Sting Interview (IGN.com - 2004) Interview with Steve "STING" IGNSPORT.COM BORDEN BY THE SITE AT THE OUTPUT OF THE VIDEOGAME "LEGENDS OF WRESTLING 3: SHOWDOWN "THAT AMONG THE LEGENDS OF WRETLING starring
EVEN STING. TRANSLATION OF LUKE'S SITE CELAURO IGN.COM
IGN Sports: Sting, you're the protagonist of the new game for PS2 Showdown: Legends of Wrestling ". You consider yourself a legend in this sport?
Sting Well, who can say, I think I'm a legend? [Laughs]
IGN Sports: Io penso che tu sia una leggenda, senza il punto interrogativo. Veramente non vedi te stesso sotto quella luce?
Sting: Sai cos'è? No, non posso. Posso credere che il mio nome è famoso e fuori ci sono tantissime persone che conoscono la mia faccia. Si, mi conoscono in ogni parte del mondo. Fino al Marzo 2001, quando decisi di abbandonare il wrestling, c'erano approssimativamente 40 milioni di persone che mi guardavano ogni settimana. E' stupefacente! Dev'essere per forza qualcosa di raro. Poi nel wrestling ci sono grandi nomi, che restano grandi nomi solo per un paio di anni e poi scompaiono. Io ho mantenuto questo livello per ben 15 anni.
IGN Sports: Do you think about your character or your moves that we are able to always bring out the crowds?
Sting The answer should give the fans. They want to be part of the match, they want to be part of the interview. They want to be part of my job. And this in my match, I always try to keep this relationship with the public, and is often not an easy thing. This is true whether we are at the United Center in Chicago, in front of 30,000 spectators, both in Greensville South Carolina in front of 5,000 people. I always try to work hard for my fans, fare eccitare le folle. Voglio che si divertano. Durante tutti questi anni, sul ring pensavo sempre ai fans e a quanto potessero apprezzare il mio lavoro.
IGN Sports: Riguardando la tua carriera dai Blade Runners alle tue battaglie contro The Great Muta fino al tuo ultimo match contro Flair, i tuoi match hanno sempre presentato un'incredibile qualità di wrestling sul ring. E' la stessa qualità che aveva Michael Jordan nell basket, Barry Bonds nel baseball.. Parlaci di una tua tipica performance sul ring.
Sting: Quando cominciai a fare wrestling, guardavo i match degli altri e prestavo molta attenzione. Avrei voluto mettermi due dita nella gola e vomitare per quello che vedevo. Tutti facevano sempre lo stesso tipo di mossa, o ancora peggio eseguivano sempre le stesse mosse. Sul ring erano sempre gli stessi, nelle interviste erano sempre gli stessi, quando io iniziai a fare sul serio volevo che il mio stile risultasse molto diverso da quello degli altri. Ero sui 260 pounds quando cominciai e durante gli anni mi sono mantenuto sui 250. Con la mia altezza ed il mio peso non è facile fare quelle mosse acrobatiche e quei voli dalla terza corda. Facevo voli dal paletto a fuori ring, sul cemento, o delle Splash dalla terza corda, possibilmente su dei tavoli. Wrestlers della mia stessa stazza non riescono to do everything.
IGN Sports: If you could do a match against one of the legends the game (Legend of Wrestling 3: Showdown) present, who would you fight against?
Sting If it's a myth that is in the game, I think it's a matter of nostalgia .. go against The Ultimate Warrior would be very beautiful. If I had to take someone else I think might be Andre the Giant. I did my best match against the Big-man. I made some great match against Vader and against Paul Wight (Big Show the current-ed.), So I think Andre would have been against a great thing.
IGN Sports: When we interviewed The Ultimate Warrior, he told us that you take something like $ 20 in the match.
Sting When I started, I did not want to go home with their tails between their legs. When I left California to begin my career as a wrestler, my friends and my family said: "What do you think? But what has this guy going to do?". I did not have much to share for me at that time. I was co-owner of a gym in Southern California, I could live with that but I wanted to do something else. But it was not for the money. During the period when I was training to become wrestlers went to the Sports Arena to go to watch people like Hogan, Andre The Giant and the British Bulldogs. I looked at the crowd, packed into every arena of space, had the Sold Out The way the crowd reacted made me understand just how big that thing was wrestling and not get anything but I also wished to be part of that world. As you know, you should always start from a point and my starting point was the $ 20 ... and it was a TV recording. A normal pay was 50 dollars, but take less for the TV because you were in total exposure. [Laughs] It 's a typical thing to promoters.
IGN Sports: The character of Sting has seen many changes over the years by Sting oxygenated multicolored to black and white the last sting. What is your favorite version of the Stinger?
Sting It 's hard to try not to be sentimental, so do not go for the "Surfer Sting" (the original version of Sting's note), because my favorite version is the version "Raven". I had a lot to impersonate, because I was at a point in my career where I had creative control of my character on everything. So I had the opportunity not only to be creative in my character, but also to enhance the storyline for the entire company. E 'was great fun.
IGN Sports: Le mazze da baseball che utilizzi sono fatte di legno, di alluminio o sono completamente false?
Sting: Ne ho usate alcune di legno, ma la maggior parte erano in alluminio.
