Monday, October 27, 2008

Do you still remember The Underfaker?


  • Early days

Brian Lee appeared in Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) from 1992-1995 as "Prime Time" Brian Lee. Lee was a 2-time SMW Heavyweight Champion and twice won the SMW Tag Team Championship with partner Chris Candido. Lee was the 1st ever SMW Heavyweight Champion and was also the first wrestler to ever be managed by Tammy Sytch (Sunny).

  • WWF (1st run)

In 1994, Lee briefly joined the WWF to perform as a fake Undertaker. "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase announced that he brought the Undertaker into the WWF and claimed to have done it again following his disappearance after Royal Rumble 1994 when Undertaker lost to Yokozuna in a casket match.

However Ted DiBiase's Undertaker, who competed for several weeks, was not "guided by the urn" but by money. At this point, Undertaker's manager Paul Bearer accused DiBiase of lying and claimed that he "had made contact" with the real Undertaker (Mark Calaway).

At SummerSlam 1994, Bearer brought back his Undertaker (real) for a match against DiBiase's Undertaker (fake). Towards the end of the match, DiBiase's Undertaker used the Tombstone Piledriver on the real Undertaker, only for the real Undertaker to sit up. DiBiase's Undertaker would proceed to try for another Tombstone, but the real Undertaker reversed this one and proceeded to hit Dibiase's Undertaker with 3 consecutive Tombstones before pinning him for the victory. After the match, DiBiase fled from ringside while the real Undertaker rolled the impostor into a casket that was carried away by druids.

After SummerSlam '94, Lee returned to SMW and also competed in the United States Wrestling Association (USWA). It was in the USWA that Lee first teamed with his real life cousins, Ron and Don Harris, then known as the Bruise Brothers.

In 1996, Lee appeared in the Bollywood film Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi under his "Undertaker" name. The film also featured Brian Adams as The Crush.


  • ECW

In 1996, Lee began competing in ECW. While there, he went by the nicknames of "Bulldozer" (or Bulldozer for Hire) and "Killdozer" and was allied with Raven as a hired bodyguard for his Raven's Nest stable.

Brian Lee and Tommy Dreamer were involved in a very violent and personal feud, which began through Dreamer's feud with Raven. At the ECW event Fight The Power, during a 6 man tag match, Brian Lee chokeslammed Dreamer from the ECW balcony through 3 tables, then pinned Dreamer for the win. At Hardcore Heaven '96, after losing a singles match to Dreamer when Dreamer's valet Beulah McGillicutty got involved, Lee again chokeslammed Dreamer off a balcony through 3 tables.

At Heat Wave 96, during a 3 on 3 "Rage in the Cage" tag team cage match, Lee again chokeslammed Dreamer, this time from the top of the cage through 3 tables set up on the outside by Raven's henchmen. Finally, at Ultimate Jeopardy 1996, during a tag match also involving Sandman and Stevie Richards, Lee once again chokeslammed Dreamer from the ECW balcony, this time through 4 tables set up below.

The feud culminated at ECW's High Incident event, in the match Lee is most remembered for from his ECW tenure. During his Scaffold Match with Tommy Dreamer, Lee took a major bump from the scaffolding high above the ring through a series of tables stacked up inside the ring.

Lee later began a feud with Funk, which lasted until 1997. Lee also became a part of the revived Triple Threat stable with Douglas and Chris Candido.

  • WWF (2nd run)

In 1997, Lee returned to the WWF as Chainz, a member the biker faction Disciples of Apocalypse (or DOA) led by group leader Crush, along with Skull and 8-Ball (the Harris Brothers). The foursome feuded with Los Boricuas, the Nation of Domination and the Truth Commission during the WWF's "Gang Warz" storyline. Lee remained in the WWF until the summer of 1998 before being released once again.

Ironically, Mark Calaway would also adopt a biker gimmick in later years.

  • TNA

After several years out of the spotlight, Lee debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2002, teaming with Slash as the Disciples of The New Church, under the leadership of manager Father James Mitchell. It was during this time that he won the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Slash, when they defeated America's Most Wanted, thereby ending AMW's undefeated streak.

Lee left the company later in the year and has only appeared from time to time on smaller independent events since.

Links:

1) Ted DiBiase brings back "The Undertaker" on Heartbreak Hotel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMszMuerW5w&feature=related (Thanks to lee1302)

2) Underfaker RAW debut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju4cTF2Hx1k&feature=related (Thanks to lee1302)

3) Ted Dibiase and Underfaker on King's Court

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDPwXelvfBA&feature=related (Thanks to lee1302)

4) The Underfaker vs. The Undertaker part 1 (Summerslam 1994)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocWZWyd4NGs&feature=related (Thanks to rssuarez)

5) The Underfaker vs. The Undertaker part 2 (Summerslam 1994)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZT4i80LkkE (Thanks to JaredSmithVideo)

6) The Underfaker in bollywood movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEnGDtmY4Ao&feature=related (Thanks to samick559)

7) Brian Lee vs. Tommy Dreamer (ECW High Incident)

(WARNING! Violence graphics might not be suitable for minors!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYQ8z7b_7aQ (Thanks to WWEECWVIDEOS)

8) Chainz vs. Faarooq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dawvSYd3Qu0&feature=related (Thanks to RockyFan99)

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