10 Wrestlers Who Proved Their Worth In A Crisis

3. Sting

The paths taken by the Ultimate Warrior and the man he broke in with, Sting, could not have been more divergent.

Warrior was a complete d*ckhead, Sting a rare wrestling nice guy. Warrior was fundamentally talentless, Sting very skilled with the work ethic to improve. Warrior left the WWF in the sh*t when his erratic whims were not serviced, Sting waded through the sh*t of Jim Herd's putrid WCW as a consummate professional.

Crisis accurately describes much of Herd's tenure, particularly 1992, a period in which WCW was compared to the AWA's late-'80s death throes. WCW house shows were ghost towns, ratings were in the sh*tter, and the creative was atrocious. Sting's popularity however was strangely immune to the horror show, and he was ardently committed to making it work. He voluntarily took an absolute pasting from Vader in this lifeless period, of the sort many of his babyface peers flatly refused, putting himself over as both company man and beloved, gutsy hero. He worked Cactus Jack soon after that programme, too, enduring the most dangerous matches in North America when the megastar babyface of the era had no reason to. As all of North American wrestling entered a recession of sorts, Sting was a vital, awesome reminder of an NWA that hadn't prostituted itself in a strange tribute to the WWF.

Sting was different. They did that, and he does this!