The company Total Nonstop Action wrestling barely exists in the WWE Universe. Steve Austin actually mentioned it a couple of times during his podcast with Vince McMahon, but it's not like WWE will ever talk about TNA on their show, nor would they ever say they are competition to them. The fact is that with regards to Sting, they actually were competition. If TNA didn't exist then Sting likely would have went to WWE in the mid to late 2000s instead of waiting until 2014 to do. A big reason why he didn't get to WWE is because TNA was paying him a handsome sum of money (rumored to be about $500,000 or more) and a lighter schedule. Working for TNA meant he only had to work 30-40 days per year and wrestle once in a while. He did win their World Title five times too, but it's not like he was full time in the ring that often. When WWE tells Sting's story, they are probably going to skip the fact that he was a TNA regular from 2006-2013 with some brief stops before that. The reality is that if TNA didn't exist and if they didn't pay him big money, Sting probably would have been in WWE much earlier.
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