Yet their matches were pure garbage.....If there were 2 people who should have never had any matches together its Sting and Vampiro. Everyone from WCW around that time said so and, even Sting himself has said they were terrible matches because they really had no chemistry.
These videos, this entire channel, gives me such a deeper appreciation for the things I witnessed in my childhood. I'm 30 now, so I was literally just a kid when this was all going down, but to reflect on it all these years later is such a wonderful dopamine hit of nostalgia. Thank you so much for all the work WB!
I think they pulled the trigger too early with Vampiro turning on Sting. I think it needed to go on a longer like Sting mentoring Vampiro to his dark ways and how to get to the next level and maybe help with his promo skills. When Vampiro would turn on Sting it could show that Vampiro was the future and learnt all he could from Sting and to put him down and show Sting had gone soft and was no longer WCW's saviour. I also dont think those two needed to be in the New Blood v Millionaires Club feud they should of been separate from that angle full with mind games from one another trying to get into each others heads. Id also have Vampiro go over clean which would benefit him greatly. Also Vampiro looks like prototype Damian Priest
Vampiro was over as a face before the reboot, he should have been pushed and won the US title and then eventually the Heavyweight title, he got loud pops.
I absolutely agree. I remember thinking it was all kind of sudden. The best way to split partners I feel is to plant the seed that it’s gonna happen and turn it into a slow burn. Honestly, it’s what I feel will happen with Sting and Darby in AEW.
I really love the remixes used in this channel. That Sting/Foo Fighters remix at the end was so good and I wish the full version was available to listen.
And you probably don't know a damn thing about the company let me guess everything you get is from the network right oh but WWE has never made a mistake in their life😂😂
Can you imagine if Vampiro had debuted in WWF under Gangrel's Brood with Edge and Christian? Always felt that he could have been way bigger if he'd been handled well, just needed the right place and the right time with the right story.
From the Brothers of Paint to heated rivals in WCW, this was a storyline I followed back when I was 15. Even though World Championship Wrestling was falling apart, it was great
Seriously? I was at a few of the events during this, vampiro had zero mic skills, kept calling sting , Steve, and sting was promoted but never showed at atleast 3 of these dates, yes live events. If memory serves it was richmond va, Norfolk va, Roanoke va, or something like that. But it was heavily pre taped. Cause vampiro couldn't cut it live on the promos.
Regarding Sting being protective of the face paint. ICP also mentioned in a shoot interview for Kayfabe Commentaries that Sting apparently said to them that he had trademarked the facepaint, and their look was gimmick infingement. To which they apparently replied that they hope his trademark goes all the way back to about 1991 when they started performing with that look.
@@tylerdalton6940 I never said it was anything more than what ICP claimed in an interview. Although it does to an extent corroborate what Vampiro claimed about Sting taking issue with his face paint. Sting also has gone on record that he was drinking heavily and using pain pills during that period. Not just in the run up to Starrcade 97, but throughout most of the tail end of his WCW run. So he may not have been the easiest to deal with depending on his mood that day.
Let's give Vamp some credit. I'm sure he was dealing with 15 broken bones, amnesia, alzheimers, and torn ACL. Also heard he saved 4 dogs from a burning building around this time, while curing cancer and AIDS.
I wish Vampiro wasn't fighting so many demons around this time. He could've had a fantastic program with Sting and his future pretty much set. He was amazing in Mexico.
Eh, according to Sting they had no chemistry and Vampiro has quite the reputation as a fraud and an overall douche so I can only imagine it wouldn't have worked out anyway.
Yeah by like 2004 is slowly declined, by 2010, it became unwatchable for me. So I stopped watching, tried watching again in like 2013, seeing pee wee Herman and grumpy cat hosting raw, so I didn’t watch, been watching again for about 8 months, but only AEW here and there, wwe i have completely written off,
Got so bored of WWE, I quit watching over a decade ago, pushing wrestlers who suck, storylines that had no hype, crushing great talent coz they couldn't talk on promo's or fit Vince's model of an ideal body. That's why, wCw, ECW, RoH, NJPW, will never be "Abysmal" in my memories, they promoted wrestlers who could wrestle, it was backstage B.S. that ruined what could of been ...
