| Brad Armstrong |
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| Brad Armstrong
Height: 6'0" Weight: 260 lbs. Real name: Robert James Jr. Hometown: Marietta, Georgia Finishing move: Russian Leg Sweep Pro debut: 1980 Other aliases: Candyman (WCW), Arachniman (WCW), Badstreet (WCW), Fantasia (WCW), Freedom Fighter (WCW), Mr. R (Georgia, against DiBiase), Buzzkill (WCW) Career highlights: CWF Tag Team Champion (w/Bob Armstrong), NWA Florida Global Tag Team Champion (w/Magnum T.A.), Mid-South North American Heavyweight Champion, UWF Tag Team Champion (w/Tim Horner), NWA National Heavyweight Champion (2), NWA National Tag Team Champion (w/Tim Horner), NWA Rocky Top Tag Team Champion (w/Ricky Morton), SMW Heavyweight Champion (2), NWA Southeast Tag Team Champion (4), NWA Southeast United States Junior Heavyweight Champion, NWA Southeast Continental Heavyweight Champion (3), USWA Southern Heavyweight Champion, WCW World Light Heavyweight Champion, WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Champion (w/Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin), EWA Heavyweight Champion, Tennessee Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Champion (w/Scott Armstrong) Trained by: Bob Armstrong Brad started out in Southeast Championship Wrestling in 1980. He was a face, or good guy due to his good looks and superb wrestling ability. He feuded with Jerry Stubbs and Tom Prichard during his stay there and won the National Wrestling Alliance US Junior Heavyweight title there. Later he moved to the Georgia part of the NWA and feuded with Ted DiBiase and with father Bob, the Fabulous Freebirds of Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy and Buddy Roberts. He also became friends with Tim Horner. He and Horner formed a team called the Lightning Express, due to Horner's nickname of "White Lightning" & Armstrong's quickness. Brad wrestled in the Universal Wrestling Federation with Horner and they feuded with the "Sheepherders", later known as The Bushwackers, Butch Miller and Luke Williams. They also had some matches with future superstars Sting and Rick Steiner. In 1991, Brad was put in a mask as Badstreet, the masked member of the Fabulous Freebirds along with Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin. They won the WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Titles. After that, Brad got rid of the mask never revealing his Badstreet identity on television and won the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship (also known as the first incarnation of the WCW Cruiserweight Title). He soon injured his leg and left WCW. In 1993, he was given another gimmick, Arachniman, who looked like Spider-Man so much that Marvel Comics sued WCW, who soon dropped the gimmick. He worked for Smoky Mountain Wrestling (capturing their title) and eventually came back to WCW. In 2000, he was given a gimmick as Buzzkill, a takeoff of his brother's gimmick of the Road Dogg. In fact, the theme song he used for the character was very similar to the New Age Outlaws theme song in the World Wrestling Federation. Since then, he has wrestled on the independent circuit and is still active as of 2006. |