Fresh off the heels of a wildly successful 1989 with the Flair-Steamboat and Flair-Funk feuds, WCW was facing a difficult transitional period the following year. Head honcho Jim Herd, one of the most unanimously despised figures in the history of the business, decided what WCW needed was a fresh face at the head of the booking table, so be brought in Ole Anderson, a man whose face is about as fresh as an Easter Island statue. The founding member of the Four Horsemans antiquated mentality was too far behind the times to have any positive effect on the product. Capital Combat 90 gave us the celebrity wrestling cameo to end all celebrity wrestling cameos, as ROBOCOP made an appearance to save Sting. Not the actor playing RoboCop, but the actual half-man/half-robot cyborg crimefighter. For a form of entertainment that depends on the suspension of disbelief, this was pushing it a bit too far. 1990 also saw the notoriously horrendous Ric Flair vs. Junkyard Dog match, which proved that, while Flair may be able to carry a broomstick to a decent match, JYD was a lesser worker than a broomstick on this particular night because the match was the sh*ts. The fall birthed one of the most ridiculous angles ever conceivedThe Black Scorpion. The entire storyline was that a man from Stings past was returning to torment him (and it was vaguely implied it could be The Ultimate Warrior), and after some shenanigans involving magic tricks and performers unwilling to assume the role, the Scorpion was revealed to beRic Flair. Not even the WWEs Warrior/Hogan feud could undo the damage done in WCW.
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