Bruce Woyan
Bruce Alan Woyan was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Buzz Sawyer. Sawyer started wrestling in 1978 (other sources state 1979) in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) affiliate Jim Crockett Promotions. He stayed there with some stints in Georgia Championship Wrestling until 1984. He mainly teamed with his brother, Brett Sawyer. Buzz had a feud with The Road Warriors after he left their manager Paul Ellering's Legion of Doom. Pez Whatley was the first wrestler to pin Sawyer on live television. He also had an epic feud with Tommy Rich that led to many bloody matches, the greatest of which occurred on was billed as the "Last Battle of Atlanta" and for the first time featured a completely enclosed cage; Rich won the match. It also featured manager Paul Ellering suspended 20 feet above the ring in a smaller cage. This is the match that Shawn Michaels credits for inspiring the Hell in the Cell concept used by WWE. The stipulation for this match was that Sawyer and Rich would never wrestle one another again. Tommy Rich lost a match to Ted DiBiase in which the stipulation was a loser leaves town match. Rich appeared the next week on TV under a mask and calling himself the mysterious Mr. R. WWE released the entire match on the WWE Network on September 5, 2016. Sawyer had a short WWE run in 1984 as "Bulldog" Buzz Sawyer (since the moniker Mad Dog was being used by Maurice Vachon) with Captain Lou Albano as his manager. Sawyer's gimmicks included a dog chain, a lot of barking, and a new bulldog finisher. After his WWF stint, he surfaced in the NWA territory Championship Wrestling from Florida, under the mind control of Kevin Sullivan. He feuded with Mike Graham, Dusty Rhodes, and Adrian Street. In 1985, Buzz went to Mid-South Wrestling (which became the Universal Wrestling Federation in 1986) and became a protégé of Dick Slater's. After Slater won the North American title, he gave the Mid-South TV title to Sawyer to defend for him. The promotion tricked Slater into letting Sawyer defend the North American title (which he promptly lost), and Sawyer then refused to give the TV belt back to Slater. In 1986, Sawyer left the UWF for World Class Championship Wrestling. He formed a team with Matt Borne and they won the WCWA Tag Team Championship. He also won the WCWA Television Championship and the WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship and feuded with Brian Adias while there. He got into a feud with Dingo Warrior and he lost his tag team titles, with Master Gee substituting for him, to Warrior and Lance Von Erich before reportedly being fired after failing a drug test.[6] He returned to WCW in 1989 as part of Gary Hart's J-Tex Corporation that was feuding with the Four Horsemen, and he had several matches against Arn Anderson.[6] He then joined Kevin Sullivan's "Slaughterhouse" stable in 1990. At the Wrestle War event in 1990, he was victorious in a tag team match where he and Sullivan defeated The Dynamic Dudes (Shane Douglas and Johnny Ace), but also fractured his wrist. He left WCW in 1991. Sawyer died at his Sacramento, California apartment from heart failure due to a drug overdose on February 7, 1992.
Legends of Mid-South Wrestling
as Buzz SawyerFor the first time ever, WWE presents the Legends of Mid-South Wrestling. One of the 1980’s...
Movie pageNWA The Last Battle of Atlanta
as "Mad Dog" Buzz SawyerWithin the grizzly confines of a completely enclosed steel cage, and Paul Ellering hanging above...
Movie pageBret Hart: The Dungeon Collection
as Buzz SawyerA collection of the greatest matches from one of WWE's all time greatest superstars, with...
Movie pageNWA The Great American Bash 1985
as Buzz SawyerThe Great American Bash: Freedom Challenge took place on July 6, 1985 at the American Legion...
Movie pageNWA WrestleWar '90: Wild Thing
as "Mad Dog" Buzz SawyerWrestleWar 1990: Wild Thing took place on February 25, 1990 from the Greensboro Coliseum in...
Movie pageWCW Clash of The Champions X: Texas Shootout
as "Mad Dog" Buzz SawyerWCW Clash of The Champions X: Texas Shootout took place on February 6, 1990 at the Memorial...
Movie pageMid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1
as "Mad Dog" Buzz SawyerMid-South Wrestling is proud to present, it's 1st volume of a 4 DVD collection entitled "Giants...
Movie pageGiants, Midgets, Heroes and Villains II
as "Mad Dog" Buzz SawyerOnce again fans can re-live the legendary glory age of wrestling and once and for all know that...
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