and defeated him, after the match another one of Flair's lackeys, Nikita Koloff debuted choking Sting out with a chain. The Starrcade 1991 main event was poorly recieved as it was Ric Flair defending against Lex Luger and Sid Vicious while everyone wanted Sting and chanted for him, Sting was involved in a match against Nikita Koloff which ended with both men falling off the stage onto eletrical stuff

Sting was scheduled to face Flair in february's superbrawl but he was attacked by Vader before the match and replaced by Rick Rude which yet again pissed people off. Sting won another NO1 contender's title match and he was scheduled to face Flair at Wrestlewar but Flair left WCW for WWF 3 weeks prior leaving the title vacant. A tournament was made to determine the new champion and Sting made it to the finals but lost to Vader in another failed effort for the title.

Sting had a US title match at Beach Blast against Stunning Steve Austin but Austin cheated to retain. Sting was off TV from june until october, he returned at Saturday Night declaring that he was gonna win the battlebowl to finally get a shot against Vader again, before Starrcade Sting held one of his greatest promos to date and at Starrcade 1992, he was peak overness as he won the tag match defeating The Godwins with DDP, entered the battle royal and eliminated Vader during it and won lastly eliminating Barry Windham who afterwards turned heel and possibly injured him. But against all odds, in the main event an injured Sting went up against Vader and after 4 years of being the best in WCW but not managing to win the best, he beat Vader to become WCW Heaviweight champion

## WCW Heaviweight champion and injury(1993)

His first reign was basically a four horsemen war as Windham, Larry Zbyszko and Arn Anderson all wanted to prove themselves now that Flair was gone and Sting was a fighting champ so he decided that he wanted to fight all 3 in a fatal 4 way to get rid of them all, Sting beat them all in a great match at Slamboree.

Vader arrived as the next challenger after months of feeling the corruption of Dusty Rhodes, Vader had grown to be a sympathetic face and gained respect of Sting, at Beach Blast Sting unfortunately suffered a shoulder injury and Vader defeated him to win the title back, Sting had to be out for almost a year.

When Ric Flair returned in 1994 and WCW was getting more mainstream with the debut of Monday Nitro, Sting didn't wanna miss on the action and trained harder than ever to get better, this failed as Sting screwed up his elbow even more causing him to miss another year of action

## Return and rejoining Four Horsemen(1995-1996)

After 2 and a half years, at World War 3 1995, Ric Flair had won the worl title for a third time and Sting made his return to a huge reaction from the crowd. At Starrcade 1995, the feud that defined WCW's early days came to an end as Sting defeated the man that he never could to become a 2 time WCW Heaviweight champion in his return match, Flair embraced with Sting becoming a face for the first time in his career.

Although, Sting returned with a bit of a darker personality, having completely missed Hogan and Savage's arrival, he returned to a completely different WCW and he was clearly still pissed at himself that he felt like he didn't fit in anymore, even with all this he was still accepted as a member of the Four Horsemen which now were Flair, Sting, Arn Anderson and Lex Luger.

At Superbrawl 6, he defeated Barry Windham in his first defense, Sting held a series of open challenges leading up to Nitro 100 defeating Chris Jericho, Psicosis, The Giant. At Nitro 100, Sting defeated Lex Luger to retain the title and was scheduled to face Ric Flair at Uncensored but after his match against Luger, WWF's Razor Ramon and Diesel debuted taking both men down as Ramon cashed in his MITB briefcase and became WCW Heaviweight champion as they called it an invasion and challenged 3 of the best WCW men to fight for WCW's honor.

At Uncensored, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall beat up Sting to the point where he had to be carried out of the match, they were also getting the upperhand on Ric Flair and Randy Savage when Hulk Hogan made his return but he turned heel leg dropping Savage and declaring himself as the third man in this now group called New World Order

## The Vigilante(1996-1997)

Sting yet again went away as NWO teased that Sting was away just because he had joined the new world order but didn't wanna admit it yet as everytime WCW was getting his ass kicked, they said that there was no Sting to save them. This caused dissension within Four Horsemen as Lex Luger refused to believe it but Arn was starting to believe it. At Bash at the Beach, Flair was scheduled to face Luger when Arn shows footage that Sting attacked them both backstage and that's why Flair isn't here today.

Luger still didn't buy it but at Nitro 114, Sting showed up and scorpion death dropped him although this was clearly a smaller Sting, for some reason everyone believed it was the real Sting. At Hog Wild, Luger went up against "Sting" and he was locked in the scorpion death lock when the camera panned to a black and white version of Sting on the rafters as he took down all of NWO but then also put a baseball bat on Luger's neck as a sign of hatred, the real Sting was hiding on the rafters all along.

