In 1994, Brutus debuted in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). At first, he only made short appearances with Hulk Hogan, who referred to him as Brother Bruti (as he did when they were WWF tag team partners in 1989 and 1993). At that year’s Halloween Havoc, following Hogan’s cage match victory over Ric Flair, Brutus was revealed as the masked man who had attacked Hogan just before his title match with Flair at Clash of the Champions XXVIII.

Brutus subsequently became The Butcher and formed The Three Faces of Fear with Kevin Sullivan and Avalanche. The Butcher-Hogan feud culminated in a WCW World Heavyweight title match at Starrcade, which The Butcher lost.  The Butcher continued wrestling for some time after The Three Faces of Fear broke up in May 1995, then became amnesic, as The Man with No Name.

Brutus rejoined Sullivan in his new stable The Dungeon of Doom, as The Zodiac, a character wearing black and white face paint and only ever saying, “Yes, no, yes, no!” The Dungeon of Doom feuded with Hogan for most of the remainder of 1995. Hogan eventually turned Zodiac against his stablemates by revealing him as a mole. Brutus then left WCW in December 1996.