10 Wrestlers Who Should Never Have Signed With WWE
2. Sting
It’s hard to shake the pervasive feeling that Sting should have remained the one eternal WCW holdout. The one wrestler of his era who didn’t need a stint in WWE to cement his legacy as an industry icon.
As loyal to WCW as The Undertaker was to WWE during the Monday night wars, Sting continued to hold out When Vince McMahon acquired WCW in early 2001. Like many of the WCW’s bigger names he preferred to sit out the remainder of his lucrative AOL Time Warner contract. Given how badly WWE botched the WCW Invasion angle it was probably for the best.
Post invasion, others like Goldberg and Scott Steiner did eventually sign with Vince. The original nWo trio of Hogan, Hall and Nash also returned to the WWE fold. Sting preferred to take a different path.
Becoming the face of TNA for the next decade might have been a step down from his WCW pomp but not a bad final chapter for an all time great’s career. Certainly better than what followed, jobbing to Triple H so that Vince McMahon could once again drive home the point that his wrestling company is better than a long dead rival promotion.
In just his third WWE match Sting suffered an injury that forced his retirement, putting that Sting/‘Taker dream match on ice forever.