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Brad Armstrong (born Brad James) is a 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.

After that, Brad got rid of the mask never revealing his Badstreet identity on television and won the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship (also known as the first incarnation of the WCW Cruiserweight Title). He soon injured his leg and left WCW. In 1993, he was given another gimmick, Aranchiman, who looked like Spider-Man so much that Marvel Comics sued WCW, who soon dropped the gimmick.

He worked for Smoky Mountain Wrestling (capturing their title) and eventually came back to WCW. In 2000, he was given a gimmick as Buzzkill, a takeoff of his brother's gimmick of the 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.

Since then, he has wrestled on the independent circuit and is still active as of 2006.

In Wrestling

Managers: Oliver Humperdink, Diamond Dallas Page
Finishing maneuver: Russian Leg Sweep

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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Athletes - Brad Armstrong

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