I remember there was also a moment when Terry Funk and Vampiro went out of the ring, on the street near the truck and Vampiro wanted to set Terry Funk on fire, but Sting appeared and prevented it.
@@kingragnar8023 What I actually meant when I said "quick" was, that I thought Wrestling Bios would do videos about rivalries involving Sting that took place before this rivalry. Like Sting vs Daimond Dallas Page, Sting vs Goldberg, Sting vs Kevin Nash, Sting vs Scott Hall, Sting vs Randy Savage, Sting vs Sid Vicious. All those rivalries took place before "Sting vs Vampiro". I thought a video about Sting vs Vampiro would be made by Wrestling Bios later on, due to the fact that "Sting vs Vampiro" was Sting's last important rivalry in WCW as WCW was about to close it's doors in March 2001.
They should have had both Sting and Vampiro become the WCW Tag Team Champions as The Brothers In Paint and then eventually have them fued against each other . I think that would have definitely given them considerably more time to develop much better chemistry together in the build up to them facing each other in a series of matches. If they had done this than the overall quality of their various wrestling bouts would have been immensely better than it actually turned out.
I think that Vampiro would definitely be better suited for the WWF during the Attitude Era. He could either be an apprentice studying under the sinister eyes of The Undertaker & the Ministry of Darkness or perhaps he could turn against Taker and have the two square off in Wrestlemania 15 or any other PPVs at the time. Maybe he could be part of a tag team/rivalry between him and Gangrel.
It was okay. The heel really needs to gain some credibility early in the feud though so they're seen as a proper threat. Sting really didn't give Vampiro much.
Vampiro is extremely underrated and he is a dope wrestler personality and his goth style is so cool 😎. Where on the opposite side sting tool his gimmick from the crow movie and I like sting as well but vampiro is authentic in his darkness and character period .
I always remember the graveyard segment where Vampiro smashes the tombstone over Stings head. I wonder “how the hell does Sting walk away from that?”He should be in the hospital!
Not sure if you have done this topic before, but it would be fun to see you look at the WWF referee strike story line from 2000 (I think). It was a fun idea that intersected with the numerous other storylines.
Yeah is like Andrade where they are so used to cutting promos on Spanish once they start cutting promos in English it feels very off would of worked if Vampiro had a manger doing the talking honestly.
Pretty hypocritical for Sting to have an issue with the dark image and face paint. Especially when he borrowed his white face paint and black leather trenchcoat gimmick from the movie The Crow.
Sting really phoned it in for the last 2 years in WCW. He was just collecting a paycheck. He was so much better when he returned to TNA in 2006. He looked in much better shape, was moving around better and having good matches with everyone.
Good video. Presented very well. My only problem with this feud really is the lack of victories for Vampiro. I had grown up a huge fan of Sting and was becoming a huge fan of Vampiro's so having a well established guy like Sting push Vampiro more would have done wonders, WCW dropped the ball on this one.
The reasons I remember this rivalry. 1. Since June 6. 1998, it was the only wCw Nitro my VHS + Cable TV failed me. 2. Missed all the 1hr replay after "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" ran 1hr over. 3. Had a guy who's sister worked for GTV9 and stole the master back-up VHS
I was a huge Sting fan as a kid, and I can confirm that at the time I thought Vampiro was a dime store version of Crow Sting, so Sting's worries about the paint were probably right.
Superb video yet again. A great content uploader. Do you mind me throwing something at you? **The 5 most important matches in XXX's career.** After watching so many of your vids.. Now and then, there are matches that change a persons place within wrestling.. and at times.. it doesn't even have to envolve them (Lex Lugger getting boo'ed and then WWF moving over to Brett and Brett didn't need to be in the ring) There is a lot of luck when it comes to certain peoples runs or squashes and it would be interesting to see who got on top or missed it due to XXX reasons.. It might be something to run after your 101 projects you have at the moment and worth jotting down for a later date.. Also.. As you're still well in to the WCW v WWF/E.. You can clock the ones from now on to use later. Again. Superb uploads. Thank you for your hard work.
