WCW magazine issue 43

This interview took place with Sting just one week before his bizarre reappearance as the Black and White avenger during the Monday Nitro from the Denver Coliseum on August 3rd. At press time we were not aware of his motives or his loyalities. We are going ahead and printing this interview so you can draw your own conclusions about where Sting is headed. He's smiling. laughing, joking and talking to the masses, even to the media. He's having loads of fun, and we are now too - thanks to Sting. This is the Sting we know and love. This is the Sting we dubbed "legend". This is the Sting we have wanted from day one. And the nWo Wolfpac deserves all the credit, not WCW, as sad as that may be.

Sting has been WCW for as long as WCW has been around. And, yeah, of course, he was a mainstay in WCW's predecessor, the NWA. Sting was the rock we knew we had, the crutch we could always fall back on. Sting was always there, front and center come the main event. But then he took that turn to "The Dark Side". You know, his long, brown hair and the somber, stoic white face with black streaks. Not a word was spoken by Sting for over a year. That wasn't the Sting we knew and loved, but WCW drove him to that. Enter the Wolfpac, Kevin Nash & Co. The Red & Black Attack saw the war and quickly went after the best battlers it could find. Lex Luger? He's a marquee name worldwide. Sting? You bet, he's just as big a star as Luger. And when you've got Luger, his best friend (Sting) isn't too far behind.

Meet the new, red-faced Sting, the new and improved, better than ever Sting. And he's all Wolfpac, thanks to WCW. "Everything goes around here, always has ... nothing has really ever changed. This is what wrestling is all about," Sting said in July, in his first magazine interview in about two years. "Everyone wants to know why I joined (the Wolfpac). Well, all I care to say is, wrestling is full of backstabbers, liars and cheaters. OK, not everyone falls into that category, but a lot do. So, sometimes you've just gotta stand up for yourself; ya gotta go with the 'Pac, and that's what I'm doing. Right now, I feel more at home with the 'Pac than I do with WCW." "That said, I'm not saying I have a problem with WCW wrestlers, with the emphasis on wrestlers." As for the coat and tie crowd in WCW's front office, well, suffice to say J.J.Dillon and Co. won't be getting Christmas cards from Sting. "Let's just say, after all of the years of hard labor (for WCW), there were too many questions, too many fingers pointed at me too many times," Sting said. "integrity is a very important word to me".

Sting' alliance with The Wolfpac isn't just anti-WCW front office. He also is anti-nWo Hollywood. Big time, in that category. Sting's hatred for "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan is as immense as anyone's in the sport. Shoot, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan probably has more love for Hogan than Sting has. It isn't just a GOLD-en issue between Sting and Hogan. Oh sure, Sting wants the World Heavyweight Championship belt just as much as Hogan does, but for Sting, it's very personal. Sting wants to prove he's bigger than the icon - and will do anything needed to accomplish that. The war that started between Sting and Hogan late last year at Starrcade '97 is only in chapter one of this epic novel. And Sting won't stop until Hogan retires. "I can't stand 'Hollywood'," Sting said. "No matter what happens, the 'Pac always will be alive. Red and black will always be alive. K-Dogg. Big Sexy. The Total Package. The Stinger. Mach. We all have longevity. I guess we're all like a bad disease - you can't get rid of us."

As Sting and Hogan fight their battle, like they did in early July in Los Angeles, Goldberg is the one who wears the sport's top prize around his waist, the World Heavyweight Championship belts. No worries, Sting says. And certainly no fears. "Goldberg is a superstar. He's the fastest rising superstar I have ever seen in this sport. I've never seen anything like him. He's a phenomenon. Why? Because he's a bad-@$$ and the people just love bad-@$$e$," Sting said. "I'd like to wrestle him, although there's no good answer on what needs to be done to stop his streak; I don't think anyone has the answer to that question. Let's just say, if he calls me out, I'm coming." Same goes for Bret "Hitman" Hart who, for months, has been telling Sting that he knows what's best for him. "I really want to get in the ring against Bret. I'm really antsy for that match. I wanted to let him know a few things fairly soon, but I don't want to talk about them right now ... although you may or may not find out about them before this article hits the newsstands."

A surprise? Yes. Just like the positive response Sting received when he joined the Wolfpac earlier this summer. In fact, that was a shocking response. "When Kevin, Konnan and Lex tried to recruit me, I thought a lot of fans would be disappointed - and probably trash the ring - because I had been WCW's representative in so many different ways for so, so long. But, as it turns out, almost everywhere we go, (the fans) seem red and black all the way." "The receptions I hear for the Wolfpac, once you hear that wolf howling, man, those definitely are the loudest receptions I've ever heard. The receptions are intense, unreal." Sting and Nash dropped the World Tag TEam Championship belts to Scott Hall and the Giant in Salt Lake City on July 20th. No big deal, Sting said. Time for another singles run of glory. "I've never been much of a tag team lover; I just don't like wrestling tag matches. I like singles matches the most," Sting said. "I want the World Heavyweight Championship back around my waist again soon, and it will happen." Thanks to the Wolfpac - not WCW. As shocking as that may be.

HERE ARE STING'S COMMENTS ON SEVERAL WCW/nWo SUPERSTARS:

SCOTT STEINER "Hogan has a good grip on everyone, starting financially; he's got the bucks on through to the know-how, to swerve anything, anyone, anytime. Scotty probably is getting swerved; he'll find out the hard way in the long run."

SCOTT HALL "Riding on the fringes of Hogan. His cheesy smile ... man, I just want to knock his teeth down his throat."

CURT HENNIG "He's an nWo Black & White clone, nothing more."

DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE "Dallas is a positive person 24 hours a day, and that's good to feed off of."

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