[1992-06-16-WCW-Clash of the Champions XIX] Interview: Sting

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

High-energy promo in a tux hyping the match with Vader at the Great American Bash.

[shoe]

He looks the part, and fires up a fun promo.

[Kevin Ridge]

Sting's face paint matches his tuxedo. He is ready for Vader.

[WingedEagle]

Promo setting up title match at Bash, though I wish we had the angle they reference. Nice to see the Champ presented as such.

[PeteF3]

Sting is looking very dapper in tuxedo-themed facepaint. Odd to be hyping a GAB main event before Beach Blast has even happened yet.

[MikeCampbell]

This was taped before Beach Blast, but it aired afterwards.

 

Stings cuts a fired up promo to hype the Vader match, and says that when he's all fired up and has the Stingers cheering him, he doesn't feel like an underdog.

[garretta]

The Stinger was great here; I loved how he painted himself as Goliath going into the Vader match instead of David almost solely based on the fans and their reaction to him.

 

Sting seems to be a favorite of Jesse's to the extent that there is such a thing; I would have thought he'd dismiss Sting as a pretty boy and a facepainted freak, especially compared to real men like Rude and Vader.

 

They're promoting Vader exactly how I feared they would. "Feels no pain"? After the Steiners and Sting himself threw him around like he weighed two hundred pounds during his last swing through WCW? Sorry, but I don't buy it, and Sting isn't going to look like much of a champion if he can't manhandle Vader at will during their upcoming feud (though I suppose they'll use the rib injury as an excuse for why Vader will look like an unstoppable monster). This already knocks down the feud a few pegs in my eyes before they even step in the ring for the first time, and I'm wishing that they'd decided to resurrect the Sting/Rude feud instead.

[dawho5]

This was a great promo from Sting.  More and more I am seeing that he could have been "The Man" for WCW the way Hogan was for WWF if he had been booked better.