You mean a special place in your arse mate. That was lame asf..... the first 2 msgs from black scorpion was cool but then it fell into a bowl of lemon and shet that got fed to ric flair to deal with...
I was 8 and I was thinking about this storyline. I kept on trying to figure out who the black scorpion 🦂 was. All I remember him talking about that one time on the beach 🏝️. That was the only clue I remember. Turned out it was Flair!! Lol 😂
11 year old me was completely wrapped up in the Black Scorpion angle. I remember my mom letting us get the Halloween Havoc with Sting and Sid. Then we were all disappointed when it ended up being Flair at Starcade.
@@AFMountaineer2000 I had no idea who it was gonna be. I was so pumped on the angle, it would've been really hard to let me down, but alas WCW. As soon as I saw that chin though, I definitely knew it was Flair. Me, my friends and cousins were all super disappointed.
We all were. It was such a great story that even my mom was curious and she didn't watch that much. According to ole anderson dusty Rhodes messed this angle up.
I absolutely LOVED the whole Black Scorpion story-line. When I was a kid, this was the best thing ever. I don't care what everyome else thought, this was the best thing ever to a kid who loved wrestling.
I understand. I'm younger than you bc I was a kid in the late 90s watching wrestling and I was all into the hummer angle from WCW summer 1999, and in retrospect it wasn't a good angle lol.
Ric Flair adored Sting and the guys around him. He did what was best for business. If The Black Scorpion was Rick Rude then it would've been much better. But Rude would show up later as The WCW Phantom.
Would have worked out perfectly and given WCW the perfect long term alternative to Flair as top heel but Vince kept Rude under contract in some form whilst never using him so he couldn’t go anywhere else until the contract ended in early to mid 1991.
Back in 1992, when WWE signed Kevin Wacholz as ''Nailz'' and put in a feud with the ''Big Boss Man''. The concept of that story line was very similar to ''The Black Scorpion''.
if you just look at what happened on TV and not behind the scenes, you might say it actually came together. Strangely, you might say that Flair's strategy worked. He wound up with the belt in the end. You could say all the false information was just to confuse and distress Sting. And I guess it worked. Ric saved the whole thing... sorta.
Black Scorpion: Stinger, remember me from '86 Cali? No? Well, remember me from '88 Mexicali, sweet grass on the beach, tequila, I introduced you to pink. We hit piñatas together all night? Then you betray me with some Warrior. I thought when i said I'm coming Sting, it wouldn't have meant this....
This angle was doomed the moment they said “California 86”. With a more plausible, harder to prove history and a shred of planning, they could have gotten someone over with this in my opinion.
Awesome video dude, wasn't expecting one tonight but so happy it's here. I've been having a pretty tough time lately and, as corny as it sounds, just wanted to let you know your content really helps me keep going! Thanks a tonne
One thing missing in all of this is how WCW built suspicion away from Flair - he and Arn had been in a feud with Doom, and scheduled for a championship title match at Starrcade. Then there was a report of an "attack and injury" that happened off camera that day (hey, they've legitimately done that before). Added to Flair wrestling a different move set and not speaking for the first half of the match, and this was fairly good suspension of disbelief! .... until it fell apart with the reveal.
The 'dark past' angle can be done well, but I think going the supernatural route hurt it. Done right, this could've given Sting another dimension to his character, but it just ended up being silly. Squandered potential, if you ask me.
@@anthonytucker8913 Undertaker was a gimmick of a dead man with a mortician controlling him with a magic urn from pretty much the start. Sting was a fiery babyface who wore facepaint. The magic tricks and Sting having to pretend he was "in awe" and "astonished" by a woman appearing on another part of the stage made him look like an idiot.
I might be in the minority but I actually really liked this storyline as a kid and I also thought the reveal was good too lol. To me as a kid it made sense that it was The Nature Boy because he lost his world title and probably didn’t have a re-match clause so Ric did that to get his shot at world championship again. Anyway that’s what I thought as a kid. 😎
See but if Ric doesn’t say that in a promo then it doesn’t matter. Although you’re awesome for putting pieces together like that especially as a kid. I applaud you
Bro this was absolutely awesome back then..It had me hooked.I was only about 9,but I remember everything about it..It passed the test of time so far guys,and my son is 6 and we watch all the old stuff from AWA to AEW..💪🤣💯
Personally, the only way I think this could have worked was if it actually was Warrior. Impossible of course but the way they were booking it, that was the only satisfying conclusion that could have come from it. Black Scorpion was a WWF character anyway, so it would make sense if it were a WWF guy. And I'll give props to WCW for actually hiring a proper stage magician to do the tricks, better than getting Ole to do them.
