[2000-10-29-WCW-Halloween Havoc] Jeff Jarrett vs Sting

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If you ever needed to know how many fake Sting’s you can have on retainer, this is the match for you. We get no less than five fake Stings here running the gambit from 1989 surfer Sting to Wolfpac Sting. I don’t understand the psychology of this from Jarrett’s standpoint and the match screeches to a halt each time a new Sting runs out for the real Sting to beat him up. One Sting hilariously loses his awful wig as he gets beat up. This leads to Jarrett smashing a guitar over Stings head and winning. Just awful stuff and Sting really should have enough clout and self awareness at this point to veto some of this shit. ¼*

 

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Jarrett looks a touch nervous as he paces around ringside so Sting steps out the ring to meet him.  He whips him into the guard rail and then clocks him over the back with a chair as Mark Madden thinks that he’s never seen ‘the Stinger’ this intense.  A ‘Stinger splash’ in the corner is followed by an inverted atomic drop, before he clotheslines ‘Double J’ over the top rope to the floor.  With Sting firmly in control someone dressed up as the 1989 version of him appears on the ramp way and makes his way down the aisle.  Real Sting goes to meet him while Madden ponders whether you can be disqualified for beating yourself up?  As daft as that is, he’s got a point about why isn’t the official disqualifying Jeff Jarrett due to this outside interference.  1989 Sting doesn’t fare too well, getting laid out with a ‘Scorpion Death Drop’.  Jarrett jumps real Sting and they fight into the crowd.  Madden continues to talk nonsense thinking that this is a bogus Sting that Jarrett is going at it with, while it’s the real one who is laid out.  Christ!  Sting with a suplex on the concrete when another imposter shows up, this time 1990 World title winning Sting, who I’m sure is Steve Armstrong in that get up.  1990 Sting fares no better than 1989 Sting, going the same way, a recipient of the ‘SDD’ in front of the Nitrovision.  As Sting walks back towards the ring Tony Schiavone says how this has been incredible!  The moment he enters the Wolfpac’s music kicks in and here comes Wolfpac Sting.  This doppelganger looks to be enjoying his 15 minutes a bit too much as he slaps hands with the fans.  Real Sting swipes his baseball bat away from him and moments later we see our third ‘Scorpion Death Drop’ of the night.  ‘Double J’ nails ‘the Stinger’ with the discarded bat, although it looks very much like one of those WCW rubber bats.  Jarrett suplexes him on the metal before dragging him back to the ring.  Sting escapes the sleeper, slaps on one of his own and ‘Double J’ with a belly to back.  ‘Scorpion Deathlock’ when up through the ring comes Sting number four.  He pulls Sting back down through the ring “all the way to hell”, however it turns out he’s inept as the previous three.  The two of them resurface shortly after, real Sting leading the way and pulling out fake Sting who’s now covered in blood (or red paint).  A pair of ‘Stinger splashes’ for Jarrett at which point the lights in the arena go out and from the ceiling descends yet another Sting.  This Sting loses his horrible wig and Stevie Ray jokes how he’s got to be about seventy years old due to his thinning hairline.  Real Sting ‘SDDs’ him through the announcer’s desk before returning to the ring, hoping that’s the last of the imposters.  He locks on the ‘deathlock’ only for Sting IV to make the save, breaking a guitar over real Sting’s head.  That has little effect, ‘the Stinger’ quickly regaining his bearings and Sting IV becomes the final victim of the ‘Scorpion Death Drop’.  Jarrett then breaks a second guitar over Sting’s head and he clearly swings it harder as that puts Sting down for the three count.

I so wanted one of the fake Stings to be Barry Windham!  The action between Sting and Jarrett was good but the momentum was constantly halted each time by the arrival of another Sting.  Jarrett teased this in his pre-match interview talking about how people would see Sting’s metamorphosis but this was overkill, overbooked and one of those things that was better on paper than in practice.