That's not what I'm saying. I agree with you that the storyline was practically designed for Sting to win there-- but it's not because the idea was to put Sting over as a star, the point was to end the storyline at that point because it wasn't feasible to build up another entity to the amount you built Sting up to take the nWo down before the nWo got stale. And you should've been able to see that coming considering Sting was built up for a year and a half. I suppose with an alternate approach to Bill Goldberg you could've had him do it at the next Starrcade but I think that's pushing it and they should've known better. We'll never know cause they already had the nWo implode at that point so there was no more juggernaut to take down, and it wasn't satisfying from the storyline perspective because the villain never got taken down by a hero.
What I'm saying is that whether Sting wins or loses most of him being built as a star was priming him to take the nWo down. Him actually going through and doing that doesn't really help him much. Do you think if Sting beats the nWo that suddenly he gets more cheers in 1998 than he did in 1997? I don't. The journey is what built him, the end is what you do depending on how the storyline is going creatively and how long it's been going with some foresight.
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