Dude I remember this was so awesome to me until it was revealed to be Flair... I have recently been watching the Clashes and Halloween Havoc. Was such a cool Idea for 7 year old me anyway but they blew it in true Herd era WCW fashion. WRESTLING BIOS RULES
I'm not sure if you had this planned out or not already before I made this suggestion in the WCW blunder video, but thank you so very much for doing this!!! This story line definitely needed the touch and description that only you give!!
LEGEND! Stinger is in my top 3 all time favorites with Macho & Bret Hart. From white meat Surfer Sting babyface to the darker Crow & Joker, all eras I love of his,
@@redauerbach2753 he is definitely going a lot stronger than we all figured he would. I think him being with Darby is the best thing they could have done for him.
I missed out on a LOT of classic golden Age wrestling. I only learned about The Black Scorpion just last year. And I didn't know about The Schockmaster until just now. That glitter covered stormtrooper helmet is hilarious!
@@orinanime Searching for "shockmaster debut" should do it. The video itself is called "The unforgettable debut of The Shockmaster." The video is from WWE, since they now own all of the old WCW stuff. Then come back here and we can chat about it, if you like.
Great video! As a kid I always remembered the vignettes more than the Flair reveal. One of the “WrestleCrap” building blocks that got me on their site back in the day! RIP Blade Braxton, miss you.
As a kid I loved this storyline. To see Ric Flair under the mask shocked me and my dad. Looking back on it yes it seemed tacky but as a kid, some of wrestlings best work. Lol.
So let's say the guy under the mask was that Angel of Death guy who originally trained with Sting. Do you think it could have built him up as a bigger star/heel than he was?
I first started watching NWA/WCW in the early hours of 1990 here in the UK. "Superstars of wrestling" international pro with Lance Russell. 1 hour of random mainly job matches with no back stories, interviews or PPVs to help continuity. I remember the Black Scorpion storyline and genuinely thought it was awesome at the time, but all we had to go on were a few Sting matches with Lance Russell giving brief references to help the story along. I vividly remember Sting Paying a jobber to take his place and wrestle Barry Horrowitz because the Black Scorpion would only appear during matches. I think that was the match when Sting was attacked by the female "fan" and the referee. (or it might have been against Buddy Landell) Anyways... I didn't find out who the Black Scorpion was until about 8 years later when I bought the Starrcade VHS and was massively disappointed to find out it was Ric Flair all along. You could tell it was Flair as soon as he came out of the space ship thing! Despit all that, I have fond memories of the storyline.
As a child watching this week to week, I was so into this program. I just knew it was going to be The Ultimate Puke, too. And even when it was revealed to be Ric Flair I didn't care. I just wanted to see my hero, Sting, to put this evil menace down.
I remember as this was going down I was expecting Eddie Gilbert to be The Black Scorpion. The last clue about tag partnership had 8 year-old me convinced it was Gilbert. The supernatural/magic nonsense wouldn't have been as hokey either, considering Gilbert was known to throw fire. My Dad and all his friends were around 30 at the time, and they were really into the angle. We all justified the shenanigans as Black Scorpion hiring a magician.
I remember being a kid at the time and thinking "Sting has beaten everyone, and he wrestled Ric Flair for a year it seemed, who else could it be?" They said it was from his past. Then it was Flair and I was exasperated for the first time in my life.
Late 80’s to late 90’s/a little into the 2000s are where it’s at for anything good for this kind of wrestling! The actual wrestling might be better and fancier now but that’s not really what people watch it for
Just discovered this-thank you! Been looking for a good indepth view of the angle which admittedly gets a bit buried by later angles and Monday Night War, but seeing a full coverage of it awesome!
