For many years fans wondered if Sting would ever join WWE, and in 2014 the former WCW World Heavyweight Champion made his debut at Survivor Series.
Sting’s debut sent a shockwave throughout the professional wrestling community, and during a recent episode of the AEW Unrestricted podcast he noted that he wasn’t sure what type of reception he was going to get from the WWE fans.
“With the whole Monday Night War thing, you don’t know how the WWE Universe will take to me and all the guys. It was good. It was the same kind of a deal [as AEW] where I was snuck in everywhere and hidden until the last possible moment. Then I show up and the guys were watching on the monitors and some of them saw me walking through. It was the same kind of a scene and it was pretty cool. And then the crowd did receive me and that was a relief. I felt like, ‘Well, I’ve done just about everything there is to do here.’ And I had fun, they treated me good.”
Sting only wrestled a few matches during his run with WWE before he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016, and he also went into detail about why he was reluctant to be inducted.
“I was reluctant to do it because I was still scheduled to work and wrestle. I said to Triple H, ‘Listen, I’m still wrestling.’ He says, ‘Yeah, but we think it’s still gonna be good. Just because you’re inducted doesn’t mean you’re retiring or it’s over.’ I go, ‘Ok, I can do that.’ So, I did it.”
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