Starrcade '90: Collision Course

The main event was a steel cage match between Sting and The Black Scorpion for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Other matches included a street fight between Doom and the team of Arn Anderson and Barry Windham for the NWA World Tag Team Championship, a Texas Lariat Match between Stan Hansen and Lex Luger for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship and the entire Pat O'Connor Memorial International Cup Tag Team Tournament.

At The Great American Bash, Sting defeated Ric Flair to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

In August, a masked man named The Black Scorpion debuted and taunted Sting.

He was a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and was well known for his training and booking skills in the Kansas City territory.

Z-Man performed a superkick, and attempted a missile dropkick, but Eaton avoided it, and pinned him with an inside cradle.

The four quarterfinal matches in the Pat O'Connor Memorial International Cup Tag Team Tournament then occurred.

The third quarterfinal was between The Royal Family (Rip Morgan and Jack Victory) (New Zealand) and the team of Mr. Saito and The Great Muta (Japan).

Wallstreet fought back with a flapjack onto the top rope, and pinned Taylor after a Stock Market Crash to win the match.

The seventh match was between the team of Big Cat and The Motor City Madman and The Skyscrapers (Sid Vicious and Danny Spivey).

Spivey threw The Motor City Madman outside the ring, and The Skyscrapers double-teamed Big Cat.

The Skyscrapers then performed a double powerbomb, and Vicious pinned The Motor City Madman to win the match.

Rich and Garvin fought as Marley was about to attack Morton's knee from the top turnbuckle.

The match started back and forth until they fought outside the ring, and Hansen gained the advantage with the use of the guard rail and a steel chair.

Windham was a last-minute replacement for Ric Flair, who defeated Butch Reed back in November at the Clash of the Champions XIII to earn a title rematch for him and Anderson.

Reed attacked Windham, and Simmons performed a clothesline to Anderson, who jumped off the top turnbuckle.

The thirteenth match was the final of the tournament between the team of Mr. Saito and The Great Muta and the Steiner Brothers.

The main event was a steel cage match between The Black Scorpion and Sting and for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship with Dick the Bruiser as special guest referee.

The match started back and forth until The Black Scorpion performed a gutwrench suplex, and applied the figure four necklock.

After an inverted atomic drop and a corner clothesline, The Black Scorpion applied the chinlock.

Sting fought back with a gorilla press slam, and sent The Black Scorpion into the cage.

Sting performed a one-handed bulldog, a Stinger splash before he applied the Scorpion Deathlock.

Sting then pinned The Black Scorpion after a diving crossbody to win the match, and retain the title.

[1] In a reader's poll in the January 8, 1991 edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, 234 out of 447 fans that responded gave the show a thumbs up.

[7] Their feud continued with a WarGames match at WrestleWar between the Four Horsemen and the team of Sting, the Steiner Brothers and Brian Pillman.

Ricky Morton and Tommy Rich would turn heel in early 1991 and join the York Foundation as Richard Morton and Thomas Rich, respectively, along with the returning Terry Taylor, who left the WWF and his Red Rooster character to become heel Terrance Taylor.

The Black Scorpion before his match at Starrcade