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Sting Reveals When He Decided To Retire, What ‘Dream Match’ He Never Had, His Toughest Opponents, More

Sting Reveals When He Decided To Retire, What ‘Dream Match’ He Never Had, His Toughest Opponents, More
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Justin Barrasso has just released his latest Week In Wrestling feature on SI.com.

As part of this week’s feature he included the following transcribed highlights from Sting’s recent Q&A at the Arizona Comic Con.

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On why he announced his retirement at the 2016 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony:

“I didn’t know if I was going to make any kind of announcement until I did it at the Hall of Fame,” said Sting. “I was wavering, I was kind of back-and-forth on it. I got hurt wrestling Seth [Rollins], and the neurosurgeons and everybody [were] saying I needed surgery, and then I had trouble with cervical spinal stenosis, or whatever they call it, and there were two areas in my neck that were really messed up bad, although I don’t have any pain or side-effects. One more bad fall and it’s not going to be good for me, so I just thought enough was enough.”

On who would he wrestle if he came out of retirement:
Undertaker,” confirmed Sting. “Now do I regret not leaving [sooner for WWE]? That’s actually a good question, but a tough one to answer. On one side, it’s easy to say, ‘Yeah, I wish I would have gone earlier.’ On the other hand, I really don’t have any regrets. But my dream match for more than a decade, or maybe two decades, was to have a good match against ‘Taker. I always wanted to have that.”
On his toughest opponents:
“One of the toughest opponents I had in the early days was Big Van Vader,” said Sting. “But in my later years, it was Kurt Angle. They called him ‘The Machine,’ and Kurt is a machine. He just does not stop. He’s pretty relentless and very physical. You’ve got to be at the top of your game to wrestle Kurt. He is a perfectionist and demands a lot of everyone around him.”

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