@@maodijong3661 Ultimately Sting was still the icon and I wouldn't have put Vampiro over at the end of the feud, but Christ, give him something and let him build some credibility and some heat with Sting before you put them in a program tagging or feuding lol. I dont personally believe being part of a stable with ICP gave Vampiro much credibility
I haven't seen the episode in a long time but I think the feud actually started during the spring break episode of Nitro! Sting and Vampiro won, Both with Sting pinning Luger at the beach while Vampiro simultaneously pinned Flair back in the ring. They played Stings music and announced Sting had gotten the pin fall and I remember Vampiro looking pissed or jealous that he wasn't the winner for their team, pretty sure it started there.
I was born in 2000 at the tail end of the monday night wars. I grew up watching the RA era with a Evolution ran Monday Night Raw and a Smackdown that had legends every week like Hulk Hogan Eddie Guerrero and the Undertaker. Your channel has been a great way for me to learn about all of the wrestling before my time.
17:20 you have to remember though, multiple wrestlers had creative control in their contract. So you really can’t blame Vince Russo for how some of these feuds ended.
With these creative control clauses that ultimately became WCW’s undoing, I wonder if the reason Vince creatively dictated over most of his talents’ presentation post-WCW buyout so much til his retirement was his way of avoiding having another ‘That doesn’t work for me brother!’ headache but swinging way too far in the other direction in response.
Seeing the Reactions from Schiavone Hudson and Madden after the Inferno Match at Great American Bash 2000 is Hilarious I'm like what did you guys expect the goal of an Inferno Match is to set our opponent on 🔥
I was watching WCW at the time, and I got to say this felt like this fued was below Sting at the time. Vampiro did not seem like he was on Stings level at all. The fued became quite boring quickly
Vampiro was one of the best things in WCW in 1999/2000. Very interesting guy/mic work/character/in ring work. Definitely not a type guy by any stretch but very solid.
The thing that I really love about Wrestling is that these are grown MEN doing EXACTLY what my friends I would when we would pretend we were Ninjas in Naruto and created our own characters from dseparate hidden villages and doing the Chunin Exams and even acted out scenes from the manga and or created new villains and starting wars each other. Wrestling is literally just the Adult version of that. Childhood…😌
You see the thing was nobody in America unless they were watching Mexican wrestling their whole life, understand how big Vampiro was in Mexico. He had Hogan size fame in Mexico.
To me this was the best rivalry in the whole new blood era. It made since at least because of their gimmicks. It’s the only rivalry that stuck in my mind when I think about this era of WCW.
I was zoning out on WCW at the time, but putting all the stars on one side as heels was dumb. People aren't just gonna suddenly boo Sting and cheer a faction headed by Bischoff and Russo
I know Sting can’t really go, but I would have loved this for the beginning of his AEW run vs Darby. Just a one off, cinematic match and Darby earns his respect. Darby wins, Sting is down to a knee, then Darby picks him up, then that leads to their partnership.
Watched Sting all throughout my childhood, the guy never hit a splash outside the ring. He took the guardrail to the ribs every. single. time.
Watch the Sting vs. Triple H match. He does it over DX
He did it when he was in TNA too.
This was one of the most bizarre feuds I remember.
and i always remember never go for a 3rd stinger splash! lmao
Why would he hit one? It would be a dangerous move. To do it safely, would make it look really terrible
Vampiro was so underrated. His feud with Sting was one of the few good things WCW had going for it in 2000.
Yet their matches were pure garbage.....If there were 2 people who should have never had any matches together its Sting and Vampiro. Everyone from WCW around that time said so and, even Sting himself has said they were terrible matches because they really had no chemistry.
Nah Kaynen is right, it was awesome.
They did Vampiro dirty. Vampiro is an amazing wrestler! He's huge in Mexico, he could of been HUGE in the USA! But WCW robbed him.
I hated that freak..
WWE was worse for not even wanting to sign him. 🤦🏻
Huge in Mexico meant nothing to anywhere else
Look at Konan for instance
He sucked
Sting is egoistic bastard...
These videos, this entire channel, gives me such a deeper appreciation for the things I witnessed in my childhood. I'm 30 now, so I was literally just a kid when this was all going down, but to reflect on it all these years later is such a wonderful dopamine hit of nostalgia. Thank you so much for all the work WB!