IGN Sports: C'è mai stato nella tua carriera un momento in cui ti sei resto conto di aver fatto una cosa troppo pericolosa? Hai mai pensato di essere stato stupido ad aver corso quel rischio?
Sting: Certainly there have been moves in that I thought "but I had on my mind?", But still part of the work of the wrestlers take crazy barrel. The real danger was not a wrestling move, but when I was coming down from the roof of the arena with a cable to the ring, especially later in Panama City even when dropped from a helicopter. I do not care what others think, it was scary. The first time I did was at the United Center in Chicago and it was really scary for me. I had never done, I tried something similar before. But in Panama, you know, we were flying over the water that night, behind the gratttaceli Hotels there were people who could not see the distance in the dark. We were much higher than those of hotel and there were people who noticed my white face from that distance in quell'elicottero, so he realized and started shouting. It 's been too. So when it came time to jump from above the water to the ring, but I walked out the noise of helicopter blades made me literally fall backwards! I had the noise of the blades over the head and the wind was so strong. When I threw myself down, my weight has done over the helicopter vibrate back and forth because you can imagine, the force of 250 pounds set by dropping a rope from a helicopter. E 'was scary. And of course, it's always nice when the helicopter pilot is a former Vietnam pilot and says, "can tell you that if the rope is attached to the blades or the helicopter, I will have to cut it."
IGN Sports: You mentioned the United Center in Chicago. What is your favorite arena?
Sting I have so many favorites but if I think of having to choose one, I am reminded of the Baltimore Arena, and I love any arena in Chicago. For the fans of Chicago and Baltimore, no matter what arena they are, are always a big cheer.
IGN Sports: Of all the matches that you have fought, what are your favorite?
Sting Any match against Flair. I made one of the greatest ever match against Hulk Hogan, but it was near the end of my career. Among the matches against Flair, if I had to choose one in my whole career would choose the one held last Nitro. I had a great time with lottatare lui, e devo a lui il fatto di essere diventato il wrestler che sono. Lui aveva una scelta al primo Clash of the Champions. Abbiamo fatto 45 minuti di match in diretta e aveva la scelta dopo di giudicarmi un buon wrestler o come un wrestler mediocre. Decise di giudicarmi un buon wrestler. Fu lui che innalzò il mio nome. Penso che a lui sia piaciuto lavorare con me, penso che abbiamo costruito un'ottimo rapporto.
IGN Sports: Non riesco a dimenticare di come lo hai sollevato sopra la tua testa e schiacciato a terra.
(si riferisce alla classica scenetta in cui Ric Flair sale sul paletto per poi venire scaraventato a terra dall'avversario)
Sting and I keep thinking that if the fans do not see this move, will not go away from the building. And many times I went to tell Ric that it was better to change that. We needed new stuff. But Ric has always responded the same way. He said that when he was young, and looked at Buddy Rogers said he once went to see his match and did not see him fall from the pole and thought he had thrown away the money of the ticket. So I said "if they do not see me fall from the pole, if they do not see you beat your chest, if they do not see us make our moves are typical, they will go away thinking who have been cheated. "
IGN Sports: I do not know if you follow closely the WWE, but Shalton Benjamin is a wrestler on the crest of a wave in our recent interview said that many of the moves which are a tribute to you, because you were his hero as a child. How does it feel when the younger guys grow up doing the moves that made him famous in your honor?
Sting: are displaced. (flattered). I have to meet this guy. It 's really a great thing. There is no other way to explain it. I feel truly honored that he does this. For many years I have seen guys do the different moves and I said "I did it because you were doing." It 's a very exciting thing. I left my mark on the pro-wrestling, that's for sure, and not many others can say the same.
IGN Sports: There is a chance to see in WWE, maybe teaming up with Shalton or going against him, using your same moves to fight? It does not sound like a big storyline? Or do you plan to return to NWA-TNA?
Sting not NWA is a wrestler. What hath been done when I started my career in wrestling. You know, Jerry Jarrett was the only promoter who called us after sending several movies. It 'was the' only one who has called us. (Steve Borden and Jim Hellwig, aka The Ultimate Warrior ed.) I am very grateful for what he did. So last summer when she got a phone call from Jarrett, at first I wished not to go and fight them. Then I evaluated it and I began to meditate on. Meanwhile Jerry has left me thinking great, and I finally decided to go out there to help. I did four shows a year for them last year, but it was over there.
IGN Sports: So protresti consider going to WWE?
Sting Yes, I could do it, if you ever want to. I could do it. This was very good Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania XX, and I have not ever participated in a year. I've had several opportunities to participate. You know, Vince (McMahon Ed.) And I talked many times during these years. For the last Wrestlemania was going to arrange something between me and Stone Cold Steve Austin, eravamo sul punto di metterci d'accordo ma alla fine non se ne fece niente. Avrei solo da dirgli cosa voglio fare e lui lo metterebbe in atto, ma ogni volta che si organizza qualcosa c'è sempre qualcosa che va storto. Quando si parla con Vince è tutto molto semplice. E' sempre piacevole parlare con lui, credo che questa non la sapevate! In ogni caso resto interessato. Fino ad allora…vi resta sempre il videogame!
Luca "PoiSoN" Celauro
lucapoison@gmail.com
