4. Revisionist History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga6d-jtEns Look, WWE has to concoct a reason for Sting to want to face Triple H at WrestleMania. You cant just have the WCW Icon show up unannounced, point at a sign and expect everyone to blindly accept it. Despite having months to plan this out, the best WWE writers could come up with was one of the lamest reason conceivable. To hear Triple H tell the story (and JBL parrot it), Sting is jealous of or angry with The Game because he was one of the main reasons why WWF/E put Stings WCW out of business in 2001. Thats great if you ignore that WCWs last victory over WWF/E in the Monday Night Ratings War came in December 1998, a full eight months before Triple H won his first world title. When things were still competitive in mid-1998, Triple H was leading D-Generation X against the Rocks Nation, but they were team players with guys like Steve Austin, Undertaker and Mankind leading the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga6d-jtEns Historys written by the victors, and this is a great example. But does this make a Sting/Triple H match more appealing? Maybe to longtime, hardcore fans, but theyd be the ones to call out the rewritten history.
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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.
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