I’m 31 I get it 💯
I think they pulled the trigger too early with Vampiro turning on Sting. I think it needed to go on a longer like Sting mentoring Vampiro to his dark ways and how to get to the next level and maybe help with his promo skills. When Vampiro would turn on Sting it could show that Vampiro was the future and learnt all he could from Sting and to put him down and show Sting had gone soft and was no longer WCW's saviour.
I also dont think those two needed to be in the New Blood v Millionaires Club feud they should of been separate from that angle full with mind games from one another trying to get into each others heads. Id also have Vampiro go over clean which would benefit him greatly.
Also Vampiro looks like prototype Damian Priest
Yea but they needed something
Vampiro was over as a face before the reboot, he should have been pushed and won the US title and then eventually the Heavyweight title, he got loud pops.
I absolutely agree. I remember thinking it was all kind of sudden. The best way to split partners I feel is to plant the seed that it’s gonna happen and turn it into a slow burn. Honestly, it’s what I feel will happen with Sting and Darby in AEW.
Permission to break the 69 likes
>pull the trigger too early
Yep, WCW.
Genuinely the best wrestling channel on TH-cam right now man, great content!
Brian Zane and I would like a word with you.
I really love the remixes used in this channel. That Sting/Foo Fighters remix at the end was so good and I wish the full version was available to listen.
..cause of the unknown WCW storys.🤘🏻
@@tombstonejones9581
Yes, of course. I was just being a smart-ass. 😜
I always liked Vampiro. I always thought there was a lot of potential, but WCW had to be WCW.
Facts
He was ass lmao
@FɨɇɍɏƗnsŧɨnȼŧ They were modern WWE before Modern WWE came into existence.
@@Lakeshow11 nope
And you probably don't know a damn thing about the company let me guess everything you get is from the network right oh but WWE has never made a mistake in their life😂😂
Can you imagine if Vampiro had debuted in WWF under Gangrel's Brood with Edge and Christian? Always felt that he could have been way bigger if he'd been handled well, just needed the right place and the right time with the right story.
Vampiro was so fuck8ng cool
And i think gangrel and him
Would of had a clash ..
He'd be a 3rd world champion that Gangrel indirectly produced.
Loved Vampiro then, love Vampiro now. He should be on the list of greatest Canadian wrestlers.
He sucked
I thought vampiro was Mexican
@@dewywentz4262 nah he just made his name in Mexico originally. He's from Canada tho
Odd dude, but always loved the gimmick and his work.
From the Brothers of Paint to heated rivals in WCW, this was a storyline I followed back when I was 15. Even though World Championship Wrestling was falling apart, it was great
Anyone notice this is Darby Allen and Sting rn
Darby Allen is vampiro?
I didn't notice without his dreads
@@haydenyork8414 darby allen cant be taken seriously. vampiro could. these small guys are weak
Seriously? I was at a few of the events during this, vampiro had zero mic skills, kept calling sting , Steve, and sting was promoted but never showed at atleast 3 of these dates, yes live events. If memory serves it was richmond va, Norfolk va, Roanoke va, or something like that. But it was heavily pre taped. Cause vampiro couldn't cut it live on the promos.
Regarding Sting being protective of the face paint. ICP also mentioned in a shoot interview for Kayfabe Commentaries that Sting apparently said to them that he had trademarked the facepaint, and their look was gimmick infingement. To which they apparently replied that they hope his trademark goes all the way back to about 1991 when they started performing with that look.
And you don’t know if that’s true or not besides them everyone says sting was a super nice guy in wcw and he never left for wwf
@@tylerdalton6940 I never said it was anything more than what ICP claimed in an interview. Although it does to an extent corroborate what Vampiro claimed about Sting taking issue with his face paint.
Sting also has gone on record that he was drinking heavily and using pain pills during that period. Not just in the run up to Starrcade 97, but throughout most of the tail end of his WCW run. So he may not have been the easiest to deal with depending on his mood that day.
@@brutallyhonest123 To be fair, it's only the original 1996 design that actually looks like the crow. He's changed it up quite a bit over the years.
