Wayne Bloom

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Wayne Bloom
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Beau Beverly The Sports Agent Wayne Bloom
Billed height	6 ft 4 in
Billed weight	265 lb
Born	March 22, 1958 Minneapolis, Minnesota
Trained by	Eddie Sharkey
Debut	1989
Retired	1999

Wayne Bloom (born March 22, 1958) was a professional wrestler who wrestled in World Championship Wrestling, the American Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Federation between 1989 and 1999.

1 Career
- 1.1 AWA and WCW
- 1.2 WWF
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Career

[edit] AWA and WCW

Wayne Bloom started wrestling with the American Wrestling Association in 1989 after being trained by Eddie Sharkey. In the AWA he competed as Wayne "The Train" Bloom. His initial run as a singles wrestler was not very successful, illustrated by the 24 second loss to Johnny Valiant at the AWA PPV SuperClash III|SuperClash III. After his unsuccessful singles attempts Bloom formed a tag team called The Destruction Crew with fellow rookie (and Eddie Sharkey student) ”Mean” Mike Enos. In the fall of 1989 Wayne Bloom on behalf of the Desctruction Crew challenged then AWA World Tag-Team champions Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans to a “car lifting” contest. During the challenge the Destruction Crew attacked Patera and Rhenigans and injured them (Storyline) and forced them to vacate the tag-team titles.

A tournament was set up to crown new tag-team champions, in this tournament the Destruction Crew would defeat the team of Sgt. Slaughter & Baron Von Raschke in the first round and then beat Greg Gagne and Paul Diamond in the finals to win the titles. That victory combined with their devious tactics earned the duo a joint “Rookie of the Year” award from the readers of “Pro Wrestling Illustrated”, which is the only time a tag-team has won

In 1990 the Destruction Crew joined World Championship Wrestling which was still a part of the National Wrestling Alliance. In WCW they wrestled under masks as the Minnesota Wrecking Crew 2 and were managed by Ole Anderson who was part of the original Minnesota Wrecking Crew. They attempted without success to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship from The Steiner Brothers over the summer of 1990. During their stint with WCW they were also STILL under contract with the AWA, in fact they were the the AWA World Tag-Team Champions during their entire run as the masked Minnesota Wrestling Crew 2.

On August 11, 1990 the Destruction Crew lost the AWA tag-team titles to long time rivals The Trooper and D.J. Peterson. The Crew tried in vain to regain the titles over the next couple of months until the AWA closed up in early 1991.

[edit] WWF

In 1991, after the AWA closed up, the Destruction Crew went to the World Wrestling Federation and became the Beverly Brothers, with Mike being redubbed Blake Beverly and Wayne being redubbed Beau Beverly. They were originally managed by the Coach, then by The Genius. The team was initially launched into feuds with the Legion of Doom, The Bushwackers and The Natural Disasters, the latter of which revolved around the WWF World Tag Team Championship. The Beverly Brothers were never promoted as serious players in the tag-team division making only a few PPV appearances between 1991 and 1993

In 1993 Wayne left the WWF and also semi-retired from professional wrestling as well but within a year he was making sporadic appearances on the independent scene as a singles wrestler, among other places during the last days of Herb Abrams’ UWF. Bloom and Enos had a brief reunion in World Championship Wrestling in 1997 and 1998, but the announcers never made any comments on their past history. After a while together the team finally disbanded for good. Bloom retired for good in 1999.