10 Dumbest Things WCW Did To Sting
8. He Trusted Ric Flair
If Sting owes a chunk of his success to anyone other than himself, he would owe it to The Nature Boy Ric Flair. Their matches over the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in the late 80s are what put Sting on the map. The mutual respect that developed was so great, that Sting became a member of The Four Horsemen in 1989. It didn't last long, though.
When Sting became number one contender for Flairs NWA World Heavyweight Championship, his stablemates turned on him, kicking him out of The Four Horsemen with a sucker punch. If youre Sting, you write off a guy like that, right? Wrong. After years of off again/on again feuding with Flair, the two met on the debut episode of WCW Monday Nitro in 1995. Sting gorilla pressed Naitch all over The Mall of America, but the match ended when Arn Anderson attacked Flair.
As their feud kicked into high gear, Sting was recruited by Flair to help him. Sting smelled a rat and left Flair hanging until the last minute in a tag team match against Anderson and Brian Pillman on Nitro. A rematch was set for Halloween Havoc with Sting now trusting the man who once manipulated him. After Flair was taken out earlier in the night by Double A and Flyin' Brian, Sting was on his own.
When Flair showed up late in the match, he turned and hauled off on Stinger; laying the boots to him with Arn and Pillman. The entire thing was a setup that Sting should have seen coming a mile away. I mean, come on. Everyone else did.