Sting is more or less an extremely skilled allround wrestler. He is very powerful, he's good at high flying moves, he's a submission wrestler, and has great technical skills as well. This gives him the ability to beat opponents like Bret Hart, Scott Steiner, Hulk Hogan, Vader and Big Show with a full arsenal of moves of which none will be futile.
His signature moves are the Stinger Splash, which is the move Shelton Benjamin decided to use recently, when he splashes his opponent who is groggy in the turnbuckle.
Then the Scorpion Deathlock, which is like the Sharpshooter, but executed slightly different, and done the other way around.
As third the Scorpion Deathdrop, which is basically a reversed DDT.
His character used to be an all American surfboy dude with blonde hair, and an sharp attitude. For years he's been the franchise of WCW, with Ric Flair being the villan, until Hulk Hogan showed up in 1995. Sting then formed a tag team with long time friend Lex Luger. In '96, the whole nWo thing came about, and Sting was set up, which made him unsure of who to trust anymore. So he quit wrestling, got himself a Crow like look and appeared at WCW shows every now and then, watching on the sidelines. He stayed silent for more than a year. Sometimes he would come up from the rafters, or from under the ring, or just from the crowd to attack someone. Usually he did a Scorpion Deathdrop on them, and then left them laying.
In December 1997, he returned to action to take on Hollywood Hogan for the World Heavyweight title at the famous Starrcade PPV. The storyline was that Sting had decided that he didn't like the nWo guys much, and thus declared war on them. Much to the liking of the wrestlers of WCW, of course.
Sting won the belt, and basically put Hogan away. Afterwards, the board decided that it wasn't a clean win (interference from both nWo and WCW members), and so they made the title vacant. That is where Sting spoke for the first time again, calling Dillon (board of directors spokesperson) a man with no guts.
The next PPV there was a rematch, and Hogan lost again. Sting was World Champ for a few months, and was defeated by Macho Man, I believe. With interference from the nWo, of course.
Then friction within the nWo made Kevin Nash and Konnan form the Wolfpac. Luger (from WCW) decided to join them, and through him they got a hold of Sting too. He changed his appearance from black and white, to red and black, sporting the colors of the nWo Wolfpac. In this group, the fans got to see a lot of his old surfboy character shining through, as Sting was suddenly having fun again.
At Halloween Havoc 1998, Sting faced Bret Hart for the US title. Bret Hart being one pissed off dude for not being pushed by the WCW, was on a sort of mission on his own, this being taking out wrestlers left and right, and even helping out the nWo at times. He wasn't a part of them though. So in his match with Sting, he decided to get himself disqualified for beating Sting senseless with Sting's own baseball bat. Sting was out for months after that.
When Sting returned, it was around March 1999, the Wolfpac and the black and white nWo had then merged to become one big heel faction. Sting returned in his black and white attire, being independent once more, and back to the silent thing. We thought.
After appearing in the rafters for a few weeks, he walked out to the ring and grabbed a mic. He cut the best return promo I've ever seen. Seriously. He was all fired up, and definitely on a mission. He called out Diamond Dallas Page who was the current heel World Champ, but Page was chicken. So then Sting decided to interrupt President of WCW Ric Flair during one of his mic time moments, and called him out to a match, because Sting wanted to fight someone. Flair as President, hesitated, but Sting intimidated him. Arn Anderson standing next to Flair would have none of it, and made the deal, and so later on, Sting beat Flair senseless.
The week after, Sting called out Page again, and they had their match, which Sting won and became the World Champ. The main event that night turned out to be a 4 corners match between Sting, the returning Macho Man, DDP and Hogan for that same title, which DDP then won back by pinning Hogan, I believe. That made Sting the shortest reigning World Champ yet. Hogan was injured in that match by DDP, and was out for a long time. Enter Kevin Nash, who was the only one of the heel nWo Wolfpac left not injured. He and DDP fueded and Sting was held out of the World title picture.
Sting then had a feud with Goldberg, and that match was awesome, until Bret Hart decided to stick his nose in and knocked both men out with a chair. The Steiner Brothers (back together and both heel this time) took advantage and beat both Sting and Goldberg up some more.