@@brutallyhonest123 technically... It all originated from James O Barr's Crow comic book... soooooo... Lol just sayin..
To win a house of pain match you have to rap Jump Around perfectly word for word.
Let's give Vamp some credit. I'm sure he was dealing with 15 broken bones, amnesia, alzheimers, and torn ACL. Also heard he saved 4 dogs from a burning building around this time, while curing cancer and AIDS.
X-Pac can vouch for him. He was there for all of it.
Wait is vamp some kind of schizo? This is lore I need to have.
that's purely speculation
probably one of the most underrated rivalries of the early 2000s....
Basically, The Crow vs. The Crow 2: City of Angels
😂🤣
I enjoyed the sequel; the other movies thou...
He is the ash of wrestling
I'm deceased. 😅
The crow vs the vampire
Yeah, it definitely had its hot and cold moments for me, especially as a huge fan of Sting, and a growing fan of Vampiro
I wish Vampiro wasn't fighting so many demons around this time. He could've had a fantastic program with Sting and his future pretty much set. He was amazing in Mexico.
Eh, according to Sting they had no chemistry and Vampiro has quite the reputation as a fraud and an overall douche so I can only imagine it wouldn't have worked out anyway.
I loved this feud. But they could've done more with The Great Muta like a side feud with someone who decided to join Sting in the fight.
Now I'm wondering how cool it could of been if ; Sting, The Great Muta, Vampiro, and Tajiri, all joined forces in some way ...??
The so called "Abysmal" WCW years was a lot more entertaining than WWE's output for the last decade and a half.
Last decade? Man idk about that, last half decade most definitely
Yeah by like 2004 is slowly declined, by 2010, it became unwatchable for me. So I stopped watching, tried watching again in like 2013, seeing pee wee Herman and grumpy cat hosting raw, so I didn’t watch, been watching again for about 8 months, but only AEW here and there, wwe i have completely written off,
Very original comment. Never heard that before
Yeah it was hokey as hell back then but at least it wasnt boring like the wwe today..lol..
Got so bored of WWE, I quit watching over a decade ago, pushing wrestlers who suck, storylines that had no hype, crushing great talent coz they couldn't talk on promo's or fit Vince's model of an ideal body. That's why, wCw, ECW, RoH, NJPW, will never be "Abysmal" in my memories, they promoted wrestlers who could wrestle, it was backstage B.S. that ruined what could of been ...
I Don't Say this Easily or Often...But this is the BEST Wrestling Related Channel on TH-cam.
My primary memory of this feud was Sting being covered in ''blood' and then wrestling two nights later on Thunder still covered in it.
I remember there was also a moment when Terry Funk and Vampiro went out of the ring, on the street near the truck and Vampiro wanted to set Terry Funk on fire, but Sting appeared and prevented it.
I watched the PPV before this upload and, dang, it was a lot better than anticipated
I know I'm not the only one who just likes the video before you watch it. You just know it's going to be good and well researched.
Remarkable video! The rivalry between Sting vs Vampiro we're legendary. RIP WCW
That picture with Vampiro backstage with the Misfits and Doyle is standing right behind Vampiro with that matching face paint it looks awesome
I really liked this rivalry. Didn't expect Wrestling Bios to do a video about it so quick as it was a rivalry that took place near WCW's end.
It was 21 yrs ago
@@kingragnar8023 What I actually meant when I said "quick" was, that I thought Wrestling Bios would do videos about rivalries involving Sting that took place before this rivalry.
Like Sting vs Daimond Dallas Page, Sting vs Goldberg, Sting vs Kevin Nash, Sting vs Scott Hall, Sting vs Randy Savage, Sting vs Sid Vicious.
All those rivalries took place before "Sting vs Vampiro".
I thought a video about Sting vs Vampiro would be made by Wrestling Bios later on, due to the fact that "Sting vs Vampiro" was Sting's last important rivalry in WCW as WCW was about to close it's doors in March 2001.
I just found my WCW Vampiro action figure the other day. He's a pretty awesome action figure. One of the few WCW figures I still had.
Great feud and Vampiro is underrated.