This was one of the only WCW storylines I can actually remember prior to the New World order and when it was revealed that the black scorpion was Ric Flair was one of the biggest disappointments in wrestling history right up there with the Gobley Gougar
I'm 40 & I've wondered for years the background on this. It was entertaining as a kid. Not hear from the Black Scorpion every week was like a cliff hanger. Now that I'm older I'm shaking my head
Man I love these videos on the older stuff. This is all before I became a fan and it's cool to see the guys I used to love back in their prime and before gimmick changes changed their characters completely.
In the end was supposed to be Al Perez. Everyone thought was gonna be the Warrior the way the promos were going. I was at Starrcade 90 and as soon as he came out everyone new right away it was Flair. Was like letting the air out of a balloon.
Instead of asking if it could have worked, the better question is when it became unsalvageable. It obviously could have become something big at the start while it was pretty much doomed by the end with Flair's reveal. People tend to cite the magic tricks as the point of no return for it being successful, just because they are so wtf for wrestling.
The Black Scorpion match wound up being the last wrestling match I would watch. I was on leave while in the Navy and saw this. I went back to work, we went to Desert Storm and I was discharged in April '91 and from that point, I have no recollection of watching wrestling again.
this was on all my early WCW VHS videos. I never saw half the build up, just the finish at the PPV. Have to say I loved this as a kid, but I remember being distinctly miffed at the Black Scorpion coming out of a spaceship
Sounds like this storyline was ghost-written by J.J. Abrams. You know how he LOVES setting up mysteries and never resolving them in a satisfactory way.
Wouldn’t it been great if Jim Hellwig actually was the Black Scorpion when unmasked? All the clues would’ve matched pretty well. A man can dream, right? Lol
Im no wrestling booker but damn, I paused these video frequently to think about the things I would rather do than the booking decisions they took with this angle. When they added "Balck Magic" to Black Scorpion, that was it. You just killed the character for good
I thought this angle was the GREATEST but I still had no idea who the Scorpion was at Starrcade. Watching the PPV with my Dad, as soon as Scorpy popped outta his spaceship, my Dad totally pegged the Nature Boy because of his schnoz! 👃
I have no problem with the supernatural elements. This is like a goofy storyline that I would write. There's definitely room for goofy, cartoon, antics in wrestling, including wrestlers doing black magic, and magic tricks. That said, if you're going to set up an angle like this, with a character like this, you really need to write the entire storyline well in advance, and have a clear ending set up. You can't just wing it with a storyline like this. A storyline like this needs time to build with a clear goal in mind. That was the problem. They had no road map. They were driving that car blind, without a map, and were just driving all over the place not even knowing what their destination was. I love angles like this. But this was absolutely NOT the way to do it.
Awesome! I was too young to be able to accurately follow this when it happened, i never got to see what it was. Although i'm pretty sure i know now, it's going to be great seeing this video to kinda relive that time. 😄👍
I distinctly remember one of the first WCW shows I watched as a child - I can’t remember when or what it was , all I can remember was sting was attacked or hurt his knee and then he showed up last minute for his bout , knee taped limped down the ramp and got it done. I’ve been searching for a video/recap of this moment for the last decade. Can’t find it .. I remember something about Sid vicious also .. I’m DYING for a video of this angle
When I was a kid this was awesome. I remember being disappointed when it was Flair. And the multiple black scorpions were and still are. You are exactly right with Kane comparison. But it fell woefully short of that. Great video per usual
Great video once again! I remember this angle from my teenage years, I was in my second year of high school and my friends and I were huge Sting and Ultimate Warrior marks! We thought the same thing every fan of those two thought and that the Black Scorpion had to be UW based off of all of the clues leading up to Starrcade. Once again we were let down, this was the beginning of what I like to refer to as the "shitty WCW years...(1991-1996).
Another thing that gave it away was that it was originally suppose to be Flair and Anderson vs Doom for the tag titles in a street fight at Starcade and was changed to Anderson and Wondham vs Doom so you had a feeling. It was Flair who was going to be the Black Scorpion
I don't remember this bit of history at all! To be honest though, it was a bit before my childhood love of wrestling blossomed. This was very much still the era of watching WWF when my father did. Lol. Cool piece of history, brother! Stay safe!
I have memories of the Black Scorpion story line. I remember calling it being Flair the whole time. I don't necessarily remember all the extra hokey stuff, but I was 9 or 10 at the time so it probably just wasn't hokey to me.
