10 Wrestlers Better Off For Having Worked With Mick Foley
4. Sting
The Stinger was the franchise star of WCW, its biggest and brightest babyface. The closest thing that promotion had to a marketable star during the early 1990s, he was a face-painted superhero that appealed heavily to kids.
He looked like a million bucks and was a damn fine worker to boot. Simply put, Sting as everything a company would want from its greatest hero.
But he was a little too goody-two-shoes for some fans. He was a one-dimensional good guy who high-fived kids and kissed babies. He was transparent, uninteresting for anyone over the ripe age of 10.
Then came along Cactus Jack and the Stinger as we knew him changed.
Jack, Foley's most maniacal and violent persona, unleashed hell on the lead babyface. He attacked him and brawled with him, forcing Sting to exhibit a more aggressive ad ruthless side of himself than fans had ever seen before.
Their feud culminated in a barbaric Falls Count Anywhere match, a five-star classic that ranks among the greatest of Sting's Hall of Fame career.
The match elevated Foley's star but proved that there was more to Sting than the generic babyface that WCW had presented him as to that point. There was a darker, more vengeful and angry spirit underneath the bright paint and sparkling pyro.
It was a spirit fans would become very familiar with years later in one of the most memorable stories in mainstream wrestling history.