1. Expectations Of A Match We've Waited On For Too Long
People have been talking about this match for nearly two decades, ladies and gentlemen. It actually goes back even further than that, but things really began to pick up steam once Sting began his transformation from "Surfer Sting" to "Crow Sting". Once that happened, you couldn't escape the comparisons and the "fantasy booking" of the match, even when they were working for rival promotions. When you've been waiting for and talking about a match for that long, you almost build it up to mythical proportions, and it would take a modern miracle for the match to even come close to those expectations, and that's just for the atmosphere and aura surrounding everything. That's not even counting what the match quality could be in 2015 VS what the match quality would have been in, say, 1997. It's a tough spot to be in, but we have nobody to blame but ourselves for the constant hype about the match. Sting can probably take some blame, as well, for not wanting to come to WWE sooner, putting this match off for well over a decade. Imagine if Sting would have come to the WWF following the purchase of WCW. He could have been Taker's WrestleMania 18 opponent instead of Ric Flair, or, in a better spot, he could have been Taker's WrestleMania 19 opponent instead of... Big Show and A-Train. Of course, that would have meant Sting VS "American Badass" Taker, instead of "Deadman" Taker, but we're getting back into the "fantasy booking" aspect of things now. No matter how you slice it, wrestling fans are setting themselves up for a whole lot of disappointment if we finally do get The Undertaker VS Sting at WrestleMania.
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