Sting to return to TNA at tonight's Impact tapings, thus won't appear at WWE's WrestleMania PPV
by Keith Harris on Feb 24, 2011 7:54 PM EST
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Both James Caldwell of PWTorch and Dave Meltzer of f4wonline are reporting that Sting will return to TNA at tonight's Impact tapings in Fayetteville, NC, their first taping outside of Orlando in over two years. This means that Sting won't appear at WrestleMania this year, as the rumour mill suggested was possible after WWE's initial ambiguous video to hype The Undertaker's return. Simply put, with The Rock guest hosting WrestleMania and Shawn Michaels being inducted into the Hall Of Fame, Sting wasn't necessary for the show, so it's unsurprising that his informal negotiations with WWE went nowhere, especially with Triple H already being granted the main event slot for the show against The Undertaker. Moreover, TNA was always going to be waiting in the wings with the same lucrative contract, light schedule and main event push that Sting has gotten used to over the past several years, so it was going to take a very special offer to get him to jump ship and the timing wasn't right this year for that. Maybe next year will be different? So this was the right move for Sting, but what about Dixie Carter? Splurging cash to keep the banged up Sting at this stage is arguably more wasteful than signing Jersey Shore's Angelina Pivarnick for a few appearances, as at least Pivarnick might get the company some media publicity while meaning nothing for their ratings or PPV business. The only thing signing Sting does is allow Dixie to save some face for allowing Kevin Nash and Booker T to slip through her fingers, at least WWE didn't succeed in getting a clean sweep of all the guys TNA hadn't got under contract but still planned for their terminated Main Event Mafia reunification angle.
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I admit it, I overthought WWE Creative, and dreamt a liitle too much even when most were hitching their wagons to Taker from the get go! And even after watching Raw on 2/21/11 I still don’t feel the moment the WWE wanted you to embrace between HHH and Taker as the main event of WMXVII, it was the best possible match up of big name talent they had. But not withstanding Sheamus’s diminshed push, the WWE treated it’s fans like shit by not tying up the loose ends and giving us the HHH vs Sheamus match considering it was Sheamus that put HHH on the shelf! Grant it, with WWE’s inability to come up with Brock Lesnar or Sting, and god forbid being that this event is taking place at the Georgia Dome, they didn’t go all out for Goldberg? Ah! Now that I got that off my chest, I feel better?
Scott Druyan
by matz57 on Feb 24, 2011 9:21 PM EST via mobile reply actions
You kno what forget Sting
I respect the guy for what he has done for this business but i think he is an egotistical douche for not wanted to 1. Get ready to wind it down 2. Doing that on a bigger stage than TNA can offer so his contributions would be noticed more and 3. Trying his damnnest to be the only BIG name to not work for the Wwe to the point where old fans of his have no idea where the fuck he is right now. Dudes got a huge ego
Who was the first to see a cow and think "I wonder what will happen if I squeeze these dangly things and drink whatever comes out?
You’re making alot of false assumptions ther, first if anyone deserves blame for Sting going back to TNA it’s Vince because he didn’t go all out to make WM matter this year. I totally disagree that Sting wasn’t needed The Rock coming back to host does nothing to add anything to what is one of the most lackluster Mania’s ever.
Sting was open to going to the WWE but Vince as usual let his ego and his own bs get in the way of making WM a must see event. No one that I know is excited about Mania this year and I expect the buyrate to be very low without a major match to draw eyeballs. Triple-H vs. Taker 2 isn’t that fight, it’s something thrown together by a desperate creative team that hasn’t been creative in years.
Sting going back to TNA is a worst case scenerio but it’s better than nothing at least now I have a reason to watch TNA again even if it won’t last long since their creative team is worse than the WWE’s.
I totally 100% agree with every well constructed sentence you laid out! This is perhaps the weakest WM card ever. A lot of the fault should land right in the lap of creative, because The Miz was portrayed as a chicken shit champion, and Creative totally botched the Cena/Nexus stips which made Cena come off as a total tool, to their credit but too late they aquired the services of The Rock more in a damage control situation in order to re- boot the damaged Cena for mania. The only match garnering any interest is Alberto Del Rio vs Edge, even there it’s more to see the expected title change to Del Rio, than anything that Edge brings to the big stage once again due to the creatively botched program with Kane that brought his star power down a notch, IMO. And last but not least Taker vs HHH, no doubt to include the Career vs Streak stips w/ HBK refereeing. Again a thrown together match to somewhat soften the blow of another creative mess by not allowing HHH to settle the score with Shamus, who put him out. So instead, for whatever reason, Shameus’s push is scaled back rather than having the two remain strong going into the Elimination chamber to culminate their program. The fan’s are going to pop for HHH, because he was out longer than Taker anyway, but doing business the right way would have laid the ground work more effectively! Sorry for the long winded reply!
Scott Druyan
by matz57 on Feb 26, 2011 3:37 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
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