10 Dumbest Reasons Wrestlers HATE Each Other For Real
6. Sting & Insane Clown Posse
There's a nice story that kicks around online that regular AEW party match aficionado Steve Borden charges music icon Gordon Sumner exactly $1 a year to use the name "Sting" as an entertainer, because he got the paperwork filed first.
It's a sweet tale and the dollar payment is a detail that feels particularly realistic based on what we know of the man from his years of fundamentally honourable and reasonable ways. Sting's all business, but in all the good ways, and his timeless gimmick doesn't work as well without thinking him to be as affable as he seems.
A bizarre dispute with, of all people, Insane Clown Posse pokes at that veneer slightly. Speaking on a 2021 edition of their Palcast (that, notably, dropped just before Sting burst back into life physically in All Elite Wrestling) ICP’s Shaggy 2 Dope discussed the following terse words between the two sides dating back to their WCW days over their similar and distinctive looks. He said;
“He told me and J that he’s got a trademark on the white and black face paint. I did [fight for it] I won. You see what I’m wearing right now? What is Sting doing? He’s not wrestling. He got his back broken in that one match. F*ckin Roman Reigns’ old homie Steve Rogen, Seth Rogan wrestled him to death.”
Ignoring the hilarious mistaken identities in the story, the tale suggests something of a tense relationship on either side dating back to an extremely tense time - Sting and ICP feuded on-screen during WCW's dying days. If ever there was a time to protect your investments, it was when that show stood no chance of doing so on your behalf.