World Wrestling Entertainment has something of a monopoly on professional wrestling in the United States, and has done ever since WCW folded in 2001. In fact, you could argue that the monopoly began a year or so before, when the rats began to leave the sinking WCW ship in favour of WWE. Over the years, everyone who was anyone from WCW has appeared in a WWE ring. Everyone except Sting, that is. At Survivor Series 2014, Sting finally made his debut in WWE. I was never a huge Sting fan growing up, but just seeing him in a WWE ring was one heck of a moment. The chances of him getting a WrestleMania match seemed likely, and surely now we would get that Sting vs. The Undertaker dream match that had been rumoured for so long? What we got instead was Vince McMahon ramming the final blow to the already rotted away corpse of World Championship Wrestling. Sting went up against Triple H, and despite there being absolutely no benefit for anyone whatsoever proceeded to lose to McMahon's son-in-law. Triple H went back to being an authority figure, Sting went back to from whence he came. Anyone with half a brain, or maybe even just a quarter of brain could see that Sting winning was the only option at WrestleMania. The one true hero left outside of the McMahon sphere, by having him lose pretty much all intrigue in any future matches was gone. Sting would go on to have a championship match against Seth Rollins, despite not winning a single match in the company. 2015 has been a rough year in WWE, but despite the pessimistic nature of this article there is plenty of cause for optimism. The roster is stacked, and no situation is truly unsalvageable. The mistakes of 2015 must be learnt from however, otherwise this may be a longer list come December 2016.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
