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Brian Christopher Lawler (born January 10, 1972 in Memphis, Tennessee), the son of professional wrestling legend Jerry Lawler, is a professional wrestler currently performing for Memphis Wrestling and other independent promotions. He has a brother (Kevin Lawler) who also wrestled by the name of Kevin Christian.

Career

For a while, when Brian was known as "Too Sexy" Brian Christopher, father Jerry Lawler did not publicly acknowledge that Brian was his son, although Jim Ross (Jerry's broadcast partner) did always hint this.

Brian Lawler began his World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) career as Brian Christopher and teamed up with Scott Taylor to form the tag team of "Too Much."

After a while they changed their names to Grandmaster Sexay and Scotty 2 Hotty and called themselves Too Cool, they were later joined by Rikishi. They enjoyed an immensly popular run as Too Cool, however their run ended in late 2000 when Rikishi was revealed as the man behind the wheel of Stone Cold Steve Austin's hit and run storyline.

While Scotty was sidelined in 2001 with a broken ankle, Lawler formed a short-lived tag team with Steve Blackman.

Lawler was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police when he was found to be in possession of one tenth of a gram of marijuana, half a gram of cocaine and one gram of methamphetamine in Calgary International Airport. He was released from the WWF as a result.

Brian also wrestled briefly for TNA as Brian Lawler. He formed a group called Next Generation with fellow second generation stars David Flair and Erik Watts. They feuded with Dusty Rhodes and harassed him with a replica of the NWA World Title belt that he wore when he was champion.

Brian then returned to the WWE on April 12, 2004 but only stayed for a couple of weeks until he was let go again, this time for 'bad attitude' and missing, or being late for, a number of shows.

When Brian debuted in USWA, he was part of a tag team called "The New Kids" with a high school buddy named Tony Williams.

In wrestling

Previous managers

Nanny Simpson
Bert Prentice
Mike Samples
April Pennington

Finishing and signature move(s)

Hip Hop Drop / Tennessee Jam (Modified Diving Leg Drop)
Missile Dropkick

Championships and accomplishments

Global Wrestling Federation

:*2-time GWF Light Heavyweight Champion

Memphis Wrestling

:*1-time Memphis Wrestling Television Champion

United States Wrestling Association

:*25-time USWA Southern Heavyweight Champion :*7-time USWA Tag-Team Champion (with Big Black Dog, Scotty Anthony, Jeff Jarrett twice, "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert and Wolfie D) :*1-time USWA Junior Heavyweight Champion :*1-time USWA Texas Heavyweight Champion

World Wrestling Federation

:*1-time WWF World Tag-Team Champion (with Scotty 2 Hotty)

Other titles

:*1-time HPW Tag-Team Champion (with Doug Gilbert) :*1-time PPW Television Champion :*1-time NWA North American Tag Team Champion (with Spellbinder) :*1-time NWA New South Heavyweight Champion

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

:*PWI ranked him # 367 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003.

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