Brad Armstrong Biography

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Brad Armstrong (born Brad James) is an American professional wrestler. He is the son of Bob Armstrong and has three brothers that also wrestle, Steve, Scott and Brian.

Career

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.
Brad never revealed his Badstreet identity on television.

In late-1991, he was given another masked gimmick, Arachnaman, who looked so much like Spider-Man that Marvel Comics sued WCW, who soon dropped the gimmick. In June 1992, Brad won the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship (also known as the first incarnation of the WCW Cruiserweight Title). He soon injured his knee and he was stripped of the title. He returned in early 1993 and remained with the company until early 1995.

He worked for Smoky Mountain Wrestling for the rest of 1995 (capturing their title) and eventually came back to WCW. In 1999, he was repackaged as "B.A.", a member of the No Limit Soldiers stable. When that group disbanded, he was given the gimmick of Buzzkill, a takeoff of his brother Brian's gimmick 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.

He was injured early in 2000 and left the business for a few years, until returning to the independent circuit in 2004.

In September 2006, Armstrong signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment. He now wrestles at house shows on the ECW brand.

Wrestling facts

• Finishing and signature moves
  

• Armstrong Legsweep (Three-quarter facelock Russian legsweep)
  
• Armstrong Leglock (Figure four leglock)
  

• Managers
  

• Oliver Humperdink
  
• Diamond Dallas Page
  

Championships and accomplishments

• Continental Wrestling Federation
  
  • 1-Time CWF Tag Team Champion (with Bob Armstrong)
    
  
  
• Florida Championship Wrestling
  
  • 1-Time NWA Florida Global Tag Team Champion (with Magnum T.A.)
    
  
  
• Mid-South Wrestling
  
  • 1-Time Mid-South North American Heavyweight Champion
    
  • 1-Time UWF Tag Team Champion (with Tim Horner)
    
  
  
• National Wrestling Alliance
  
  • 2-Time NWA National Heavyweight Champion
    
  • 1-Time NWA National Tag Team Champion (with Tim Horner)
    
  • 1-Time NWA Rocky Top Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
    
  
  
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  
  • Brad won the PWI Rookie of the Year Award in 1982. PWI also named him # 270 out of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
    
  
  
• Smokey Mountain Wrestling
  
  • 2-Time SMW Heavyweight Champion
    
  
  
• Southeast Championship Wrestling
  
  • 4-Time NWA Southeast Tag Team Champion (with Bob Armstrong twice, Scott Armstrong and Norvell Austin)
    
  • 1-Time NWA Southeast United States Junior Heavyweight Champion
    
  • 3-Time NWA Southeast Continental Heavyweight Champion
    
  
  
• United States Wrestling Association
  
  • 1-Time USWA Southern Heavyweight Champion
    
  
  
• World Championship Wrestling
  
  • 1-Time WCW World Light Heavyweight Champion
    
  • 1-Time WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Champion (with Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin)
    
  
  
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  
  • 1981 Rookie of the Year (tied with Brad Rheingans)
    
  • 1987 Most Underrated Wrestler
    
  
  
• Other Titles
  
  • 1-Time EWA Heavyweight Champion
    
  • 1-Time Tennessee Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Champion (with Scott Armstrong)
    
  
  

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