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Sting's change in attitude after he joined the Wolfpac

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#1 ·
Did you guys like it? I personally preferred the classic emotionless Crow Sting who never talked and just stood in the shadows and pointed his bat. I wasn't a fan of Sting joining the Wolfpac and suddenly laughing and acting like one of the boys having a good time. Although his red and black face paint was awesome.
 
#2 ·
Wasn't old enough at the time to be watching it live but from what I've seen and knowing the history of it, Sting went from this dark character unique from everyone else to just another guy in the NWO.

I mean Sting can pull that off because he was just that naturally charismatic. But the Crow character and the fact he was the one main guy against the NWO at the height of wrestling's popularity is what made him famous.
 
#3 · (Edited)
Wasn't old enough at the time to be watching it live but from what I've seen and knowing the history of it, Sting went from this dark character unique from everyone else to just another guy in the NWO.

I mean Sting can pull that off because he was just that naturally charismatic. But the Crow character and the fact he was the one main guy against the NWO at the height of wrestling's popularity is what made him famous.
Exactly, he was acting no different than Nash, Hall and Luger etc after he joined the Wolfpac, he was just another laughing laid back dude doing the kliq hand signal. It just felt so out of place, him in the crow makeup acting that way and wearing the NWO shirt. Regardless of Nash being a face and going against Hogan i sill wouldn't have had Sting join any kliq, he should have always been a loner.
 
#13 ·
On one hand, it made very little sense. The literal face of WCW, the guy who stood alone to battle the NWO for like 2 years, Mr. anti-NWO, etc. joins the lesser of the two 'evil' NWO's? Even as someone who wasn't some long time WCW fan back then and just started watching WCW during the Nitro years, it was even a tough pill for me to swallow. It was weird. It was odd to see a life-long WCW guy throwing up the Kliq hand signal every other minute. Even though that is just a detail, it was still weird to see actually happen and something that never got normal to me.

On the other hand, maybe they went pretty much as far as you can go with the silent crow Sting character. He was silent for a long time, fought on his own while still being on team WCW for a long time and nothing ever really got settled from that aspect. The NWO still existed and now they were 2 groups. Maybe a change was in order for the Sting character. It did breathe some new life into his character. It was fresh. It was considered cool. Some can argue it was nice to see Sting more relaxed, laidback, and talkative on WCW compared to the previous two years. The Wolfpac, with Sting in it, was also very, very popular and over with the fans back then. Not just with WCW fans, but even WWF fans liked the Wolfpac in '98. The Wolfpac came off as more cool, more laidback, more fresh, and a younger version of NWO Black & White. Kind of like WCW's version of DX; in the aspect that they were more cool and hip than NWO Black & White, as well as alittle bit more edgy than NWO Black & White, as well.

Would I have had Sting join the Wolfpac? Probably not. But I can see what they were trying to do in that time period. Of course, in typical WCW fashion, it didn't last that long and eventually just detoriarted right in front of the viewer's very eyes.
 
#5 · (Edited)
Hated it. If Sting joined the Wolfpac, why didn't DDP and other WCW diehards? It seemed like the WCW was giving up and got with the lesser of two evils.

I could understand if the Wolfpac were courting Sting non-stop to offer their help against someone like The Flock. Thought it would've been cool to see Luger push for Sting to join only to beat the shit out of him when he refused.

1998 was really a year of missed opportunities for Sting. The World Title run was disappointing, the Bret feud wasn't under ideal circumstances, no dream match with Warrior, no feud with Raven and this Wolfpac nonsense.
 
#9 ·
Well a couple things to consider. One is could they go further with the brooding Sting. I mean you can only brood so far. And the reason he was doing that was because he was with out a country sort of to say. He felt like WCW let him down by not trusting him and he was NOT joining the nWo that wanted to destroy his home. Eventually he proved he was surely not on nWo's side and had to move on. I think they wanted to form a third team with him as the leader but it got derailed. Possibly by backstage politics. When he joined the Wolfpac it was like part of the old Sting reemerged and joined with the Crow Sting. I am not staying all the booking at the time was the best but I had no problem with it and liked it. I mean till the "betrayal" of his friends Sting was always a fun loving wild man.
 
#10 ·
I actually loved Stings change of attitude after he joined the Wolfpac. He looked like he was having a lot of fun out there with boys. Hell, he was very good at comedy skits. And I loved how he beat The Big Show. As a matter of fact, it was a matter of time before we would hear Sting talk a lot like he did when he was a face surfer sting. He brought me some entertainment.
 
#11 ·
As for Sting talking again, that could've happened whenever, but imagine Crow Sting slowly becoming the "old" Stinger over a few years while holding onto the anguish of his beloved company still in darkness with or without the nWo. Maybe someone injures him and all we hear is his painful screams, the first sound we've heard in years. Then when Sting returns, he speaks in dark riddles until one day down the line he actually has something to be happy about, cracks a smile and cuts an energetic promo. Seeing Sting slowly go back to the light as WCW's moral compass improves would've been an interesting story arc to see play out.
 
#14 ·
It was shit

I didn't like Sting but the one thing I had for him was that he fought against the nWo & wasn't just a sheep, that's what he was built on & even when he came to the E he was built as the vigilante anti-authority type, when all you had to do was look at this asshole in red face paint, it was the wolfpac too which was worse

Should have stayed as the lone vigilante or whatever
 
#15 · (Edited)
Silent emotionless Sting in The Wolfpac doesn't work and makes no sense. The Wolfpac was all about having fun, being laid back and cool. In fact, that was pretty much Sting's character before he even turned dark and mute. As the Surfer Sting, he was laid back, cool, energetic and fun, so it was like Sting went back to that character but with the new Crow look and red facepaint. Sting was happy again, happy to be reunited with his best friend in The Wolfpac and The Wolfpac weren't evil. They saw through Hogan's ways and abandoned Hollywood to form a friendly but still cool NWO group until they merged back with Hollywood. They weren't as anti-WCW as Hollywood was. You could only go so far with silent loner Sting, they did everything they could do with that character and Goldberg was the new top popular face feuding with the NWO and he was more popular than Sting BTW. Plus Sting would get injured in late 98 and take time off until spring of 1999, so the change really didn't matter much and Wolfpac Sting was enjoyable while it lasted. His presence made the group more popular, they needed another popular face in the group after Savage got injured and with Goldberg as the champ, running through NWO Hollywood and DDP on the rise to becoming a main eventer, why not have Sting join The Wolfpac.
 
#16 ·
I liked it when it happened. Looking back now I find it a bit far fetched that he fought the NWO for over a yr. and then all of a sudden joined it. I know everyone joined the NWO in WCW but Sting shouldn't have.
 
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