Sting versus Triple H was painted as a major battle between two wrestling icons of the Monday Night Wars. Given the age of the two competitors, it was expected that there would be some shortcuts taken to prop up the match, but no one could have predicted the depths to which WWE would sink. WWE gave fans a poor mans revision of the Monday Night Wars, with D-Generation X and the New World Order coming out to back their respective standard-bearers as the match completely broke down. What could have been a classic battle that showed that Sting could still compete at a high level devolved into an absolute overbooked mess. Its really a shame. A DX-nWo feud is a dream for any longtime fan, but in 2015, it makes absolutely no sense. (And didnt the nWo spend most of its existence fighting against Sting?) Yes, theres the markout factor of seeing all these legends together and seeing DX and the nWo finally mix it up, but what a horrible, horrible booking decision. And of course, Triple H won the match by hitting Sting with a sledgehammer. All of the buildup of Sting for the past six months just evaporated into thin air as Sting failed to take down Triple H. All hail the King of Kings.
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.
