Could You Book If Sting Joined the nWo?

[Cernunnos]

I was watching Rise and Fall of WCW a couple months ago, and they were talking about Sting being the “Third guy” if Hogan refused for the nWo in 1996. Other than ‘It had to be Hogan,’ what could the nWo have done with him?

In my eyes, NO ONE on the roster could have main evented with him at Starcade ‘97.

So what are your thoughts on this subject… and if you could try and book it out from the start of the nWo to Starcade ’97. What would you have done?

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Aug 8, 2014 14:06:51 GMT -5 Cernunnos said:

I was watching Rise and Fall of WCW a couple months ago, and they were talking about Sting being the “Third guy” if Hogan refused for the nWo in 1996. Other than ‘It had to be Hogan,’ what could the nWo have done with him?

In my eyes, NO ONE on the roster could have main evented with him at Starcade ‘97.

So what are your thoughts on this subject… and if you could try and book it out from the start of the nWo to Starcade ’97. What would you have done?

I heard it was going to be Sting too.

It could have worked. Would have been a great "tear them down from the inside out" story. Sting could sneak attack/jump a bunch of the lower tier guys in the back and blame it on other nWo guys, resulting in the higher ups (Nash and Hall) taking out the fall guys secretly set up by Sting, killing two birds w one stone so to speak.

Turn all those guys on each other, slowing turning the nWo from a giant group to a group of just 4 or 5 including Sting. All the while the fans suspect it's Sting without hard evidence.

Eventually a main nWo member (Steiner for example) gets set up for taking out another (say Hall) and a civil war breaks out between all the main guys left resulting in a big nWo vs. nWo match. Match happens and all the lights go out. Everyone but Sting is left lying when lights come back on. Sting just standing there w bat. He declares war on remaining guys, taking out Steiner then Hall then whoever else leading to Starrcade where he takes the belt off of Nash and defeats the last nWo guy standing.

[Cernunnos]

Actually... that's not half bad!

My only real problem with Sting joining the nWo would have been, who could main event with him for "The big one?" Flair immediately comes to mind; but Flair and Sting has been done for years, although not with the Sting-Heel Flair-Face twist, to my knowledge! Hogan's career was winding down, and the nWo gave it a second life. I don't see him main eventing against Sting, unless it was to fully put Sting over.

The friend I was talking to was saying that the Giant could work (and I can see some money in that), but in the long run I really didn't think so.

The only two people that I could see would have been Macho Man, and later on down the road the Ultimate Warrior! But Warrior wouldn't have lasted long (due to asking for a lot of money) and would have been a one-shot deal (like I saw Hogan). Macho Man could have been the only one who could main event in "The big one" against Sting! Again... this is all in my eyes.

PS: I do like Hennig vs. Sting, but I just don't think that would have went over with the fans and I definitely do not see WCW putting the strap on him either.

[Gunslinger]

Sting as the third guy could probably have worked but they couldn't have run with it the same way they ran with Hogan. My problem with Sting being the third member is that he's not a good enough heel to build everything around. I'd either go with Savage as the third guy or stick Sting in the tag team with Scott Hall and build around.

As for who Sting would wrestle in Starrcade 1997, you'd probably have to build toward Sting-Hogan or Sting-Luger. Sting-Flair was already old news by that point.

[Cernunnos]

I honestly don't really see a Sting-Hogan. Hogan's career was all but over by that point. Luger vs. Sting could have worked, but I really don't see the fans really getting into it. I don't really see it selling too many tickets.

[Gunslinger]

The only way Sting vs. Hogan could have worked at that point with Hogan as the face is if the played up the "Is this Hogan's last chance at the gold" angle like the WWE later did with HHH and Hogan. Sting-Luger could work if they emphasized all the history between the two men, although it would still have the drag factor of having Luger in the match.

I think Macho Man would have been a more marketable choice than Sting if Hogan wouldn't turn. At that point, you still hadn't seen Savage-Sting or the WCW version of Savage-Hogan.

[Big Bri]

Starrcade '97: The Black Scorpion (really La Parka just pulling double duty that night) returns to save WCW!

Hey, it would be better than them screwing up the greatest angle in WCW history (Dusty finish to Sting-Hogan).

[lucifer]

The only thing I could see working would have been Sting vs. Hogan, in a complete role reversal, with Sting as the heel. Would it have sold? Perhaps, but seeing how the whole nWo angle (which I still think is the greatest angle in history) & the year long build to Sting vs. Hogan (must see TV at the time) might be the ONLY thing WCW ever got right, I'm content to not screw with near perfection.

[lucifer]

Just came up with this...sting joins hall and nash in nwo to destroy WCW from within...bret Hart, fresh off the screwjob, with an axe to grind against all things WWF, arrives as WCW savior and he faces sting at starrcade, with hogan, another WWF refugee with an axe to grind as special ref...

[Gunslinger]

Since Bret only arrived around Starrcade, I think you'd have to move Sting-Bret Hart to the spring to properly build for it. Maybe have referee Nick Patrick help Sting beat whomever he was wrestling at Starrcade only to have Bret Hart reverse the decision, as it went down with Hogan-Sting.