B. Brian Blair

He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name B. Brian Blair as one half of the tag team The Killer Bees in the 1980s.

[clarification needed] Blair won many accolades in high school other than sports; he was named "Mr. Titan" and was voted "Best all Around" his senior year.

[2] Blair had his heart set on playing football for the then NCAA Division II powerhouse, the University of Tampa, where he sold sodas to the fans and watched his favorite players, Freddie Solomon and Paul Orndorff.

Deeply saddened, Blair attended Saint Leo College near Dade City under coach Tillrow Morrison, then transferred to the University of Louisville on a football scholarship, although he never earned a varsity letter;[4] he majored in both business and political science.

[6] After CWF, Blair moved on to Bob Geigel's NWA Central States promotion out of Kansas City, Missouri around 1978 where he feuded with Jesse Ventura.

On July 11, 1982, Blair beat Jimmy Garvin for the NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship and defended it successfully against Stan Hansen and Bruiser Brody.

They faced Hoss and Jimmy Jack Funk in front of 70,000 people at The Big Event in Toronto[11] (a card headlined by Hulk Hogan and Paul Orndorff).

[12] This would be his only notable win that month, as he found himself on the losing end of house show series with Hercules, Dino Bravo, and the newly arrived Terry Taylor and Curt Hennig.

On the November 5 edition of Prime Time he was announced as a replacement for the departing Junkyard Dog on the team of Jake Roberts at the 1988 Survivor Series.

Blair also claims he was asked to help heel team The Brain Busters (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) win matches.

[13] Brunzell and Blair later complained about WWF owner Vince McMahon who continued merchandising products of The Killer Bees without their permission or financial compensation.

Bret Hart states in his book "My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling", that the best tag team match of his career was against Blair and Brunzell.

In the UWF, Blair reunited with Jim Brunzell but due to the WWF holding the trademark to the name "The Killer Bees" they were billed as "Masked Confusion".

On September 3, 2014, Blair faced former rival Matt Riviera for the annual National Wrestling Alliance event "Mid-Atlantic Legends Fanfest" edition of 2014.

On July 21, 2016, Blair competed on the Impact Pro Wrestling George Tragos/Lou Thesz Hall of Fame show teaming with Wes Brisco & "Hot Fire" Myron Reid taking on AJ Smooth, Justin Decent, and Aaron Von Barron.

Blair had what was billed as his last match at the "Tragos-Thesz "Pro-Wrestling Hall of Fame" on July 22, 2017, where he successfully tagged with Wes Brisco.

Blair owned and managed four Gold's Gym fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area with fellow wrestler, Steve Keirn.

Brian Blair's first attempt for a seat on the county commission was against Pat Frank but he lost in the 2002 race by a narrow margin.

In 2008 Blair ran for re-election winning the Republican primary against Don Kruse on August 26, 2008, then lost to Hillsborough County's first openly gay candidate Kevin Beckner in the November 4, 2008 general election.

I worked with a traffic engineer and we came up with senior signs that are posted with flashing caution lights and 'reduce speed limit' written on the pavement.

In 2017 Brian Blair starred with fellow wrestler Ron Bass in the feature film Silent Times Directed by Christopher Annino.

[citation needed] In 2017 Brian Blair and tag team partner Jim Brunzell starred in an official comic book series with Inverse Press.

[19] On July 23, 2021, Steve Keirn announced at The Gathering, a fan fest in Charlotte, NC, that Blair's son Brett was murdered in Florida at the age of 29.

The book is coauthored by Ian Douglass, a contributor to the autobiographies of Dan Severn, Hornswoggle and Bugsy McGraw, and it features forewords from Bret Hart and Steve Keirn, and an afterword from Hulk Hogan.

[25] Blair appears in multiple episodes the documentary series Dark Side of the Ring produced by Vice Media.

Blair as NWA Florida Heavyweight Champion, circa 1985