The very last Monday Nitro on March, 26 2001 left fans with a lasting impression of WCW. Two WCW legends in Sting and Ric Flair closed out the show and gave fans their final ever official WCW memory.
While fans were watching history in the ring, Sting saw how it was for the fans in the building and how it was going down. It was hardly the way he saw it coming at all either. Talking with the AEW Unrestricted podcast, Sting revealed how quick it all seemed to happen and how it just didn’t sit well with him at all how it all happened once the purchase was made official.
“Rumors, you hear rumors that someone might be buying us out, and then we hear that Vince McMahon might be buying us out. Then sure enough Vince McMahon is going to buy us out. They show up in Panama City and they want Ric [Flair] and I to leave the fans with something good. They want it to be something positive, so we had a short little match. It still felt like the enemy came in and took the women and children, you know there was pillaging and raping and it was like chaos. It was like ‘what is happening here?!’”
While Sting was not one of the talents that found their way to the WWE immediately after the purchase, he eventually found his way to the company and a place in their Hall of Fame. Though Sting may have suffered what looked to be a career ending injury during his WWE stint, he’s looking to write his final chapter in AEW, a place where quite a bit seems familiar and like home to him.
h/t to Ringside News for the quote
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