10 Dumbest Things WCW Did To Sting

By Eric Delgado /

3. The Human Torch Match

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Gimmick matches in 2000 didn€™t stop at Lumberjacks with Casts. At the height of Sting€™s feud with Vampiro, WCW booked its own take of the famous Inferno Match. Just so we are on the same page, I should probably give you some insight as to who Vampiro is. Vampiro is a Canadian wrestler and hockey-loving former bodyguard for Milli Vanilli. You would never know that though because the guy dressed like a he was in a punk band and painted his face like a zombie, which somehow had something to do with vampires.

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The best thing about Vampiro was that he spoke like a regular Canadian dude. He didn€™t put anything extra on his voice to make the character intimidating. Naturally, in 2000 WCW, he was in a heated feud with Sting.

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A series of matches ensued involving graveyards, gallons of fake blood, and Vampiro repeatedly calling Sting by his real name, Steve. That natural progression was a Human Torch Match at The Great American Bash. The battle was fierce, making its way to the top of the WCW video-tron as the two wrestlers attempted to douse each other in gasoline while the lights flickered to mimic lightning indoors.

After some back and forth, Vampiro lit Sting €“ and when I say €œSting€ I mean a stuntman dressed as Sting €“ on fire. The flaming human being sailed off the video wall and onto a crash pad in the entrance way. Vampiro went on to feud with The Insane Clown Posse shortly thereafter.

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