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graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
i'd never watched sting before he returned to the fed years ago which was loving terrible but his run in aew was loving awesome


i completely forgot about the kip match lol

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Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugFR999Gm9E

Just so it's not his owning retirement run but why he became the icon, how he became the icon.

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!
I will miss Sting for doing cool poo poo but always putting over the young guys, and I will also miss Schiavone marking out like a little stinger every single time Sting did literally anything :3:

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Erin M. Fiasco posted:

We got one last rafters entrance for the road. :unsmith:

That was so unbelievably loving cool :hellyeah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o60NM_Kr4Uo&t=273s

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Hell yeah thats the first time Ive ever seen the descent from the rafters live

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

pro wrestling owns

ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

I envy the hell out of Sting for being able to do crazy rear end spots at 64.
Part of me really wanted to be a pro wrestler for most of my youth. In my senior year of high school we had our equivalent of the Oscars. In one skit I rode a tricycle out to the stage but basically did a bump where I wipe out and take a bump that involves basically throwing myself down the stairs. That was fun. I wish I could still do that poo poo.
Thank you for living my dreams for me and then some Sting.

illcendiary
Dec 4, 2005

Damn, this is good coffee.
I have a ton of Sting memories but the one that sticks out the most is that he was a good choice in WCW/nWo World Tour on N64 because his cupped-hands-and-shout-Woo! taunt was fast and built up your Spirit meter faster than most other wrestlers in the game.

He also descends from the rafters in the intro FMV:

https://youtu.be/f0lXHuJVBiE?si=upNM0wVgJuhDq_td

illcendiary fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Feb 29, 2024

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Farewell Mr. Stink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2MgPNLtgU0

BodyMassageMachine
Nov 24, 2006

:yeah:
:yeah:
:yeah:

https://youtu.be/VetQvN4lA20?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/esFWHBNjaYg?feature=shared

Hope Stings ol pal Robocop makes an appearance at Revolution.

Barry Bluejeans
Feb 2, 2017

ATTENTHUN THITIZENTH

this is good because wrestling nerds will get a kick out of it and regular folk will go "is that loving Robocop? awesome"

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



Barry Bluejeans posted:

this is good because wrestling nerds will get a kick out of it and regular folk will go "is that loving Robocop? awesome"

You seem to have some bias :thunk:

I agree though. It would be such an awesome little reference if they could swing it even just as a cameo. I'm also hoping Lex Luger gets a big cameo too.

mearn
Aug 2, 2011

Kevin Harvick's #1 Fan!

Sting main evented the first live show I ever went to in '94 in a 6-man tag with Hogan and Dave Sullivan against the Faces of Fear. The first Nitro I attended ended with what I believe was the first "Sting hiding underneath a Sting mask" bit and then he took out the nWo after the show went off the air. It ruled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNc5ZRoNts&t=356s

This AEW run has been incredible and I'm mostly just glad he's getting to retire on his terms after how underwhelming the brief WWE run was (everyone's fault but Sting's).

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z_byTTl5Nk

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

The Night of 1000 Stings was so, so, so loving cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPfF1oawTrs

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

it always made me so happy that Sting was the only guy that made the like 30 man group of the nwo scared and could fight them all off

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

BodyMassageMachine
Nov 24, 2006

:yeah:
:yeah:
:yeah:

Sting taking off a Sting mask to reveal that it is, indeed, Sting under there will never not be a great time.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

... what?!

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!




:hellyeah:

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1YBUwC6Ls

illcendiary
Dec 4, 2005

Damn, this is good coffee.

This intro was so loving weird and funny

Shard
Jul 30, 2005


The Jonkler

Gaz-L
Jan 28, 2009

Jerusalem posted:

The Night of 1000 Stings was so, so, so loving cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPfF1oawTrs

It's still funny that you can see him trying to keep the wig on as he comes through the crowd so as not to give it away too early.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004


Darby doing the Sting in a Sting mask spot. :3:

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010


popped huge watching this just a few mins ago

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kv3qPGtSZM

still pop for this

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

The Night of 1000 Stings was so, so, so loving cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPfF1oawTrs

Probably my favorite out of all the Sting moments. The way the crowd comes up when Buff's punch is no-sold is so, so good.

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

Jerusalem posted:

The Night of 1000 Stings was so, so, so loving cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPfF1oawTrs

For someone who was so protective of his spot, Hogan didn't seem to mind to look like a fool and scared of babyfaces. Shame about, you know, everything else

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012


Sting is like half of the crazy bumps in AEW history.

As someone who did not watch as a kid I really had no opinion on Sting and he has won me over so much in AEW by being everything except a nostalgia act

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

AEW has done more to cement Sting's status as a legend than any other promotion he has worked for. i would have been absolutely fine with Sting ruling as World Heavyweight Champion this run with how he was handled.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

I love that he got that chance. It would have been a drat shame if his career had to end on his incredibly sad WWE run. Three total matches, from getting buried for Trips' ego over never having a shot during his prime, to getting hurt putting over Rollins. Would have been the worst cap to a strong career.

Instead he helped take Darby Allen from drat good to one of the few cruiserweights in the entire industry who could hold a top title and not look out of place, and built up a ton of AEW's roster in the process.

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

STONE COLD 64 posted:

AEW has done more to cement Sting's status as a legend than any other promotion he has worked for. i would have been absolutely fine with Sting ruling as World Heavyweight Champion this run with how he was handled.

I can only assume Sting hasn't had any single matches in AEW because he didn't feel comfortable. Of all the wrestlers of his generation, and those before, I have never seen any know their limits and their strengths like he did.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Sting was loving killing it in that Rollins match until the buckle bomb.

lamentable dustman
Apr 13, 2007

🏆🏆🏆


I forgot about the stare downs, his enemy Arn, his Stinger Squadron teammate Dustin (that wargames is one of my favorite matches of all time), the much younger son of Dusty and the long stare down to scope out Darbs.

Good poo poo.


Sting is the GOAT as all these vids and career proves. I remember watching him in some of my earliest memories in the late 80s and I still get that feeling watching him. I'm so glad he came to WCW, I never got to see him live till a couple years ago (the show Cody set himself on fire), it brought tears to my eyes.

lamentable dustman fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Mar 1, 2024

Joey McChrist
Aug 8, 2005

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

haunted bong
Jun 24, 2007


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Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



AEW is premiering a video about all of Sting's best moments in the company right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlfCMoj4YDM

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