The WORST Wrestling Story Every Year (1989-2025)

1990 - The Black Scorpion

Ole Anderson was a weird guy.

Notorious within wrestling circles for being a miserable, profoundly agitated fellow, a personality he barely had to adapt when playing his stern, calculating heel character, he was also responsible for some of the most dorky wrestling material ever. This was a man who wrote off Ric Flair as a mere entertainer, someone who lacked the legitimacy of his Minnesota Wrecking Crew, and as WCW booker made Vince McMahon look like Josh Barnett.

Anderson took over the pencil in 1990, cursing the wrestling audience with the naff ‘Black Scorpion’ character. Perhaps he saw where the business was headed, and tried to compete with Vince on the field of wrestling b*llocks. Who knows. Maybe he just liked doing “the voice”.

He provided the gruff, distorted voice of both the Black Scorpion, and later the Shockmaster, offscreen. There’s something almost endearing about Ole trying to get that over twice, like it was some incredible hidden talent that he was desperate for the world to see.

Less charming was the storyline, in which the Scorpion, an ill-defined creepy magician, was fixated on Sting. He played tricks on audience members and tormented the Stinger in lame segments. Ole had no idea where he wanted to go with it, and according to Ric Flair, who was eventually revealed as the Scorpion, the mystery man was meant to be Al Perez. What was meant to be the pop, there?

“No way! It’s…that guy!”

WCW business was dire at this time, but the whole thing was quite funny in retrospect.

“I don’t need a fake showman like Flair as my top heel. I’ll stick with the masked magician in the sparkly jacket, thank you very much.”