I know he doesn't really matter, but Scott Hudson interview - thinks Sting is useless

[The Great One]

Former WCW announcer Scott Hudson appeared on Inside The Ropes this past Thursday, here are the highlights:

On Sting’s character changing into the Crow gimmick in 1996: "I thought it was brilliant. Sting for better or worse, is never going to be confused with Shawn Michaels or Kenta Kobashi or the great workers of the business. It’s not that Sting was a poor worker but he wasn’t gonna go out there and give you a 5 star match every time he laced up a pair of boots. But the thing that got him over was his charisma. You go back and look at those Sting promos, they weren’t that good either. They were passable promos, some didn’t make any sense but he had such a charisma that he got over. And Eric, to his ever lasting credit, got the idea, he said “What can we do to get Sting over? He’s only getting so hot and then when we try to put him on top, the buyrates go down, the ratings go down, we need to do something to elevate him to where he can become the top guy” And Eric’s idea was, you know everyone likes Sting nobody doesn’t like Sting so Eric thought Sting can’t really work and isn’t that great at promos so how about if we have him not work and not say anything and then he’ll be really over. So that’s what they did. If you go back and look at that whole build up to Starrcade 97, it took him months to even say anything or point the black bat at somebody. And he was never more over than at that time when he didn’t say anything and he didn’t wrestle. That was the most popular he’s ever been.

The comparison between Goldberg and Ryback: "Eric Bischoff was smart enough to know the nWo weren’t gonna last forever so he started building up Goldberg who would go on to be the over arching storyline and I guess be the Hulk Hogan of 1985 in WCW in 1998. That was a terrific way to use him, but then by comparison, you look at Ryback right now in the WWE, who is so obviously a knock off of what we did with Goldberg and if he’s over at all, and I question whether or not he is, he’s nowhere near as over as Goldberg was. And it’s because we booked Goldberg correctly. He never lost, that was the whole gimmick and the minute he lost he lost that luster. Well Ryback has been beaten by, who knows, Santino Marella? Lilian Garcia? who knows, he’s been beaten by everybody. You know, we let Goldberg be the monster and beat up everybody. They tried to make Ryback a monster and he gets beaten up. Nobody buys that. That gimmick only has a certain shelf life unless you build him as this incredible monster and we built Goldberg perfectly only to screw it up with that finger poke of doom and stuff."

Can't believe how much he shytted on Sting here and how much Eric Bischoff stooging there is.

 

[Henzo]

He was on that montreal theory dvd... I don't remember a damn thing he said

 

[Mr.Black]

its all true

sting WAS most popular when he didnt say shyt

now he's an old balding flabby and sick guy with shytty facepaint and a tshirt

and I like sting but its the truth

 

[hazardous]

He was on that montreal theory dvd... I don't remember a damn thing he said

is that worth watching?

 

[puppetmaster]

Its so comical reading Meltzer drones and nobodies act as if Sting was some blind squirell who stumbled upon an acorn in 1997 and ignoring his body of work that its not even worth it to debate at this point like clearly a prime Rick Rude, Vader, Muta, Cactus Jack, Flair, the top 3 angle Hogan has ever been involved in, DDP's best match of his life, the Horsemen foil, the dude people cheered over Goldberg during Goldberg's "prime" all wrestled themselves basically, crowd was disappointed in 2011 that he didn't sign WWE for Taker which was 9 years after he was irrelevant supposedly.


I enjoy these kinda articles these days for the comedy












-P-

 

[Henzo]

is that worth watching?

I liked Disc 1, it was a good run-down of what happened

Disc 2 got kinda tedious. But I would say it's worth watching for free

One of the things I got out of it is how creepy a guy Kevin Kelly strikes me as

 

[R=G]

When was Scott Hudson ever popular though?

 

[The Great One]

When was Scott Hudson ever popular though?

He was the only WCW announcer WWE brought in, at least for a week anyway.

I was never a fan.

 

[Mr.Black]

He was the only WCW announcer WWE brought in, at least for a week anyway.

I was never a fan.

 

[The Great One]

When they bought WCW :danielsfu:

 

[Grifter]

He’s only getting so hot and then when we try to put him on top, the buyrates go down, the ratings go down, we need to do something to elevate him to where he can become the top guy”

I thought this was the case for both companies pre-NWO?

 

[Cheercomp]

Its so comical reading Meltzer drones and nobodies act as if Sting was some blind squirell who stumbled upon an acorn in 1997 and ignoring his body of work that its not even worth it to debate at this point like clearly a prime Rick Rude, Vader, Muta, Cactus Jack, Flair, the top 3 angle Hogan has ever been involved in, DDP's best match of his life, the Horsemen foil, the dude people cheered over Goldberg during Goldberg's "prime" all wrestled themselves basically, crowd was disappointed in 2011 that he didn't sign WWE for Taker which was 9 years after he was irrelevant supposedly.

I enjoy these kinda articles these days for the comedy

-P-

Thank you
Folks act like anyone could have stepped into the Crow Sting role and made it work. Sting as the silent watchman only works b/c of his legacy and how different this new role is. If Orton stopped talking and wrestling, folks would turn the channel so quick....

 

[Roman Brady]

sting is really lame, I really hate that thing he does with his voice when hes trying to be intense.Out of all the legends that hung around past their sell by date hed have to be the worse,Cuz he rarely put on clinics. In fact I am struggling to recall a classic he participated in