Sting’s wrestling experience

Borden's original ring name was Flash. During his time in the Continental Wrestling Association, he formed a tag team with Jim Justice Hellwig, Power Team USA, which was later renamed Blade Runners. Soon after, Borden changed his ring name to Sting. Because they were not taken seriously, both Blade Runners members left the CWA.

The two then joined the Universal Wrestling Federatio alliance created by Bill Watts. Hellwig left the alliance in mid-1986 and became the famous The Ultimate Warrior after joining the World Wrestling Federation. While playing for the UWF, Sting teamed up with Eddie Gilbert and Rick Steiner, winning the UWF World Tag Team Championship three times. In addition, he also won the UWF Television Championship.

In July 1987, Sting joined the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Teamed with Michael P.S. Hayes and Jimmy Garvin at the Starrcade '87 PPV and fought to a tie with Gilbert, Steiner, and Larry Zbyszko in a six-man tag team match with a time limit of 15 minutes.

Sting, the star of hope, challenged the then NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair at the Clash of the Champions in March 1988. The winner could not be decided within the game time limit (45 minutes). Sting lost to his opponent in the rematch. At The Great American Bash in 1988, Sting and Koloff teamed up to challenge Horsemen members Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson for the NWA World Tag Team Championship. Since there was no winner within the time limit, the latter two successfully defended the title.

Sting subsequently challenged NWA United States Champion Barry Windham and NWA Television Champion Mike Rotundo. In the fall of 1988, Sting was attacked by the Road Warriors during a live event. Dusty Rhodes, the organizer of the event, was well aware of Sting's status in the hearts of the audience and the impossibility of the Road Warriors turning around, so he personally teamed up with Sting to challenge the Road Warriors for the tag team title at Starrcade '88, and in the game Won by DQ.

In 1989, Sting returned to the singles field and had a brief experience competing in All Japan Pro Wrestling. His fight with Dan Spivey was considered one of the most exciting matches in his career. In a live show in March, Sting won his first NWA title, the NWA Television Championship, after defeating Rotundo. The Great Muta challenged Sting in the middle of the year, and the two fought at the Great American Bash. Although Sting successfully suppressed it, replays showed that Muta's shoulder had been raised. Muta won the final victory in multiple rematches between the two.

At the Great American Bash PPV that year, the then NWA World Heavyweight Champion Flair faced Terry Funk. After the game, Flair was attacked by Muta, and Sting came to the rescue. At Halloween Havoc '89, Flair announced that Sting had joined the re-formed Four Horsemen.

At Starrcade '89, Sting became the number one challenger for the NWA World Championship after defeating Flair, causing his relationship with the Four Horsemen to become tense.

On February 6, 1990, Sting broke with the Four Horsemen because he refused to give up the right to challenge for the championship. However, he injured his knee in a steel cage match with members of the Horsemen that night. Lex Luger took his place and challenged Ric Flair. During the match, Sting, who was watching the match, was attacked by Ole Anderson. Luger chose the former between friendship and championship and lost the match. Afterwards, WCW executives wanted Flair to lose the title to Luger at the WrestleWar PPV. However, Flair refused and said that he promised Sting to hold the championship belt until he returned to the ring. Flair believed that Sting, as the upright pillar of the company, should be more Get the world title.

At The Great American Bash on July 7, 1990, Sting finally defeated Flair after returning from injury and won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. After Sting won the championship, a man wearing a mask who called himself The Black Scorpion attacked the former several times. The two fought at the Starrcade: Collision Course PPV held in December of the same year. Sting finally won and discovered that the masked man's true identity was Ric. Flair.

On January 11, 1991, Flair defeated Sting in a rematch and regained the world championship title. Shortly after, WCW and NWA terminated their partnership. In August of the same year, Sting defeated Stunning Steve Austin in the round robin finals to win the WCW United States Championship, losing the title to Rick Rude 86 days later at Clash of the Champions XVII. At the end of 1991, Sting, known as the "WCW franchise", was involved in a feud with Dangerous Alliance. At the same time, WCW champion Luger also regarded Sting as a potential threat. It was during this episode that Sting won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, defeating Luger at SuperBrawl II on February 29, 1992. Sting then formed Sting's Squadron, consisting of Ricky Steamboat, Dustin Rhodes, Windham and Koloff. The five defeated the Alliance (Rude, Austin, Arn Anderson, Zbyszko, and Bobby Eaton) at the 1992 WrestleWar PPV, ending this The game was rated a five-star game by Dave Meltzer.

