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When man's heart is full of deceit, It burns up, dies, And a dark shadow falls over his soul. From the ashes of a once-great man has risen a curse... A wrong that must be righted. We look to the skies for a vindicator, someone to strike fear into the black hearts of the same man who created him. The battle between good and evil has begun. Against an army of shadows is the dark warrior... The prevailer of good... With a voice of silence... And a mission of justice... This is Sting.  In honor of Sting's Final Match this Sunday, March 3rd, let's have a thread full of posting about how Sting is one of the best to ever do it. Cool moments, matches, videos, gifs of him doing crazy dives, personal stories, all are welcome. Official thread themes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhHF2I66hV0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlUCdeImOfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLTchCiC0T0
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I made no secret of my displeasure when Sting first arrived in AEW - since I was a WWF kid growing up, I'd never seen a single match of his before he came to Jacksonville...besides, of course, the one with HHH. So even though Sting's debut with the company was objectively great, I still couldn't shake the feeling that he was washed up, only around to get a payday and maybe take a hot tag every now and then. I've never been happier to be wrong. Sting's run in AEW should act as a blueprint for any wrestler looking to end their career on a high note. He was protected by only working infrequent tag matches, yes, but at the same time being around someone as crazy as Darby clearly encouraged him to take risks and perform spots he really had no business even trying. The fact that he's come out of all of those spots unscathed (save for being shaken up a couple times) speaks to how exceptional he is as a performer even with his best days well behind him. Even if he and Darby lose on Sunday, Sting's still going out on top. The respect he holds with his peers and with the fans is not only unmatched but wholly deserved. Devastating as it'll be to watch him go, I'm still so happy that I get to see his final match in person. Thank you, Sting. May your positive impact on the industry continue for years to come.
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Feb 27, 2024 18:53
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He does this and, according to recent reports, he does that
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Feb 27, 2024 18:56
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(deep inhale) IT’S STIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!
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 https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1762538969093357893 https://twitter.com/CeeHawk/status/1762457610584719613?t=GN4D8USDTYFiZMIW-_7t3A&s=19
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Feb 27, 2024 19:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0ey2Gjq5yU This is still one of the coolest wrestling things I've seen in person. Prior to the match starting, there were some security guys moving around on the floor next to us. Nothing super unusual for a match that's going to get crazy, they usually clear a few chairs and stuff. Then my wife goes "Is that Sting wearing a Sting mask?" It was. He was standing there behind the back row of floor seats. I knew poo poo was going to get crazy, but I had no idea. When Sting dove the crowd went insane. I've been at bigger shows than this in bigger arenas, but I have never heard a crowd reaction like this in my life. EVERYONE was hyped beyond belief, we couldn't believe what we were seeing.
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Feb 27, 2024 19:17
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Sting's feud with Cactus Jack is one my first big memories as a kid watching. I had so many feeling during that. Also his stuff with Abdullah, Vader, and Flair during that era was fantastic as a kid watching. I was primarily a WWF kid back then but it was impossible not to be a huge Sting fan. gently caress he was cool. I never watched any TNA so that's all a mystery to me but his AEW run has basically been flawless and it'll be sad to see him go. An absolute legend.
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Feb 27, 2024 19:19
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Heck yeah https://i.imgur.com/YazwmeO.mp4
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Feb 27, 2024 19:25
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The first time he jumped off the stage against Scorpio and his group, I thought "okay, okay old man. That was cool but keep it at one time" 3 years later and here we are, Sting still jumping off high places  Old compilation that needs updating https://youtu.be/jIQBiH69-PE?si=nIuyAaM3SA0GUzdP
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https://youtu.be/qZT5zozpSwQ?feature=shared Edit: Basically same video but not age restricted: https://youtu.be/CsqlFMZuAbc?feature=shared
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Feb 27, 2024 19:33
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Sting rules. Period. When I was a little kid and I saw this jacked dude in facepaint screaming and doing corner splashes I was enthralled. Then everyone turned on him and he turned into the Crow and it was the coolest thing in the world. I was down for whatever he wanted to do and whoever he wanted to beat up. Then he joined the coolest faction for a 13 year old in the wolfpac and he was even cooler somehow. Throughout the decades this man has made me feel like I felt when I first fell in love with wrestling as a kid. I'll always be a lil stinger
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Feb 27, 2024 19:59
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wandler20 posted:Sting's feud with Cactus Jack is one my first big memories as a kid watching. I had so many feeling during that. Also his stuff with Abdullah, Vader, and Flair during that era was fantastic as a kid watching. I was primarily a WWF kid back then but it was impossible not to be a huge Sting fan. gently caress he was cool. In Mick Foley's first book, he talks about how for a long time his favorite match he wrestled was with Sting, and Mick said Sting was always so happy about that honor and was sad when it was overtaken Sting is incredible and him doing the dive off the entrance tunnel has been my lock screen since the day after the show
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Feb 27, 2024 20:12
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The Sting's Squadron vs. Dangerous Alliance WarGames match at WrestleWar '92 absolutely owns bones. Give that a watch if you haven't yet. It's crazy how star-studded it is.
