10 Times WWE Ruined Something They Didn't Create

7. Sting

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Sting was the man in WCW throughout much of the '90s. When that company bit the dust in 2001, the clamour to see Sting in the WWF/WWE was huge, but it seemed less and less likely with each passing year. Then, Sting finally came to WWE in 2014. Long time WCW fans probably wish he hadn't.

We didn't get the dream match against The Undertaker people had salivated over for years. Instead, Sting lost both his WWE, matches against Triple H and Seth Rollins, before sadly being forced from the ring due to injuries. That was it, the big WWE run that once seemed so elusive.

When WWE should have embraced the uniqueness of Sting (a huge star who had never been in the promotion before), they instead decided to tag the tired notion of 'Us vs. Them' onto his first feud and make it all about a WCW invader who wanted to ruin WWE.

How did WWE ruin Sting? They tarred him with the 'Invasion' brush 14 years too late, neglected the one match everybody wanted to see and treated him like a legend from elsewhere who was in above his head

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