The Hollywood Blonds is a name used by several professional wrestling tag teams over the years.
42-399: Jaggers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bobby Jaggers (1948–2012), American wrestler Orval Lee Jaggers (1916–2004), American Christian minister, writer, and scholar See also [ edit ] Great Expectations#Mr Jaggers and his circle Jagger [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
84-506: A falling-out with Gene Kiniski . He then moved down to Atlanta for Georgia Championship Wrestling , where he teamed up with Sterling Golden, who would go on to become one of the most iconic wrestlers in the world, Hulk Hogan . He would also wrestle in Knoxville for while, before moving down to Florida. It was in Florida, where Bobby Jaggers found his niche. He feuded with Dusty Rhodes all over
126-591: A pillow under his shirt for a gut while slowly stroking his chin imitating Arn Anderson. Pillman dressed up in an old bathrobe, put on reading glasses and a grey wig and then cut into Flair for being too old and too scared of the Hollywood Blonds. The impersonation drew Ric Flair back in the ring at Clash of the Champions XXIII , where Flair and Anderson challenged the Blonds for the tag team titles. Despite winning
168-631: A run in the NWA's Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling territory. Rogers had previously teamed up with Gary Royal and Pez Whatley in a Hollywood Blonds inspired team known as The Convertible Blondes in Angelo Poffo's International Championship Wrestling (ICW). The arrogant heel team defeated Ron Garvin and Oates' storyline brother, Jerry, to win the NWA National Tag Team Championship on September 20, 1984. Rogers and Oates held on to
210-503: A talk show segment called " A Flair for the Gold " to give Flair television time before his WWF release allowed him to wrestle for WCW. Pillman and Austin appeared on the show and mocked Flair and Anderson's age. Several weeks later, the Blonds continued their antagonism of Flair and Anderson by mocking them through their own segment called " A Flare for the Old ". Austin would stand in the background with
252-639: A tournament final to determine the inaugural NWA United States Tag Team Champions . Jaggers would remain in JCP until 1988. By 1988, Bobby Jaggers wrestled actively in Puerto Rico for WWC. But on July 16, 1988, one incident changed his life forever. After a show, Bruiser Brody was murdered in the shower in the locker room. Jaggers was in the heel locker room when Brody was in the face locker room. The murder made him slowly phase his career out, before finally retiring in 1991. In fall of 1989, Jaggers made two appearances in
294-581: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bobby Jaggers Robert Francis Jeaudoin (January 8, 1948 – September 30, 2012) was an American professional wrestler and civil engineer , also known by the ring name of "Hangman" Bobby Jaggers . Most of his renown as a wrestler came from his appearances in various National Wrestling Alliance -affiliated promotions. In particular, he found his greatest success in Championship Wrestling from Florida and Pacific Northwest Wrestling ,
336-750: The Tet Offensive . Upon leaving the Army, Jeaudoin worked at a Nabisco cookie factory in Washington, until he met Sandy Barr , whom he credited for saving his life. Jeaudoin suffered after Vietnam, so when Barr asked him if he wanted to be a wrestler, he immediately said yes. Debuting under the name "Bobby Mayne" (after his favorite wrestler Lonnie Mayne ) in 1972 in the Pacific Northwest against Al Madril, Bobby Jaggers learned his craft. Soon after debuting, he moved to Memphis, where he teamed with Charlie Fulton and
378-599: The WCW / NWA World Tag Team Championship from Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas at Starrcade 1992 , Pillman and Windham stopped teaming. Windham declared his intention to pursue the NWA world title , and told Pillman he should instead team with Austin. However, the real reason for the team's reunion was that the WCW bookers didn't have any other immediate plans for Austin. At first, the two were just billed as "Stunning" Steve and "Flyin'" Brian, but
420-770: The WWE losing to Jim Neidhart and a tag team against The Rockers ( Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels ). In 1989 Bobby Jaggers teamed with Black Bart and were called the Southern Force in the FCW/PWF and held the tag team titles one time after beating the Nasty Boys in St Petersburg Fl. Then Jaggers and Black Bart lost the title to Dustin Rhodes and Mike Graham in Tampa Bay Fl. The FCW/PWF
462-411: The surname Jaggers . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jaggers&oldid=1021805207 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1732895158100504-576: The two out of three falls match , they did not win the titles since the Blonds were disqualified after Barry Windham interfered. Windham's attack shifted Flair's focus away from the Hollywood Blonds, which in turn meant that Arn Anderson needed a new tag team partner. Not long after the Clash, Paul Roma was introduced as the fourth Horseman and would team with Anderson in the Horsemen/Blonds feud. On July 18, at Beach Blast , Roma and Anderson were beaten by
