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Flair and the Horsemen
Flair knew that his title was in danger, so he offered Sting to join the
4 Horsemen, which he accepted. But the WCW had other plans,
because of Sting's victory in the Iron Man Tournament, they granted
Sting a shot at Flair's World Title at WrestleWar '90. Sting accepted
the match, but Flair gave Sting an ultimatum either give up the match or
end your career, Sting tried to attack Flair, but the Horsemen
prevented the attack and injured his left knee, this put Sting out of
action for six months.
Sting was ready for action again at the Clash of the Champions XI, in
June 1990, where he after Flair's match ran to the ring and
confronted Flair. This was the setup for their match at the Great
American Bash, because of the Horsemen's interference during the
feud, the NWA decided that if Flair had to walk away with the title he
had to win the match. Sting and Flair put on a great match, and in the
end Flair was going for the figure-four leglock, when Sting caught him
an inside cradle and scored the victory and the NWA World Title.
After the match Sting stated that he thought that Flair was the
greatest World Champion ever, thereby showing his respect for Flair.
In the coming months Sting defended his title against Flair and Sid
Vicious, but then in late August a new challenger stopped by, he went
by the name of Black Scorpion and claimed to be from Sting's past.
Sting agreed to face the Black Scorpion at Clash of the Champions
XII, where Sting dominated the match and he was about to unmask the
Scorpion, when a man in a similar outfit showed up on the entrance
ramp, but Sting was still able to defeat the Scorpion. During an
interview Sting was attacked by Sid, to setup their match at
Halloween Havoc, which Sting won.
But the feud with the Black Scorpion wasn't over, Sting fought the
Scorpion at several occasions, but all the times another Scorpion
would show up to play with Sting's mind. Sting decided that he would
face the Scorpion at Starrcade in a cage to solve their problems.
There were four Scorpions at ringside during the match, Sting won the
match, only to be attacked by the Scorpions and Arn Anderson and
Barry Windham. Sting managed to unmask the Scorpion to reveal that it
was Ric Flair.
Sting wanted Flair to pay for his actions, so he agreed to a rematch
with Flair, at January 11th, 1991. Flair regained the title by putting his
feet on the ropes for leverage. Sting continued his feud with the
Horsemen, both in singles competition and tag teams, but rarely he was
able to walk away with the win.
Lex and Sting got a shot at the WCW Tag Team Champions, the Steiner
Brothers, at SuperBrawl I. Even though they were friends the match
was great. Sting and Lex had the Steiners beaten, when suddenly
Nikita Koloff appeared, he was about to give Lex a Russian Sickle with
a chain when Sting saved Lex by taking the full blow, Scott Steiner
then pinned Sting to end the match. Sting was enraged and went back
after Koloff and started brawling with him. This was start of a boring
feud with Koloff, which dragged on for too long.
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