Could “AJ as ’97 Sting” backfire?
By Scott Keith on 11 May 2013
Hi Scott,
Do you think that the angle with AJ could eventually backfire and people will just get sick of his indecisiveness and start booing him? They boo-urns'd this evening b/c he didn't accept the 3rd spot on the face team, but I could imagine the boos steadily increasing b/c the crowd is thinking "Jeebus, just do something already."From what I can tell, Sting only got more popular when he did it (in other words, no noticeable backlash), but it was a different landscape then, and I'm not so sure AJ can keep up the support, especially since he's being featured in this role every week. Even Sting didn't show up every week during the height of his popularity in '97.
Do you think that the angle with AJ could eventually backfire and people will just get sick of his indecisiveness and start booing him? They boo-urns'd this evening b/c he didn't accept the 3rd spot on the face team, but I could imagine the boos steadily increasing b/c the crowd is thinking "Jeebus, just do something already."From what I can tell, Sting only got more popular when he did it (in other words, no noticeable backlash), but it was a different landscape then, and I'm not so sure AJ can keep up the support, especially since he's being featured in this role every week. Even Sting didn't show up every week during the height of his popularity in '97.
I think that's kind of supposed to be the reaction he's getting. Really, until he chooses a side it doesn't matter how people react to him anyway. They obviously know where they're going with him and they're doing it very deliberately, so I'm fine with it.
And Sting absolutely got backlash in the early part of the character, before they established once and for all that he was a babyface. It wasn't until, I'd say, Starrcade 96 where he helped Luger beat the Giant, that the crowd really bought into him as a bigtime babyface. Before that, crowds seemed pretty lukewarm to the idea of him cowering in the rafters and doing nothing, or randomly assisting someone like Jeff Jarrett (and what WAS up with that?)