Blond Bombers The Blond Bombers is a name used by several tag team s in professional wrestling . The first team to use the name was the combination of Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson . It was later used by Pat Patterson and Ray Stevens , who began teaming in 1965 . Larry Latham and Wayne Farris used the name in the late 1970s in the Continental Wrestling Association and , from 1979 to 1980 , Stanley Lane and Bryan St . John competed as the Blonde Bombers while wrestling in Championship Wrestling from Florida . In the early 2000s , the team of Tank and Chad Toland appeared as the Blond Bombers in Ohio Valley Wrestling before changing their team name upon entering World Wrestling Entertainment . Each incarnation held title belts together at least once . Patterson and Stevens were inducted as a team into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2006 . History . Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson . After joining Jim Crockett Promotions in the early 1960s , Rip Hawk met Swede Hanson , who was competing as a singles wrestler . Hawk approached Jim Crockett , Sr . about forming a tag team with Hanson , and Crockett agreed . Both had blond hair and were powerful wrestlers , so they called themselves the Blond Bombers . They were managed by Gary Hart and later by Homer O ' Dell . Hawk spoke for the team during interviews while Hanson stood silently beside him . After teaming for several years , Hawk and Hanson won the Florida version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship by defeating Hiro Matsuda and Duke Keomuka on August 3 , 1965 . They also competed in Australia ' s World Championship Wrestling , where they won the IWA World Tag Team Championship in 1970 . Much of their success , however , came in Jim Crockett Promotions , where they were hated heel ( villain ) wrestlers . They won the NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship four times between 1968 and 1971 . They feuded with several teams , including Johnny Weaver and George Becker as well as the pairing of Paul Jones and Nelson Royal . Jim Crockett Promotions also held matches in which heel teams faced other heel teams . The Blond Bombers faced such teams as the Anderson Brothers ( Gene and Ole ) or Brute Bernard and Skull Murphy These matches , known as " Battles of the Bullies " , were unusual because heels almost always compete against faces ( fan favorites ) . Hanson had a heart attack in 1971 , and Hawk was teamed with rookie wrestler Ric Flair . Hanson became a face upon his return to the ring , and he feuded with Hawk and faced him in a series of matches . They began wrestling in Texas , where they won the NWA Western States Tag Team Championship three times from 1976 to 1977 . Hanson left the territory after their final reign , which ended the tag team combination . They were inducted as a team into the NWA Legends Hall of Heroes in 2007 by former manager Gary Hart . Pat Patterson and Ray Stevens . While wrestling in Oregon , Pat Patterson heard many wrestlers tell him that he would be a natural fit as a tag team partner of Ray Stevens , who competed in San Francisco . Patterson moved to San Francisco and dyed his hair blond to match Stevens , who had used the nickname " The Blond Bomber " as a singles wrestler . They defeated the team of The Destroyer and Billy Red Lyons to win the San Francisco version of the AWA World Tag Team Championship on April 17 , 1965 . They held the belts for over a year and a half before dropping them to the Mongolian Stomper and Ciclon Negro in December 1966 . They won the title back in a rematch the following month and held it for another three months . On April 8 , 1967 , they lost the belts to longtime rival Pepper Gomez and future World Wide Wrestling Federation Champion Pedro Morales . They continued to team together , however , until the end of the year , when Patterson left the area to compete in Japan . When Patterson returned to the San Francisco area , he feuded with Stevens , who had become a face . This feud included Stevens and Peter Maivia defeating Patterson and Billy Graham to win the San Francisco version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship on January 23 , 1971 and Patterson and Graham regaining the belts in a rematch the following month . Patterson and Stevens also competed in singles matches ; Stevens defeated Patterson in a Texas Death match on July 11 , 1970 to win the San Francisco version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship . The pair were later reunited in the American Wrestling Association , where they won the AWA World Tag Team Championship on September 23 , 1978 . The following year , Patterson began competing primarily in the World Wrestling Federation , although he and Stevens continued to team occasionally in the AWA until late 1982 . They were inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame as a team in 2006 and have been described as the " single greatest tag team " of all time . Larry Latham and Wayne