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Sting Reveals Who Came Up With The Idea For His Colored Face Paint

September 6, 2018 | Posted by Larry Csonka

Sting was interviewed on a recent episode of Apter Chat (via Wrestling Inc), and was asked about why he stayed as ‘Crow’ Sting and who came up with the original paint idea…

On Why He Never Went Back To Surfer Sting: “The Crow character by the time it came alive and hit the scene and evolved to what it turned into, it would’ve never made sense to go back to the blonde flat-top haircut,” Sting said. “Even if I wanted to, there’s not enough hair on my head to do that anymore. So I just couldn’t pull it off. But let me tell you something, if I thought I could pull it off, I would’ve attempted it in these later years. Because so many people talked about it and they’re so nostalgic about it. And WrestleMania 31 is a big example of that with DX and nWo and people just freaked out over that.”

On Who Came Up With The Idea For His Colored Face Paint: “They put Ric (Flair) with Ricky Morton, and Ricky gets hurt,” said Sting. “So Dusty says, ‘Stinger baby, I want to put some color on your face, color on your tights and color on your boots. And I want to put you with Ric.’ So we did a little story line with JJ Dillion and the Four Horseman and Ric Flair in Raleigh, North Carolina for a TV taping. It was no real heat angle, we just kind of did our thing and it took off. So Dusty is the real reason why the color started to begin with.”

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