The next night, Sting explained that he was and never will be NWO but he's no longer Four Horsemen either because his closest friends were skepctical of him, he does a cryptic promo saying that when the time is right, he will rise from the ashes and NWO will pay for the things they're doing to the company he loves.

Sting made very sporadic appearences throught the year but everytime he did them, he always managed to beat up every member of NWO. Throught the year, NWO would completely take over even becoming owners of WCW

Arn Anderson debuted with The Resistance group to take down NWO and kept teasing their leader, Hogan said he'd only put the NWO ownership on the line if that leader ever faced him, NWO was pissed at this but Hogan was only calling Arn's bluff.

Sting started showing up more and more in late 1997 slowly leaving the shadows, at World War 3, Arn Anderson officially revealed the leader of The Resistance, STANG who had his first match since april 1996 winning the World War 3 match. At Starrcade 1997, Sting defeated Hulk Hogan in 1 minute and 43 seconds as Hogan was taken off guard, NWO were no longer owners and Hogan had lost the WCW Heaviweight title

## Corruption, third and fourth title reign(1998)

Sting's first challenger was his partner from The Resistance, Scott Steiner, Steiner had a lot of animosity towards Sting because at Halloween Havoc 1997, Steiner was about to win the title when Randy Savage showed up and made him lose while Sting was watching it all unfold from the rafters, Steiner proclaims that Sting's main goal was never to take down NWO, he just wanted 1 more title reign under his big career. Sting revealed that Arn Anderson was behind it all, coming up with The Resistance plan in december as he ordered Sting on whenever he should attack and Arn was the one who didn't let Sting help Scott.

It was eventually revealed that all of The Resistance's members were merely paws to Sting winning the title and taking down NWO as owners which pissed everyone off, Sting defended against Scott Steiner in a singles match and then against Chavo Guerrero and Rick Steiner in a triple threat match at Uncensored.

At Nitro 201, Scott Steiner efeated Sting to win the title but Sting quickly won the title back 2 weeks later becoming a 4 time champion, during this reign he would always be helped by conflicting members of the NWO who had now split into three, he never won a match clean. At Nitro 215(AKA Goldberg's Big Night) Goldberg defeated Sting in the main event to win the title

## Various feuds(1998-1999)

At Road Wild, Sting got his rematch but lost to Goldberg. Not having anything to do on the show, Sting declared his goal was to beat up as many NWO people as he could, NWO Wolfpac tried to recruit Sting into their group saying that they weren't the bad guys in this story, Hogan and Bischoff were. But Sting was blinded by his hatred for all NWO and beat up Scott Hall.

One of Kevin Nash's main goals if he were to become owner when he won the NWO Civil Wars was to fire one of the most corrupt WCW men, Sting. This led to The Resistance members Scott Steiner and Eddie Guerrero join NWO Chaos. At World War 3 1998-NWO Civil Wars, Sting was the last man to join NWO Wolfpac completely forgetting everything he stood for in the past couple of months, Wolfpac defeated Chaos and Hollywood to become the sole NWO and the one that would get all the title shots at Starrcade.

At Starrcade 1998, Sting defeated Eddie Guerrero to become a 2 time US champion. He started showing signs of turning heel as he constantly ambushed Eddie saying he's not corrupt, he's just the greatest WCW talent ever but this was quickly dropped. At Nitro 245, the WCW Heaviweight title was vacated and put up to grabs on a match between Sting, Bret Hart, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, during the match Arn Anderson turned heel and caused Sting to lose, Arn says his reasoning was Sting spitting on him when he revitalized his career, Arn failed to take the US title from Sting and that feud ended in 1 week as Arn went back to being a babyface.

At Nitro 252, Sting shockingly lost the title in an open challenge to a Masked Superstar. When Eddie Guerrero became the WCW Heaviweight champion, his first action was to immediatly challenge Sting who was looking on the rafters, at Great American Bash Eddie defeated Sting to retain the title.

## Championships and accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* WWF Championship(2 times)
* Money in the Bank(1987)
* Match of the Year(1987) vs Ricky Steamboat at Summerslam
* Match of the Year(1988) vs Hulk Hogan, Honky Tonk Man, Jacques Rougeau, Haku, Mr.Perfect, Jake Roberts, Ultimate Warrior at SNME June

* World Championship Wrestling
* WCW Heaviweight Championship(4 times)
* United States Championship(2 times)
* WCW Tag Team Championships(1 time) - with Ric Flair
* Match of the Year(1989) with Ric Flair, Barry Windham and Ole Anderson vs Warrior, Terry Funk, Ricky Steamboat and Junkyard Dog at Halloween Havoc
* Shocking Moment of the Year(1997) defeating Hulk Hogan in 2 minutes at Starrcade