In the hours following Sting’s retirement at Revolution, WWE would come under fire on social media for not acknowledging their former talent’s decision to step away from the ring. However, during Gunther’s match with Dominik Mysterio, WWE would rectify this by having Michael Cole name-drop the WCW legend and thank him for the memories. Additionally, Pat McAfee would call the match “epic,” although Cole quickly cut him off.
64-year-old Sting made his name away from WWE, and many believed he would go into his entire career without wrestling for the company. Yet after participating in a WWE documentary on the life of his former tag partner, the Ultimate Warrior, and becoming a pre-order bonus character in their video game, he would finally go on to sign with the company in 2014 as a performer. And while he would only wrestle a handful of times for the company due to injury he would be honored with a Hall of Fame induction in 2016.
