The Angel of Death began wrestling for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) during the mid-1980's, teaming with Big Bubba Rogers and manager Skandor Akbar against The Lightning Express at the Great American Bash '87 on July 31, 1987.
He also competed in World Class Championship Wrestling, later losing to The Missing Link and Jason Sterling in a tag team match with Vince Apollo and later participated in a "triple dome Texas roundup" match at the last WCCW Parade of Champions supercard on May 8, 1988.
Returning to WCW as one half of the Russian Assassins with Jack Victory, he and Victory feuded with Ivan Koloff, who had left Paul Jones' Army during late 1988, eventually defeating Koloff and Junkyard Dog at Starrcade '88.
In August 1990, he also began wrestling as "The Black Scorpion" at house shows. The identity of The Black Scorpion, speculated by announcers at the time to have been a former friend of Sting, was hinted to be as one of several wrestlers then competing in World Championship Wrestling including The Angel of Death. While wrestling as The Black Scorpion during that time, the character who eventually wrestled Sting was Al Perez (and at the conclusion of the storyline was eventually revealed to be longtime rival Ric Flair at Starrcade 1990) by the time of their first encounter at Clash of the Champions XII on September 5, 1990.
On November 25, 2007, the Angel of Death passed away.