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Feb 27, 2024 20:14
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https://youtu.be/ZxFyVcb2Rfo?si=yWGhSteAbEcNz5T_ Bischoff sold for the copter 
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Feb 27, 2024 20:21
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I always classified Sting as WCW Edge. Or Edge as WWE Sting since Sting came first. I can't believe Sting can wrestle at all at 64, much less wrestle well enough that his matches are interesting.
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Feb 27, 2024 20:28
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Shard posted:Sting rules. Period. When I was a little kid and I saw this jacked dude in facepaint screaming and doing corner splashes I was enthralled. Then everyone turned on him and he turned into the Crow and it was the coolest thing in the world. I was down for whatever he wanted to do and whoever he wanted to beat up. Then he joined the coolest faction for a 13 year old in the wolfpac and he was even cooler somehow. Throughout the decades this man has made me feel like I felt when I first fell in love with wrestling as a kid. I'll always be a lil stinger My sentiments exactly. Sadly, I don't remember the exact moment I was hooked on pro wrestling. But I know I was watching Sting Saturday nights and he was absolutely my guy. I still get goosebumps watching him in AEW and still cannot believe I got to see him live before he retired.
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Feb 27, 2024 22:09
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during the early monday night wars before goldberg was a main eventer i considered sting the most powerful wrestler who would win in an overall battle of pure physicality against all other wrestlers in the world because i didn't know about wrestlers in other countries so they didn't exist. with the highest total output combining strength, endurance and dexterity, as well as the limited physical aspects of both faith and arcane, the crow sting would prevail over all others. even though he had lost before and very often as you went further into the past, when he didn't defeat goldberg later on, a small part of me passed away. when sting returned to wrestling for aew and was powerful again, that part of me was still dead. you can't bring most things back to life. but it was like receiving a previously undiscovered letter or even voicemail from that missing piece. that is why i said "yeah" fairly loud to it. this. is. sting
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Feb 27, 2024 22:30
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If Sting had won in '97, WCW would still be alive. WCW isn't, but Sting is and Sting rules.
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Feb 27, 2024 22:35
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When I see Sting I become a little Stinger
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me, in the AEW thread posted:I went to a WCW house show when I was like 12 and tried to start a “We want Sting!” chant due to Lex Luger & The Giant needing help against the NWO. He didnt come out though and I was sad about it (but thanks lady across the aisle for chanting with me). Sting was always my favorite as a kid, I HATED the NWO and was always so happy when Sting came down and kicked their rear end. The only redeeming part of the NWO was, of course, the Wolfpac- because it had Sting in it!! I never understood the older (than me) people in the crowd cheering for the NWO and wearing their gear at that show or on TV. They're the bad guys you fools, and Sting is RIGHT THERE! My dad never bought me any PPVs, so I usually tried to watch them via the scrabbled PPV channel & someone doing a play by play in an AOL chat room. When I learned Sting beat Hogan, I was ecstatic! STING had conquered evil! The hated NWO was defeated! Surely nothing bad could come from this. I fell out of wrestling during the Invasion because I was older, but also: team WCW doesn't have Sting?? What's the point?!?! I didn't really know about TNA until it was firmly in joke status, and only kinda knew Sting had been there much later. A friend of mine was jokingly watching & live chatting Wrestlemania one year and I decided to join in too once I heard mother fuckin' STING was there. Despite the weirdness of the NWO helping him, Bradshaw's announcing, and the dumb hand shake at the end- I stuck around to see what else was going on with the sport that was once a big part of my early life. I was very sad about what followed with Sting in the WWE, but against all odds stuck around long enough to go back and see what else about wrestling I missed. That lead to needing to investigate other feds, thinking I probably should go to local shows, I love Sting. Sting loving rules. I assume he won't stray too far from the ring but even then, I'll still miss him. Thank loving god AEW came around to give him this last run & send off, its owned.
