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#4 Vince McMahon wanted Sting 'buried'

Sting made his WrestleMania debut for WWE at WrestleMania 31. However, as per Arn Anderson, Vince McMahon wanted to 'bury' Sting and had given instructions to the commentary team to do so during his match with Triple H.

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All it did was give the announcers – and I know this was fed to them – they just buried Sting. ‘Minnow in a big pond.’ Just total condescending. ‘Guy’s out of his element.’ ‘This is WrestleMania now.’ ‘You’re just a small minnow in a huge lake.’”

Sting was an icon in WCW and the last 'big-time' WCW Superstar to have finally joined WWE. Even though Sting is a six-time WCW World Champion, McMahon wanted to show the world that he wasn't at the level of WWE Superstars, as per Arn Anderson.

“They [WCW] led for all those weeks but, in the end, here’s your last remaining guy and he was your biggest star, and we [WWE] just crushed him before your very eyes at the biggest event of the year.” (H/T: SportsKeeda)

Sting is a Hall of Famer and is currently retired from in-ring action.

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