Sting Recalls When He Met Sting

Sting Recalls Meeting Sting

Sting recalls the time he met the other guy that he shared a nickname with.

All Elite Wrestling star Sting recently penned an article for The Players’ Tribune and in one passage he reflected on reacting to his rising stardom after he joined the NWA and faced off with Ric Flair at Clash of the Champions in 1988. He explained that it was one thing to see fans painting their faces like him and earning the respect of wrestling legends, but it was a completely new experience when he found out The Police’s frontman wanted to meet him.

From The Players’ Tribune:

“Looking back, that was the start of a really intense 10-year rollercoaster. Sometimes it felt like the fame just happened overnight. I mean, you’re on the road so much, hopping on and off planes, working 300-plus days a year … you don’t really have any perspective. Wrestling was kind of a bubble back then, especially before social media.

I remember getting a call from someone at WCW in the early ’90s, and they said, “Hey, Sting. So Sting wants to meet you.”

I said, “Sorry?”

They said, “Yeah, he’s coming to play a show in Atlanta, and he wants to meet you. Can you go?”

I said, “Sting? From The Police? HECK YEAH.”

So I go to meet Sting backstage at his concert, and he comes straight up to me, and with his nice British accent he says, “I’ve got me a nine-year-old son at home, and I went into his room one day and I saw this bloody poster up on his wall. And I said to myself, Who is this other Sting fella? I’ve gotta meet this guy.”

Honestly, it was kind of mindblowing how fast everything happened. By the mid-’90s, when the nWo invasion started, we had two young sons at home, and we were trying our best to shield them from the business and keep their lives “normal.” They actually used to go over to their friends’ houses and ask why they didn’t have any Daddy Dolls. They thought every family had one of those little stuffed wrestling dolls with their dad’s face on it.

Sting’s column also featured his memories about breaking into the wrestling business, working with Jim Hellwig (The Ultimate Warrior), almost getting a role in Revenge Of The Nerds and much more.