Powerteam USA
| The Blade Runners | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members |
Blade Runner/Freedom Fighter Rock Blade Runner Sting/Freedom Fighter Flash |
| Name(s) | Powerteam USA The Freedom Fighters The Blade Runners |
| Heights | Rock: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Sting: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Combined weight |
530 lb (240 kg; 38 st) |
| Debut | 1985 |
| Disbanded | 1986 |
| Years active | 1985–1986, 1998 |
| Promotions |
CWA UWF WCW |
| Trainer | Rick Bassman Red Bastien |
The Blade Runners were a professional wrestling tag team consisting of future superstars, Sting and Rock (later better known as Ultimate Warrior), that existed in 1985 and 1986. Their look was from the "New Wave" music scene with black eye paint and spiked hair with a rat tail (Sting's bleached blonde and Rock's dyed black).
Steve Borden and Jim Hellwig originally teamed as part of Powerteam USA, a group of four wrestlers who debuted in 1985 after being trained by Red Bastien and Rick Bassman. In addition to Borden and Hellwig, the group consisted of Garland Donoho and Mark Miller. The team was managed by Bassman as they tried to break into the wrestling business. After only a short time in the business both Donoho and Miller quit due to lack of success and business savvy. Manager Rick Bassman would eventually become a pro wrestler himself and a wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts promoter in California where he founded and runs Ultimate Pro Wrestling. Hellwig and Borden remained, teaming together as they traveled to Jerry Jarrett's Continental Wrestling Association and later on to Bill Watts Universal Wrestling Federation.
Initially, they wrestled as The Freedom Fighters (Hellwig was known as Justice and Borden was called Flash) in Memphis' Continental Wrestling Association under manager Dutch Mantel. Because they were essentially bodybuilders and lacked thorough training, the team was raw and brutal, easily hurting opponents with their stiff maneuvers which led to their stay in Memphis being a short one.
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