Brian Pillman

Roster
 3-Becoming the first ever triple champion at Slamboree 1994

## Tag Team Champion(1989)

Brian Pillman's first canon match was at Saturday Night 2 defeating Ole Anderson in the first round of the WCW Heaviweight Championship tournament, afterwards he was attacked by Ole and Barry Windham. Pillman was eliminated in the semi finals by Sting

At Wrestlewar Pillman teamed up with Shane Douglas to defeat Ole Anderson and Barry Windham, Douglas' tag team partner Johnny Ace came out furious and shoved Pillman to the mat because he wasn't part of the Dynamic Dudes but Douglas announced they were now a trio but Ace couldn't handle him so at Great American Bash they had a no DQ match which Pillman won, Shane Douglas weirdly found a replacement to team up with him which was Ranger Ross as they lost the titles to Ole and Windham, Pillman and Ace were also mad about that and beat both men up

At Halloween Havoc, Pillman defeated Shane Douglas and afterwards Ranger Ross beat up Pillman with Johnny Ace coming for the save. At Starrcade 1989, it was Johnny Ace and Brian Pillman vs Shane Douglas and Ranger Ross when Pillman suddenly turned heel attacking Ace while Ross attacked Douglas, Ross revealed Pillman was undercover as a spy in the dynamic dudes and Ace and Douglas were under arrest for possession of drugs, Nightstalker and Terry Taylor came out as these 4 men formed The Police

## The Police(1990-1992)

At Saturday Night 62, a new feud started for The Police as Brian Pillman defeated Stan Hansen to win the TV Championship with help by Lex Luger but as The Police started beating up Hansen, Luger saved him. At Great American Bash Pillman defended against Luger, Hansen came out and cleaned house on The Police as him and Luger officially joined forces. The Police also started feuding with Midnight Express. At Starrcade 1990, Luger, Hansen and Midnight Express defeated The Police in a wargames match for Luger to become TV Champion and The Police were forced to lose their badges, Nightstalker and Ranger Ross left WCW after this but Terry Taylor and Pillman continued as a regular team

At Great American Bash, Taylor and Pillman made their return taking Dick Slater and Tommy Rich's spot in the CITL match and winning the briefcases, later on the night they cashed in on Steiner Brothers and became champions, they continued their feud against Midnight Express culminating at Starrcade 1991 where The Police retained

At Wrestlewar, they lost the tag titles to The Enforcers after police sirens hit and Shane Douglas came out of a police car, Pillman was distracted and rolled up by Zbyszko. At Beach Blast, Douglas defeated Pillman to retain the TV Championship

At Great American Bash they defeated The Godwins, Vicious and Delicious and Pretty Wonderful to win the CITL for a 2nd year in a row. At Halloween Havoc it was a mess of a booking as The Police cashed in against The Enforcers DURING the US title match between Shane Douglas, Stunning Austin and Dr.Death which somehow ended with Austin tagging in Pillman and Pillman and Austin becoming the tag team champions

## Hollywood Blondes(1992-1993)

Austin and Pillman officially became a team as the Hollywood Blondes, Terry Taylor was pissed and promised to find a tag partner against them. At Superbrawl 3, Hollywood Blondes defeated The Enforcers, The Sullivans and Harlem Heat to retain the titles and at Slamboree they defended against Harlem Heat. Pillman announced that as soon as their title run was over, he would go onto singles competition, they continued defending the belts achieving a year as champions as they defeated Vader and Meng by countout at Halloween Havoc.

Road Warriors cashed in on the following Saturday Night and Pillman suddenly lowblowed Austin and let him be pinned to end their reign

## 3 Belts Pillman(1993-1994)

Pillman said he did Austin a favour so they could both move on to bigger things, Austin said he was glad Pillman did what he did because now he can prove he's better by becoming WCW Heaviweight champion first. In the Battlebowl battle royal, Austin and Pillman were the final 2 and Austin managed to eliminate him to win and become NO1 contender to the WCW Heaviweight Championship

Meanwhile, at Starrcade Pillman defeated Arn to become TV Champion, he teased Austin about the fact that he lost to Rick Rude for the title in the PPV but Austin trashed on him saying at least he main evented it, Austin didn't want the TV title, he just wanted to beat up Pillman. At Superbrawl 4 Austin defeated Pillman in a non title match.

