Chris Adams

Adams joined World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) on April 15, 1983, wrestling twice that night: defeating Roberto Renesto on the card's opening match and The Mongol by disqualification later in the card. Chris was billed as being the "pen pal" of Kevin Von Erich.

Adams won his first eleven matches before losing his first WCCW bout to Kamala on June 20 in Fort Worth. His first tag match with the Von Erichs took place on August 19, with Kerry Von Erich as his partner, and he often teamed with the Von Erichs in six- and eight-man tag matches against The Fabulous Freebirds.

Soon thereafter, Adams and Jimmy Garvin began battling each other, with valets Sunshine and Precious getting involved. In a 21 October 1983 match at the Sportatorium, Eventually, Adams won a loser-leaves-town match over Garvin on 4 July 1984 in Fort Worth.

In August, Adams hired manager Gary Hart, and eventually turned heel following a September 28, 1984 tag team match at the Dallas Sportatorium.

After Adams was pinned by Kevin Von Erich in a 27 October 1984 match, he was offered a deal to fire Hart and all would be forgiven with the Von Erichs. Adams then grabbed a wooden chair and smashed it on Von Erich's head. Von Erich eventually returned the favor to Adams a month later, with part of the wood lodged in Adams' nose, very close to his eye. This resulted in an abrupt end to the angle.

Adams later competed in a six-man tag team match alongside Jake Roberts and Gino Hernandez, defeating Kerry Von Erich, Mike Von Erich and Bobby Fulton (subbing for the injured Kevin Von Erich).

In early 1985, Adams fired Hart and began feuding with virtually every WCCW wrestler, face or heel. He also tag teamed with Gino Hernandez. In addition, Adams wrestled WCW World Champion Ric Flair several times, nearly winning the championship on two separate occasions. In one match, interference by the One Man Gang cost Adams, who had Flair pinned for at least ten seconds while the referee was distracted. Another angle Adams was involved in was a battle of superkicks with The Great Kabuki, who was brought in by Sunshine in her feud against Adams.

While paired with Hernandez, Adams developed a gimmick of cutting his opponents' hair after a match. This led to an October 1985 showdown in Dallas, where Adams and Hernandez faced Kevin and Kerry Von Erich in a lumberjack loser-loses-hair match, which was won by the Von Erichs and resulted in Adams and Hernandez being shaved bald, forcing the pair to temporarily wrestle under masks as their hair grew back. Adams and Hernandez split and engaged in a lengthy feud.

On Christmas night in 1985, Adams and Hernandez reunited to face Kevin and Kerry Von Erich. During the match, Hernandez, claiming a knee injury and refused to be tagged in by Adams, who took a brutal beating at the hands of the Von Erichs. Adams deliberately threw Kevin over the rope to end the match, then slapped Hernandez for not tagging him and left the ring. This led to a 27 January 1986 encounter in Fort Worth, where Adams and Hernandez faced each other with the stipulation that the loser would lose his hair again, this time by having *Freebird Hair Cream* rubbed into the scalp. Adams twice refused to pin Hernandez, and while arguing with referee Rick Hazzard, Hernandez threw some of the hair cream into Adams' eyes, causing Adams to win by disqualification. Adams left World Class in mid-September 1986.

In 1997, Adams began competing in World Championship Wrestling as a midcard performer. Adams feuded with Glacier in a battle of superkicks, and then locked horns with Chip Minton. Adams wrestled Randy Savage in the first match of the first *WCW Thunder* in January 1998; he pinned Savage, but J.J. Dillon reversed the decision and awarded Savage the victory via disqualification due to Lex Luger's interference. Aside from that, he was primarily used as a jobber and in late 1999, Adams was granted his release from WCW.

On October 7, 2001, Adams passed away.