Demolition (professional wrestling)

Demolition
Smash (left) and Ax as WWF Tag Team Champions
Tag team
Members	Ax Smash
Name(s)	Demolition
Heights	Ax: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Smash: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Crush: 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Combined weight	Varied depending on combination
Billed from	Parts Unknown
Former member(s)	The Original Smash Crush Blast (1) Blast (2) Hux Nitro Krash
Debut	January 17, 1987
Promotions	Chikara GLCW JAPW SWS WWC WWF USoW

Demolition is a professional wrestling tag team most prominent during the late 1980s and early 1990s in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) made up of Ax (Bill Eadie), Smash (Barry Darsow), and later Crush (Brian Adams). In the WWF, Demolition were three-time WWF World Tag Team Champions, and hold the record for the most combined days as reigning champions with that championship. Their reign with the WWF World Tag Team Championship is the second longest tag team championship reign in WWE history, behind The New Day's reign with the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship. Beginning in 2007, Ax and Smash reunited for several appearances at various independent shows and legends conventions.

Randy Colley and Bill Eadie created the Demolition gimmick and worked for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). They debuted as a heel tag team on the January 17, 1987 edition of Superstars, alongside manager Luscious Johnny V, defeating the team of Salvatore Bellomo and Mario Mancini. The tag team resembled Lord Humungus of the 1981 film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, with the facepaint of hard rockers KISS. Demolition wore studded black leather outfits and leather-covered hockey masks to the ring, which they removed to reveal face paint usually made up of some combination of black, white, red, or silver colors, though other colors were sometimes included. After only a few matches, Colley was replaced with Barry Darsow in a match aired on the February 14, 1987 edition of Superstars. In an RF Video shoot interview with Eadie and Darsow, Eadie said that Colley was replaced because he was recognizable to the fans as the man who previously performed as Moondog Rex. The WWF pitched a few potential replacements to Eadie, but he thought fans would recognize the suggested replacements. However, Eadie felt that many WWF fans would not recognize Darsow, who had been working for Jim Crockett Promotions as Krusher Khruschev alongside Nikita Koloff. Darsow had left Crockett following a dispute in order to take over the role of Smash.