Soon after, Sting ushered in the most controversial episode of his career. On April 12, 1992, Sting faced the 450-pound Big VanVader in a championship match. During the match, Vader crushed three of Sting's ribs and even damaged his spleen when he used Splash on Sting. Sting returned from injury at The Great American Bash on July 12, but lost the belt to Vader. The drama between the two lasted until 1993, until March 11, 1993, when Sting finally defeated Vader and once again became the WCW World Heavyweight Champion, losing the title to the latter just six days later. At the end of 1993, Flair returned to WCW from WWF and defeated Vader on Starrcade to win the WCW World Championship. Sting congratulated him.

In April 1994, Sting defeated Rude and became the new WCW Intercontinental World Heavyweight Champion. He lost the title to the latter on May 1. However, it was later discovered that Rude used the belt in the rematch. After attacking Sting, the match was canceled. However, Sting refused WCW to return the title and legitimately regained the belt by defeating Vader at the Slamboree PPV. Flair turned villain soon after, defeating Sting at Clash of the Champions XXVII to combine the WCW World Championship and WCW Intercontinental World Championship into one.

At The Great American Bash in 1995, Sting defeated Meng and won the opportunity to challenge for the WCW United States Championship, which he successfully cashed in at Bash at the Beach.

In October 1995, Flair announced that Sting would team up with him to face Anderso and Brian Pillman at the Halloween Havoc PPV. Anderson and Pillman launched a sneak attack on Flair before the game, causing Sting to be one versus two for a long time in the game. However, Flair appeared and turned to attack Sting and announced the reorganization of the Four Horsemen, and Chris Benoit also joined the combination. On November 13 of the same year, Sting lost the United States Championship after losing to Kensuke Sasaki in the match.

In early 1996, Sting's character's appearance began to change. His hair changed from blond to black, and he often wore black tights with scorpions on them.

In September 1995, Sting formed a tag team with Luger, who returned to WCW, although Luger was a villain at the time. The two defeated Harlem Heat in the weekly game on January 22, 1996 and won the WCW World Tag Team Championship. Luger then used dirty tricks many times in the championship game, but Sting was unaware of it.

Luger was unable to compete at the Uncensored PPV. Harlem Heat member Booker replaced him and defeated the challenger with Sting. In return, Sting and Luger gave Harlem Heat a chance to rematch. On June 24th, Harlem Heat will The tag team titles were won back.

In the summer of 1996, Sting teamed up with Luger and Savage to jointly resist the invasion of WCW by The Outsiders (Kevin Nash, Scott Hall) (plot). Soon after, Hogan joined The Outsiders to form New World Order (nWo).

Sting teamed up with Luger, Flair, Arn Anderson and others to face nWo at the Fall Brawl PPV. Sting was suspected by his teammates because Hogan asked Jeff Farmer to pretend to be Sting and attack Luger in the parking lot during the weekly match before the PPV. Sting angrily quit the match and announced his retirement from WCW the following week.

After leaving WCW (story), Sting briefly competed in New Japan Pro Wrestling. On October 21, 1996, Sting appeared in the WCW weekly game wearing white face paint and a black trench coat. The nWo invited Sting to join, but Sting did not make a decision and never spoke on the show for the next year.

After that, the silent Sting often appeared in various WCW events holding a baseball bat as a weapon. The impersonator Farmer also changed his costume according to Sting's new image. Sting is a plot character It was inspired by the movie "The Crow" released in 1994. In 1999, Sting admitted that it was Scott Hall who originally suggested that he apply face paint to resemble Eric Draven's character in The Crow.

After six months of mystery and uncertainty, Sting finally made his position clear and cleared the nWo from the ring at the Uncensored PPV held in March 1997. When the nWo and NBA superstar Rodman While celebrating under the ring, Sting fell from the sky from the top of the 70-foot gymnasium and used his new finishing move Scorpion Death Drop inverted DDT on Savage and others. The struggle between Sting and the nWo helped WCW gain an upper hand in the ratings competition with the WWF. WCW representative James J. Dillon repeatedly hoped that Sting could return to the ring. However, Sting tore up the contract because his only target was Hulk. Hogan.

