In an update on Sting appearing at last night’s WWE Survivor Series pay-per-view, a report from PWInsider.com notes that for those wondering if Sting will appear on WWE RAW, the plan was for him to only appear on the WWE Survivor Series pay-per-view earlier in the week

The report notes that, despite the tease of Triple H and Sting at last night’s event that the expectation was that Sting would wrestle The Undertaker at next year’s WrestleMania 31 pay-per-view, however with the Royal Rumble coming up, that it would give fans unfamiliar with Sting a chance to see him in the ring before he potentially faces off with The Undertaker. The decision to bring in Sting wasn’t made until Thursday and that the company flew him to Kansas City, Missouri on Sunday morning to avoid fans seeing him and then kept him under wraps for as long as possible backstage, as at one point, there were plans for him to simply do a cameo earlier in the PPV, but he was moved to the main event in a spot that was originally scheduled to see Randy Orton return.

The report continues by noting that Sting was brought in for several reasons, one being that the company wanted a big surprise to show that anything can happen on the WWE Network as a way to entice fans to remain subscribers in December after they use the free month of the Network, while another was that Sting would be there to help boost Christmas-time sales of the WWE 2K15 videogame which he is featured in and that with his age, if they were ever going to do anything, it had to happen now rather than later and that this will be his last run in professional wrestling.