The icon, Sting has had a career resurgence since signing with AEW. Finding himself back home on TNT, the place he owned for so many years working with WCW.
However, in a recent interview speaking about his time with WWE, Sting claimed that he would have stayed retired had WWE given him one match in particular. A match the entire wrestling world would have loved to see. Two locker room icons squaring off for the very first time.
All Sting wanted was a match against The Undertaker. The biggest first time, last time, only time since Lawrence Taylor beat Bam Bam Bigelow.
In an interview with SI.com, Sting claims he would not have felt the need to come back had he gotten that one match.
“I wanted that to happen. I was very clear publicly, and I was very clear with WWE, as well. I wanted my last hurrah against Taker. For whatever reason, it just never materialized. To this day, I don’t know why. Maybe Taker never wanted to work with me. I have no idea. I mean, I’ve had good conversations with Taker and we’ve always got along. I don’t know why the match never happened, but it should have happened. Because it wasn’t going to happen, and I knew it, and that wasn’t the only reason why I left WWE, but it’s one of the reasons why I left. I wanted that one last match.”
We may never know why Sting versus The Undertaker never happened. It would have been a great match twenty years ago, and it would have been a great match for two phenoms to end their respective careers with.
Wither way, AEW fans win, because Sting is back, and he still has a point to prove.
