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Ring name(s) Sting 

Blade Runner Flash

Blade Runner Sting,
Flash,
Flash Borden
Billed height 6 ft 2 in (190 cm),
Billed weight 255 lbs (115 kg),
Born March 20, 1959 (age 49),
Omaha, Nebraska,
Billed from Venice Beach, California[1]Huntington Beach, California (used during 1997–2000)
Trained by Bill Anderson
Red Bastien,
Georgio Maradona
Terry Funk

Debut November 28, 1985 

Steve Borden (born March 20, 1959)[ better known by his ring name Sting, is an American professional wrestler, currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Sting is a nine-time World Heavyweight Champion, holding the championships from National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He is also the most well-known and successful professional wrestler to have never performed under contract for World Wrestling Entertainment. 

Some of sting's matches feature in all time best wrestling matches.

• Contracted with UWF from 1985-1987
• Borden and Jim "Justice" Hellwig (later The Ultimate Warrior), formed a tag team known as the Blade Runners 
• He won the UWF Tag Team Championship twice with Gilbert in 1986 and a third time with Rick Steiner in 1987
• Featured in NWA from 1987-1989
• Having established himself as a rising star, Sting was one of the only UWF alumni to be pushed through the NWA. At the inaugural Clash of Champions, Sting challenged Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. The match itself was booked as a 45-minute time-limit draw.
• teamed with Dusty Rhodes to challenge for the tag team belts at Starrcade '88, defeating The Road Warriors by disqualification.
• won his first title in the NWA when he defeated Mike Rotundo for the NWA Television Championship.
• In mid 1989, The Great Muta was booked to challenge Sting on July 23 at The Great American Bash. The match was a classic Dusty Finish even though the "American Dream" had been fired months before. Sting got the three-count and was announced as the winner.
• Sting finished out the year winning the four-man round robin Ironman tournament at Starrcade '89. The night ended when he defeated Flair in the final match to accumulate the necessary amount of points needed to win. It also made Sting the number one contender for Flair's NWA World Title, which was the catalyst for the events that immediately followed.
• Borden suffered a legitimate knee injury while interfering in a Steel Cage match featuring the Four Horsemen,Sting was eventually replaced by Lex Luger, who unsuccessfully challenged Flair for the title in a series of matches while Sting recuperated.
• Flair said that he had promised Sting that he would be waiting for him to get better, and would hold the belt until then, saying that he wanted to lose it to Sting.
• After Borden's recovery, Sting finally defeated Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship on July 7, 1990, at the Great American Bash.
• Sting defended his title aganist Sid Vicious.

