Report on Who Will Induct Sting

[Chris]

Jerry freakin' Jarrett should have been the first inductee.

 

[Nevermore Arcanum]

Jerry freakin' Jarrett should have been the first inductee.

Jarrett's never going to retire. He's most likely the leader of A&8's, and will be wrestling until he's Flair's age.

 

[Chris]

Jarrett's never going to retire. He's most likely the leader of A&8's, and will be wrestling until he's Flair's age.

Said Jerry, not Jeff.

 

[Keith]

Jarrett's never going to retire. He's most likely the leader of A&8's, and will be wrestling until he's Flair's age.

Yes but Nash, Hall and Raven have not retired yet either and you suggested them.

 

[Nevermore Arcanum]

Yes but Nash, Hall and Raven have not retired yet either and you suggested them.

I thought Nash and Hall were retired. I know for a fact Raven has though. He's doing comedy clubs now, believe it or
not.

 

[BretScrewedBret]

It still boggles my mind that Sting would ever waste his time with TNA. Now they have this hilariously ridiculous "Hall of Fame". Who will be the second inductee, Hector Guerrero? Maybe a really big name like Konnan.

What a joke. The Stinger needs to call Vince up already so he can get inducted in the real Hall of Fame.

 

[Deezy]

Sting will be a guy who was too afraid to admit he wouldn't draw outside of southern territories. Simple as that, show clips of him during any of his runs of to a casual fan and they laugh.

 

[SAL]

Fair choice I say given the history. Question is will TNA's version of the Hall of Fame actually induct TNA home grown names in the future. I get that a wrestling Hall of Fame should represent all of wrestling but given the limited access of names that TNA has acess to then maybe they should look more to their own talent, such as Styles, Daniels, Joe etc.

The problem with establishing a Hall of Fame only 10 years into your company's existence is that there is no history yet. TNA is wise to start by inducting old-timers (god knows they have plenty!) who made their names outside TNA. Then down the road, when they do induct AJ Styles, he'll be joining Sting, Hogan, etc., and TNA can try to push him as a legitimate legend of the business.

 

[Undertaker]

The problem with establishing a Hall of Fame only 10 years into your company's existence is that there is no history yet. TNA is wise to start by inducting old-timers (god knows they have plenty!) who made their names outside TNA. Then down the road, when they do induct AJ Styles, he'll be joining Sting, Hogan, etc., and TNA can try to push him as a legitimate legend of the business.

Very good point, one which I didn't think of. It probably goes to show that TNA's idea of having a Hall of Fame is completely wrong at this stage. They do not have much history and there are not many wrestlers who have shot to fame via a feud or a match. Most of TNA's roster is WWE's dirty laundry and guys like Beer Money, AJ Styles, etc aren't actually 'legends' yet. TNA is just way behind WWE in all of what they do and this latest copycat move shows that they haven't thought this through. 10 years of TNA and not one single wrestler that comes to mind of being Hall of Fame worthy.

 

[Chris]

I've been saying ever since the report first came out that TNA was thinking about getting a HOF (a little over a year or so ago, I believe) that it was a terrible idea. No company should have a HOF 10 after 10 years of existence. WWE didn't have one until 30 or so, and that was only for a couple years until they started it up again in '04.

 

[The Cork]

The problem with establishing a Hall of Fame only 10 years into your company's existence is that there is no history yet. TNA is wise to start by inducting old-timers (god knows they have plenty!) who made their names outside TNA. Then down the road, when they do induct AJ Styles, he'll be joining Sting, Hogan, etc., and TNA can try to push him as a legitimate legend of the business.

Seems really frauduelent by them that this will happen when AJ hasn't even established himself as a top name in one company yet.

Dunno, hate getting irked about imaginary things like a Hall of Fame, but putting Styles, Joe, etc on the same pedestal as Hogan and Sting is horrible. Not that they care, this only came about as oneupsmanship because Sting stayed with TNA over WWE last year.

 

[Undertaker]

Seems really frauduelent by them that this will happen when AJ hasn't even established himself as a top name in one company yet.

Dunno, hate getting irked about imaginary things like a Hall of Fame, but putting Styles, Joe, etc on the same pedestal as Hogan and Sting is horrible. Not that they care, this only came about as oneupsmanship because Sting stayed with TNA over WWE last year.

Something about Sting being inducted into TNA's Hall of Fame just doesn't sit right with me. It feels wrong. Why? It's difficult to explain but Sting had most of his greatest matches back in World Championship Wrestling. I would rather he was inducted in WWE's Hall of Fame because unlike TNA's it actually means something. Without bashing TNA completely I wonder who they are going to induct next year? D-Lo Brown? I'm sure if TNA actually made a completely separate show like WWE do it would make a huge difference.

 

[Big Red Jericho Punk]

Whenever Sting comes to mind, I'll always think how he was too scared to face Undertaker at Mania 27. After seeing Taker's matches vs HBK, his mindset had to be "I'm not taking those bumps" let me stay in TNA where I only have to work 6 to 8 minutes twice a month. The fact that he didn't face Taker made me not care about him anymore.

 

[BretScrewedBret]

Was it ever really even a thing? Is it confirmed that he was in talks with WWE?

 

[Troy]

I am pretty sure that he mentioned in an interview that he had some interest from them but decided to stick with TNA for another year. That could just be me confusing Sting talking about the time after WCW rather than what happened last year.

I am sure that WWE would have contacted Sting to see if he was interested but Sting knows that he is a big fish in a small pond in TNA and can do whatever he wants. If he goes to WWE for one match he knows that he will be pinned. I hope that we will see it one day but I doubt it.