5 reasons Sting will not win the WWE World Title at Night of Champions
Sting with the WWE World Heavyweight ChampionshipSting is back in WWE and the Icon is out for vengeance on Seth Rollins. For months, Sting has sat back and watched Rollins make a mockery of the industry’s most storied championship while proclaiming his stature as WWE’s greatest champion of all time.The vigilante has heard enough though and now Seth’s day of reckoning is at hand coming up on September 20’s Night of Champions. But despite how many fans would love to see the former NWA and WCW champ hoist the third of the epic triple crown with the WWE World Title, it’s likely not happening. While anything is possible in Vince McMahon’s company, there are too many variables to prevent the strap from changing hands. It’s not that Sting is not worthy of the championship of course. He’s done it all in his 30 year career; he’s worked main event matches all over the globe, he’s a 14-time world champion and he was the face of a once powerful pro wrestling company. He has earned the respect of fans and his peers alike.Of all the legendary stars to step through the ropes before and after Sting, there’s no one with quite the level of professionalism and accomplishment that he has. Wearing the gold of the world’s top wrestling company now that he’s surely close to the end of his ring career is the ultimate reward and he deserves it.But deserving it and actually doing it are two entirely different things. Sting’s contributions to the business and his hall of fame career cannot be denied, but they do not guarantee a title win over Seth Rollins. This may or may not be Sting’s farewell tour but either way, he will end it without having won the coveted WWE world title.
#5 His part-time status may not change
If anyone in the WWE locker room has earned the right to dictate his work schedule, it’s Sting. 30 years and icon status will do that for you. Unlike others that have left to pursue endeavors outside the business, Sting is a lifer and he likely always will be.
But the WWE world heavyweight champion should be a full-time talent. The belt is too important and the focus is too intense to relegate the champ’s work to pay-per-views only. This may have been the model WWE followed when Brock Lesnar held the strap, but that is a much different situation.
Lesnar’s part-time schedule was explained using his prize fighter status as the reason. Paul Heyman spoke in his absence and the effort was made to keep Lesnar part of the product. However, fans were split on whether or not this was a good idea. Many felt Brock should have been used more, that WWE needed its champion and the belt was losing its value.
The debate raged nearly the entire time Brock held the title but once Seth Rollins took the belt at WrestleMania 31, the debate ended. Rollins brought the championship back to WWE and that’s where it should stay. Though Sting would surely treat the title with respect and WWE would likely use him more, the Icon would probably not come back on a full time basis.
Sting’s title run would obviously be just a way to get from point A to point B and he would be just a placeholder in the meantime.