Before the masks Butch Reed had signed with
Jim Crockett Promotions in 1988 after leaving the
World Wrestling Federation he was billed as 'Hacksaw' Butch Reed and feuded shortly with the
Junkyard Dog. Simmons had been with JCP for a while teaming with Eddie Gilbert, but had not achieved much notoriety.
Woman’s masked team When
Rick Steiner and
Scott Steiner started to team in 1989 a female fan (
Robin Green) started following them around, professing her love for the cute and dorky Rick. Steiner's brother Scott and their manager
Missy Hyatt began to have suspicions after the woman suddenly changed to a new
vampy look. When the woman tripped Scott in the ring, causing him and Rick to lose to champions
The Fabulous Freebirds, it briefly caused dissension among the brothers. In the end, she turned on the Steiners, adopting the name
Woman and vowed that the brothers would meet their "doom" at
Halloween Havoc 1989, but never made it clear who or what “Doom” was. At the night of the PPV Woman unveiled the Steiner Brothers' Doom – a couple of brawny, hard hitting masked wrestlers. Doom won their debut match against the Steiners when one of the members of Doom pinned Rick Steiner after a headbutt with an illegal object in his mask. Doom followed up on this success by defeating
Eddie Gilbert and
Tommy Rich at
Clash of the Champions IX, looking very strong in the process. At Clash, Woman's new bodyguard
Nitron debuted accompanying Doom to the ring. Unfortunately Doom's next PPV outing did not come with the same success. Along with the Steiner Brothers,
The Road Warriors, and
The Samoan Swat Team they were entered in a one night, tag-team
round robin tournament, but did not score a single point ending dead last in the tournament. Doom's misfortune continued as Woman soon dropped the team to manage
The Four Horsemen. Then on February 6, 1990, at
Clash of the Champions X, Doom hit rock bottom when they were defeated by Rick and Scott Steiner and as a result of the stipulation were forced to unmask.
Unmasked Freed of the masks and now under management of former referee "The Godfather"
Teddy Long, Doom began to prosper. Being free to use their full move sets and not trying to hide who they were, Doom earned another shot at the Steiner Brothers. At
Capital Combat Doom shocked the world when they beat the Steiner Brothers, a team that at that point in time did not lose very often. Doom won the tag-team titles and quickly set about defending them against the former champions the Steiners as well the rest of WCW's very talented tag-team division. Doom defeated
The Rock 'n' Roll Express at
The Great American Bash 1990 and also mauled such teams as
"Flyin' Brian" Pillman &
"Z-Man" Tom Zenk and The
Southern Boys. In the fall of 1990 Doom soon got their hands full with
The 4 Horsemen after a backstage altercation that saw the arrogant Horsemen insult Doom by not wanting to share a dressing room with them (this of course was a storyline). Doom then turned
tweener and began a feud with The Four Horsemen. At
Halloween Havoc 1990 "The Soul Brothers" Doom held on to their tag-team titles against
Ric Flair and
Arn Anderson despite both teams being counted out. A no rules rematch was signed for
Starrcade 1990 but on the night Ric Flair was replaced by
Barry Windham since Flair was slated to wrestle as
The Black Scorpion in the main event. Once again the result was a “No Contest”, this time due to a double pin (Windham pinned Simmons and Reed pinned Anderson at the same time) but despite the non-definitive finish the Doom/Horsemen feud ended shortly afterwards. At
Clash of the Champions XIV Doom lost a non-title match to
Sting and Lex Luger in a match that foreshadowed the trouble that lay ahead for Doom.
Break up and beyond On February 24, 1991 at WCW's
1991 WrestleWar PPV Doom took on former tag-team champions
The Fabulous Freebirds and lost due to miscommunication between Reed and Simmons. After the PPV, Reed left the company allowing Ron Simmons to focus on other opponents while Teddy Long turned face and started to manage other talent in WCW. Long would appear in Simmons' corner occasionally after Ron became
WCW World Heavyweight Champion in August 1992.
Reunion Doom was briefly reunited on WWE's
SmackDown on a few occasions that involved Teddy Long's wedding. Both Reed and Simmons appeared at Long's bachelor party and both were ushers in the wedding. At both occasions, Doom was mentioned. ==Championships and accomplishments==