5 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 9th)
1. This Is Not Sting
Right off the bat, yes, Sting is contractually limited to just a few appearances. And having Sting deliver an in-ring promo would have shattered whatever mystique he has. But Monday nights vignette was just awful. Probably the toughest thing to swallow right away was the voiceover. It clearly wasnt Sting, but the person spoke in the first person. Maybe if it sounded like it was an altered voice, you could accept that Sting was running his promo through a vocoder. But that wasnt the case. If you got past that, you then had to accept Stings reasoning for seeking out Triple H. And the reason was, Triple Hs power and ego had corrupted and destroyed others lives. Sting saw the same thing bring about WCWs demise despite his best efforts to prevent it but now he is going to take down Hunter. The best part? Sting has waited 14 years to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZUMQd3m9gM So wrap your head around that. Fourteen years ago, WCW folds and is absorbed into WWF/E. Sting fades into the ether. Triple H emerges as the corporate head of WWE about a decade later. The Authority makes life difficult for WWE superstars, so Sting decides to step in and stop Triple H. Sting, the guy who never set foot in WWE before Survivor Series 2014, is coming to defend WWE against Triple H. If Sting wins at WrestleMania, does this mean the Authority is out of power? Because unless that is the stipulation, all Sting can do is deal Triple H his fourth Mania loss in five years. Feel the tension!
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
