Sting may have been a fixture in WCW during the famed Monday Night Wars, but he also noticed the impact the WWE's D-Generation X had on the time period.
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Sting sat down with Renee Young and Triple H for the upcoming WWE DVD and Blu-ray release entitled, The Monday Night War: Shots Fired and in the latest clip, The Vigilante spoke about DX's impact on The Monday Night War.
Young asked Sting if he had any qualms about the sexual content and shock value that Triple H and D-Generation X were using at the height of the WWE's Attitude Era.
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"That was a scuttlebutt in our dressing room is that it can't last that long," Sting said. "Number one, the network is not gonna put up with it, wrestling fans are not gonna put up with it. And occasionally, they'd come in and say, 'Look at the rating they got with all this stuff! Look at the rating they got!' So, we kept trying to convince ourselves that it wasn't gonna work, but it just kept building and building and building."
Young also asked if Sting and WCW started to feel the pressure from the WWE starting to catch fire.
"Absolutely, we did, I mean Ted Turner owned more family-oriented -- you know we couldn't push the envelope like you guys were pushing the envelope," Sting said. "We had to do story-driven stuff all the time to [get] our ratings. And with you guys I'd hear these stories you know, this shocking kind of stuff that you guys were doing you know? Whether it was Brian Pillman with a gun or some of the stories we heard about you guys, you and Shawn, and you know, we couldn't do that. I mean, I didn't see it, I only heard about this, but I thought man, there were a couple of times where I thought, 'Man this is desperation.' I mean they will stop at nothing to try to get these ratings to, you know, catch us."
After being the face of WCW, Sting carved out a Hall of Fame career in TNA after Ted Turner's organization went under in 2001.
Then, following years of back-and-forth negotiations, Sting signed with the WWE and made his debut at Survivor Series last November before making sporadic appearances on Monday Night RAW.
Sting made his WWE in-ring debut against Triple H at WrestleMania 31 in March, losing to The Game in a match that featured interference from the original nWo (Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash) and DX (X-Pac, The New Age Outlaws and eventually Shawn Michaels).
Sting's in-ring future remains in question, but he will be a part of many WWE features, including the Monday Night War: Shots Fired release.
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