10 Dumbest Things WCW Did To Sting

7. RoboCop

Sting Robocop
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Professional wrestling has a checkered history when it comes to cross-promotion. Sometimes it takes a company to the next level like the marriage between WWE and Mike Tyson in 1998. And sometimes it€™s RoboCop. For those of you who were popular in high school, RoboCop was a late 80€™s action movie about a murdered cop who was brought back to life as a cyborg robot.

The movie made a ton of money, which spawned a few sequels. It would have made sense for WCW to jump on the bandwagon when the first one came out in 1987, but they didn€™t. This was all about RoboCop 2! The sequel! I don€™t know if you€™'ve ever seen RoboCop 2, but I can tell you that it€™s no Terminator 2. WCW€™s one-off pay-per-view Capital Combat centred around an appearance by the fictional crime-fighting Frankenstein machine. Who got the privilege of working with him? You guessed it.

During the show, Sting came to the ring to address the fans before being attacked by Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, and Sid Vicious. As they attempted to lock him in a small cage, the late Gordon Solie reacted backstage to the arrival of RoboCop, who was here to save the day. Jim Ross, on commentary, did everything he could to make the ridiculous sound believable.

RoboCop came out to the arena, scared off three of The Four Horsemen, ripped the steel door off the cage, and saved Sting. In an interview on Jim Ross€™s podcast, Sting called it 'One of the more embarrassing moments of my career, that€™s for sure'.€

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Eric Delgado has been writing about professional wrestling for five years and has been involved in the professional wrestling business as a performer for ten. He is also the former host of Steel Cage Radio and has an irrational love for The Ryback.