Article: Rough, rowdy wrestler Sting moves up fast in NWA ranks

While Sting the rock star is singing to raise money for Amnesty International, Sting the wrestling star is showing no mercy to his opponents in the ring.

With his war-painted face, heavy-metal haircut and "scorpion death lock" submission hold, the ferocious Sting isn't likely to be mistaken for a pop balladeer who croons about love, peace and worldwide understanding. The National Wrestling Alliance's version of Sting is a rowdy roughneck who has more in common with the Beastie Boys and their raucous anthem, "You Gotta Fight for the Right to Party."

"I've always been my own kind of person," said Sting, a California weightlifter who gives his age as 24, his height as 6-foot-2 and his ...

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