Sting and Hogan finally fought against each other on Starrcade in December. Hogan successfully suppressed the game. However, the special referee Bret Hart thought that the referee Nick Patrick counted the seconds too fast and announced that the game would restart. In the end, Hogan was in the Scorpion Deathlock. After locking in and surrendering, the two referees argued again in the championship rematch. Dillon forced Sting to hand over the belt. Sting responded for the first time: "You stupid guy!"

nWo disbanded in 1998 Later, Sting once again won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at SuperBrawl VIII in February. At the Spring Stampede PPV, Savage defeated Sting with the help of Nash, and the title changed hands.

Nash and Savage broke away from the original nWo and formed the decent group nWoWolfpac. The nWo under the original leadership of Hulk Hogan was renamed nWoHollywood. Both hoped to attract Sting to their account. Sting's two friends The Giant and Luger joined Hollywood and Wolfpac respectively, and Sting ultimately chose the latter.

At Slamboree PPV, Sting teamed up with Giant and won the WCW World Tag Team Championship. Only 18 days later, he surrendered the belt due to a feud. At The Great American Bash, Sting defeated Giant, won the tag team championship and won the WCW World Tag Team Championship. Nash was selected as his doubles partner. Shortly after, Bret Hart intervened in the duo's tag team championship match with Hall and The Giant, causing Sting to lose the tag team championship. Sting then fought against Hart at Halloween Havoc, and the then United States Champion Hart injured Sting with the baseball bat that Sting was famous for, causing the latter to be out of the ring for several months due to injury.

In March 1999, Sting returned to the ring and defeated DDP in the weekly game on April 26, winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the fifth time. That night, he lost the belt in a four-man battle. Losing to DDP, he became the shortest world champion in WCW history.

In the following months, Sting had dramas with Goldberg, Rick Steiner, Vicious, Savage and others. In the weekly competition, Sting became the WCW Chairman (plot) after defeating Flair. He became WCW President a week later. Hand over the position. At Fall Brawl in September, Sting won his sixth and final WCW World Heavyweight Championship after attacking Hogan with a baseball bat with the help of Luger. Even though he turned into a villain, WCW fans still cheered for him, which shows his popularity. Soon after, Sting was forcibly stripped of the title due to attacking high-level figures.

In order to save the declining company, WCW executives Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff announced on the April 10, 2000 show that all championship titles were vacant. Sting subsequently entered the finals of the United States Championship Round-robin Elimination Tournament. Lost to Scott Steiner due to interference from Vampiro.

Afterwards, Sting had dramas with Jeff Jarrett and Scott Steiner. In November of the same year, Sting was injured in a match with Steiner. In the last weekly match of WCW, Sting faced him in the first weekly match of WCW. Sting won the match against his old rival Ric Flair, and their 13-year on-again, off-again feud ended with WCW.

After witnessing the experiences of WCW players entering the WWF, Borden rejected the contract offered by the WWF.

In the second half of 2002, Borden returned to professional wrestling and competed on the World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA) European tour. Luger, with the help of Jeff Jarrett, defeated Sting in the Scottish station. After winning the WWA World Championship, Sting succeeded in revenge at the Swiss event a week later and became the new WWA World Champion. On June 8, 2003, NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett defeated Sting with the help of Rick Steiner, combining the NWA and WWA World Championship titles into one.

In 2003, Sting signed a four-appearance contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He completed his TNA debut on June 18, teaming up with Jeff Jarrett and defeating A.J. Styles and Syxx Pac. On November 5, 2003, Sting defeated Jarrett via DQ in a NWA World Heavyweight Championship match. On November 12, Sting teamed up with A.J. Styles and defeated Jarrett and Lex Luger. On December 17, Sting made his final appearance in his contract, defeating Jarrett in a singles match.

On January 1, 2006, Sting officially announced his return to TNA. At the Final Resolution PPV, Sting teamed up with Christian Cage and defeated the then NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett and Monty Brown. They were warmly welcomed by wrestling fans and set a TNA PPV purchase rate record. On the January 28 weekly show, Sting announced that his appearance at Final Resolution was a farewell to wrestling fans and expressed his gratitude to TNA management. After Sting left, Jeff Jarrett and Eric Young were worried that Sting had not truly retired, so they sent Alex Shelley to Sting's home in California to secretly take photos. After Sting found out, he told Shelley that he would play against Jarrett as Steve Borden on Destination X. Sting appeared in disguise and rescued Christian Cage and Rhino from Jarrett's army. Soon after, Sting defeated Eric Young in his first televised match in five years. After the match, Sting was attacked by Jarrett, Steiner, and America's Most Wanted, but was saved by A.J. Styles, Ron Killings, and Rhino. At the Lockdown PPV, Sting defeated Jarrett, Steiner, and America's Most Wanted. At the Sacrifice PPV, Sting teamed up with Samoa Joe and defeated Jarrett and Steiner again.