Sting then had a feud with Rick Steiner, which was pretty cool. Scott Steiner was on the sidelines with a serious back injury. Sting was then put back a little, as he lost a small feud with Sid Viscious (who was introduced into WCW as Macho Man's bodyguard, but quickly went his own way) to put him over.
Another highlight was a 3 partner tag team match with Sting, Goldberg and Hulk Hogan on the same team. 3 generations of franchises fighting together. I liked that one.
Some time later, they made Sting turn heel while Hogan was already turned face again, and put them in a feud. Sting got the World title somehow (I forgot how, I was very annoyed with him being heel) and Sting told Hogan that he had betrayed him back in the days of the nWo and now Sting was gonna return the favor.
As expected, the whole Sting being heel thing didn't fly, and so they slowly made him face again through Lex Luger, who had been a heel for quite some time. Then they had a small feud and that was pretty much it.
Sting disappeared again to make a movie called Shutterspeed. I believe he played the role of the lead cop in it.
After his return, his biggest feud was with Vampiro, who was also a 'dark' character, and goes right up there with the Undertaker, Kane, the Brood and Sting himself. It was an interesting feud. Vampiro called Sting a mere actor, who was trying to play the role of a dark character, while Vampiro claimed to be the real thing. And he was gonna prove that to Sting, too. Great feud, where Sting even made a dive from the titantron while set on fire by Vampiro. Impressive.
That was during the New Blood angle, btw, which was a completely screwed up angle, I'm sure you've heard. It was old guys vs. the new talent, and was just pathetic. They put for example, Hogan in a feud with Billy Kidman, and had Kidman win the match too! heh They also had Chuck Palumbo take on Lex Luger in the same fashion, and Shawn Stasiak do the same thing with Curt Hennig. The only angle in that whole thing that had some quality was Sting vs. Vampiro, right next to the Kevin Nash vs. the heel Goldberg.
After all that, there wasn't much time left for WCW before it was bought by the WWF. Sting had one big feud with Jeff Jarrett, which was awesome. Jarrett had a bunch of phony (sp?) Stings aligned, all from different eras. During their match, they came out to fight Sting. So Sting was essentially fighting himself time after time. It started with the blond haired surfer type of course, all the way to his current look. They even had a Wolfpac Sting come out, with Wolfpac music and all. Sting beat all 6 of them, but was too worn out to pin Jarrett, who decided to end it with a guitar smash. Sting lost the match.
End of 2000, Sting was "put into the hospital" by a raging Scott Steiner, who decided that he wanted to destroy every WCW wrestler there was. After Sting went Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page and Kevin Nash, all put into the hospital by Scott Steiner. And in that order too. But by the time Steiner was done with Nash, Booker T returned from his injury for revenge on Steiner.
Sting returned on the final day of Nitro, to face Ric Flair for one last time for "old times sake". After their match, they hugged, and the emotions were high. It was the end of WCW, the end of a traditional legacy, and the end of many careers.
Sting stayed out of the spot light for a long time. He then appeared in Japan for a few matches and disappeared again. Meanwhile, his real life friend Jeff Jarrett had much success with setting up a new promotion called NWA-TNA. NWA being a part of the history that Sting belonged to, NWA being the company Sting originally wrestled for, which was changed into WCW and thus taken over by Ted Turner somewhere in 1990. The NWA title and the WCW title were unified by in those days, Ric Flair, and the WCW title was the belt they were gonna use from then on. Now being the RAW title.
Jarrett had brought back that belt. That NWA title belt. It dates back all the way into the 1940's (!!!) I believe, the traditional legacy was restored, and so Sting felt that the TNA show was the closest he got to "home". He made and still makes a few appearances there, but hasn't become a part of the active roster. He remains a free agent.
Well, I did all of that from the top of my head, so it may have a few inconsistencies here and there. I hope it helps a bit, lol. I wonder what parts of all this they will put in the movie. I suppose more of the behind the scenes stuff, rather than on screen storyline stuff.
Sting - The Movie 
Im looking forward to seeing this. Thanks for posting.