546-403: The Blonds would move his hands like he was turning the handle on an old film camera. After winning a match, Austin or Pillman would arrogantly state that "Your brush with greatness is over" to further annoy the fans. Austin and Pillman made their pay-per-view (PPV) debut on February 21, 1993 taking on Buff Bagwell and Erik Watts at SuperBrawl III , which Austin and Pillman won the match. On
588-545: The Blonds, who cheated to retain their titles. Not long after Beach Blast, Pillman injured his ankle and was unable to compete at a scheduled title match at Clash of the Champions XXIV . However, due to WCW taping policies , Arn Anderson and Paul Roma had already been taped as the World Tag Team Champions so the title change had to happen despite Pillman being injured. Austin teamed with "Lord" Steven Regal at
630-778: The Clash where they dropped the titles to Roma and Anderson. As soon as the Blonds dropped the titles, the team was again temporarily split up. Austin and Pillman both claimed that it was for political reasons. Austin was given a singles push challenging Dustin Rhodes for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship . After Pillman finally recovered, he and Austin had a few more matches together taking on teams such as Marcus Alexander Bagwell and 2 Cold Scorpio , Scorpio and Ron Simmons , Simmons and Ice Train , and jobber tag team Frankie Rowe and Jimmy Rogers. The Blonds also confronted The Nasty Boys and Missy Hyatt during an interview after The Nasty Boys had won
672-658: The Hollywood Blonds to a no contest , after which the titles were declared vacant . A rematch in Nagoya, Japan saw the Blonds win the North American Tag Team titles on September 22. On October 2, Inoki and Sakaguchi regained the titles and they became more or less exclusive to NJPW after that date. When the Blonds' time in Los Angeles ended near the end of 1975, they returned to the Tri State promotion and immediately targeted
714-527: The March 27, 1993 episode of Power Hour , Austin and Pillman defeated Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas to win their only NWA/WCW World Tag Team Championship. Though Steamboat and Douglas had several rematches, they were unable to recapture the titles. 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 . The match started out rather inconspicuously, until
756-680: The United States Tag Team championship. On March 18, 1976, the duo defeated Greg Valentine and Gorgeous George, Jr. Due to disputes over pay and billing the Blonds’ time in Tri State was short lived, they quickly dropped the tag team title to Buck Robley and Bob Slaughter only eleven days after they won them. The Blonds next appeared in CWF once more, winning the Florida Tag Team titles from Steve Keirn and Bob Backlund not long after arriving in
798-502: The WWF in 1996, but not as the Blonds. Austin by then was using his new "Stone Cold" persona, and an injured Pillman was "The Loose Cannon" and acted primarily as his sidekick, until Austin turned on Pillman for showing his admiration for Austin's nemesis, Bret Hart . According to WrestlingData.com, a compiler of available win–loss records, The Hollywood Blonds are perfectly balanced at 52-52, with 8 draws. In 1999, Lenny Lane and Lodi used
840-568: The gold. During the summer of 1977, the Hollywood Blonds moved from Mid-Atlantic to Memphis and the NWA Mid-America promotion (later Continental Wrestling Association , CWA). In Memphis, the Blonds shot up the tag team ranks right off the bat defeating Bob Ellis and Jim Garvin for the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship on July 25. The Blonds lost the titles to Norvell Austin and Pat Barrett on August 15. After holding
882-538: The greatest exposure worldwide was the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) incarnation consisting of "Stunning" Steve Austin and "Flyin'" Brian Pillman . Austin and Pillman teamed for the first time on October 17, 1992 and battled to a draw with Shane Douglas and Brad Armstrong . Austin and Pillman also teamed against Scott Steiner and Marcus Alexander Bagwell , jobber tag team Chris Sullivan and Tommy Angel, Dustin Rhodes and Brad Armstrong (who
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#1732895158100924-701: The latter near his hometown of Vancouver, Washington . His wrestling gimmick was of a cowboy from Kansas , where he spent the later years of his life. Jeaudoin was born in Vancouver, Washington , where he attended Hudson's Bay High School . In December 1966, Jeaudoin joined the United States Army and spent a year and a half in Vietnam. He was in the "A" Battery of the 1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery Regiment , and fought in battles in Huế , Khe Sanh , A Sầu Valley , and
