Death Feud

Hello and welcome to blabber Balistik 23! This series of articles is called "Ex-WWE Talent", where I dug wrestlers who have been long forgotten with the company World Wrestling Entertainment and moved on ... or not ... Today we take on one of the biggest mistakes of World Wrestling Entertainment ... EEEVEEERRR! This is the man who popularized the gutwrench powerbomb before Jack Swagger (which in part helped to inspire this issue) ...

"Dr. Death" Steve Williams!

Name does not ring a bell? I can not really blame you ... and after a few paragraphs, you'll see why. Another addition to the brain and muscles package, Steven Williams graduated from the University of Oklahoma, bringing with him the title "All-American for his excellent performance in football. At the same time, participated in amateur wrestling where he almost won a National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. Who has refused to this realization? Future Olympic wrestler Bruce Baumgartner ... it took a class Olympic wrestler to beat Williams this alone ... should be enough for everybody to assess its capabilities!

From the start, Williams had the idea of wrestling ... so much so that he has already thought of his gimmick in the ring, inspired by college life: either he lost a bet or something, but once that was done to fight with a hockey mask a matter that has been one of his coaches called "Doctor Death" (Jason ?)... Thus, one of the Pro Wrestling gimmicks net is born! He was spotted and trained by Bill Watts, a veteran of the fight that rivaled Bruno Sammartino in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and the man who created his own promotion called "Mid-South Wrestling" (which later become WCW) in which Williams made his pro wrestling debut. In mid-South, he teamed with WWF Superstars Andre the Giant possible and Ted DiBiase, respectively, even winning the Mid-South Tag Team titles with the latter "Soon the promotion was renamed Federation Universal Wrestling (UWF) and Williams have finally reached the summit of society, defeating Big Bubba Rogers UWF Heavyweight title!

Over the years Williams would be able to fight in almost every major wrestling promotion live and die ... I think ... In the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), he met with even more future stars such as WWF Barry Windham, Ron Simmons DAMN !!!), (...... Dustin Rhodes (aka Goldust), the Road Warriors even the Steiner Brothers. He also played a game crazy: a Triple Cage Tower of Doom "game in the" Great American Bash "event of 1988! That same year, the big fashion "Starrcade 1988" event, he won the opening game of the exhibition and won the NWA United States Tag Team Championship with Kevin Sullivan (one of, Otherwise, the biggest rival of Chris Benoit) against "The Fantastic" team of Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers! It should be noted that in his time at the beginning of WCW, Williams used to fight against Sullivan, with Simmons and Mike Rotunda (aka "Irwin R. Schyster") formed the "Varsity Club" stable. He later joined the team leading the NWA title win. Having been deprived of his title and its dissolution, he left the NWA and made the fateful trip to Japan ... where he signed with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW)! In an incredible match March 6, 1990, he and his partner Terry Gordy defeated Stan Hansen and Genichiro Tenryu to win the All Japan titles TAG "! Their alliance was called "The Miracle Violence Connection (MVC. .. Not to be confused with an arcade fighting game crossover!) And it would become one of the most successful tag teams of all time internationally! Their accomplishments include 5-time "All Japan Unified World Tag Team Champions, 2-time World's Strongest Tag Team League winner (1990 and 1991), WCW W.