10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (May 17)

7. Sting Asked Vampiro To Shoot On Him

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It doesn't take a genius to work out that WCW was a company in disarray by 2000. Legends like Bret Hart, Lex Luger and Sting had never meant less, and they all worked feuds that either made zero sense or were creatively frustrating. For the Stinger, working with Vampiro was a serious low point.

Sting called it the "bomb of all bombs".

On the RCWR Show, he admitted to trying anything he could think of to get fans interested. One night backstage, he suggested that Vamp call him "Steve Borden" on camera; Sting's hope was that Vampiro's use of his shoot name would sell fans on the thought that he was getting inside the icon's head.

Nobody in the crowd bit. Why would they? They'd already witnessed Vince Russo's dreadfully dire attempts to break kayfabe and use shooting as an attention seeker since late-1999, and this was more of the same. Following that experiment, Sting gave up on ever making the feud work.

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