966-456: The match without anyone realizing it wasn't Douglas under the red and green hood. The Blonds won at Slamboree, thus ending the "Dos Hombres" angle. After the feud with Steamboat and Douglas ended, the Blonds were programmed with the recently reformed Four Horsemen , who at the time consisted of Ric Flair , Paul Roma , and Ole and Arn Anderson . Flair had recently returned from a run with then World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and been given
1008-670: The name as a heel tag team in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1992 and 1993 and is often mentioned when talking about great tag teams. Keith Roberson was also a Hollywood Blond The team of Buddy Roberts (billed as "Dale Roberts") and Jerry Brown were the first to adopt the name "The Hollywood Blonds" in wrestling when they began teaming together in 1970 in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) Tri-State territory (NWA Tri State promoted in Oklahoma , Arkansas , Louisiana and Mississippi ). The two quickly became one of
1050-455: The name in the 1970s. Rip Rogers and Ted Oates wrestled as The Hollywood Blonds in the mid-1980s in the National Wrestling Alliance 's (NWA) Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP). The name was also adopted by "Pretty Boy" Larry Sharpe and "Dynamite" Jack Evans, who had a stint in then World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). The most well-known team to use the "Hollywood Blonds" moniker was "Stunning" Steve Austin and "Flyin" Brian Pillman who used
1092-487: The promotion by mid-1973. After leaving the Tri State area, Roberts and Brown next popped up in Florida working for Eddie Graham ’s Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF). After working their way up the ranks, the duo challenged for and won the top tag team title in the promotion, the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship , from the team of Dick Slater and Stan Vachon in March 1974. The Blonds ruled
1134-496: The promotion's biggest tag-team attraction Black Gorman and Goliath. During their time in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Blonds were also involved in an angle that saw the Los Angeles version of the NWA North American Tag Team Championship shift over to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as their main tag team title of that day. On August 1, 1975, reigning champions Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi fought
1176-514: The rest of 1970, Roberts and Brown dominated the Tri State tag team scene until losing to Bill Watts and Billy Red Lyons in January 1971. In early 1973, the Blonds became three-time NWA United States Tag Team Champions by defeating Dennis Stamp and Bull Bullinski for the titles. The Blonds held on to the titles until sometime in April, when they lost the gold to Rip Tyler and Eddie Sullivan before leaving
1218-715: The tag team division over the summer of 1974 until dropping the gold to Dick Slater and Toru Tanaka in the fall (either September or October). After their run with the titles ended, the Blonds moved on to another territory, the most natural territory for the team – NWA Hollywood Wrestling in Los Angeles . The Gene and Mike LeBell territory saw Roberts and Brown win the NWA Americas Tag Team Championship four times between December 1974 and August 1975, defeating such teams as Victor Rivera and Louie Tillet, Porkchop Cash and S.D. Jones , John Tolos and Louis Tillet, and
1260-681: The territory. During that time, he would wrestle on and off for World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico, wrestle eighteen tours of Japan, and some shows in South Africa. In 1984, he went to Portland for Don Owen and Pacific Northwest Wrestling . While there, he won four Heavyweight titles and two Tag Team titles, with one partner each, before leaving for the Mid-Atlantic area ran by Jim Crockett Promotions . While there, he formed his well-known tag team The Kansas Jayhawks with Dutch Mantel . In 1986, they lost to Ivan Koloff and Krusher Khrushchev in
1302-598: The territory. Just like with Tri State, their stay in Florida was short, as they dropped the titles to Mike Graham and Ken Lucas only a few months later and left. After a short stay in Florida, the duo began working for Jim Crockett ’s Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (MACW). On January 17, 1977, Roberts and Brown defeated the team of Dino Bravo and Tim Woods for the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship and held on to it for three months until Bravo and new partner Tiger Conway Jr. beat them for
