Sting (wrestler)
Steve Borden is an American retired professional wrestler, actor, author, and former bodybuilder. He has held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship six times, WCW International World Heavy Weight Championship twice, and the NWA World Heavyweights Championship twice. He announced his retirement from professional wrestling on April 2, 2016, and is currently signed with All Elite Wrestling. He also has a successful career as an actor and has appeared in several films, including “The Godfather”
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Steve Borden is an American retired professional wrestler, actor, author, and former bodybuilder. He is regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, having cultivated a legacy over a career spanning more than three decades. Sting is widely known for his time spent as the public face of two major American professional wrestling promotions: the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He has held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship six times, WCW International World Heavy Weight Championship twice, and the NWA World Heavyweights Championship twice. He was also the inaugural inductee into the TNA Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2016, Sting was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of fame. He announced his retirement from professional wrestling on April 2, 2016, and is currently signed with All Elite Wrestling. Borden played football and basketball in high school and later embarked on a career in bodybuilding, once co-owning a Gold’s Gym health club. He originally wrestled under the ring name Flash, and teamed with Jim Garland as two members of Power Team USA in independent wrestling. He later moved to the Continental Wrestling Association and became the Freedom Fighters as a heel, so the team turned heel in an angle in which they broke the leg of veteran wrestler Phil Hickerson. The Freedom Fighters left the CWA after an uneventful run, and he later joined the Universal Wrestling Federation, which he later left after an uneventful run in which he turned heel.
He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children, and works as a personal trainer. He also has a successful career as an actor and has appeared in several films, including “The Godfather” and “The Descendants” “Sting” is a book about the life of Steve Borden, a former professional wrestler who became a bodybuilder in the 1980s and 1990s. The book was written by Borden and co-starred in the film “The Devil’s Advocate”, which was released in 1998. The movie was based on a true story about Borden’s life as a professional wrestler in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was co-written by Sting, who also appeared in the movie “The Wrestler” with his friend and fellow bodybuilder John Cusack. Sting has been described as the ‘Hollywood’ Hulk Hogan counterpart to the WWF’s Hulk Hogan. Sting held 25 total championships throughout his career, including 21 between WCW and TNA. His last ever professional wrestling match came at Night of Champions in September 2015, which also marked his sole WWE pay-per-view main event and WWE World heavyweight Championship contest for the organization. He became the only wrestler to have won the Nwa, WCw, and T NA world championships in a career. He made more pay-pview appearances for the company than any other wrestler. He is the second man to be inducted while an active WWE wrestler, after Ric Flair. Sting was also described by WWE as the greatest wrestler never to have performed for that promotion, and made his first appearance at Survivor Series.
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