After ruling WWE from the ring with his shovel sledgehammer, Triple H now controls proceedings from the boardroom with his sharp suit and sharper words.
Following a blink-and-you'll-miss-it stint in WCW, Hunter Hearst Helmsley has been a mainstay of the WWE since 1995, and is a 13-time world champion.
He may have failed in his attempt to stop the Yes! Movement at last year's WrestleMania, but he'll be back in the ring in Santa Clara to douse the final embers of WCW.
Sting, in many ways, was WCW. Yes, there was his regular sparring partner Ric Flair, but Ric of course had his own successful stint in WWE.
The Stinger never left. He stayed until the bitter, bitter end, and went to TNA rather than the WWE hasn't been seen since.
After signing the paperwork, Sting ended up in a WWE video game, got a T-shirt and DVD... but that wasn't enough. Now he's going to have his first real WWE match.
The Road to WrestleMania:
At Survivor Series, Dolph Ziggler had battled against the odds to put Team Cena on the edge of victory, but the odds kept stacking up in favour of The Authority... then the lights went out.
Sting made his long, long, LONG awaited entrance to the WWE and delivered a Scorpion Death Drop to Triple H and pulled Ziggler over a prone Seth Rollins to (temporarily) put The Authority out of power.
Then, despite Triple H's annoyance... nothing. Until Raw in January, where Sting made his Raw debut to cost The Authority one more time, letting John Cena pick up the W - again with Rollins on the receiving end.
Challenged from the WWE ring by the COO, Sting eventually replied - accepting the challenge of a face-to-face confrontation with The Game at Fastlane
At Fastlane Triple H offered to settle things like a businessman - putting a WWE Hall of Fame spot and WWE Network special on the table... Sting was not to be placated.
Instead, the two men would eventually agree to settle things the only way they know how. In the squared circle.
Before then though, when Triple H and his Authority goons cornered a standalone Randy Orton on Raw, the lights cut once more, and The Stinger stepped out to once again prove himself a thorn in the side of Triple H.
Key Quotes:
Triple H: "Why do you think Sting's here? Let's rewind the clock, let's go back to the Monday Night War... what was that day like when we finally put WCW out of business and we watched it all go down, right, and you knew that the future was secure? Here comes Sting the one guy you never thought you'd see here, the one guy that resisted every opportunity, every ask to be a part of this.
"Why? He still holds that in contempt, that whole situation. And now he's here and for some reason it's about me? It's got nothing to do with me. Nobody sees that - this has to do with taking away the WWE... by taking away The Future."
Sting: "I've been waiting 14 years to get inside this ring right here. And it feels smokin' good, by the way. And Triple H I meant what I said when I said that somebody needs to take you down. And that's exactly what I'm gonna do at WrestleMania."
Prediction:Sting
Triple H is a liar. I know that, you know that. Sting isn't in the WWE to end it- he's there to protect it from an overreaching Authority that crushes the real future, embodied in the likes of Daniel Bryan and Dolph Ziggler. The Stinger sees himself in those men, and knows that the likes of Seth Rollins are just puppets for the men in suits who fluff him. After being dismantled by Daniel Bryan, Triple H is in dire need of a big win to hold on to that locker room. He won't get it at WrestleMania.
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