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Styles is what Sting could have been in the WWE

1K views 18 replies 17 participants last post by  Japanese Puroresu 
#1 ·
All the fears that Sting had of being treated like a peasant and an outsider get dashed when you look at the booking Styles has gotten. If Sting had come on over back in 2001-2002 he would have been a multi time champ and headlined WM.
 
#3 ·
Not a chance.

Styles was the face of a company that didn't beat SmackDown's ratings on its best day. Vince doesn't care about TNA. He would've wanted to bury Sting just to assert WWE's dominance over WCW yet again.

Sting's run would've been more like Goldberg's, at best. And even he became just another guy once he started feuding with Triple H.
 
#11 ·
So hold up, your theory is that the people who love storylines, charisma and promos left for UFC because they don't just want in-ring action. Do you realise how backwards that sounds at all?
 
#7 ·
You can't compare Styles and Sting. It's literally an apples and oranges situation. You're trying to compare them based on how they were the faces of rival companies. In Sting's era, there was no way Sting was going to get the push over Austin, Rock, Taker, Triple H, etc. He would have been lost in the shuffle and like others said, Vince was petty back then and would have tried to damage Sting's career just for being a WCW guy. If you look at Vince's track record back then, almost every WCW from 01-03 got shit treatment except Goldberg.

In this era, Vince doesn't have a rival company that he just put out of business so the pettiness is not there. Plus in today's era WWE is all about hiring indy stars and putting them in the spotlight if they can go and can get over. The WWE bias isn't as strong. This is Triple H's influence more than Vince's.

So, no. You can't compare the Styles and Sting situation.
 
#6 ·
There is a big difference from now to 15 years ago. Back then, AJ wouldn’t have gotten the time of day. Hell 5 years ago he wouldn’t have gotten the time of day. They only really showed interest in AJ after his run in Japan, and the rest he had to do himself.

Sting would have a decent run but let’ not act like he’d be in the same position is in AJ now. Because now, thanks to the efforts of guys like Punk and Bryan, they are a lot more willing to give it to guys who they didn’t make.
 
#18 ·
Sting was at the core of the story that almost put Vince out of business. He knew what would have happened to him so he wisely chose to stay away. By the time he came it was more a bucket list sort of thing and he was at an age where any losses wouldn't tarnish his legacy. It's fun to imagine how great Sting could have been in WWE, but let's be real here. It wouldn't have happened.
 
#9 ·
Let's not get carried away, and don't try to rewrite history:

Sting signing for WWE in 2002 would mean he would have to face the likes of Stone Cold, The Rock, prime Triple H, prime Kurt Angle, prime The Undertaker, all of them guys who made WWF win the war and proven draws, so is clear Sting was gonna be low on the totem pole (coughDDPcough).

Meanwhile AJ Styles signed with WWE in a era when WWE has the like of Roman, Dean, Seth as main eventers, that means AJ Styles have it easier because being honest even as free agent he was a BIGGER DRAW than they. There is no Rock on the current WWE, hey there's not even a Kurt Angle on the current roster, that means the company is not afraid to put "outisders" guys on the top of the company, just ask Finn Ballor, Nakamura and Owens.
 
#10 ·
No chance. Especially since HHH was still an active competitor then. I mean, even at 60 years old and Hunter in his 40s, he still made sure to book himself over Sting at Mania :lol So just imagine what would have happened in his prime of burying people.

Sting had no reason to join WWE until his contract was up and I don't know when that was. People tend to forget that all of WCW's top stars were still under contract from Time Warner when they folded, and rather than take the WWE buyouts like DDP foolishly did, they sat out their contracts.

And tbf nobody could have predicted how well AJ would do in the WWE. I personally thought he'd never make it in WWE. And they DID try burying him upon joining with jobbing him to Jericho and their cardboard cutout twice. But he's been SO good that they can't not push him. Truly outstanding performances by him.
 
#12 ·
Yes and no. Sting would have no way got the title this quick like AJ did but he defiantly be a top player. He wouldnt have been buried like some say he would have.
 
#13 · (Edited)
1st of all Sting was a WcW guy, The WcW guy. TNA at their very best were never even close to being actual competition for the WWE. WcW came damn close to running WWE out of business, and Vince too this day has a vindictive grudge about that. Every WcW guy that didn't sign with the company during the Monday Night Wars got buried whenever they did show up on the WWE roster. Sting would have been no different. that Wrestlemania match made that blatantly obvious. Vince couldn't help but take one last shot at that dead WcW horse with that clusterfuck booking of A match that made no sense other then to take 1 last cheap shot at a dead corpse.
 
#15 ·
I do like the Sting comparison given the fact that AJ was the longtime face of the closest thing WWE has had to competition in the past 15 years, but we part ways after that OP.

At best, Sting would've done a bunch of dream matches, won half of them and then retire by 2005. That's my guess at least.
 
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