[1990-03-31-NWA-World Championship Wrestling] Interview: Sting ... he works out!

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Jim Ross interviews Sting while he works out on an exercise bike. Some people thought Sting was overexposed while he was injured, so no one missed him when he came back. We'll see if that's true.

[PeteF3]

Sting cuts pretty much the same promo as before. But on a stationary bike this time.

[soup23]

I can kind of see the overexposed line being true as he already repeats the "not going to be the same" jargon from his WCWSN interview.

[Kevin Ridge]

Sting does a promo while on the exercise bike. He’s completely focused on getting Flair back in the ring.

[Cox]

Of course Ross compares Sting's injury to a football player's (Joe Klecko). It's kind of a strange comparison, since Klecko injured his knee eight years ago. Had there been no advancements in patella tendon surgery in the eight years since Klecko injured his knee? I'm generally one who isn't annoyed by Ross' football comparisons, but it's still a weird one.

[garretta]

Not miss Sting? He was supposed to be World Champion by now, remember, Why should we want to miss him, considering that Flair, who was only still champ because of the injury, was on our screens every freakin' week running his mouth at the top of his lungs like a mental patient, the same way he had since 1985? If anything, this interview was too short; surely the World champion in waiting deserved more than thirty seconds, even if we didn't know he was World champion in waiting.

 

As for some people possibly being annoyed at JR's football comparisons, he was a legit football announcer at this time with the Falcons, plus he was trying to tell the world that wrestlers are just as legit athletically as football players, who are generally assumed to be the toughest athletes in America. What's wrong with that? Would you rather have them compared to immortal gods like Vince was trying to do? By 1990, it was either let wrestling exist in its own special magical universe (WWF) or present it as a peer to MLB, the NFL, and the NBA (WCW). Any promotion who tried to stay in the middle didn't last, so that wasn't an option unless you lived in Memphis or Dallas. Given the choice, I'll take WCW's approach ten times out of ten.

[drew wardlaw]

Yes, Sting working the legs on his bike. He should've been pumping iron and answering questions instead :/

[GSR]

Jim Cornette says that Sting’s leg is making far better progress than the doctor’s thought it would, he’s really overjoyed to hear that! Jim Ross has the opportunity to join Sting for a workout; they’re going to be riding a bicycle, maybe Jim will have a heart attack and keel over? Who knows what will happen?

 

Ross says that he’s done some research on Sting’s injury, and a ruptured patella tendon is one of the most serious injuries an athlete can face. Some All-Pro athlete (whose name I didn’t catch) came back in four months from the same injury, but he came back drastically too soon and was never the same again. He wonder if it’s ever crossed Sting’s mind that he might never be the same? Sting says he’s not going to be the same, because when he comes back he won’t have to worry about wrestling this guy or that guy, as he’ll be focussing on one man, Ric Flair. He’ll be mentally prepared, physically stronger and his leg will have had all this time to rehabilitate. He’s thinking about one thing, and that’s coming back for Ric Flair.

 

This was fairly similar in vain to the interview he cut on his return to World Championship Wrestling last week.

[dawho5]

Repeating the same exact promo on an exercise bike in no way makes me more excited to see him back. Not that it's a bad promo, but he did it once before.