8 Things We Learned From WWE’s Sting: The Lost Tape

5. He Didn't View Himself As A "Superstar"

The doc opens with Sting applying his face paints before that evening's Slamboree pay-per-view. As he squeezes paint out the tube and tries to concentrate on countouring his look, one of WCW's top men reflectively says, "I'm still the same Sting I was eight years ago".

That's after he says he doesn't think of himself as a "superstar".

This was either some clever babyface work or the real Steve Borden shone through. Your writer thinks it's the latter, because he was lucky enough to spend significant time with Sting on a live event Q&A tour in 2015, and he witnessed first hand how humble a human being he actually is.

It adds up to see Sting from 1995 talk about how nervous he still gets whenever he's preparing for pay-per-view matches, and there's loads of footage of the guy high-fiving fans in the hallways as he hangs around meeting them. He never once comes across as an egotist who needs his own private dressing room.