My favorite part was how they barely got to show it was Ric Flair at Starrcade because it was going off the air and you see him walking away and JR goes “IT’S RIC FLAIR!” and the show goes off the air. They almost screwed this up even worse.
I feel like all the clues always pointed towards the Ultimate Warrior but at the same time it also could have been Berry Windham or a returning Magnum T.A.
"My face.... doesn't look the sammmmmme..." I never saw this angle, was first introduced to it on Wrestlecrap around 2001. It's still stuck with me though
Love how this guy delivers the Black Scorpion promo better than the original recording 😁
No, the nit brit with his up talk doesn't deliver the promo better?
@@fjccommish he's not a nit. Perhaps that's what you call all brits
I was 10 years old and just started watching wrestling in October of '90. This angle will always hold a special place in my heart.
You mean a special place in your arse mate. That was lame asf..... the first 2 msgs from black scorpion was cool but then it fell into a bowl of lemon and shet that got fed to ric flair to deal with...
Same. I always loved it. It wasn’t until much later that I realized others felt differently.
I was 11 but it scared me.
I was 8 and I was thinking about this storyline. I kept on trying to figure out who the black scorpion 🦂 was. All I remember him talking about that one time on the beach 🏝️. That was the only clue I remember. Turned out it was Flair!! Lol 😂
I was 9 at the time
11 year old me was completely wrapped up in the Black Scorpion angle. I remember my mom letting us get the Halloween Havoc with Sting and Sid. Then we were all disappointed when it ended up being Flair at Starcade.
WCW should have shown Sting checking the closet and under his bed for the Black Scorpion
as a hardcore WWF kid growing up, this was the first WCW storyline that intrigued me enough to check out the rival brand.
I swear I just watched the whole Black Scorpion saga yesterday! As a child, I LOVED this angle...until the reveal!
Did you know it was Flair before the reveal?
@@AFMountaineer2000 I had no idea who it was gonna be. I was so pumped on the angle, it would've been really hard to let me down, but alas WCW. As soon as I saw that chin though, I definitely knew it was Flair. Me, my friends and cousins were all super disappointed.
@@ZekeThePlumber86 I agree with everything that you said, man. My friends and I were also disappointed with the reveal.
We all were. It was such a great story that even my mom was curious and she didn't watch that much. According to ole anderson dusty Rhodes messed this angle up.
@@ajdavide2910 Even though Dusty was still signed to the WWF at that time.
I absolutely LOVED the whole Black Scorpion story-line. When I was a kid, this was the best thing ever. I don't care what everyome else thought, this was the best thing ever to a kid who loved wrestling.
I understand. I'm younger than you bc I was a kid in the late 90s watching wrestling and I was all into the hummer angle from WCW summer 1999, and in retrospect it wasn't a good angle lol.
I just want to take a second to marvel at the fact that at one point WCW had Jim Ross, Jim Cornette, AND Paul Heyman on staff
And they still didn't have a clue when it came to booking lol
They also at that time had Gary Hart, Terry Funk, Lance Russell & Gordon Solie and didn't use them properly.
If only these ppl knew enough to sit under Jim Herds learning tree like Ole WCW could have been a success
None of em compare to Pat Patterson alone. He beat all of them with his booking
They didn't have Vince McMahon
I actively remember watching this storyline as a kid. It was awesome.....at first.
Still good times though
Ric Flair adored Sting and the guys around him. He did what was best for business. If The Black Scorpion was Rick Rude then it would've been much better. But Rude would show up later as The WCW Phantom.
Would have worked out perfectly and given WCW the perfect long term alternative to Flair as top heel but Vince kept Rude under contract in some form whilst never using him so he couldn’t go anywhere else until the contract ended in early to mid 1991.
That's funny you mentioned rude which him and sting would eventually have a rivalry in the early 90s I believe 1992
Back in 1992, when WWE signed Kevin Wacholz as ''Nailz'' and put in a feud with the ''Big Boss Man''. The concept of that story line was very similar to ''The Black Scorpion''.
Herd telling Ole, "Now you're learning" is beyond hilarious.
Ahhh, sitting under the Jim Herd learning Tree is good
this is legit the best wrestling channel on youtube
Totally agree...guy is a LEGEND!
if you just look at what happened on TV and not behind the scenes, you might say it actually came together. Strangely, you might say that Flair's strategy worked. He wound up with the belt in the end. You could say all the false information was just to confuse and distress Sting. And I guess it worked. Ric saved the whole thing... sorta.