Contracted to WCW from 1991-1995

• Sting's championship reign ended on January 11, 1991, when he was defeated by Flair in a re-match from Starrcade.
• He also took part in what many consider to be one of the best matches of 1991, teaming with Lex Luger to face the Steiner Brothers at the first SuperBrawl pay-per-view.
• In August 1991, Sting defeated Steve Austin to win a tournament for the WCW U.S. title.
• The feud ended when Sting and his allies, named Sting's Squadron (consisting of himself, Ricky Steamboat, Dustin Rhodes, Barry Windham, and Nikita Koloff) defeated the Alliance (Rude, Austin, Arn Anderson, Larry Zbyszko, and Bobby Eaton) in a WarGames match at WrestleWar in May 1992.
• In April 1992, he defended his WCW World title at The Omni in Atlanta against the 450-pound Big Van Vader.
• Sting again faced Vader in the "King of Cable" tournament final at Starrcade, where Sting was victorious. The Sting-Vader feud continued into 1993, with Vader defeating Sting in a bloody Strap match at SuperBrawl III. Sting exacted revenge by beating Vader for the World title on March 11 in London, England, but lost it back to him six days later in Dublin, Ireland.
• Sting then teamed up with newcomer Davey Boy Smith to beat the team of Vader and Sid Vicious at Beach Blast, a match that was set up by a mini-movie that saw an evil midget blow up Sting's boat.
• ting feuded with Vader and Rude through the first half of 1994, defeating Vader in a match for the vacant NWA World title (referred to as the WCW International World title) at Slamboree after Rude was forced to vacate due to his suffering a career-ending injury against Sting in Japan
• Soon afterward, Flair turned heel and defeated Sting in a title unification match at Clash of the Champions XXVII.
• Sting spent the second half of '94 and most of 1995 teaming with new arrival Hulk Hogan in his battles against the Three Faces of Fear and later against the Dungeon of Doom.
• The first part of 1996 had Sting teaming with Lex Luger (who had returned to WCW in September 1995) to win the WCW World Tag Team title from Harlem Heat.
• Sting  received a World title shot against The Giant at Slamboree, but lost after accidental interference from Luger. 
• After nearly six months of uncertainty and mystery, Sting finally showed his true colors as a face by single-handedly taking out the entire nWo at Uncensored in March 1997.
• Sting and Hogan finally met at Starrcade for the WCW World Championship, with Sting winning controversially due to a decision by special guest referee Bret Hart when he reversed the decision made by referee Nick Patrick after Hogan pinned Sting after what he believed to be a "fast count.The match was restarted and Sting made Hogan submit to the Scorpion Deathlock.
• In 1999, Sting once again won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on Monday Nitro against Diamond Dallas Page, but lost it back to him only a little over an hour and a half later in the Main Event in a four-way match set up by Kevin Nash (the fourth participant was Bill Goldberg).
• Sting teased turning heel by first attacking Hulk Hogan (who had once again become a face at this point) at Fall Brawl, hitting Hogan with his baseball bat several times en route to regaining the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
• He retained against Hogan at Halloween Havoc after Hogan arrived to the ring in street clothes and merely laid down for a 3-count, but promptly lost an unsanctioned defense to Bill Goldberg at the end of the night. What was considered to be one of the best match of all time.
• He was given the opportunity to regain the title in a tournament, but lost to Bret Hart in the semi-finals.
• e was "injured" by Scott Steiner in 2000, leaving WCW TV for good. However, he returned for the last episode of Monday Nitro, on March 26, 2001 and defeated his longtime rival Ric Flair, embracing in a sportsmanlike fashion at the end of the contest. Fittingly, this was the last WCW match ever, and the final match between Sting and Flair, ending a 13-year, on-again/off-again feud.

Contracted to TNA- Total nonstop wrestling Action from 2003-2005

• He debuted in TNA on the June 18 one year anniversary show, teaming with Jeff Jarrett to defeat A.J. Styles and Syxx Pac.
• Sting returned to TNA on November 5, 2003, defeating Jarrett by disqualification in a match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• On November 12, Sting teamed with A.J. Styles to defeat Jarrett and Lex Luger. He made his final TNA appearance of 2003 on December 17, defeating Jarrett in a non-title match. 
• At Final Resolution, Sting and Christian Cage defeated NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett and Monty Brown after Sting pinned Jeff Jarrett following the Scorpion Death Drop.[4] His heavily promoted return was greeted with chants of "welcome back" and "you've still got it" by the Orlando, Florida audience.
• On August 13, 2006 at Hard Justice, Sting failed to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship losing to Jeff Jarrett after Christian Cage turned heel and hit Sting with Jarrett's guitar.
• On October 22, 2006, in a Title vs Career match at the Bound for Glory PPV, Sting returned debuting his new look, a hybrid of his surfer, crow, and nWo Wolfpac styles, looking physically a lot leaner. He went on to claim his second NWA World Heavyweight Title when Jarrett submitted to the Scorpion Deathlock marking the first major championship title Sting had won since 1999.
• ting became the oldest NWA World Heavyweight Champion of the TNA Era.
• He lost the title to "The Monster" Abyss at Genesis by disqualification after pushing aside the referee and pushing Abyss into a stack of tables covered in barbed wire.

Finishing and signature moves 
Scorpion Death Drop[3] (Reverse DDT)
Scorpion Deathlock[1][3]
Sting-O-Matic (Tombstone Piledriver) Used when in nWo during WCW
Belly to back suplex
Diving crossbody
Diving splash
Dropkick
One-handed bulldog
Snap DDT
Spinebuster
Stinger Splash[3] (Running high-angle corner body splash) - Innovated
Signature foreign object 
Black baseball bat

Championships 

NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA World Television Championship (1 time)
WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
WCW World Heavyweight Championship (6 times)
WCW International World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
WCW World Tag Team Championship (3 times)[22] - with Lex Luger (1), The Giant (1), and Kevin Nash (1)2
NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament (1988) with Lex Luger
NWA Iron Man Tournament (1989)
WCW Battle Bowl Battle Royal (1991)
WCW King of Cable Tournament (1992)
WCW European Cup (1994, 2000)
 

NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)3
TNA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time)-with Kurt Angle

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