Wayne Bloom
| Wayne Bloom | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Wayne Bloom |
| Born |
March 22, 1958 Minneapolis, Minnesota, US |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Beau Beverly The Sports Agent Wayne Bloom |
| Billed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Billed weight | 266 lb (121 kg) |
| Billed from |
Minneapolis, Minnesota (as Wayne Bloom) Shaker Heights, Ohio (as Beau Beverly) |
| Trained by | Brad Rheignans |
| Debut | 1988 |
| Retired | 1999 |
Wayne Bloom (born March 22, 1958) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the American Wrestling Association, the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Wayne Bloom started wrestling with the American Wrestling Association in 1988 after being trained by Eddie Sharkey. In the AWA, he competed as Wayne "The Train" Bloom. His initial run as a singles wrestler was not very successful, illustrated by the 24 second loss to Jimmy Valiant at the AWA PPV SuperClash III. After his unsuccessful singles attempts, Bloom formed a tag team called The Destruction Crew with fellow rookie (and Eddie Sharkey student) ”Mean” Mike Enos. In the fall of 1989 Wayne Bloom on behalf of the Destruction Crew challenged then AWA World Tag Team champions Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans to a “car lifting” contest. During the challenge, the Destruction Crew attacked Patera and Rhenigans and injured them (kayfabe). This forced them to vacate the tag team titles.
A tournament was set up to crown new tag-team champions; in the tournament, the Destruction Crew would defeat the team of Sgt. Slaughter & Baron von Raschke in the first round and then beat Greg Gagne and Paul Diamond in the finals to win the titles. Bloom also challenged the returning Brad Rheingans to a Greco-Roman match which Bloom lost. Nevertheless, the Crew's tag team victory combined with their devious tactics earned the duo a joint “Rookie of the Year” award from the readers of Pro Wrestling Illustrated, which is the only time a tag team has won this award.
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