Black Scorpion: Stinger, remember me from '86 Cali? No? Well, remember me from '88 Mexicali, sweet grass on the beach, tequila, I introduced you to pink. We hit piñatas together all night? Then you betray me with some Warrior. I thought when i said I'm coming Sting, it wouldn't have meant this....
@@dingdong7610 AHAHA LOL
This angle was doomed the moment they said “California 86”. With a more plausible, harder to prove history and a shred of planning, they could have gotten someone over with this in my opinion.
Absolutely, if they had put any thought and planning into it anyways. Flair could’ve been a great red herring also.
If they didn't do that, they wouldn't have held the crowd. It would have been the Ding Dongs all over again
The angle was doomed when they started it without being clear who the BS was supposed to be. A mystery needs a proper revelation.
Awesome video dude, wasn't expecting one tonight but so happy it's here. I've been having a pretty tough time lately and, as corny as it sounds, just wanted to let you know your content really helps me keep going! Thanks a tonne
One thing missing in all of this is how WCW built suspicion away from Flair - he and Arn had been in a feud with Doom, and scheduled for a championship title match at Starrcade. Then there was a report of an "attack and injury" that happened off camera that day (hey, they've legitimately done that before). Added to Flair wrestling a different move set and not speaking for the first half of the match, and this was fairly good suspension of disbelief! .... until it fell apart with the reveal.
The 'dark past' angle can be done well, but I think going the supernatural route hurt it. Done right, this could've given Sting another dimension to his character, but it just ended up being silly. Squandered potential, if you ask me.
My thoughts exactly
Why it worked well with taker
@@anthonytucker8913 Cause supernatural is already in Taker's Gimmick. So a Demonic Pyromaniac from Taker's past is easier to swallow.
@@anthonytucker8913 Undertaker was a gimmick of a dead man with a mortician controlling him with a magic urn from pretty much the start. Sting was a fiery babyface who wore facepaint. The magic tricks and Sting having to pretend he was "in awe" and "astonished" by a woman appearing on another part of the stage made him look like an idiot.
@@arciks11 so ....I dug it
It was this feud that got me into watching wrestling.... WCW Saturday Night and Sting was facing one of the many fake Black Scorpions
I might be in the minority but I actually really liked this storyline as a kid and I also thought the reveal was good too lol. To me as a kid it made sense that it was The Nature Boy because he lost his world title and probably didn’t have a re-match clause so Ric did that to get his shot at world championship again. Anyway that’s what I thought as a kid. 😎
I applaud you and your younger self. I'm right there with you.
See but if Ric doesn’t say that in a promo then it doesn’t matter. Although you’re awesome for putting pieces together like that especially as a kid. I applaud you
Same!
Totally agree. Best thing to happen to WCW at the time.
Bro this was absolutely awesome back then..It had me hooked.I was only about 9,but I remember everything about it..It passed the test of time so far guys,and my son is 6 and we watch all the old stuff from AWA to AEW..💪🤣💯
Personally, the only way I think this could have worked was if it actually was Warrior. Impossible of course but the way they were booking it, that was the only satisfying conclusion that could have come from it. Black Scorpion was a WWF character anyway, so it would make sense if it were a WWF guy. And I'll give props to WCW for actually hiring a proper stage magician to do the tricks, better than getting Ole to do them.
Dude I remember this was so awesome to me until it was revealed to be Flair... I have recently been watching the Clashes and Halloween Havoc. Was such a cool Idea for 7 year old me anyway but they blew it in true Herd era WCW fashion. WRESTLING BIOS RULES
Seeing Flair I mean the Black Scorpion pull off a gut wrench suplex was amazing LOL
I'm not sure if you had this planned out or not already before I made this suggestion in the WCW blunder video, but thank you so very much for doing this!!!
This story line definitely needed the touch and description that only you give!!
Crazy to think Sting is still going strong these days . A good last run for a legend of the buisness .
I wouldn’t say strong but the boy still going
Sting will live forever and wrestle until eternity
LEGEND! Stinger is in my top 3 all time favorites with Macho & Bret Hart. From white meat Surfer Sting babyface to the darker Crow & Joker, all eras I love of his,
@@redauerbach2753 he is definitely going a lot stronger than we all figured he would. I think him being with Darby is the best thing they could have done for him.
