During this week's "ARN" podcast with Arn Anderson and Conrad Thompson, the former reflected on Triple H's match with Sting at WrestleMania 31 in 2015. That saw The Game defeat the legendary WCW Superstar, but many fans perceived that as being a burial both of Sting and a way of asserting WWE's dominance over the fallen company.
Interestingly, Anderson noted that the lines reeled off by the commentators during the bout were likely a Vince McMahon creation and meant to bury Sting while putting over Triple H and WWE.
"The reality is this, it was the last nail that Vince could nail into the coffin and say ‘Okay, it’s done, we’re the superior company, they said they were gonna put us out of business, they led for all those weeks but in the end, here’s your last remaining guy and he was your biggest star and we just crushed him before your very eyes at the biggest event of the year. It is now officially done.'"
"It’s like WCW never existed, that is what would have been going through [Vince’s] mind," he concluded.
You can find more comments from Anderson over at WrestlingNews.co, as he talks in great detail about Sting's return and the way he was booked by WWE. Regardless, it's definitely interesting getting some perspective about how WWE handled the match and the way they decided to treat Sting.
Was it a burial? You could make an argument either way, but Sting's run in WWE was cut short after an injury he sustained while facing Seth Rollins (though he likely would have lost that match).