Hollywood Blonds ( WCW ) Hollywood Blonds ( WCW ) were a professional wrestling tag team composed of " Stunning " Steve Austin & Flyin ' Brian Pillman . Perhaps the most famous version of the Hollywood Blonds and the team with the greatest exposure worldwide was the World Championship Wrestling version of the Blonds consisting of " Stunning " Steve Austin and " Flyin ' " Brian Pillman . In late 1992 , the recently heel turned Brian Pillman had been teaming with another recently - turned - heel in Barry Windham , but when Windham was groomed for a singles push and a run with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship , the WCW bookers put Steve Austin together with Brian Pillman since management didn ’ t have any other immediate plans for Austin . After one last unsuccessful attempt at winning the WCW / NWA World Tag Team Championship from Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas at Starrcade 1992 , Austin replaced Windham on a permanent basis . At first , the two were just billed as ” Stunning Steve and Flyin ' Brian ” but the two ( with input from Scotty ” Flamingo ” Levy ) came up with the idea of ” the Hollywood Blonds ” complete with matching trunks and vests . The duo was immediately thrust into a feud with Shane Douglas and Ricky Steamboat over the NWA and WCW World Tag Team titles , which gave the duo a chance to show off their team work and their trademark “ mock filming ” pose that they invented . After a successful move , one of the Blonds would move his hands like he was turning the handle on an old film camera . After winning a match , Pillman or Austin would arrogantly state that “ Your brush with greatness is over ” to further annoy the fans . On the March 27 , 1993 edition of WCW Power Hour , Austin and Pillman defeated Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas to win their only NWA / WCW World Tag Team Championship . Though Steamboat and Douglas had several rematches , they were unable to recapture the belts . On one night , Austin and Pillman faced an unknown masked team known as " Dos Hombres " ( literally ” two guys ” ) who they assumed were a couple of luchadores from Mexico . The match started out rather inconspicuously , until the two masked men started showing moves more consistent with Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas than two luchadores . Dos Hombres won the match , earning them a shot at the world tag team titles at Slamboree 1993 . However , by the time Slamboree came about , Douglas had been fired by WCW and Steamboat was without a partner . Instead of canceling the already announced Steel Cage match , Tom Zenk was made to wear the mask of “ Hombre Uno ” and work the match without anyone realizing it wasn ’ t Douglas under the red and green hood . The Blonds won at Slamboree ending the “ Dos Hombres ” angle . After the feud with Steamboat and Douglas ended , the Blonds were programmed with the recently reformed Four Horsemen , who at the time consisted of Ric Flair , Paul Roma , and Ole and Arn Anderson . Flair had recently returned from a run with the World Wrestling Federation and been given a talk show segment called ” A Flair for the Gold ” to give Flair television time before his WWF release allowed him to wrestle for WCW . Playing off their image of believing they ’ re the best thing in wrestling , Pillman and Austin started to target Flair and Anderson by mocking them through their own segment called “ A Flare for the Old ” . Austin would stand in the background with a pillow under his shirt for a gut while slowly stroking his chin imitating Arn Anderson . Pillman dressed up in an old bathrobe , put on reading glasses and a grey wig and then cut into Flair for being too old and too scared of the Hollywood Blonds . The impersonation drew Ric Flair back in the ring making his “ Big Show ” wrestling return at Clash of the Champions XXIII where Flair and Anderson challenged the Blonds for the tag team titles . Despite winning the two out of three falls match , they did not win the titles since the Blonds were disqualified after Barry Windham interfered . Windham ’ s attack shifted Flair ’ s focus away from the Hollywood Blonds , which in turn meant that Arn Anderson needed a new tag team partner . Not long after the Clash , Paul Roma was introduced as the fourth Horseman and would team with Anderson in the Horseman / Blonds feud . On July 18 , at WCW ’ s Beach Blast 1993 , Roma and Anderson were beaten by the Blonds who cheated to retain their titles . Not long after Beach Blast , Pillman injured his ankle and was unable to compete at a scheduled title match at Clash of the Champions XXIV . However , due to WCW taping policies , Arn Anderson and Paul Roma had already been taped as the World Tag Team champions so the title change had to happen despite Pillman being injured . Austin teamed with ” Lord ” Steven Regal at the Clash where they dropped the gold to Roma and Anderson . As soon as the Blonds dropped the titles , the team was split up . Austin and Pillman both claimed that it was for political reasons . Austin was given a singles push challenging Dustin Rhodes for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship . When Pillman finally recovered , Austin ( along with his new manager Col . Rob Parker ) turned on Pillman , turning Pillman face . This took place on the October 30 , 1993 edition of WCW Saturday Night . Parker came to ringside to congratulate Austin ( and not Pillman ) on winning a tag team match . Pillman took exception to Parker snubbing him . Parker brought up Pillman ' s bad leg and said if he was a race horse , he ' d put him down . Pillman attacked Parker , which in turn led to Austin attacking Pillman .