@@chrisbutler1668 Big Scott Hall doesn't get 1% of the credit he deserves
My first angle when I started out watching. The havoc reveal of two stings was epic. I was nine.
I missed out on a LOT of classic golden Age wrestling. I only learned about The Black Scorpion just last year. And I didn't know about The Schockmaster until just now.
That glitter covered stormtrooper helmet is hilarious!
You think the helmet's hilarious--wait until you see his grand debut entrance, if you haven't already.
@@martyklestadt6766 Shockmasters grand debut? Or something else? I'm not familiar. What should I search for to find it?
@@orinanime Searching for "shockmaster debut" should do it. The video itself is called "The unforgettable debut of The Shockmaster." The video is from WWE, since they now own all of the old WCW stuff.
Then come back here and we can chat about it, if you like.
Strange that Ric Flair never showed any magical abilities since then. Unless you count the magical ability to stay alive after his hard partying life.
Great video! As a kid I always remembered the vignettes more than the Flair reveal. One of the “WrestleCrap” building blocks that got me on their site back in the day! RIP Blade Braxton, miss you.
As a kid I loved this storyline. To see Ric Flair under the mask shocked me and my dad. Looking back on it yes it seemed tacky but as a kid, some of wrestlings best work. Lol.
How polite of him to ask how Sting's week was.
Hey, just because you're actively plotting a man's doom and plan to leave him a broken mess doesn't mean you can't be polite to him about it 🤣😂
So let's say the guy under the mask was that Angel of Death guy who originally trained with Sting. Do you think it could have built him up as a bigger star/heel than he was?
I first started watching NWA/WCW in the early hours of 1990 here in the UK. "Superstars of wrestling" international pro with Lance Russell. 1 hour of random mainly job matches with no back stories, interviews or PPVs to help continuity.
I remember the Black Scorpion storyline and genuinely thought it was awesome at the time, but all we had to go on were a few Sting matches with Lance Russell giving brief references to help the story along.
I vividly remember Sting Paying a jobber to take his place and wrestle Barry Horrowitz because the Black Scorpion would only appear during matches. I think that was the match when Sting was attacked by the female "fan" and the referee. (or it might have been against Buddy Landell)
Anyways... I didn't find out who the Black Scorpion was until about 8 years later when I bought the Starrcade VHS and was massively disappointed to find out it was Ric Flair all along. You could tell it was Flair as soon as he came out of the space ship thing!
Despit all that, I have fond memories of the storyline.
As a child watching this week to week, I was so into this program. I just knew it was going to be The Ultimate Puke, too. And even when it was revealed to be Ric Flair I didn't care. I just wanted to see my hero, Sting, to put this evil menace down.
Saturday came fast, it seems we have another WCW Blunder episode already.
Nice...
All i have to say is that Warrior was absurdly entertaining with his insane promos around this time so
I remember as this was going down I was expecting Eddie Gilbert to be The Black Scorpion. The last clue about tag partnership had 8 year-old me convinced it was Gilbert. The supernatural/magic nonsense wouldn't have been as hokey either, considering Gilbert was known to throw fire. My Dad and all his friends were around 30 at the time, and they were really into the angle. We all justified the shenanigans as Black Scorpion hiring a magician.
Who knew that Dr. Claw from inspector gadget also wrestled and did promos🤣
In a glittery lavender Stormtrooper helmet!
@@autobotstarscream765 thats why we never saw his face. 🤣 he knew we knew about the shockmaster
I remember being a kid at the time and thinking "Sting has beaten everyone, and he wrestled Ric Flair for a year it seemed, who else could it be?" They said it was from his past. Then it was Flair and I was exasperated for the first time in my life.
You know the irony about us watching this storyline and making fun of it is, id take this any day over anything WWE has done in years.
Late 80’s to late 90’s/a little into the 2000s are where it’s at for anything good for this kind of wrestling! The actual wrestling might be better and fancier now but that’s not really what people watch it for
@@jackdough8164 exactly! As wwe has seen. Really goes to show how vital Vince Mcmahaon was when he had full cognition.
