At Sunday evening's Survivor Series pay-per-view, Sting debuted in World Wrestling Entertainment. It was a moment for which wrestling fans have waited for likely two decades, and the payoff was that Sting will likely be wrestling Triple H at WrestleMania 31. Triple H? Yes, Triple H, as in the guy who now wrestles once a year, and is a suit-wearing corporate employee. No, for the last time, he will not be wrestling The Undertaker, Bray Wyatt or anybody else that say, it would make a lot more sense from a storyline perspective for him to wrestle. However, let's say that Triple H didn't step up to the plate. Let's say that there were ten other choices who, of those, one of them got the call instead. While yes, Triple H is almost a 25-year in-ring veteran to Sting's 30 years in the ring - thus likely experienced enough to really give the now somewhat-limited Sting a match that will not expose his limitations - he's still not someone who stands to benefit (or is the enormous draw of The Undertaker's calibre) from being involved in storylines with Sting. Here instead of Triple H are infinitely better options to be in the position of wrestling Sting in San Francisco at WrestleMania 31.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