At the Victory Road PPV, Sting appeared as a contestant in a four-man battle to be the number one challenger for the NWA World Championship. Jarrett acted as a photographer and rushed into the ring during the match, pouring a bottle of gasoline into Sting's eyes. Sting was forced to Retirement. After Sting returned, he defeated Scott Steiner and won the right to challenge for the NWA championship. At the Hard Justice PPV on August 13, Sting was successfully suppressed by Jarrett due to Christian Cage's sudden change of sides during the game. Sting asked for a rematch in the subsequent weekly game, and Jarrett Agreeing to this request, the premise was that Sting's career would be used as a bet. At the Bound for Glory PPV on October 22, Sting appeared in a new costume and forced Jarrett to surrender with the Scorpion Deathlock, winning his first championship title since 1999. He also became the oldest player among the previous NWA World Champions.

At Genesis PPV, due to pushing the referee during the game, Sting lost the game in the form of DQ and lost the title to Abyss. In the following weeks, Sting has been working hard to wake up Abyss and make her understand. He was just being used by James Mitchell, and Christian Cage also joined the plot. Abyss won a three-person battle at Turning Point. During the weekly game on January 24, 2007, James Mitchell burned Sting's face with a fireball during a dispute with Sting, causing the latter to be sent to the hospital. However, after Sting returned, he defeated Abyss at Against All Odds PPV, and won again in the battle between the two at Destination X. At the Lockdown PPV, Sting defeated Abyss with the help of Jeff Jarrett, ending this lengthy storyline.

At the Sacrifice PPV, Sting and Angle challenged the then NWA champion Christian Cage. During the match, Sting suppressed Christian and was locked into the ring by Ankle Lock and surrendered, causing the title to be vacant. Shortly after, Sting had a brief feud with Christopher Daniels, which he won at Slammiversary.

After the feud with Daniels ended, Sting teamed up with his former rival Abyss and defeated A.J. Styles and Tomko at Victory Road. The two were then attacked by Christian Legion in a singles match. At the Hard Justice PPV, Abyss successfully suppressed A.J. Styles with the help of Sting and became the number one challenger for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.

In the weekly match, Sting defeated Joe, AJ and Christian in a four-man battle, and became the TNA World Tag Team Champion with Angle***. The title was lost to Adam Pacman Jones and Ron The Truth Killings just 13 days later. Angle's wife Karen pointed out that Sting had slapped her, which led to a feud between the two. After Angle attacked Sting's son Garrett, the two faced off at Bound for Glory. Although Karen Angle and Kevin Nash intervened in the match, Sting still won. , became the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion, and subsequently lost the title to Angle on October 25th. At the Genesis PPV, Angle suppressed Sting in a tag team rematch (the one who successfully suppressed will become the world heavyweight champion, Angle teamed with Nash, Sting teamed with Booker T) and successfully defended the world championship.

On March 27, 2008, Sting returned and announced that he would compete as a member of Christian's team at Lockdown PPV against the team led by Tomko. In the end, Rhino used Gore to suppress Storm, and Christian's team won.

Victory Road, Sting intervened during the TNA World Championship and tried to stop Joe from brutally attacking Booker T. In exchange for Joe's accusations, Sting couldn't bear it and attacked the latter with a baseball bat. Hard Justice PPV , Sting attacked A.J. Styles after the "Last Man Standing" match with Kurt Angle, and then claimed that the reason for attacking these people was because the younger generation of players lacked enough respect for the older players, and said that he would not solve the problem until the issue was resolved. Will retire.

At the Bound for Glory PPV, Sting challenged the then TNA World Heavyweight Champion Samoa Joe and won with the help of Kevin Nash. The Main Event Mafia, this is also the first time Sting has turned into a villain in recent years. Since he rarely participated in Mafia's malicious attacks on players, Sting was more like a neutral role at this time, and became a defender against AJ Styles, Rhino, and Kurt. Players such as Angle and Team 3D challenge the world championship.

