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[McLegend]

I don't see the issue in HHH beating Sting.

1) Sting wasn't hurt at all by losing to HHH. Sting does have a name value, and the WWE did do a good job building his name prior to Wrestlemania to give him even more credit.

2) Sting was going away for a while after Wrestlemania and HHH wasn't going anywhere so for that reason alone HHH should have won.

[The CyNick]

Originally Posted by McLegend I don't see the issue in HHH beating Sting. 1) Sting wasn't hurt at all by losing to HHH. Sting does have a name value, and the WWE did do a good job building his name prior to Wrestlemania to give him even more credit. 2) Sting was going away for a while after Wrestlemania and HHH wasn't going anywhere so for that reason alone HHH should have won.

#2 is the biggest thing to me.

HHH is a weekly TV character. If it was Steve Austin coming back to wrestle, then sure, I would say its fine for HHH to lose. But Sting is not Austin. HHH got the win, but they moved mountains to protect Sting in that match.

The other thing that gets ignored is that from his debut, Sting never really got the type of pop you would expect from a top level star. It was a nice pop, but I remember hearing it, and thinking I expected more.