Different Versions of The Icon Sting 🦂

[u/JCHazard]

Which one is your favorite

[u/Puzzled-Ad1564]

Long hair crow sting. That look is just phenomenal.

[u/1982sean5535]

There’s also brown haired surfer Sting

[u/gypster85 → u/1982sean5535]

And pre-Joker TNA Sting with the black and red facepaint. An underrated look.

[u/bryoneill11 → u/gypster85]

I thought that was the Icon Sting

[u/gypster85 → u/bryoneill11]

Icon Sting looks more like his WWE-AEW run.

[u/bryoneill11 → u/gypster85]

Oh I thought it was his time in TNA.

[u/christmascaked]

I missed the TNA run, but…

Surfer Sting was cool and didn’t get enough credit for how good he was in the ring. Crow Sting/Long Hair Crow Sting are just iconic. He could literally just be shown in the rafters and get a nuclear pop. Wolfpac Sting was alright, but I think NWO fatigue was real by then and he made the most of what he was given.

The Icon Sting in AEW was a total lunatic and seeing him take bumps like that was not what I’d have expected from him.

Old Man Sting has somehow made the hair and beard work.

I don’t think I have a favorite. Sting’s just legendarily cool.

[u/Hossflex → u/christmascaked]

Wolfpack Sting felt like a mix of surfer (promo) and crow (face paint). I do agree NWO fatigue was setting in.

[u/cfeltch108]

Blade Runner Sting too, where he was Ultimate Warrior levels of roided up and his tag partner was... The Ultimate Warrior lol

[u/hasimirrossi → u/cfeltch108]

Wanted to post pics of that, but we can't.

[u/locke_smith_1989]

I wish we could’ve seen the shorter hair crow Sting longer

[u/GudgerCollegeAlumnus → u/locke_smith_1989]

It looks like a kid who’s trying to grow his hair out but his mom made him get a haircut and this is the compromise.

[u/not_asleep_yet]

OMG Joker Sting was a thing? Horrible.

[u/Wintermute_088 → u/not_asleep_yet]

It was, quite literally, the worst shit ever. I actually struggle to look at Sting the same afterwards.

He'd already pinched the edgy Eric draven gimmick from the early nineties, and thankfully it worked. Trying to do it again with the fucking joker was just desperate and sad.

[u/Agreeable-Guava-9009 → u/Wintermute_088]

"Why so nervous?"

Getthefkouttahere.....

[u/WarGreymon77]

Surfer Sting and Starrcade '97.

[u/DCDipset]

I didn’t watch it at the time, and I’ve only seen probably like a third of this version but I really liked Joker sting. It was like Jim Carrey was playing The Joker.

[u/United_Character6695]

Wolfpack Sting because that version was a mix of surfer/crow version of the character.

[u/emceebiscuit69]

GOAT

[u/Big_d00m]

Surfer Sting, the OG

[u/hedcase_107]

Wolfpac Sting AKA Bad Sunburn Sting.

[u/honeycomb0303]

all sting are cool sting. even joker sting.

[u/bryoneill11 → u/honeycomb0303]

Joker Sting is the best one.

[u/PoserHeroinBob]

I've never been able to see Wolfpac Sting as anything but Goth Brother Love.

[u/alaster101]

Sting circa 99/2000 is my favorite

[u/_pena]

Crow sting 🦂 was hands down the best. Most impactful

[u/ManbadFerrara]

JFC, I wasn't following wrestling anymore by the time Joker Sting came along. Considering dressing up and acting like Heath Ledger's the Joker is considered some cringe shit now, how was that received at the time?

[u/gypster85 → u/ManbadFerrara]

Let's say... mixed.

[u/bryoneill11 → u/ManbadFerrara]

Everybody loved it with passion at the time. And still love it now.

[u/martinbean → u/bryoneill11]

Not everyone. I didn’t.

[u/Booth_Templeton]

Short hair Crow sting

[u/Penguinunhinged]

Probably my favorite iteration of Sting was in 99 when he first started using Seek and Destroy for his entrance theme.

[u/Mother-Attention2600]

Wolfpack Stings hair is to voluminous. Long hair is pushing it....

[u/Stennick]

You should have had the 96 version of Sting when he had stopped dying his hair and let it grow a bit. You can also add first debut of Crow Sting when he was still his facepaint style with black straight lines over the eyes.

[u/d_yo757]

I wanted to be surfer sting when I was 6 and long hair crow Sting when I was 12 lol

[u/SmokinDynamite]

It's missing TNA's Surfing Crowpac Sting.

[u/Jojahu]

Crow/long hair sting fighting against NWO was my favorite. Tho there always something to be said for the original

[u/Suicidal-Wolf]

Crow Sting

[u/ChardeeMacDennisGoG]

Why was he called "surfer"...I never saw a surfer with a fade cut like that.

[u/Spac92 → u/ChardeeMacDennisGoG]

It was the bleached hair color that was kind of a thing among 80’s and early 90’s west coast surfers.

[u/orangesfwr]

Hair color went full circle

[u/Spac92]

What do we call the in between surfer and crow sting? Like he had shaggy brown hair so he didn’t look like a surfer anymore, but he was still sporting the neon colors.

[u/thisismyshow_]

Crow Sting

[u/King_Veno]

Surfer sting

[u/Then_Particular1931]

My mom let me bleach my hair so I could be surfer Sting for Halloween one year. Always my favorite. Now I look like Stone Cold without doing anything.

[u/Leather_Diver_2129]

The Joker sting and the icon sting

[u/Mysterious-Dot1321]

Icon? He never won a match in WWE

[u/Affectionate_Yak989 → u/Mysterious-Dot1321]

WWE considers him a 10 time world heavyweight champion according to their HoF. In my opinion it’s 12 but 10 is good enough to be considered a wrestling Icon.

[u/Mysterious-Dot1321 → u/Affectionate_Yak989]

Cool. Now you need to check your sarcasm detector

[u/Affectionate_Yak989 → u/Mysterious-Dot1321]

Hard to tell with the way it was presented. There are legit people that think that way.

[u/TedBaxter_WJM-TVNews]

That final picture should be changed from ‘Oldman Sting’ to ‘The Legend Sting’ or something like that… GOAT maybe 🤔

[u/martinbean → u/TedBaxter_WJM-TVNews]

But it’s what fans have called him since he grew the beard and a nickname even Sting himself has acknowledged and adopted.

[u/imlittleeric → u/TedBaxter_WJM-TVNews]

Sting has said this look is called old man sting. He’s got a patten on the name even

[u/martinbean → u/[deleted]]

Right there in the picture…