Sting vs. The Undertaker. It ranks among the many best unfulfilled dream matches in professional wrestling, becoming a member of legendary what-ifs like “Stone Chilly” Steve Austin vs. Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels vs. The Rock.
Sting and Undertaker have been tailored for one another. A gathering of fabled characters steeped in mystique. A once-in-a-lifetime battle between two {of professional} wrestling’s most enduring gimmicks. A celebration of the business’s most revered performers.
“I feel if it was performed proper, it might have been an evening, for positive, everybody would keep in mind and always remember,” Sting informed CBS Sports activities forward of his retirement match at AEW Revolution on March 3. “They might be speaking about it to today. Nevertheless it simply was not going to occur.”
Sting is a poster baby for the choice: from NWA and WCW to TNA and AEW. The enduring wrestler had beforehand acquired feelers from WWE however turned them down to guard his character. It took practically 30 years for Sting to debut in WWE. A need to guide the match he and followers yearned for lastly swayed Sting.
“I assumed, ‘Properly, possibly if I get my foot within the door, we’ll see what occurs.’ So I acquired my foot within the door,” Sting mentioned. “We did a WrestleMania with Triple H after which Vince known as and mentioned, ‘Hey, I would like you to have a world title match with Seth. Would you be keen to do this?’ ‘Yeah, I might be keen to do this.’ Nonetheless, in hopes that in some way I might get in there with Taker.”
However the match by no means got here to be. Sting was signed with WWE from 2014 to 2020. The Undertaker retired after defeating AJ Types in a Boneyard match at WrestleMania 36 through the COVID-19 pandemic. Sting’s swan music will happen alongside Darby Allin in an AEW tag workforce title match in opposition to The Younger Bucks. Wrestling retirements hardly ever stick, however Sting and Undertaker are up in age with Sting at 64 and Undertaker at 58.
“I had so many concepts over time,” Sting mentioned. “A number of instances, smoke and mirrors aren’t good issues. However in our state of affairs, I feel together with his gimmick and the mystiques of his character and mine, we could not have sufficient smoke and mirrors. I feel it positively would have been an evening that folks remembered. Man, I’d have cherished to have seen that.
“If I might have had that match alone, I’d have been nice. I would not have needed to do the rest.”
