Hall Of Famer Believes Sting Wasn’t Ready For WWE Run In 2015

Was Sting really ready for his short-lived WWE run in 2015?

After decades of avoiding the company, seemingly at all costs, Sting arrived in WWE at the 2014 Survivor Series to help banish The Authority from power.

This led to Sting taking on Triple H in a nostalgia-fueled match at WrestleMania 31, where Triple H picked up the win and seemingly killed WCW all over again. It was not until September of 2015 that The Icon was back in the ring for WWE, where he competed in three matches.

At Night of Champions, Sting challenged Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Title, but Rollins retained the gold. More worringly, Sting suffered an injury during that match with WWE making the decision that he was now retired. Although thankfully, Sting got a more fitting final run of his career in AEW when he got to go out on his own terms.

Sting Wasn’t Ready For WWE Role

Speaking on his 83 Weeks podcast, former WCW boss Eric Bischoff explained why he thinks what WWE did with Sting when he arrived in the company was wrong, but thinks Sting wasn’t ready to be featured in the way most fans wanted:

I think inducting Steve into the Hall of Fame — look, there was a way to do it. What WWE did was not the way. What else would you as a fan — what else would you have done with Sting? Would you have had Sting beat Triple H? Let’s go back and look at some of the images. Sting was not ready for that opportunity. I’m just going to come out and say it. I love Sting as a human being. He was not ready for that opportunity.

Go back and look at the pictures. The stills, the video. Sting was not ready for that opportunity. Had he had time to ready himself mentally and physically, there was a lot of fun things that they could have done. But if you go back and look at what WWE had to work with, what else would you do? I don’t know.

It’s easy to be critical, but put yourself in the shoes of the people that have to make a decision about, ‘Okay, what’s best for the company, what’s best for everybody involved.’ And just go back and look at where Sting was at, and ask yourself, ‘What would you have done differently?’ [h/t 411Mania]