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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 48
Top works
- View from the Side : Stories and Perspectives on the Music Business
- Sting rock score
- Fields of Gold The Best of Sting
- Ten Summoner's Tales
- How Soon Is Now?
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Film & TV
Acting · Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Steven Borden, better known by his ring name Sting, is a retired American professional wrestler and former bodybuilder whose career spanned five decades, during which he won a combined fifteen world championships and became one of the most enduring and influential figures in professional wrestling history. Borden rose to prominence in the late 1980s and became the defining star of World…
Known for
- AEW WrestleDream 2025 — Sting2025
- WWE's Greatest Moments — Sting2025
- AEW Revolution 2024 — Sting2024
- AEW All In 2024: London — Sting2024
- AEW x NJPW Present Forbidden Door 2023 — Sting2023
- AEW All In 2023: London — Sting2023
- AEW: WrestleDream 2023 — Sting2023
- AEW Full Gear 2023 — Sting2023
- AEW Worlds End 2023 — Sting2023
- NOAH: Great Muta Final "BYE-BYE" — Sting2023
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- England
- Active from
- 1951-10-02
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,777,176
- Total plays
- 64,177,323
Tags
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter, and bassist for the rock band The Police from 1977 until its break-up in 1986. He began a solo career in 1985, incorporating elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat into his music. Sting has sold more than 100 million records combined as a solo artist and as a member of The Police. <a href="https://www.last.fm/m
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Self‐Regeneration of Stereocenters (SRS)—Applications, Limitations, and Abandonment of a Synthetic Principle
· 1996 · cited 451x
- Establishing guidelines to harmonize tumor mutational burden (TMB): in silico assessment of variation in TMB quantification across diagnostic platforms: phase I of the Friends of Cancer Research TMB Harmonization Project
· 2020 · cited 429x
- Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging
· 2023 · cited 390x
- Genome sequence of <i>Haloarcula marismortui</i>: A halophilic archaeon from the Dead Sea
· 2004 · cited 260x
- Detection of all Chlamydophila and Chlamydia spp. of veterinary interest using species-specific real-time PCR assays
· 2010 · cited 163x
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Quotes
- “Dissent is a legitimate and essential right in any democracy and modern politicians must accept this fact with tolerance. A sense of proportion — and a sense of humour — is a sign of strength, not a sign of weakness.”
- “Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically.”
- “We are a parliamentary democracy; we don’t function by plebiscite. It’s dangerous. I don’t believe in referendums – Hitler and Mussolini organised referendums”
- “I am the first male in the family not having had to shoot against another European”
- “Democracy is under attack. It's under attack in every country in the world. It's in grave danger of being lost unless we defend it.”
- “The alternative to democracy is a nightmare, a prison, of the mind. That alternative is tyranny. All tyranny is based on a lie. The greater the tyranny, the bigger the lie.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Steve Borden , ( 1959-03-20 ) March 20, 1959 (age 67) , Omaha, Nebraska , U.S.
- Spouses
- Sue Borden ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1986 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2010 ) Sabine Glenn ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 )
- Ring name s
- Blade Runner Flash , Blade Runner Sting , Steve Borden , Sting
- Billed height
- 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
- Billed weight
- 250 lb (113 kg)
- Billed from
- Charlotte, North Carolina , " Every Man's Nightmare ", Venice Beach, California
- Trained by
- Red Bastien , Rick Bassman
- Debut
- November 25, 1985
- Retired
- March 3, 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 114
- Image
- Sting 1988.jpeg
- Height
- 191
- Number of children
- 3
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- Commons category
- Steve Borden
- date of birth
- 1959-03-20
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- social media followers
- 677142
- end of work period
- 2024-00-00
- name in native language
- Steven James Borden
- short name
- Steve Borden
- pseudonym
- Sting
Sources (2)
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Steve Borden (born March 20, 1959), better known by the ring name Sting, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), with which he continues to make sporadic appearances since his retirement. Borden is best known for his lengthy runs in two major American professional wrestling promotions: World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1988 to 2001 and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2003 to 2014, as well as his retirement run in AEW from 2020 to 2024. Although the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; renamed WWE in 2002) purchased WCW in 2001, Borden did not sign with them at the time; he would later work in WWE from 2014 to 2020. Prior to WCW, he wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance's (NWA) Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP)—which became WCW in 1988—the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF), and the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA). Borden wore face-paint throughout his career, and in 1996, changed from the multi-colored paint of his "Surfer" persona to the monochromatic paint of the "Crow" gimmick.
Borden started his career in 1985 as Flash in the independent promotion All-California Championship Wrestling, in which he was in a tag team with Jim "Justice" Hellwig as members of the Power Team USA stable, before he and Hellwig joined the CWA as the Freedom Fighters. In 1986, they joined the UWF as the Blade Runners, during which time Borden changed his ring name to Sting. His association with JCP and its successor WCW began in 1987, which saw him win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship for the first time in 1990. He rose to main event status and has been described by IGN as WCW's Hulk Hogan. Dubbed "The Franchise of WCW", he held 15 championships in the promotion, including six reigns with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and two reigns with the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship, and made more pay-per-view (PPV) appearances than any other. Against Hogan, Borden headlined WCW's highest-grossing PPV event, Starrcade, in December 1997. Upon the WWF's acquisition of WCW in March 2001, Borden and rival Ric Flair were chosen to main event the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro. Borden would later face Hogan and Flair in their last televised matches, which occurred in TNA, defeating both, although Flair would later have one final match in 2022.