Farris . Latham and Farris both made their wrestling debuts in 1976 and later signed with the Continental Wrestling Association ( CWA ) . CWA owners Jerry Jarrett and Jerry Lawler paired Latham and Farris as a new incarnation of the Blond Bombers . Managed by Sergeant Danny Davis , the Bombers were the promotion ' s top heel tag team , Their first championship came on June 15 , 1979 , when they won an infamous match against Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee in Tupelo , Mississippi . After the Blond Bombers controversially won the title , Lawler and Dundee attacked the new champions and fought with them in the concession stands . They soon dropped the belts to Robert Gibson and his real - life brother Ricky , but they regained them in a rematch later that summer . Meanwhile , the Fabulous Freebirds , who had been the region ' s number two heel tag team became faces and challenged the Bombers for the belts . They won the title from the Latham and Farris in September 1979 , but the Bombers won a rematch to reclaim the championship . After dropping the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship for a third and final time , the Blond Bombers began to challenge for the NWA Mid - America Tag Team Championship . They defeated George Gulas and Ken Lucas to win the belts on December 15 , 1979 . While holding the title , they continued to feud with Gulas . When they attacked him one day , his estranged partner Bobby Eaton rescued him ; Gulas and Eaton reunited as The Jet Set and defeated the Bombers to win the championship . Latham and Farris regained the belts in a rematch against The Jet Set but later dropped them to Rocky Brewer and Pat Rose . The Blond Bombers had one last reign with the Mid - America belts , as they defeated Eaton and Great Togo in July 1980 . They held the title until September 3 , when they lost a match to Robert Gibson and Don Fargo . After losing the belts , Farris left to compete in Puerto Rico ' s World Wrestling Council . Upon returning to Tennessee , he found other partners and had two more reigns as an AWA Southern Tag Team Champion . Latham soon left Tennessee to compete in the World Wrestling Federation , where he held the WWF Tag Team Championship as Spot , a member of the Moondogs . Stanley Lane and Bryan St . John . Stanley Lane , who had dubbed himself the " Nature Boy " in honor of his trainer , " Nature Boy " Ric Flair , debuted for Championship Wrestling from Florida in December 1978 . He was soon paired with Bryan St . John , and the team dubbed themselves the Blonde Bombers . St . John had been feuding with Ray Stevens , and the Bombers continued this rivalry . Together , they challenged NWA Florida Tag Team Champions Stevens and Mike Graham for the title belts . On October 30 , 1979 , the heel duo of Lane and St . John defeated the champions to win the title . As a result , St . John claimed victory in his rivalry with Stevens . The following week , they defended the belts against Mr . Hito and Mr . Sakurada . Because of a controversial finish , the championship was vacated , and a tournament was held . St . John sustained a wrist injury , however , and the Bombers were unable to participate . Graham teamed with Steve Keirn to win the tournament on November 13 by defeating Hito and Sakurada . When St . John recovered , he and Lane faced the new champions and defeated them for the title on November 25 . They defended the title against several team and entered into a feud with the Brisco Brothers ( Jack and Jerry ) , who had held the belts together on seven previous occasions . This rivalry also included a singles match between St . John and Jack Brisco , in which their partners were handcuffed together outside of the ring to prevent interference . In March 1980 , Jack Brisco teamed with Jim Garvin to win the belts from the Bombers . Lane and St . John had one final reign with the championship after defeating Garvin and Keirn , who was substituting for Brisco , on June 7 , 1980 . That summer , the Brisco Brothers regained the belts , after which the Blonde Bombers parted ways . St . John soon retired , and Lane focused on building a career as a singles wrestler in Georgia before forming several other tag teams . Later in his career , he teamed with former rival Steve Keirn to form The Fabulous Ones ; he was also a member of The Midnight Express and The Heavenly Bodies . Tank Toland and Chad Toland . The Toland Brothers ( Tank and Chad ) also used the name in Ohio Valley Wrestling ( OVW ) , a developmental territory of World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . They won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship on April 6 , 2005 by defeating The Thrillseekers ( Matt Cappotelli and Johnny Jeter ) . They held the belts for six months before dropping them to Seth Skyfire and Chet Jablonski . The Tolands later competed for WWE as The Dicks ( James and Chad Dick ) , a team dressed as Chippendales dancers . They debuted in October 2005 and were released five months later .