Butch Reed
| Butch Reed | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Bruce Franklin Reed |
| Born |
July 11, 1954 Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Central Missouri |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Bruce Reed Butch Reed "The Natural" Butch Reed Doom #2 |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Billed weight | 262 lb (119 kg) |
| Billed from | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Trained by | Ronnie Etchison |
| Debut | 1978 |
| Retired | 2011 |
Bruce Franklin Reed (born July 11, 1954) is an American retired professional wrestler and football player, better known by the ring name Butch Reed. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling between 1986 and 1992.
Reed attended the University of Central Missouri.
Reed played professional football for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Butch Reed was trained to wrestle by Ronnie Etchison debuting in 1978. Early on he wrestled as Bruce Reed adopting the “Hacksaw" nickname over time. Reed and Jerry Roberts beat Mike George and Bob Sweetan for the NWA Central States Tag Team titles in late 1980 and lost them to The Kelly Twins in January 1981; this is believed to be Butch Reed’s first major title in wrestling. His next title also came as one half of a tag team when he and Sweet Brown Sugar (Skip Young, not Koko B. Ware) won the Florida version of the NWA North American Tag Team Championship when they beat Dory Funk, Jr. and David Von Erich in 1982. 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.
Reed established himself as a force to be reckoned with while competing in Bill Watts’ Mid-South Wrestling from 1983 through early 1986. 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. Reed immediately came face to face with "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan over the “Hacksaw" nickname. Back in 1983, Duggan was part of the heel group the "Rat Pack" along with Ted DiBiase and Matt Borne and used every dirty move he could think of to beat Butch Reed. Reed and Duggan would feud over the “Hacksaw" name until Jim Duggan turned face. Duggan’s face turn resulted in Butch Reed’s heel turn when Duggan was picked to be the Junkyard Dog’s tag team partner over Reed.
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