Butch Reed played college football at the University of Central Missouri, was a star in Mid-South Wrestling and had high-profile tag team matches in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling.
34 Facts About Butch Reed
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Butch Reed was trained to wrestle by Ronnie Etchison debuting in 1978.
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Early on he wrestled as Bruce Butch Reed adopting the "Hacksaw" nickname over time.
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Butch Reed wrestled mainly for the NWA in the early 1980s and made a name for himself in their St Louis, Florida Championship Wrestling and Georgia Championship Wrestling territories.
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Butch Reed established himself as a force to be reckoned with while competing in Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling from 1983 through early 1986.
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In Mid-South, he was known as "Hacksaw" Butch Reed and came into the territory as a tag team partner for the main face in the territory the Junkyard Dog.
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Butch Reed immediately came face to face with "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan over the "Hacksaw" nickname.
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Reed appeared on TV stating that "Butch Reed is going to start looking out for Butch Reed", which prompted the Junkyard Dog to join him in the ring.
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On July 16,1983, Butch Reed won the Mid-South North American Heavyweight Championship and turned back JYD's challenges in subsequent months.
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Butch Reed's run as a double champion did not last long as JYD got his title shot with Dusty Rhodes as the special guest referee.
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Neidhart and Butch Reed started to blame each other and had a short, brutal feud.
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When Landel tried to give the watch to Butch Reed, he became incensed, in the storyline, stomped on the watch, and started to brawl with his former partner.
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Butch Reed proved to be too much for Reed, beating him all over the Mid-South territory before Reed quietly left.
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Butch Reed went to the American Wrestling Association for a short stint as Jimmy Garvin's bodyguard, then returned to Mid-South in the middle of 1985.
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Butch Reed later turned on Jones and joined the group of manager Slick in 1986.
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Reed dyed his hair blond and became "The Natural" Butch Reed, an updated version of Sweet Daddy Siki.
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Butch Reed feuded initially with Tito Santana, a target of Slick's verbal jabs, and made his pay-per-view debut at WrestleMania III, where he defeated Koko B Ware.
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The enemies were on opposing teams in the main event of the first Survivor Series ; Butch Reed, was the first elimination of the match, by Hogan.
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Butch Reed competed in the first Royal Rumble match in January 1988.
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Butch Reed dominated most of the match against Savage, but spent too much time mouthing off to Savage's manager Miss Elizabeth while climbing to the top turnbuckle.
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Savage caught Butch Reed, threw him off for a slam and immediately hit his Diving elbow drop off the top turnbuckle for the win.
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Butch Reed resurfaced in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions as "Hacksaw" Butch Reed.
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Butch Reed was briefly managed by JJ Dillon before his contract was "sold" to Hiro Matsuda's "Yamasaki Corporation".
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Butch Reed did not see much success in the early parts of his run with JCP; his biggest match was a loss to Sting at the Chi-Town Rumble on February 20,1989.
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Butch Reed unveiled her promise at Halloween Havoc 1989, a couple of brawny, hard hitting masked African-Americans.
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Butch Reed beat him for the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship on October 12,1992.
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Butch Reed held the title for a week before he lost it to Todd Champion.
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Butch Reed next appeared for a notable promotion in 1994, the Global Wrestling Federation in its last days.
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Butch Reed became the penultimate GWF North American champion on June 4,1994, when he beat Rod Price for the held-up title.
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Butch Reed held it for almost a month before losing it to "Gentleman" Chris Adams, who was the last GWF North American champion.
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Butch Reed continued to work on the independent scene on a part-time basis so that he could participate in the rodeo circuit in Kansas City.
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Butch Reed beat Luminous Warrior for the WLW Heavyweight Title on March 31,2001 and held the title until Dennis McHawes beat him for it on January 25,2002.
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Butch Reed participated in the "Legends of Wrestling" tour in 2006.
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In July 2016, Butch Reed was named part of a class action lawsuit filed against WWE which alleged that wrestlers incurred traumatic brain injuries during their tenure and that the company concealed the risks of injury.