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Sting, low-key is one of the best ever guys at reinvention in wrestling. The Crow gimmick is maybe the single best repackaging in the history of wrestling in North America. Hell, when I played that video in the OP with the music and the poem, I still got chills. Put on top of that the Joker stuff in TNA which was a rare bright spot in that company, and the sort of lunatic elder statesman thing he's done in AEW and he's up there with the best IMO. Also, I thought the Crow theme was library music, and if it is, how come Tony hasn't bought it? 
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As a kid I loved every masked wrestler and every wrestler with cool face paint(so all face paint except Ultimate Warrior's). I even liked the Kiss demon, just so you understand my level of derangement. I thought Sting was the coolest. Now 60 years later Sting is still the coolest in the ring and apparently out of the ring as well. I'm glad he gets to end his career on his terms. I just really hope Darby doesn't die trying to make sure Sting has a really memorable final match.
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Feb 28, 2024 05:51
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I didn't grow up with Sting. I was raised on WWF by a babysitter. Until AEW, I was only aware of Sting in retrospect. He seems like a real stand-up guy. The industry is full of poo poo-heads, morons, and psychos; guys like him stand out. I don't know if Sting will win or lose on Sunday. I do know that Tony Khan won't make him do anything he doesn't want to do. Personally, I want him to win and retire undefeated (in AEW). There's a good argument for going out on your back, but sometimes the hero gets to ride off into the sunset. Edited to add that Sting's AEW theme loving rules. Okkult fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Feb 28, 2024 07:40
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If Sting is so cool, how come he's never taken a double superkick from the Young Bucks, completely no-sold it, beat his chest like a gorilla and then took them both out with a clothesline? Checkmate 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsqlFMZuAbc&t=138s Still one of the funniest-ever moments in AEW for me
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One of my first major memories of wrestling was the night Sting joined the nwo and then SWERVE he ripped off the nwo shirt to reveal he was actually joining the Wolfpac. I didn’t really understand what was happening but I knew two things for sure, Sting was awesome and t-shirt drama rules.
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Sandman from ECW posted:One of my first major memories of wrestling was the night Sting joined the nwo and then SWERVE he ripped off the nwo shirt to reveal he was actually joining the Wolfpac. I didn’t really understand what was happening but I knew two things for sure, Sting was awesome and t-shirt drama rules. lol some cousins and I snuck away from my dad's cousin's funeral to watch this happen on Nitro
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Feb 28, 2024 17:33
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Dango Bango posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsqlFMZuAbc&t=138s they even work it into the contest, when Darby's trying to get Sting's attention he has this instant reaction of "oh gently caress I'm supposed to be paying attention to the match, not having fun with the opponent's corner guy"
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https://twitter.com/DrainBamager/status/1762640104433107097
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I didn't start watching wrestling til around 2018-2019, but I've always known about Sting and thought he was so cool. Seeing him in AEW has been incredible and is the blueprint for what a great retirement run should look like. His Players' Tribune article was very good and ever match he's been in has been fun. I'm sad to see him go but am glad he's going out with the respect he deserves.
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No way you're a wrestling fan if these clips don't make you repeatedly go, "hell yeah." No way we're friends, either
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Tony: Okay we're gonna let Sting do one match, a very carefully constructed cinematic match so we can shoot around the fact he can't really put himself at risk anymore. 3 years later: What I'm posting about in this thread about how much Sting owns is that Sting owns.
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Feb 28, 2024 21:40
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old guys no-selling rules!!!!
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Feb 28, 2024 23:44
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the man is a loving lunatic lol, i love him
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Feb 28, 2024 23:44
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Wrestlers are....different from you and I.
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BodyMassageMachine posted:https://youtu.be/qZT5zozpSwQ?feature=shared The callback to it was even better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8266aaR8qY Especially the part at the end where he waits until Kip turns away then absolutely takes his head off with a lariat. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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We got one last rafters entrance for the road.
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