Examples of this include: Hulk Hogan as Mr. America, Dusty Rhodes as The Midnight Rider, André the Giant as Giant Machine, Brian Pillman as The Yellow Dog, The Miz as The Calgary Kid and John Cena as Juan Cena

When Sting needed a tag the most, Flair came out at the last minute with a bandage on his head, tagged Sting, and immediately turned and attacked him removing the fake bandage from his head to show it was all plan between Pillman, Anderson and Flair from the start.

At Clash of the Champions XXIV, Austin and Pillman were scheduled to defend their title against Anderson and Paul Roma.

The featured matches on the one-hour broadcast were Brian Pillman versus Jushin Liger, Ric Flair versus WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Sting, and WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan taking on Big Bubba Rogers.

Just before the thirty days were up, Pillman died hours before Badd Blood of heart disease on October 5, 1997.

Pillman dated Terri Runnels while they were in World Championship Wrestling together before her marriage to Dustin Rhodes.

They were faces again and feuded with Barry Windham and the Hollywood Blondes ( Steve Austin and Brian Pillman ).

She dated Brian Pillman in 1990 while they were both in WCW.

WCW management were initially reluctant, but booker Kevin Nash approved the idea, and Lane and Lodi were renamed The West Hollywood Blondes ( as opposed to the Hollywood Blonds, " Stunning " Steve Austin and Brian Pillman ).

** Pillman and Anderson were disqualified when Flair turned on Sting.

At first, the two were just billed as ” Steve Austin and Brian Pillman ” but the two ( with input from Scotty ” Flamingo ” Levy ) came up with the idea of ” the Hollywood Blonds ” complete with matching trunks and vests.

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.

WCW management were initially reluctant, but booker Kevin Nash approved the idea, and Lane and Lodi were renamed The West Hollywood Blondes ( as opposed to the more famous Hollywood Blonds, " Stunning " Steve Austin and Brian Pillman ).

Over the years, there would be various incarnations of the group, with Flair and Arn Anderson as the two permanent members, while a number of different wrestlers, including Lex Luger, Barry Windham, Sting, Sid Vicious, Paul Roma, Brian Pillman, Chris Benoit, Jeff Jarrett, Steve McMichael, Curt Hennig, and Dean Malenko, have held the other two spots in the Horsemen.

At A Cold Day In Hell, Austin had The Undertaker down with the Stunner, but while distracted with a timely interference by Brian Pillman, Stone Cold's old tag partner, Undertaker nailed Austin with a Tombstone Piledriver and achieved the victory.

Pillman later feuded with Barry Windham, who he harassed while dressed as the masked Yellow Dog after losing a Loser of the fall-leaves-WCW match ( Pillman was eventually reinstated ).

With his " Loose Cannon " persona, Pillman became the talk for all three major promotions, as he successfully left WCW, he was on his way to the WWF, and he was scheduled to wrestle Shane Douglas in ECW, until tragedy struck on April 15, 1996 when Pillman was badly injured after falling asleep while driving his Hummer H1 in Kentucky and driving into a tree trunk, flipping the vehicle.

Pillman acted as a commentator while recovering from his broken ankle, transitioning to a wrestling role after attacking a fan during an episode of WWF Shotgun Saturday Night.

When Pillman initially arrived to the WWF, he aligned himself immediately with his longtime friend and former tag team partner Austin, serving as his lackey while he recovered.

WWF interviewer Kevin Kelly sat in Pillman's house with a camera crew and the Pillman family, while Pillman's friends surrounded the house to protect him.

Pillman responded by producing the same 9 mm pistol that he had displayed earlier and pointing it at a hesitant Austin, while Kelly and Pillman's wife Melanie screamed for help.

" The transmission was restored shortly before the end of Raw, and viewers witnessed Pillman's friends dragging Austin from the house while Pillman aimed the gun at him and announced his intention to " kill that son of a bitch!

In late 1994 ( while still managing Harlem Heat in WCW ), Martel made a return appearance in ECW managing Shane Douglas and Brian Pillman against Ron Simmons and 2 Cold Scorpio.

:* Luger pinned Pillman after hitting him with a chair while the referee was down.

:* Pillman pinned Armstrong after attacking him pre-match while feigning injury.

Southern, and he won the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship ( also known as the first incarnation of the WCW Cruiserweight Championship ) on June 20, 1992 by defeating Brian Pillman at Beach Blast.

After Pillman returned, Austin betrayed and defeated him in a singles match at Clash of the Champions XXV.

While in Stampede Wrestling, Pillman had his girlfriend at the time, Trisa Hayes ( also known as Beulah McGillicutty ), portray his sister in order to get him over as a face by seating her at ringside and having heel wrestlers taunt her so that he could rescue her.

Pillman turned heel in September 1992, frustrated by Brad Armstrong's knee injury and vacating the WCW World Light Heavyweight title, when he was scheduled to wrestle Armstrong for the title at the Clash of the Champions.

Windham and Pillman lost to Steamboat and Douglas at Starrcade on December 28.

They would lose the NWA and WCW World Tag Team Titles to Anderson and Paul Roma at Clash of the Champions XXIV ( Lord Steven Regal substituted for Pillman, who suffered a leg injury in a tag team match on an episode of WCW Main Event prior to the Clash of Champions ).

After costing Flair a match to Arn Anderson at Fall Brawl, Flair recruited the help of Sting to team up against Pillman and Anderson at Halloween Havoc.

Immediately following his departure from WCW, Pillman returned to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion, appearing at the annual Internet convention, ECW CyberSlam, on February 17, 1996.

Austin and Pillman had been feuding for several weeks, and Austin had finally decided to take matters into his own hands and visit Pillman, whom he had already injured, at his home in Walton, Kentucky.

Pillman was scheduled to wrestle with Dude Love at the WWF pay-per-view Badd Blood: In Your House.

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Flair ended up turning on him at Halloween Havoc to reform the Horsemen with Arn and Pillman.

Heenan, in later interviews, explained that the reason for his outburst was that he did not know it was Pillman who was grabbing him, as he was looking at Eddie Guerrero ( Pillman's opponent ) in the ring.

He defeated Brian Pillman in a tournament to earn the shot at the champion.

Smothers ' last major appearance for WCW was on January 21, 1992 at Clash of the Champions, as he teamed with Terry Taylor in a loss to Marcus Alexander Bagwell and Brian Pillman.