Yes he is
They should have had both Sting and Vampiro become the WCW Tag Team Champions as The Brothers In Paint and then eventually have them fued against each other . I think that would have definitely given them considerably more time to develop much better chemistry together in the build up to them facing each other in a series of matches. If they had done this than the overall quality of their various wrestling bouts would have been immensely better than it actually turned out.
This rivalry was everything to me as a kid 🔥🔥 thnx for this one
14:50 that spin kick looked clean
You gotta give that stunt man credit 👏 💯 that would be a terrifying drop especially if u were on fire
Again I wanna thank you so much for all the great content and finally doing this video thank you.
It was a good feud!
*But then again Sting ALWAYS had good feuds and great matches*
I think that Vampiro would definitely be better suited for the WWF during the Attitude Era. He could either be an apprentice studying under the sinister eyes of The Undertaker & the Ministry of Darkness or perhaps he could turn against Taker and have the two square off in Wrestlemania 15 or any other PPVs at the time. Maybe he could be part of a tag team/rivalry between him and Gangrel.
Being undertaker's son would have been an interesting angle I think
I Loved this feud at the time, but in hindsight, it wasnt as good as I remember. Thank you for putting this together!
Really loving this channels content - could you cover D’lo Brown at some point ?
I’d love a video (or 2 or 3) on D’Lo Brown. And a few on one of my Attitude Era favorites, Ken Shamrock.
You know considering all the nonsense in wcw at the time the Vampiro vs Sting rivalry was actually very good
I thought it was solid Russo ruined a few things
It was okay. The heel really needs to gain some credibility early in the feud though so they're seen as a proper threat. Sting really didn't give Vampiro much.
This was the only rivalry in WCW 2000 that was good.
Goldberg And Scott Steiner?
@@a-trax3971 That was a WCW 2000 that is a prime example of A+ in concept, but a massive F in the execution.
Also Booker T vs Scott Steiner
How embarrassing for WCW.
@@derrickhaggard Goldberg and Steiner was a decent feud, and they were having an awesome match at Fall Brawl until the overbooked horseshit finish.
Vampiro is extremely underrated and he is a dope wrestler personality and his goth style is so cool 😎. Where on the opposite side sting tool his gimmick from the crow movie and I like sting as well but vampiro is authentic in his darkness and character period .
Didn't expect this, great video
I always remember the graveyard segment where Vampiro smashes the tombstone over Stings head. I wonder “how the hell does Sting walk away from that?”He should be in the hospital!
The problem with this feud is sting kept winning which made vampiro look weak.
So true. Vampiro should have won at Slamboree.
Like Daniel Cormier once said: "If you lose twice, that ain't a rivalry".
Finally! I've been waiting for you to get to this. :-)
Not sure if you have done this topic before, but it would be fun to see you look at the WWF referee strike story line from 2000 (I think). It was a fun idea that intersected with the numerous other storylines.
It was 1999
In 1999
Wait………..was it in 1999??
8:04 that orange button down over the white t-shirt is the most early 2000’s thing in existence.
Vampiro had a hard time on the mic because he did promos in Mexico for so long his cadence was a bit off.
Yeah is like Andrade where they are so used to cutting promos on Spanish once they start cutting promos in English it feels very off would of worked if Vampiro had a manger doing the talking honestly.
Vampiro is Canadian lol
@@oliverdavies45 ?
@@oliverdavies45 A Canadian who worked mostly in Mexico before WCW. Nice gotcha attempt though...
@@Bubba__SawyerI am a native Italian and I consume so much content in English that sometimes even my cadence is off in my native language.
The speed at which Sting hits the mat at 10:13 is kind of scary quick. My knees buckled form seeing the impact
Sting wanting to own face paint is like Hulk telling everyone not to do a leg drop.
“You can see the disappointment in both the mans faces.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Been waiting for this one! Thank you.
Lmfao Sting & Vampiro. Never knew that was a tag team. Ya learn something new everyday with Wrestling Bios!! Go support his patreon!
I was at the taping of Thunder when vampiro lit the announce table on fire. It was at the Knoxville Coliseum, in Knoxville Tn.