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1344-759: The time of his death, he was working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a road and bridge specialist for disaster relief projects. Jaggers died on September 30, 2012, in Covington, Louisiana , from renal failure after a prolonged period of ill health from Hepatitis C , which he had contracted while serving in the Vietnam War . He was buried in the Dunlap Cemetery with full military honors . Jerry Brown (wrestler) The original Blonds were Buddy Roberts and Jerry Brown, who used
1386-454: The titles for a little over a month. They lost the titles to The Lightning Express ( Brad Armstrong and Tim Horner ) on November 1. Not long after losing the titles, Rogers and Oates split up when Rip Rogers left the area to pursue a singles career. From August till October 1984, Dusty Wolfe and Ken Timbs formed The Hollywood Blondes in Florida . The version of The Hollywood Blonds with
1428-471: The titles from Anderson and Roma. The Blonds' last match as a team took place on the October 30, 1993 episode of Saturday Night . After the Blonds had defeated a jobber tag team, Col. Rob Parker (who had just become Austin's new manager) came to ringside to congratulate Austin (and not Pillman) on winning the match. Pillman took exception to Parker snubbing him. Parker brought up Pillman's bad leg and said if he
1470-509: The titles two more times, the team lost them for good to Austin and Barrett on September 25, 1977. Shortly after losing the Southern Tag Team titles, Brown and Roberts split up, with Roberts going on to form The Fabulous Freebirds with Terry Gordy and Michael Hayes while Brown kept working as a singles wrestler mainly in the south. In 1984, Rip Rogers and Ted Oates adopted the Hollywood Blonds moniker and "Superstar" gimmick for
1512-433: The top heel acts in the territory with their "Hollywood superstar" arrogance and cheating ways. On May 8, 1970, the Blonds won their first title when they won a tournament to crown new NWA United States Tag Team Champions (Tri State version). Their first run with the title was short as Luke Brown and Danny Hodge defeated them three weeks later, but the Blonds managed to regain the gold days after being defeated by them. For
1554-412: The two (with input from Scotty "Flamingo" Levy ) came up with the idea of The Hollywood Blonds, complete with matching trunks and vests. The duo was immediately thrust into a feud with Shane Douglas and Ricky Steamboat over the NWA and WCW World Tag Team titles, which gave the duo a chance to show off their teamwork and their trademark "mock filming" pose that they invented. After a successful move, one of
1596-429: The two masked men started showing moves more consistent with Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas than two luchadores. Dos Hombres won the match, earning them a shot at the titles at Slamboree . However, by the time Slamboree came about, Douglas had been fired by WCW and Steamboat was without a partner. Instead of canceling the already announced steel cage match , Tom Zenk was made to wear the mask of "Hombre Uno" and work
1638-469: Was a race horse , he would put him down. Pillman attacked Parker, which in turn led to Austin attacking and turning on Pillman, turning Pillman face and breaking up the Hollywood Blonds for the third and final time. The Austin/Pillman feud was never pushed intensely and at times played more for comedy than emotion, a fact underscored by Pillman being more interested in putting Parker in a chicken suit than getting back at Austin. They would briefly reunite in
1680-488: Was being booked and run by Dusty Rhodes, until Dusty left for WWE. FCW/PWF closed down in 1991. After retiring from professional wrestling, Bobby Jaggers studied civil engineering at Kansas City University and took classes at Butler County Community College . He worked as an engineering technician for the state of Kansas. By 2007, he became a road and bridge specialist for the Department of Homeland Security for Kansas. By
1722-500: Was filling in for Barry Windham ), Armstrong and Bagwell, Ricky Steamboat and Nikita Koloff , and Steamboat and Douglas. Austin and Pillman temporarily stopped teaming when in late 1992, the recently heel turned Brian Pillman started teaming with Barry Windham, but when Windham was groomed for a singles push and a run with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship , and after one last unsuccessful attempt at winning
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1764-592: Was managed by Sir Steve Clements. In 1973, he moved to Kansas City, where he caught the eye of Dory Funk, Jr. , who wanted him in his Amarillo territory, in which he did split his time between the two territories. In 1975, after a brief stint in San Francisco, he went to Louisiana to work for Bill Watts , where he formed a team with Jerry Brown . He later moved up to Canada in Vancouver, working for Al Tomko and All-Star Wrestling , but didn't last long, as he left after
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