Sting (wrestler)

Steve Borden, better known by the ring name Sting, is an American retired professional wrestler born on March 20, 1959, who is signed to All Elite Wrestling and still makes sporadic appearances. He started in 1985 as Flash in All-California Championship Wrestling, joined the Universal Wrestling Federation as one of the Blade Runners in 1986 and took the name Sting. Within Jim Crockett Promotions and then World Championship Wrestling from 1987 he won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship for the first time in 1990, and he was dubbed The Franchise of WCW after holding 15 championships there, including six reigns with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. In 1996 he changed from his multi-colored Surfer paint to the monochrome Crow gimmick, headlined Starrcade against Hulk Hogan in December 1997, later wrestled in TNA from 2003 to 2014, worked for WWE from 2014 to 2020 and had a retirement run in AEW.