At Nitro 1, Pillman defeated The Great Muta, Brad Armstrong and Stan Lane to win the Cruiserweight Championship and become a double champion. At Nitro 3, he speared Austin during his US title match against DDP and DDP proceeded to attack Brian which started a feud. At Slamboree, Pillman defeated Muta to retain the CW belt and later on the night defeated DDP and Austin in a triple threat to become United States champion becoming the first man(so far) in universe history to hold 3 belts at the same time. At Bash at the Beach he continued this amazing run defending against DDP for the US belt and against Yuji Nagata for the CW belt

Eric Bischoff brought back the "run the gauntlet" concept where Pillman would have 4 matches and if he can win all of them he would get a WCW Heaviweight championship match but the first match would be for the TV, second would be for the CW and third would be for US. At Fall Brawl Pillman's dreams were immediatly crushed as he lost the TV title to Barry Windham in the first match, he retained the CW belt against Dick Slater but then also lost the US belt to Dustin Rhodes, Austin stunned him after all these matches

## Four Horsemen(1994-1996)

At the end of Fall Brawl, Brian Pillman, Arn Anderson and Paul Roma attacked Dungeon of Doom and did the "4" sign with Ric Flair as they all reformed Four Horsemen, at Nitro 23 Pillman lost the CW belt to Jushin Liger. Pillman had a starmaking performance at Halloween Havoc as he opened the show with a 2 out of 3 falls match against Liger and did a huge spot where he was dropkicked off the ropes through a table and Liger retained, in the main event Four Horsemen defeated Dungeon of Doom in a wargames match with Pillman doing 2 huge spots as he and The Butcher pushed each other off the cage onto the ring and being powerbombed onto the cage and the cage breaking

Pillman was injured due to this and out for a while but he returned right before Starrcade as he was the NO1 contender to the US belt which was held by Stunning Austin. At Starrcade 1994 Pillman defeated Austin to win the US belt

IWGP Heaviweight champion Shinya Hashimoto had 1 last match under his WCW contract losing against Brian Pillman for the US belt at Superbrawl 5

Blue Bloods began a feud against Pillman, at Slamboree he retained against Squire Dave Taylor but lost the US title to Steven Regal at Great American Bash in the first match of the HWs vs CWs series. Pillman only worked as a background wrestler to Four Horsemen throught the months until Nitro 81 where the CW lumberjacks helped Pillman regain the US belt from Regal

Pillman helped Flair defeat Windham as they were feuding and at Starrcade 1995 Windham got his revenge defeating Pillman and winning the US belt.

Four Horsemen turned babyface as they were in full support of Sting but Pillman didn't agree with this moral change, spit on the ground and left Four Horsemen and consequently WCW

## WWF and feud with Austin(1996)

Brian Pillman debuted at Wrestlemania 12 as Ted Dibiase's opponent for The Undertaker but Pillman lost. Dibiase was trying to bring power back to the Million Dollar Corporation with Pillman and Steve Austin as his 2 main guys but they just couldn't get along due to their animosity in WCW, at In Your House 20 Undertaker and Mankind defeated Austin and Pillman to kick Dibiase out of WWF

He was involved in the MITB match along with Austin and they both cost each other the match. He was in the King of the Ring tournament as he defeated Bradshaw and X-Pac to advance to the finals but Austin would attack him after every match, the finals were Stone Cold defeated Pillman to win the King of the Ring. Pillman said it was unfair how he was beat up constantly so he got an IC title match against Goldust which he won. At Summerslam Austin and Pillman had a title vs hair match and Pillman retained, Austin picked up the razor and shaved it all off himself and proceeded to stun Pillman

