15 Exact Moments WCW Booking Stopped Making Sense

Just who could the mysterious Black Scorpion be? He said he was someone from Sting's past heading into Starrcade 1990, so many wondered if a brand new wrestler would debut. Or, impossibly, maybe WCW had flexed their muscle to bring The Ultimate Warrior over from the WWF! That'd be outrageous. So outrageous, in fact, that it was never going to happen in a million years.

Come bell time at Starrcade, the Scorpion wrestled a hell of a lot like Ric Flair. That's because it was the 'Nature Boy' who assumed that character. He'd even arrived in what appeared to be a giant spaceship for the occasion. Oh yes, Ric was sparing no expense to fool the Stinger into thinking he was anyone else. It's just a pity he decided to wrestle exactly like Flair would during the match.

He would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those pesky, meddling 'Little Stingers'.

The pair's Great American Bash '90 effort over the summer had been everything right with WCW. It was a hard-hitting main event with psychology coming out the ears (Sting's knee injury played a huge part), excellent action and pulsating commentary from Jim Ross in particular. Starrcade's steel cage match proved to be everything wrong with the promotion's approach.

Flair had gone to extreme lengths to wrestle Sting again, and it made next to no sense. He looked like a fool for playing The Black Scorpion, and WCW's 'guy from Stinger's past' angle proved to be a misnomer. This was someone from Sting's present, and a rival he knew all too well.

What a waste of time and money. Spaceships weren't cheap in 1990, y'know.