12 WrestleMania 32 Worries For Smart Marks
5. Sting In HOF Instead Of Taker Match
We all saw it. It really happened. Sting took a nasty, and I mean nasty corner bump. It took him what seemed like an eternity of awkward, scary floundering to regain enough feeling and mobility to finish the match. On that night, the only thing any wrestling fan wanted was for Sting to be okay.
The harsh reality is he barely made it out of that match without paying an awful price, and its possible that any future match he could have would include an incredibly high risk of serious injury. It would be selfish and irresponsible to ask a man with Cervical Spinal Stenosis to step through the ropes for a match with Taker. But Damn those who didnt book that match for last WrestleMania.
Every fan from the attitude era cried out for that match. When it wasnt to be 31, the assumption was that it was to renew Taker with a win and establish Sting with a win. Not to reenact a business conflict already won. Strange angles like this indicate that the biggest marks for the Monday night wars are not the aforementioned neck-bearded keyboard warriors, but bookers, road agents and COOs.
Sting versus Undertaker would have been amazing.