![]() ![]() Professional wrestling career Continental Wrestling Association (1985–1986) īorden, originally wrestling under the ring name Flash, teamed with Jim "Justice" Hellwig (who would gain fame as The Ultimate Warrior in the WWF) as two members of Power Team USA in independent All-California Championship Wrestling. Borden had no interest in professional wrestling and no television access to it within his home community, but decided to pursue a career in the industry after being taken to an "incredible" World Wrestling Federation (WWF) event in Los Angeles where he saw Hulk Hogan, The Iron Sheik, The British Bulldogs, André the Giant and others perform. He played football and basketball in high school and later embarked on a career in bodybuilding, once co-owning a Gold's Gym health club. Early life īorden was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in Southern California. Slam! Sports wrote that he holds "a lofty level of prestige that few will ever touch". In 2016, Sting was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. Readers of Pro Wrestling Illustrated named him " Most Popular Wrestler of the Year" on four occasions, a record he shares with John Cena. Sting held 26 total championships throughout his career, including 21 between WCW and TNA. Sting then had his first live wrestling match in over five years at Double or Nothing on May 30, 2021, another tag team match that he and Allin won. In late 2020, Sting signed with AEW, coming out of retirement and had his first match in over five years at the promotion's Revolution pay-per-view on March 7, 2021, a tag team cinematic Street Fight that he and Darby Allin won. His induction rendered him the second performer to be inducted while still an active WWE wrestler, after Ric Flair. Sting headlined the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2016 on April 2, where he announced his retirement. ![]() His last match in WWE came at Night of Champions in September 2015, which also marked his sole WWE pay-per-view main event for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in the organization, losing to Seth Rollins. Previously described by WWE as the greatest wrestler never to have performed for that promotion, Sting finally joined WWE in 2014, making his first appearance at Survivor Series and having his debut match at WrestleMania 31 the following year. He was also the inaugural inductee into the TNA Hall of Fame in 2012. As a result, he became the only wrestler to have won the NWA, WCW, and TNA World Titles in a career. ![]() ![]() Over the following 11 years, he won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship on one further occasion and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship four times. įollowing the expiration of his contract with WCW's parent company, AOL Time Warner, in March 2002, Borden held talks with the WWF, but ultimately did not join the promotion and instead toured internationally with World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA) – winning the WWA World Heavyweight Championship – before joining the then-upstart TNA in 2003. Sting would later face Hogan and Flair in their last televised matches, defeating both. Upon the acquisition of WCW by the WWF in March 2001, Sting and his long-term rival Ric Flair were chosen to perform in the main event of the final episode of Nitro. Against Hogan, Sting headlined the highest-grossing PPV event in WCW history, Starrcade, in December 1997. Dubbed "The Franchise of WCW", he held a total of 14 championships in the promotion – including the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on six occasions, the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship on two occasions, and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship on one occasion – and made more pay-per-view (PPV) appearances for the company than any other wrestler. He quickly rose to main event status and has been described as the WCW counterpart to the WWF's Hulk Hogan. Sting's 14-year association with WCW and its predecessor, Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), began in 1987. Prior to WCW, he also wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF), and the Continental Wrestling Association. Although the WWF had purchased WCW, Sting did not sign with them at that time. Sting is widely known for his time spent as the public face of two major American professional wrestling promotions: the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling (WCW), which was bought by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 2001, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, now Impact Wrestling). Throughout his career, he won a total of fourteen world championships. He is regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, having cultivated a legacy over a career spanning five decades. Steve Borden (born March 20, 1959), better known by the ring name Sting, is an American professional wrestler and former bodybuilder, currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as the mentor of Darby Allin. ![]()
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