Doom (professional wrestling)

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Doom
Tag team
MembersRon Simmons/Doom #1
Butch Reed/Doom #2
Billed heightsSimmons:
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Reed:
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Combined
billed weight		534 lb (242 kg)
DebutOctober 28, 1989
DisbandedMarch 21, 1991

Doom was a professional wrestling tag team composed of Ron Simmons and Butch Reed. They teamed from 1989 to 1991 in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

Career

Before the masks

Butch Reed had signed with

World Wrestling Federation[1] he was billed as 'Hacksaw' Butch Reed and feuded shortly with the Junkyard Dog.[2]
Simmons had been with JCP for a while teaming with Eddie Gilbert but had not achieved much notoriety.

Woman’s masked team

When

The Fabulous Freebirds, it briefly caused dissension among the brothers. In the end, she turned on the Steiners, adopting the name Woman and vowed that the brothers would meet their "doom" at Halloween Havoc 1989
, but never made it clear who or what “Doom” was.

At the night of the PPV Woman unveiled the Steiner Brothers' Doom – a couple of brawny, hard hitting masked wrestlers.

Clash of the Champions IX, looking very strong in the process.[4] At Clash, Woman's new bodyguard Nitron
debuted accompanying Doom to the ring.

Unfortunately Doom's next PPV outing did not come with the same success. Along with the Steiner Brothers,

Clash of the Champions X, Doom hit rock bottom when they were defeated by Rick and Scott Steiner and as a result of the stipulation were forced to unmask.[6]

Unmasked

Freed of the masks and now under management of former referee "The Godfather" Teddy Long, Doom began to prosper. Being free to use their full move sets and not trying to hide who they were, Doom earned another shot at the Steiner Brothers.

At

The 4 Horsemen
after a backstage altercation that saw the arrogant Horsemen insult Doom by not wanting to share a dressing room with them (this of course was a storyline). Doom then turned face and began a feud with The Four Horsemen.

At

Starrcade 1990 but on the night Ric Flair was replaced by Barry Windham since Flair was slated to wrestle as The Black Scorpion in the main event. Once again the result was a “No Contest”, this time due to a double pin (Windham pinned Simmons and Reed pinned Anderson at the same time) but despite the non-definitive finish the Doom/Horsemen feud ended shortly afterwards.[10]
At
Clash of the Champions XIV Doom lost a non-title match to Sting and Lex Luger[11]
in a match that foreshadowed the trouble that lay ahead for Doom.

Break up and beyond

On February 24, 1991 at WCW's

The Fabulous Freebirds[12] and lost due to miscommunication between Reed and Simmons.[8] After the Freebirds left the ring Reed turned on Simmons and beat him up, turning Simmons face and supposedly ended the team of Doom forever. A month later, however, Reed and Simmons teamed up one more time at Starrcade '91 at Tokyo Dome, losing to the team of Bam Bam Bigelow and Big Van Vader
. After the match, Reed and Simmons started brawling, causing NJPW and WCW stars to separate them, indicating Doom was no more.

Teddy Long sided with Butch Reed as the former Doom partners engaged in a short but intense feud. The feud culminated at SuperBrawl I where Ron Simmons pinned Butch Reed in a Steel cage match (referred to as a "Thunder-Doom" cage match).[13] After the PPV, Reed left the company allowing Ron Simmons to focus on other opponents while Teddy Long turned face and started to manage other talent in WCW. Long would appear in Simmons' corner occasionally after Ron became WCW World Heavyweight Champion in August 1992.

Reunion

Doom was briefly reunited on WWE's SmackDown on a few occasions that involved Teddy Long's wedding. Both Reed and Simmons appeared at Long's bachelor party and both were ushers in the wedding. At both occasions, Doom was mentioned.

Championships and accomplishments

  • Doom won the championship while it was still named for the NWA and lost it after the name changed to WCW.
  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    • #91 on the Best 100 Tag Teams of the PWI Years
    • First Runner Up for Most Improved Wrestler Of The Year (1990)

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4165-3257-6
    .
  2. ^ "NWA Clash of the Champions Results (VI)". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  3. ^ "NWA Halloween Havoc Results (1989)". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  4. ^ "NWA Clash of the Champions Results (IX)". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  5. ^ "NWA Starrcade Results (1989)". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  6. ^ "NWA Clash of the Champions Results (X)". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  7. ^ "NWA Capitol Combat Results". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  8. ^
    ISBN 978-1-55022-683-6
    .
  9. ^ "WCW Halloween Havoc Results (1990)". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  10. ^ "WCW Starrcade Results (1990)". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  11. ^ "WCW Clash of the Champions Results (XIV)". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  12. ^ "WCW WrestleWar Results (1991)". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  13. ^ "WCW SuperBrawl Results (I)". prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 2007-04-09.

External links

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