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Name: Bruce Reed  
   
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Date of Birth: 10th July 1955
   
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Butch Reed

Bruce Reed was a professional wrestler better known as Butch Reed.

History

Butch Reed (born Bruce Reed) started wrestling in 1978 in the Kansas City area.

Reed wrestled in the NWA in the early 1980's and made a name for himself in Mid-South Wrestling from 1983 through early 1986 as "Hacksaw" Butch Reed. He won all of the titles there and feuded with Dick Slater, Magnum T.A. and Dutch Mantel.

He went back to Kansas City and obtained Slick as his manager in 1986. That summer, he lost a loser leaves town match to Bruiser Brody and left with Slick.

They went to the WWF where Reed dyed his hair blonde and became "The Natural" Butch Reed. He feuded with Koko B. Ware and then with Intercontinental Champion Ricky Steamboat but no-showed the match where he was going to win the title and ended up in the WWF's dog house.

He left the WWF in early 1989 and went to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions. He feuded with Junkyard Dog and was briefly managed by James J. Dillon before his contract was "sold" to Hiro Matsuda's "Yamasaki Corporation".

In 1989, he formed a team called Doom with Ron Simmons. They wore masks and were managed by Woman. She wanted them to beat Rick and Scott Steiner for the NWA World Tag Team Titles but they couldn't. Woman fired them and the Steiners took their masks in a match at the Clash of Champions.

Theodore Long became their manager and they won the Titles. They feuded with the Road Warriors and the team of Ric Flair & Arn Anderson before losing the titles to Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin in February 1991.

The promotion became WCW and Reed turned on Simmons, which started a feud. Simmons won the feud when he defeated Reed in a cage match at Super Brawl on May 19, 1991.

Reed then teamed with Cactus Jack and The Barbarian.

He left WCW in 1992 and wrestled in the United States Wrestling Association where he feuded with Junkyard Dog again before moving on to the Global Wrestling Federation in 1994. His stay there was brief and he was soon back on the independent scene in a semi-retirement stage so he could participate in the rodeo circuit in Kansas City.

Reed retired in 2002 after wrestling for Harley Race's WLW promotion and winning the title there.

"The Natural" Butch Reed

Profile

  • Height: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
  • Weight: 260 lb (118 kg)
  • Birthday: July 11, 1954
  • Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri
  • Trainer: -
  • Managers: Tarzan Tyler, Theodore Long, Slick, Woman, James J. Dillon, Hiro Matsuda, Skandor Akbar
  • Other Gimmicks: Bruce Reed, "The Natural" Butch Reed, "Hacksaw" Butch Reed
  • Finisher: Gorilla Press Slam

Championships/Accomplishments

World Championship Wrestling

1-Time WCW World Tag Team Champion (with Ron Simmons)

National Wrestling Alliance

  • 1-Time NWA World Tag Team Champion (with Ron Simmons)
  • 1-Time NWA North American Tag Team Champion (with Skip Young)

All Japan Pro Wrestling

  • 1-Time AJPW International Champion

Mid-South Wrestling

  • 3-Time Mid-South North American Heavyweight Champion
  • 1-Time Mid-South Television Champion
  • 1-Time Mid-South Tag Team Champion (with Jim Neidhart)

Other Titles

  • 1-Time Central States Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Roberts)
  • 1-Time USWA Heavyweight Champion
  • 1-Time GWF North American Heavyweight Champion
  • 1-Time NCWA International Champion
  • 1-Time MEPW United States Champion
  • 1-Time WLW Heavyweight Champion

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked him # 174 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003. He was also ranked # 91 of the best tag teams during the "PWI Years" with Ron Simmons.

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