The Undertaker still does not know why he never wrestled Sting, and he calls it the biggest thing WrestleMania left on the table.
Asked about it on the latest episode of Six Feet Under, he said the match seemed obvious to everyone except the one person whose opinion counted.
“Obviously the people had already been clamoring for that match for a long time, and it seems like a no-brainer. Like, why on earth would you not do that? But for whatever reason, Vince did not see it, didn’t like it, didn’t want it, and I was like, man, this is a home run. This is an easy main event for a pay-per-view.”
He said he never got a proper explanation, because he never really pressed for one.
“I don’t really have an answer. I never really had an in-depth conversation with Vince about why he didn’t want to do it. My goodness, a Sting versus Undertaker. Again, he obviously knows more about business than I do, but that one just seems like a home run that was just, you know, they decided to walk the guy instead of pitch to him. I don’t know. I don’t know what happened there.”
He was clear the decision was not his and that he is not carrying it around.
“I don’t have any regrets. It wasn’t my decision, but my goodness, I would have loved to have been able to have that match, and I guess it just wasn’t meant to be, but what could have been?”
The two did discuss it, once, in passing.
“I remember running into Sting. I think it was after the WrestleMania that we didn’t work. I remember us being on the same plane together, talking. Like, I don’t know. This is beyond me. I don’t know. I don’t know why.”
He expects the question to outlast both of them.
“It’ll be discussed for the rest of time. A what if. What if these two guys would have been able to do it? I think Sting, that’s probably got to be the biggest miss of a WrestleMania. Those two characters would do some incredible business. I just, I don’t, sorry, I don’t know. Wasn’t me. Wasn’t me.”
Sting signed with WWE in 2014 and worked two matches for the company, against Triple H at WrestleMania 31 and Seth Rollins at Night of Champions, before a neck injury ended his run there. He returned to full-time competition with AEW in 2020 and retired in 2024.