Pretty hypocritical for Sting to have an issue with the dark image and face paint. Especially when he borrowed his white face paint and black leather trenchcoat gimmick from the movie The Crow.
In his defense, it's not like Brandon Lee was wrestling in WCW at the same time
Love the way you approach your topics and how you do the vids. Thank you very much!
Whether WWE, WCW, TNA, AAA, NJPW, or Lucha Underground. Vampiro will always be know as a great wrestler
Vampiro never wrestled for WWE.
Great topic for a video man! I'm dying to get your take on it
As a wrestling fan, the sting vs. Vampiro stuff was great stuff
32 yrs old. Grew up both Wwe and WcW as well, Good times... for wcw I loved the Sting/Vampiro angle
Sting really phoned it in for the last 2 years in WCW. He was just collecting a paycheck. He was so much better when he returned to TNA in 2006. He looked in much better shape, was moving around better and having good matches with everyone.
Sting vs. Vampiro is probably the ONLY thing that I actually liked about WCW 2000.
Sting didn't like it
@@NickTaylorRickPowers why ?
Same here. WCW started going down the 🚽🪠 in late 1998
@@kaminator515 Facts
The memories of 2000, this was my Era of WCW
Ryan never fails to entertain... even does the rubbish ones justice! Respect for that brother!
Never knew what happened between these two man it could have been so much better, the potential to be a great rivalry.
Good video. Presented very well. My only problem with this feud really is the lack of victories for Vampiro. I had grown up a huge fan of Sting and was becoming a huge fan of Vampiro's so having a well established guy like Sting push Vampiro more would have done wonders, WCW dropped the ball on this one.
The reasons I remember this rivalry.
1. Since June 6. 1998, it was the only wCw Nitro my VHS + Cable TV failed me.
2. Missed all the 1hr replay after "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" ran 1hr over.
3. Had a guy who's sister worked for GTV9 and stole the master back-up VHS
Thank you so much wrestling BIOS for finally uploading this video I've been asking for. You are the man.
I’ve been asking for 2 cold Scorpio for 2 years
We can make it happen. Every video comment on and ask for it. I literally commented on every video. For months
loved this fued as a kid, i have a vivid memory of watching a backstage brawl with these two where someone throws an axe into a cubicle door lol
Wasn't born during this era but looking at these two dark gothic badasses ! I bet girls used go crazy over these two.
What If we get Sting & Darby Allin vs. Vampiro & Pentagon Jr in AEW in a Zero Medo match 🙏
Vampiro retired. He has been having too many medical issues.
I was a huge Sting fan as a kid, and I can confirm that at the time I thought Vampiro was a dime store version of Crow Sting, so Sting's worries about the paint were probably right.
Bischoff also talked about that opinion as well during his Starrcade 1999 83 Weeks episodes
Vampiro was an original
Sting was a crow impersantor
People who think this tend to know zero about the misfits and punk rock to understand vampiro's look
Crow sting was more a rip off of vamp than vice-versa
Yeah Vampiro had that look and character waaaaaay before Sting and honestly their characters were very different.
Superb video yet again. A great content uploader.
Do you mind me throwing something at you?
**The 5 most important matches in XXX's career.**
After watching so many of your vids.. Now and then, there are matches that change a persons place within wrestling.. and at times.. it doesn't even have to envolve them (Lex Lugger getting boo'ed and then WWF moving over to Brett and Brett didn't need to be in the ring)
There is a lot of luck when it comes to certain peoples runs or squashes and it would be interesting to see who got on top or missed it due to XXX reasons..
It might be something to run after your 101 projects you have at the moment and worth jotting down for a later date..
Also.. As you're still well in to the WCW v WWF/E.. You can clock the ones from now on to use later.
Again. Superb uploads.
Thank you for your hard work.
To me it consistently felt like Sting was using his pull to protect his gimmick in the booking.
Yep, Sting should have put Vampiro over if Vampiro was to be taken seriously.
@@maodijong3661 Ultimately Sting was still the icon and I wouldn't have put Vampiro over at the end of the feud, but Christ, give him something and let him build some credibility and some heat with Sting before you put them in a program tagging or feuding lol. I dont personally believe being part of a stable with ICP gave Vampiro much credibility
@@JohnDoe-ym5ly yeah, Sting could've won the feud but at least let the guy get something over on you.
