The caller asked about bringing in Sting for WrestleMania. "We took someone from obscurity and developed that character and made it important." Vince felt they were good at taking characters like that and putting them on a big stage.
This was during the conference call today. I should be baffled he would say this but Vince's delusion when it comes to WCW shouldn't surprise anyone anymore.
i might be reading what you typed totally wrong...if so forgive me but
go back to the night WWE aired the 2k spot with Sting and the crowd went nuts. Listen to the live crowd reaction. Sting needed to be on a big stage but people know who sting is.....
Took Sting from obscurity to Wrestlemania, and told his fans that he didn't matter by having himlose in his first match with the promotion to a guy that had no business going over him.
Fucking forget TNA, everybody outside of McMahon's house thinks of Sting as a legend.
I can't believe he would say this out loud. I'm just speechless at such idiocy.
Honest to god, if I could, I would take a sledgehammer to both Vince and his idiot son in law. And I guarantee it wouldn't be that styrofoam toy.
He thinks they developed his character? How delusional is that man? He should be locked away! Giving Sting a shitty new entrance theme equals development? They took the crow character straight out of Bischoff's playbook. The only "accomplishment" lies in them making it intensely boring.
Ya I got he was referring to TNA not WCW. Not a big deal. If Sting resigned with TNA he'd be on a network most cant even get. That is definitely Sting.
Vince, please grab Kurt and pull him out of the same hell please. Brock needs an opponent next year. Kurt wants his Ankle.
Yeah, I'd bet money that most fans watching had no idea he was in TNA, or what TNA is, or if they do, simply don't care in any way about TNA. Using the word "obscurity" is pretty ridiculous though. People knew who Sting was before WWE started doing packages on him, his name was still semi-relevant.
This is just Vince doing his "lolVincewins" shit and acting like he controls the universe.
I know we like to joke but Vince really is the delusional fuck we portray him to be.
First of all how did they develop the Sting character besides doing a batman rip off before deciding a week before Mania they just said "screw it, lets just let him talk on the mic"?
It's true. I'm a WCW guy through and through, but WCW hasn't been relevant since the Twin Towers were still standing. Take some time to drink that in. WCW was a lifetime ago. You have people in high school now who weren't alive when WCW was still in business.
WCW sure was relevant last night. And in the Monday Night Wars on the WWE Network, one of the key shows they used to sell it. And in all of those video packages and DVDs they keep selling.
WCW is dead, and it really shouldn't be relevant, but they keep making it that way.
Overall, I think Sting didn't need WCW or TNA to be relevant. Sting's a brand, people knew who he was in the 2K15 commercial, they knew who he was at Survivor Series, and they couldn't just let him be WWE Sting. He had to be Sting, WCW guy. That's pretty sad.
Except for the fact that what Vince said (that he "developed the character and made it important") extends beyond TNA and serves to marginalize Sting's entire career.
I would love to hear what 'The Greatest Ever' Triple H has to say about Vince's comments.
Seriously.. the delusion in that family is ridiculous. They won the war because WCW sucked and Steve Austin, The Rock and to a lesser extent Mick Foley were just amazing at the time. I could have had a feud with The Rock and the crowd would have ate it up, such was his popularity.
I don't think he's wrong. WCW closed in 2001. That was 14 year ago. There is massive amount of the WWE's audience who never saw the 20th century. They are younger than 14. They had no clue who Sting was and they did develop it into an attraction for this event.
For people who are older and saw the 80s and/or 90s it seems like an odd statement. But it's really not if you take a step back and think about it. 2001 was a long time ago. There are hundreds of thousands of WWE fans who were not alive in the 90s.
Call TNA obscurity, fine. Compared to WWE it is. But let's be clear, Sting dragged himself out of obscurity, not the E. He'd openly turned down the Fed for a decade. Was Stings choice to make himself more 'relevant' again.
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