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Steven James Borden, better known by his ring name Sting (born March 20, 1959 in Omaha, Nebraska), is an American professional wrestler who has wrestled with several promotions since the early 1980s.

Amongst the many promotions he has highlighted are the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling All-Stars, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . The longest (and most famous) of these four runs was with WCW, where he held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship six times. He is one of the few major American pro wrestling stars of the modern era who have never worked for World Wrestling Entertainment.

Career

Early career

Sting started out wrestling in California with Jim Hellwig, Mark Miller, and Garland Donoho as part of a faction of wrestlers brought together by Red Bastien called Power Team USA. This four-man group of former bodybuilders were known for their impressive physiques. After the faction fell apart, Sting became part of a tag team with the wrestler later known as The Ultimate Warrior, a former partner in Power Team USA.

Sting and the Warrior were called The Blade Runners (a probable reference to the movie of the same name) in the Universal Wrestling Federation. Warrior soon left the UWF, leaving Sting to turn face and win the tag titles with Rick Steiner.

Sting was one of the wrestlers who joined World Championship Wrestling when it purchased the UWF in late 1987. Sting's legendary feud with Ric Flair began when he and Flair fought to a 45-minute time limit draw at the inaugural Clash of the Champions in 1988. However, when Sting later began a feud with Keiji Mutoh, Flair and Sting became friends and they stood together against Mutoh's stables.

When Flair formed the Four Horsemen, Sting joined it, but was kicked out during Clash of the Champions X after he demanded a title shot from Flair, thus restarting their rivalry. That same night, Sting injured his knee in a cage match while making a run-in on the other Horsemen. This created booking problems for WCW, as Sting was slated to take Flair's title at the next Pay Per View, WrestleWar. Instead, Lex Luger took Sting's place for several epic matches with Flair, meant to keep the title on Flair using any means necessary (despite heavy backstage politicking to drop the title to Luger) while buying time for Sting's recuperation.

On his return, Sting focused on taking out the Four Horsemen and at The Great American Bash, he finally defeated Flair for the NWA Heavyweight Title. He went on to feud with Lex Luger, though later they would become good friends and a successful tag team.

World Championship Wrestling (1988-2001)

Sting lost the NWA World Heavyweight championship back to Flair on January 11, 1991; shortly afterward, WCW officially seceded from the NWA and began promoting its own WCW World Heavyweight championship and WCW World Tag Team championship. However, NWA titles would continue to be competed for in WCW, even though the NWA would officially die in 1993 and the titles would become meaningless.

At the end of 1991, Sting became embroiled in a feud with the Dangerous Alliance, headed by manager Paul E. Dangerously. The stable targeted Sting because he was the so-called "franchise" of WCW, and vowed to destroy both him and the promotion that he was the face of. Sting engaged in many memorable matches with Dangerous Alliance members, especially "Ravishing" Rick Rude, who was the group's main star. It was during this feud that he won the first of his six WCW World Heavyweight titles, defeating Lex Luger at SuperBrawl II on February 29, 1992. The feud ended when Sting and his allies, named Sting's Squadron (consisting of himself, Ricky Steamboat, Dustin Rhodes, Barry Windham, and Nikita Koloff) defeated the Alliance (Rude, "Stunning" Steve Austin, Arn Anderson, Larry Zbyszko, and Bobby Eaton) in a brutal War Games match at WrestleWar in May of 1992.

Near the end of Sting's battles with the Dangerous Alliance, the seeds were sown for what would arguably come to be the most famous feud of his career. In April 1992, he defended his WCW World title at The Omni in Atlanta against a 450-pound bull of a wrestler named Big Van Vader. During the match, Vader splashed Sting, cracking three of his ribs. Sting recovered and defended his title against Vader at The Great American Bash in July, dropping the belt to him after missing a Stinger Splash, hitting his head, and receiving a brutal powerbomb. After beating Cactus Jack in a falls-count-anywhere match at Beach Blast and newcomer Jake "The Snake" Roberts in a "Spin The Wheel, Make The Deal" match at Halloween Havoc, Sting again faced Vader in the "King of Cable" tournament final at StarrCade. Once again, Sting endured a harsh beating, but this time emerged victorious.

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Actors - Sting

Career

Early career

World Championship Wrestling (1988-2001)

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