10 More Early-'90s WWE Superstars You Totally Don't Remember
An era to forget.
WWE is, as we all know, an empire.
And like all great empires, it has experienced both dizzying highs - the period between 1998 and 2001, fronted by the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, for example - and desperate, desperate lows.
The early-to-mid '90s had its moments, to be fair, but if we have to put each period of WWE history into one of the two above categories (which is obviously completely facile) it's probably going in the latter. There were a few good shows, but far too many of them were simply forgettable.
With the corridors of power still trying to figure out exactly how its product was going to make the transition to a more demanding weekly television schedule, they went through a lot of different wrestlers in a bid to find their new aesthetic.
Some of them - like Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, and Triple H - became some of Vince McMahon's most trusted performers, but others sadly ended up falling by the wayside. And by that we mean: they're so obscure that even their own reflections need a minute to remember who they are.
10. Al Perez
After finding success with the territories, Al Perez was recruited in the latter part of 1989 by WWE, where he enjoyed a largely unspectacular run before his departure midway through the following year.
His matches were largely confined to house shows, where he earned wins over the likes of Koko B. Ware and The Brooklyn Brawler, but he also made the occasional appearance on the Gorilla Monsoon-hosted Prime Time Wrestling in 1990.
His career high came later that year after he jumped ship to the emerging WCW. There, remarkably, he actually ended up fighting Sting in the main event of Clash of the Champions XII after being given the opportunity to play the mystery "Black Scorpion" character.
Unfortunately, Perez left the company before ever being unmasked, and the role was subsequently reprised by a number of other wrestlers before its retirement at the end of the year. Still, not many of us get to headline a show with Sting.