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Sep 2024
2h 41m

Episode 338: Sting's 1997 REMIX

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Both Eric and Conrad are heading to our AD Free Show Top Guy Weekend event in Chicago, so this week we're celebrating our WCW Hall Of Fame inductee for Single Star, Sting! The guys have opened the vault to take us back to one of the wildest years in the icon's career 1997. Hear all about Sting's Crow character which had debuted the previous fall, putting him up in the rafters, slow burning the angle between himself, the NWO, and Hulk Hogan, keeping it fresh, who he associated with, thoughts on the character backstage and the way it was being used. keeping Sting out of the ring for the full year until the main event of Starrcade '97, worries about his conditioning and look, and so much more!

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