On a recent episode of his podcast, Arn Anderson spoke about Wrestlemania 31. Specifically, Arn spoke about the match between Sting and Triple H.
Arn revealed that Vince McMahon told the announcers to bury Sting during the match. Here is what Arn said about why the match between Triple H and Sting started off so slow: (h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the quotes below):
“All it did was give the announcers – and I know this was fed to them, they just buried Sting. A 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.’ Whatever all the commentary was exactly, it was meant to basically beat you over the head with ‘we won the war, we’re WWE we won the war. Here’s your big star? Well, he ain’t a big star here tonight.’ [Everything] other than continuing to put the guy over and put some mystery of the match.
“To just bury him on the commentary – if you go back and watch it and listen to it, they just buried him.
Arn also noted that the commentary lines to bury Sting came directly from Vince McMahon. This was a way for Vince to put the final nail in the coffin of WCW:
“The reality is this, it was the last nail that Vince could nail into the coffin and say ‘okay, it’s done, we’re the superior company, they said they were gonna put us out of business, they led for all those weeks but in the end, here’s your last remaining guy and he was your biggest star and we just crushed him before your very eyes at the biggest event of the year. It is now officially done.’ It’s like WCW never existed, that is what would have been going through [Vince’s] mind…”
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