At the 2009 Lockdown PPV, Sting lost the title to Mick Foley in a steel cage match. After defeating Angle in Sacrifice, he became the new leader of the Main Event Mafia. However, he was attacked by all the Main Event Mafia members in the weekly game and separated from the group. At the No Surrender PPV, Sting failed to win a five-man match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. At the end of the match, Sting chose to attack Morgan, allowing Styles to successfully suppress Angle and win the championship. As a return, Styles gave Sting the right to challenge for the championship. It was rumored that this would be Sting's retirement battle. At the Bound for Glory PPV, Styles won the match between the two, ending Sting's unbeaten record at the PPV. After the game, Sting said he didn't know if he should retire and said the enthusiasm of wrestling fans made him want to stay in the industry forever.

On January 4, 2010, Sting appeared in the T weekly match. On March 8, when Sting appeared in the match between A.J. Styles, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan and Abyss, all wrestling When fans thought Sting would help the latter, Sting attacked the latter two with a baseball bat without warning. At the Lockdown PPV, Sting competed as a member of Flair's team. In the weekly game on March 3, when Sting was explaining why he attacked Hogan, he was attacked from behind by Jarrett. On Sacrifice, Sting took the lead and injured Jarrett before the two men competed. Jarrett returned from injury at the Slammiversary PPV and intervened in the World Heavyweight Championship match between Sting and RVD, causing the former to lose the match. Sting was suspended for 30 days without pay due to another malicious attack on Jarrett during the June 24th weekly game. In the weekly game on August 5, Sting returned to the ring wearing the red paint of the nWoWolfpac era and helped Kevin Nash defeat Jarrett, Eric Bischoff, and Hulk Hogan.

On Bound for Glory, Sting, Nash and D'Angelo Dinero teamed up to face Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe in a handicap match. Hogan, who was supposed to play, temporarily withdrew due to a back injury. Contest. The three Stings tried to persuade Joe to give up and side with Hogan, but Joe insisted on having his own way until he was suppressed by Nash. Facts have proved that Sting's concerns were correct. Hogan and Bischoff turned into villains and formed the Immortal Legion in that night's game. In the subsequent weekly games, Sting and Nash refused to join Immortal, hoping to alert Dixie Carter about Hogan and others' desire to take over the company. Ambition, however, was not taken seriously by Dixie. At the end of 2010, Sting's contract with TNA expired, and rumors began to spread about his possible signing with WWE.

On February 4, 2011, Sting returned to TNA and defeated Jeff Hardy to become the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion. It was not until the Slammiversary PPV that Sting lost the title to Mr. Anderson under the interference of ric Bischoff.

In the weeks that followed, Sting's character on the TV show increasingly resembled the character Joker in the movie "The Dark Knight." On July 14th, Sting regained the TNA World Heavyweight Championship from Anderson, and then lost the title to Kurt Angle at Hardcore Justice on August 7th. Hogan handed Angle a steel chair during the game. Flair returned in the weekly game on August 18 and challenged Sting. Sting accepted to bet his career on the condition that Hogan would accept his challenge after winning. At the No Surrender PPV on September 13, Hogan's intervention in the match once again caused Sting to fail to win the World Championship. In the weekly match on the 15th, Sting defeated Flair and got the opportunity to challenge Hogan.

During the weekly game on October 6, after Sting exposed his lie about retirement, Hogan became furious and promised that if Sting could defeat him at Bound for Glory, he would return the power to control the company to Dixie Carter. As expected, Sting defeated Hogan at Bound for Glory. After the game, Hogan turned to attack the members of Immortal and turned into a decent one. In the following weekly match, Dixie announced that Sting would take over Impact Wrestling.

On November 24, 2014, in the final 5V5 team elimination match, because Big Show betrayed Team Cena, Dolph Ziggler was the one to fight three people. He was about to eliminate the last person. At the time, HHH suddenly pulled the referee off the ring and knocked him to the ground, then went on to attack Dolph. When HHH put the unconscious Dolph and Seth Rollins in a position with their shoulders on the ground, a referee came up. After the referee counted to the second second, Sting suddenly appeared and attacked the referee and HHH. And reversed the posture of pressing his shoulders to the ground. The referee went to the ring and counted seconds to win the victory. With the help of Sting, he won the leadership team and brought important foreshadowing for his future plot.