Crossovers between wrestling and mainstream popular culture are to be expected. It was WWF's Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection that helped launch WrestleMania and become the international powerhouse they are today, but WCW took entirely the wrong tact in 1990. Sting, who was still in his bright orange surfer days, had been feuding with the Four Horsemen, and needed back-up so he enlisted the help of Detroit's greatest hero, the one man war on crime: Robocop. After weeks of teasing an alliance between the Stinger and Robcop, it all came to a head at Capital Combat 1990. The Horsemen locked Sting in a cage and out came Robocop to tear the door off and chase away the heels. This would have been ridiculous almost anywhere in wrestling, but for WCW it was a major blunder. WCW always prided itself to be the alternative to Vince Jr's Cartoon Wrestling, and bringing in a fictional cyborg character just breaks the fiction of wrestling in a way WCW had never really seen before. Unfortunately, this wouldn't be the last time. Eight years later, Chucky, the serial killer doll, would cut a promo on Rick Steiner.