@@CalvinTennessee *Russo
Just discovered this-thank you! Been looking for a good indepth view of the angle which admittedly gets a bit buried by later angles and Monday Night War, but seeing a full coverage of it awesome!
19:22 The thought of Dusty Rhodes voicing the Black Scorpion just made me burst out laughing.
Badass intro music, bro!
This was one of the only WCW storylines I can actually remember prior to the New World order and when it was revealed that the black scorpion was Ric Flair was one of the biggest disappointments in wrestling history right up there with the Gobley Gougar
Who is Gobley Cougar?
@@str.77 Isn't she a porn star?
I'm 40 & I've wondered for years the background on this. It was entertaining as a kid. Not hear from the Black Scorpion every week was like a cliff hanger. Now that I'm older I'm shaking my head
Man I love these videos on the older stuff. This is all before I became a fan and it's cool to see the guys I used to love back in their prime and before gimmick changes changed their characters completely.
Man, I remember this so vividly. Excited to see how much better it is when you just take about it. This angle made me go back to the New Gen in WWF🤣
This could have been an episode of WCW Blunder
In the end was supposed to be Al Perez. Everyone thought was gonna be the Warrior the way the promos were going.
I was at Starrcade 90 and as soon as he came out everyone new right away it was Flair. Was like letting the air out of a balloon.
Instead of asking if it could have worked, the better question is when it became unsalvageable. It obviously could have become something big at the start while it was pretty much doomed by the end with Flair's reveal. People tend to cite the magic tricks as the point of no return for it being successful, just because they are so wtf for wrestling.
The Black Scorpion match wound up being the last wrestling match I would watch. I was on leave while in the Navy and saw this. I went back to work, we went to Desert Storm and I was discharged in April '91 and from that point, I have no recollection of watching wrestling again.
I love this fookin’ channel. You cover shows and stories that no other channel does. Keep up the good work, lad.
this was on all my early WCW VHS videos. I never saw half the build up, just the finish at the PPV. Have to say I loved this as a kid, but I remember being distinctly miffed at the Black Scorpion coming out of a spaceship
I was hoping the black scorpion was Vince McMahon. It was him all along, Sting!
Sadly I have to admit as a 9 year old at the time this was captivating television
This angle started like kanes debut but ended like vince mcmahon being reviled as the higher power.
Sounds like this storyline was ghost-written by J.J. Abrams. You know how he LOVES setting up mysteries and never resolving them in a satisfactory way.
He should be working in wrestling, not movies. 😂
15:36 Okay everybody, all together now, "MIIIND GAAMES!"
I really enjoyed this and I'm going too find this storyline and watch it now. Cheers big man
Loved the video and the storyline as a kid. Mad props for the "No Mercy" BGM!! Loved that game as a teen!
I love how the black scorpions heel promos were so congenial. "How's your week going?"
Wouldn’t it been great if Jim Hellwig actually was the Black Scorpion when unmasked? All the clues would’ve matched pretty well. A man can dream, right? Lol
Rick Steiner would’ve been another guy that I’d like to see as B.S. too.
Im no wrestling booker but damn, I paused these video frequently to think about the things I would rather do than the booking decisions they took with this angle. When they added "Balck Magic" to Black Scorpion, that was it. You just killed the character for good
I thought this angle was the GREATEST but I still had no idea who the Scorpion was at Starrcade. Watching the PPV with my Dad, as soon as Scorpy popped outta his spaceship, my Dad totally pegged the Nature Boy because of his schnoz! 👃
I have no problem with the supernatural elements. This is like a goofy storyline that I would write. There's definitely room for goofy, cartoon, antics in wrestling, including wrestlers doing black magic, and magic tricks. That said, if you're going to set up an angle like this, with a character like this, you really need to write the entire storyline well in advance, and have a clear ending set up. You can't just wing it with a storyline like this. A storyline like this needs time to build with a clear goal in mind. That was the problem. They had no road map. They were driving that car blind, without a map, and were just driving all over the place not even knowing what their destination was. I love angles like this. But this was absolutely NOT the way to do it.
A couple years later the WWF did this angle the right way when they did the whole Big boss man vs Nailz angle..
Awesome!
I was too young to be able to accurately follow this when it happened, i never got to see what it was. Although i'm pretty sure i know now, it's going to be great seeing this video to kinda relive that time.