When ECW started invading, Pillman cut promos on Raven and at ECW vs WWF, Austin showed up during the match ending it in a no contest as he beat up both men. At RAW 227, Pillman lost the title to ECW's Rob Van Dam with help by Mikey Whipwreck, Pillman was getting close to a breaking point until Survivor Series where he helped Owen Hart win the IC belt from Rob Van Dam and joined Hart Foundation

## Hart Foundation(1996-1997)

Hart Foundation welcomed their longtime friend to their stable as he had been a ticking timebomb as of late and this will serve for him to calm down. At In Your House 22 Austin and Pillman had their last match with Austin winning

Hart Foundation and DX were feuding and Windham and Pillman were the only men without a title match at Wrestlemania so a match was made between them which Pillman won

At Canadian Stampede a huge winner take all took place as Owen, Bret Hart, Pillman, Jim Neidhart and British Bulldog defeated Shawn Michaels, Barry Windham, Road Dogg, Billy Gunn and Stone Cold. Pillman started going crazy again beating people up with chairshots, he said the loose cannon was launched, Owen tried talking to him but Pillman had crazy eyes looking at the WWF belt. Vince tried suspending him but Hart Foundation stopped him saying they would take better care of Brian

At RAW is WAR 261, Pillman chairshotted The Rock for him to defeat Bret Hart by DQ and face Austin for the IC title at Summerslam, Bret was pissed but Pillman also started chairshotting him turning face

## Loose Cannon(1997)

Hart Foundation demanded an explanation from Pillman, Pillman said they tried controlling him which just led to his explosion and now he wants the WWF belt, Owen told Vince to suspend him which he did

He returned in late august beating up Bret Hart after a match, Bret wanted to face him at Ground Zero but Vince would only give him the match if he accepted the stipulation that if Pillman won, he'd no longer be suspended and the match would be for NO1 contendership to the WWF belt. At Ground Zero Pillman defeated Bret.

When The Undertaker and MOD were ready to sacrifice Shawn, Brian Pillman showed up and chairshotted Undertaker revealing that he was the one who attacked Taker backstage a few months ago, Pillman held Shawn captive until G1 Finals where he came out with him for their WWF title match but Shawn retained

Pillman started feuding with Ministry of Darkness and had one of the best RAW matches making him an even bigger star in a no holds barred against Taker which Taker won. On the RAW before Survivor Series, Pillman, Terry Funk, Vader and Sycho Sid defeated MOD to win the Survivor Series Briefcases with Pillman getting an IC title shot and yet again going against Austin

This was the best feud Austin and Pillman had as Pillman was completely unhinged and promised to kill Austin. He won the LW title suddenly from The One Cold Scorpio and a week later he kidnapped Austin's wife and when Austin broke into his home to find him, Pillman pulled out a gun and RAW ended with a blackout of the footage. Pillman was kayfabe arrested for this but Austin still wanted the match in a no DQ. At Badd Blood, they had an amazing hardcore match with police surrounding the area but Austin managed to win with both men completely bleeding which was Pillman's last match ever

## Legacy(1997-1998)

Brian Pillman died on december 13th 1997. The december 15th episode of RAW was only 1 hour and dedicated to his memory which ended with Bret, Owen, Neidhart and Bulldog coming to the ring with hart foundation jackets and leaving them all in the ring as a form of respect.

The LW belt ended up being vacated and a tournament was held in his memory which culminated at Wrestlemania 14 and was won by Taka Michinoku

## Career history

### Heel/face turns

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## Championships and accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* Intercontinental Championship(1 time)
* Lightweight Championship(1 time)
* Wrestler of the Year(1997)

* World Championship Wrestling
* United States Championship(3 times)
* WCW Tag Team Championships(4 times) - with Shane Douglas(1), Terry Taylor(1), Stunning Steve Austin(1), Ric Flair Arn Anderson and Lex Luger(1)
* TV Championship(2 times)
* Cruiserweight Championship(1 time)
* CITL(1991, 1992) - with Terry Taylor(2)