Sting vs. The Undertaker. It ranks among the many biggest 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 had 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 believe if it was carried out proper, it might have been an evening, for certain, everybody would keep in mind and always remember,” Sting advised CBS Sports activities forward of his retirement match at AEW Revolution on March 3. “They might be speaking about it to at the present time. But it surely simply was not going to occur.”
Sting is a poster little one for the choice: from NWA and WCW to TNA and AEW. The long-lasting wrestler had beforehand obtained 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 e-book the match he and followers yearned for lastly swayed Sting.
“I assumed, ‘Nicely, possibly if I get my foot within the door, we’ll see what occurs.’ So I received my foot within the door,” Sting stated. “We did a WrestleMania with Triple H after which Vince known as and stated, ‘Hey, I need you to have a world title match with Seth. Would you be keen to try this?’ ‘Yeah, I might be keen to try this.’ Nonetheless, in hopes that one way or the other 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 crew 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 stated. “Numerous instances, smoke and mirrors aren’t good issues. However in our scenario, I believe together with his gimmick and the mystiques of his character and mine, we could not have sufficient smoke and mirrors. I believe it positively would have been an evening that folks remembered. Man, I’d have beloved 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.”
