He’s the ‘Icon’, a former WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and the face of many childhoods. It’s fair to say that Sting has done most things in professional wrestling over the decades, and apart from holding the WWE Championship and a dream WrestleMania clash with The Undertaker, those he hasn’t done don’t really matter.
On July 30, Steve Borden, the man behind the legend appeared on Lilian Garcia’s Chasing Glory podcast in a rare interview since announcing his retirement from professional wrestling at the 2016 WWE Hall of Fame.
During said interview, the ‘Stinger’, talked in depth about his childhood growing up in a broken home and meeting Hulk Hogan for the first time without having any clue about what star-power was. It was his comments about his WWE run that really caught the eye, however. Probing deep, Lilian got the crux of what brought the WCW alumni to WWE in 2014, what kept him away for over twenty years, and, if indeed, this is it for him where wrestling is concerned.
Sting had this to say on what kept him away from McMahon governed shores for so long:
“Number one, WCW would always give me what I asked for. I knew that the commitment that I would have to make with Vince was being gone a lot more, a lot more time on the road, a lot more time away. With WCW at the time, I was able to kind of tailor make my schedule to something that I could tolerate and something that was easier for my family at the time. Financially they always gave me what I wanted, but I was really close to leaving on a few different occasions and I was ready. If WCW didn’t give me what I wanted, then I was willing to take that risk and go to WWE. One of the other reasons why I never did, I always talked about this as well, I at the time and I still don’t know if it’s accurate or not, but I thought that Vince wanted me as a talent to undermine WCW more than he wanted me as a talent working for him.”
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