Sting Talks About Doing Steroids With The Ultimate Warrior

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  Birthdate: 1959-03-20 Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska, USA Birthname: Steve Borden Height: 6 feet 2 inches Weight: 250 lbs Debut: 1985-11-25 Championships Held: WCW World Heavyweight Championship (x6), WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (x2), WCW International World Heavyweight Championship (x2), NWA World Heavyweight Championship (x2), TNA World Heavyweight Championship (x4), TNA World Tag Team Championship Current Promotion: AEW Finisher: Scorpion Deathdrop, Scorpion Deathlock Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sting Notable Allies: hulk hogan, kurt angle, darby Allin, Kevin Nash Notable Rivals: hulk hogan, seth rollins, kurt angle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stinger/?hl=en Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Blonde

Highlights

• Sting and Ultimate Warrior started as a tag team in Powerteam USA, but split due to personal conflicts.
• Sting admired Warrior's freakish physique but admits they were meant to part ways eventually.
• Warrior's steroid use led to his tragic death in 2014, highlighting the dangers of substance abuse in wrestling.

Following a jaw-dropping performance in the main event of AEW Revolution alongside Darby Allin against the Young Bucks, Sting's hall-of-fame wrestling career has come to an end. You won't find a single wrestler who has a bad word to say about the Icon. Due to his faith and humble approach, Sting is regarded as one of the nicest wrestlers in the business, and one without a lot of baggage. There's a reason why he made it to be a 64-year-old wrestler still in great shape and able to throw himself through tables with ease. He has taken care of his body, but that doesn't mean he still didn't make mistakes. Following Revolution, at the post-show media scrum, Sting was asked about his late friend and former tag team partner in the early days of his career, Jim Hellwig, later known as the Ultimate Warrior. Sting said:

"I think it was definitely good that we were both together to begin with because he looked like a freak. I was 265 pounds, and I looked like a little kid compared to him. But both of us together, we were pretty intimidating, and we had a lot of people saying ‘Maybelline Road Warriors.’ But we thought, ‘Who cares? We get a match with the Road Warriors, we hit the big time.’ But I think it was good that we ended up splitting up. It was good that he went his way and I went mine. We were not meant to be together. We were meant to start together, and it got us in the door, for sure. But he needed to be in his own. We were going to kill each other, literally on the road. Two roided out young men. That’s what it was then. Two roided-out guys. Just shooting straight here. That stopped in 1990 for me, so yeah. Didn’t stop for him, but it stopped for me." (h/t Fightful )

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Sting And The Ultimate Warrior Started Their Careers As A Tag Team

Before Sting and the Ultimate Warrior were wrestlers, they were bodybuilders in Powerteam USA. While both green in the ring, they had a great look, becoming the Blade Runners in Mid-South Wrestling and the United Wrestling Federation. Their team didn't last long, as Jim Hellwig went on to become a singles wrestler known as the Dingo Warrior in WCCW.

Sting has admitted that he and the Ultimate Warrior didn't get along well at times due to Hellwig's paranoid personality. They carved out legendary careers in different promotions, Sting in WCW and Warrior in the WWE, before working together briefly in WCW in the late 90s. The Ultimate Warrior's steroid use sadly caught up with him as he died of a heart attack on April 8, 2014, just one day after appearing on WWE Raw following his Hall of Fame induction.

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