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This is my earliest memories of wrestling, kinda got memories and feelings good stuff
“How’s your week been” 😆
That beginning theme song is gonna give me "Nightmares!"
I distinctly remember one of the first WCW shows I watched as a child - I can’t remember when or what it was , all I can remember was sting was attacked or hurt his knee and then he showed up last minute for his bout , knee taped limped down the ramp and got it done. I’ve been searching for a video/recap of this moment for the last decade. Can’t find it .. I remember something about Sid vicious also .. I’m DYING for a video of this angle
I loved the black scorpion story. I was a little kid and was very intrigued. Sting was my favorite at the time too.
That music in the background from No Mercy in the beginning 🤣
i was 8 during the black scorpion angle, i thought it was amazing. i remember being totally disappointed when i found out it was just ric flair.
I was 5, and I do remember liking the parts I saw. Didn't see the payoff until years later.
@@JWS1985 yeah i didnt actually see the starcade match til years later. it was a whole different world back then before the internet
When I was a kid this was awesome. I remember being disappointed when it was Flair. And the multiple black scorpions were and still are. You are exactly right with Kane comparison. But it fell woefully short of that. Great video per usual
Great video once again! I remember this angle from my teenage years, I was in my second year of high school and my friends and I were huge Sting and Ultimate Warrior marks! We thought the same thing every fan of those two thought and that the Black Scorpion had to be UW based off of all of the clues leading up to Starrcade. Once again we were let down, this was the beginning of what I like to refer to as the "shitty WCW years...(1991-1996).
Black Scorpion...aka WCW's "Higher Power"...."it was me Austin...it was me all along"....
Great promise....asstacular finish.
Another thing that gave it away was that it was originally suppose to be Flair and Anderson vs Doom for the tag titles in a street fight at Starcade and was changed to Anderson and Wondham vs Doom so you had a feeling. It was Flair who was going to be the Black Scorpion
When you thought "blood runs cold" was a long wait....
Black Scorpion: "Hold my magic beer!"
"It's me Austin/Sting, it was me all along."
JR- "Aw, son of a bitch."
I don't remember this bit of history at all! To be honest though, it was a bit before my childhood love of wrestling blossomed. This was very much still the era of watching WWF when my father did. Lol.
Cool piece of history, brother! Stay safe!
Thank you for doing this video brother brings back memories!
I love when you said-- bloody hell!😂
I have memories of the Black Scorpion story line. I remember calling it being Flair the whole time. I don't necessarily remember all the extra hokey stuff, but I was 9 or 10 at the time so it probably just wasn't hokey to me.
The final reveal reminds me of this line:
IT'S ME AUSTIN! IT WAS ME ALL ALONG AUSTIN!
Eddie Gilbert should've been The Black Scorpion. He made the most sense.
Al Perez could have been Seth Rollins Uncle or Father by the looks of him ! Even as Tyler Black , that crossed my mind heh heh .
My favorite part was how they barely got to show it was Ric Flair at Starrcade because it was going off the air and you see him walking away and JR goes “IT’S RIC FLAIR!” and the show goes off the air. They almost screwed this up even worse.
The bump The Black Scorpion took @ 21:48 🤣🤣🤣
Bro omg u have put so many of my favorite story lines . I love this many fans don’t but top 5 storylines for me . I gotta give u some patreon money
Hogan/Warrior, Sting/Black scorpion had me hooked in ‘90
The music in the beginning sounds like mission loading music from The Warriors
I feel like all the clues always pointed towards the Ultimate Warrior
but at the same time it also could have been Berry Windham or a returning Magnum T.A.
”Sting, how has your week been.“ what a way to start a heel promo
"My face.... doesn't look the sammmmmme..." I never saw this angle, was first introduced to it on Wrestlecrap around 2001. It's still stuck with me though
The Steiners with the bolt cutters was so good, R-Truth and The Miz tried recreating the Black Scorpion vs Sting match and got fired
I really loved this epidode. Didn’t see much WCW at that time 👍
I remember my friend loved the black magic segment
I REMEMBER THIS! WOW LOVED IT ALL.. GREAT JOB 👏 I REALLY MISS THOSE DAYS
So glad you covered this one
I think your wrestling videos are the best on youtube
I agree his bios are the best out there
That “fuckin hell” made me laugh so damn hard I choked.