Interview with Sting

(By Crips)

On Wednesday the 6th of June I took part in a conference call with TNA star Sting, who will be challenging Bobby Roode this Sunday at Slammiversary for the World Heavyweight Title.

A 27-year veteran of the industry, Sting is widely considered the greatest wrestler of the modern era never to have appeared in WWE. He has main evented in the NWA, WCW and TNA for over two decades, and is a fourteen-time world champion.

With his laid-back, friendly but very measured responses, I could tell from the interview that Sting is a master of diplomacy, which has no doubt helped his political standing in the companies he has worked for! However, he certainly provided some honest and thought-provoking insight into his role as a locker room veteran in TNA. I got the impression that Sting is a wrestler who feels comfortable and secure in his position, and who is more than willing to act as a mentor to the younger talent.

I was able to ask Sting a number of questions. Firstly, I asked him what had been the biggest changes he’d seen in wrestling over his long career, and whether he intended to write an autobiography. I followed up that question with an enquiry as to whether he keeps in touch with his mid 80s tag team partner Jim Hellwig, who went on to have a successful career as the Ultimate Warrior.

Later in the call I spoke to Sting about the star-making match with Ric Flair in 1988 that catapulted him to permanent main event status, and asked why it seems to be so much more difficult today to establish new main eventers. Sting’s answer was very eloquent and interesting. As a follow up, I asked a question from the 606 v2 forum about whether he’d ever vetoed a storyline proposal because of his religious beliefs. His response was amusing in its bluntness.

The Slammiversary event will be aired in the UK free of charge on Challenge TV next Wednesday (the 13th) at 10pm.

I hope you enjoy listening to the interview. My questions can be heard at 25:40 and 47:09.

Interview here - http://v2journal.com/interview-with-sting.html

I'm on iPhone and can't seem to listen to it?

Great work on these interviews by all involved its great to get these, hopefully it seems you are getting 1 for every monthly ppv.
Just an observation regarding the questions, 2-3 times you have opened up the floor so to speak to put our questions forward, the questions that have been picked were all by Hero, I just genuinly wondered if his questions were better then everyone elses and not because he is joint founder of this (great) site.

Like I say its just an observation and don't mean to rock the boat and keep up the good work.

I will be honest in saying that I think it is genuinely a coincidence.

If anything, I would try to choose a non Hero one!

It was Crips who asked the questions this time so it was left to him.

You also have to bear in mind that we want to ask something a little different that hasnt been asked by others.

MIG wrote:I'm on iPhone and can't seem to listen to it?

On the link, you have to hit the triangular play button and it should work from there

Really interesting interview!

Adam D wrote:

MIG wrote:I'm on iPhone and can't seem to listen to it?

On the link, you have to hit the triangular play button and it should work from there

There is no button? Never mind will get the laptop out later

I think it must not be on there because he's on a iPhone, maybe it's a flash thing.

Lol! Cheers for that but seriously I'm not stupid. I can't see that button when I go there on this phone.

Yeah must be a flash thing