My name is Steve "Sting" Borden i was born on March 20, 1959 in Omaha, Nebraska. I am an American professional wrestler who has wrestled with several promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling since the early 1980s. The longest - and most famous - of these three runs was with WCW, where he held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship six times. I started out as a part of a tag team with the wrestler later known as The Ultimate Warrior. Sting and the Warrior were called The Blade Runners (a probable reference to the movie of the same name) in the Universal Wrestling Federation. Warrior soon left the UWF, leaving me to turn face and win the tag titles with Rick Steiner. I was one of the wrestlers who joined World Championship Wrestling when it purchased the UWF in late 1987. Sting's legendary feud with Ric Flair began when he and Flair fought to a 45-minute time limit draw at 1988 Clash of the Champions. However, when Sting later began a feud with Keiji Mutoh, Flair and I became friends and we stood together against Mutoh's stables. When Flair formed the Four Horsemen, Sting joined it, but was soon kicked out after I demanded a title shot from Flair, thus restarting their rivalry. That same night, I injured his knee in a cage match while making a run-in on the other Horsemen. Instead, Lex Luger took my place for several epic matches with Flair, while buying time for my recuperation. On my return, I focused on taking out the Four Horsemen and at The Great American Bash, I finally defeated Flair for the NWA Heavyweight Title. I went on to feud with Lex Luger, though later we became good friends and a successful tag team.