Now, I know the whole Sting as "The Crow" thing was way, way over at the time, but I never bought into it, and neither did anyone else I knew that watched Sting in his prime. If that's the only Sting you know, it's a shame, and I could see why people would think different of him than I do. I don't blame Bischoff totally though, as I think Sting wanted to grow his hair out and change his figure and his look. I do blame Hogan a little bit, because when Hogan first came in, Sting wasn't allowed to be that #1 face anymore, and he did get lost in the shuffle. But everything that made Sting fun was lost in that "The Crow" angle. Sting in the "wolfpac" was his lowest. That was absolutely terrible, and by time he was gone and WCW shut down, I wouldn't have cared too much if Sting never came back.
Sting redeemed himself a little bit in TNA. He still dressed like "the crow", and I understand why, but everything else was much like the old Sting. He came out more without the face paint and just wearing the glasses, even at times letting people see his face (something he never did for a long, long time), cut the promos and talked like he used to, and I enjoyed his work. It sold me the point that he never really lost that, but was booked and used so badly by Bischoff.
To me, Sting is a definite first-ballot hall of famer whenever he does retire and Vince should put him in even though Sting never wrestled for him (which I think was a mistake, even though Sting doesn't), and Sting should do the right thing and be a part of it.