I haven't seen the episode in a long time but I think the feud actually started during the spring break episode of Nitro! Sting and Vampiro won, Both with Sting pinning Luger at the beach while Vampiro simultaneously pinned Flair back in the ring. They played Stings music and announced Sting had gotten the pin fall and I remember Vampiro looking pissed or jealous that he wasn't the winner for their team, pretty sure it started there.
I was born in 2000 at the tail end of the monday night wars. I grew up watching the RA era with a Evolution ran Monday Night Raw and a Smackdown that had legends every week like Hulk Hogan Eddie Guerrero and the Undertaker.
Your channel has been a great way for me to learn about all of the wrestling before my time.
17:20 you have to remember though, multiple wrestlers had creative control in their contract. So you really can’t blame Vince Russo for how some of these feuds ended.
With these creative control clauses that ultimately became WCW’s undoing, I wonder if the reason Vince creatively dictated over most of his talents’ presentation post-WCW buyout so much til his retirement was his way of avoiding having another ‘That doesn’t work for me brother!’ headache but swinging way too far in the other direction in response.
wwf : brother of destruction
wcw : brother of paint
Seeing the Reactions from Schiavone Hudson and Madden after the Inferno Match at Great American Bash 2000 is Hilarious I'm like what did you guys expect the goal of an Inferno Match is to set our opponent on 🔥
I was watching WCW at the time, and I got to say this felt like this fued was below Sting at the time. Vampiro did not seem like he was on Stings level at all. The fued became quite boring quickly
Vampiro was one of the best things in WCW in 1999/2000. Very interesting guy/mic work/character/in ring work. Definitely not a type guy by any stretch but very solid.
I liked this feud especially the whole Vampiro capturing the crow and was going to eat it until Sting showed up was just awesome
Best WCW rivalry ever. And I'm dead serious.
Great video, by the way!
The thing that I really love about Wrestling is that these are grown MEN doing EXACTLY what my friends I would when we would pretend we were Ninjas in Naruto and created our own characters from dseparate hidden villages and doing the Chunin Exams and even acted out scenes from the manga and or created new villains and starting wars each other. Wrestling is literally just the Adult version of that.
Childhood…😌
You see the thing was nobody in America unless they were watching Mexican wrestling their whole life, understand how big Vampiro was in Mexico. He had Hogan size fame in Mexico.
Sting and Vampiro Were Legendary
Thank you so much for covering this. Will always remember that feud.
I always thought it was one of the more underrated rivalries.
ONE OF THE BEST WCW RIVALITY
This feud was a fever dream
WCW lighting an presentation is still top tier and that's crazy
What's that creepy music that you used during the last few minutes of the video?
Great upload!!! Thank You 😀
To me this was the best rivalry in the whole new blood era. It made since at least because of their gimmicks.
It’s the only rivalry that stuck in my mind when I think about this era of WCW.
I was zoning out on WCW at the time, but putting all the stars on one side as heels was dumb. People aren't just gonna suddenly boo Sting and cheer a faction headed by Bischoff and Russo
What if Vampiro went to WWF and joined the ministry of darkness
It probably would have sucked. Vampire could’ve joined the Brood.
Yeah I think he would have been a better fit for the brood, too
christian and vampiro would he greatest tag team of all time
@@th3gr81 nah. vampiro is way more gothic than the brood. the brood looked way to sophisticated and clean. vampiro was more hardcore
It would have ended the same. "I was me Austin! It was me, all along!"
Even as a Die-hard Stinger Fan, I feel like Vampiro should've won more matches for credibility and building..
Another awesome upload. From “the dark days” of WCW.
I know Sting can’t really go, but I would have loved this for the beginning of his AEW run vs Darby. Just a one off, cinematic match and Darby earns his respect. Darby wins, Sting is down to a knee, then Darby picks him up, then that leads to their partnership.
Wcw in 2000 is better than wwe from 2018 to now
ECW and WCW on their last legs was way better than anything WWE has been doing recently
@@Kas58223 more like all the 2010's combined