Brian Adams (wrestler)
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Adams in 2002
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| Birth name | Brian Keith Adams |
| Born | April 14, 1964 Kona, Hawaii, United States |
| Died | August 13, 2007 (aged 43) Tampa, Florida, United States |
| Cause of death | Drug overdose |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Brian Adams Crush Kona Crush The American Ninja The Demon The Midnight Soldier |
| Billed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Billed weight | 315 lb (143 kg) |
| Billed from | Kona, Hawaii |
| Trained by |
Tatsumi Fujinami Antonio Inoki |
| Debut | 1986 |
| Retired | 2003 |
Brian Keith Adams (April 14, 1964 – August 13, 2007) was an American professional wrestler. Adams is well known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), under the name Crush, and for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under his real name Brian Adams. Trained in Japan by Antonio Inoki, he was a two-time WCW World Tag Team Champion and a one-time WWF Tag Team Champion and a one-time AJPW World Tag Team Champion, among other titles and accomplishments. In 2002, he briefly tried a career in boxing until he was forced to retire due to back and shoulder injuries. He died of accidental respiratory failure from a combination of buprenorphine, carisoprodol, chlordiazepoxide and alprazolam.
Brian Adams was born in Kona, Hawaii and was raised in Kealakekua, Hawaii and attended Konawaena High School. After graduating from high school, Adams joined the US Air Force, where he began boxing. It was during his time in the USAF, while stationed in Japan, that he was also exposed to wrestling. Adams was trained in wrestling by famed Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist Antonio Inoki. In 1986, after training in Japan, Adams came to the United States and began working in Portland, Oregon's Pacific Northwest Wrestling (PNW).
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