Brian Lee

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Brian Harris
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Brian Lee The Undertaker (The Undertaker impostor during the summer of 1994) Chainz
Billed height	6 ft 6 in (198 cm)
Billed weight	290 lb (131.8 kg)
Born	November 26, 1966 (1966-11-26) (age 41) St. Petersburg, Florida
Resides	Santa Fe, New Mexico
Debut	1988

Brian Harris (born November 26, 1966) is an American professional wrestler who wrestled the majority of his career under the ring name Brian Lee. He is also the younger brother of professional wrestling twins, Ron and Don Harris. [1]

Lee is a former NWA World Tag Team Champion.

1 Career
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 Personal life
5 External Links

[edit] Career

[edit] World Wrestling Federation & Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1991-1995)

He appeared in a dark match at the World Wrestling Federation's 1991 special Tuesday pay-per-view event Tuesday in Texas.

He appeared in Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) from 1992-1995 as "Prime Time" Brian Lee. Lee was a two-time SMW Heavyweight Champion and twice won the SMW Tag Team Championship with partner Chris Candido. Lee was the first-ever SMW Heavyweight Champion, and was also the first wrestler to ever be managed by Tammy Sytch.

In 1994, he briefly joined the World Wrestling Federation to perform as the False Undertaker (sometimes referred to as the "Underfaker"). "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase announced that he brought the Undertaker into the WWF and claimed to have done it again following his disappearance after the Royal Rumble. This Undertaker, who competed for several weeks, was not "guided by the urn" but by money. However, Undertaker's manager Paul Bearer accused DiBiase of lying and claimed that he "had made contact" with the real Undertaker. At SummerSlam 1994, Bearer brought back his Undertaker for a match between the two Undertakers. Towards the end of the match, DiBiase's Undertaker used the Tombstone Piledriver on the real Undertaker, only for the real Undertaker to sit up. DiBiase's Undertaker would proceed to try for another Tombstone, but the real Undertaker reversed this one and proceeded to hit Dibiase's Undertaker with three consecutive Tombstones before pinning him. After the match, DiBiase fled from ringside while the real Undertaker rolled the impostor into a casket that was carried away by druids.

After SummerSlam '94, Lee returned to SMW and also competed in the United States Wrestling Association. It was in the USWA that Lee first teamed with his real life cousins, Ron and Don Harris, then known as the Bruise Brothers.

[edit] Extreme Championship Wrestling

By early 1996, Lee began competing in Extreme Championship Wrestling; there, he went by the nicknames Bulldozer (or Bulldozer for Hire) and Killdozer and was allied with Raven as a hired bodyguard for his Raven's Nest stable.

Brian Lee and Tommy Dreamer were involved in a very violent and personal feud, which began through Dreamer's feud with Raven. At the ECW event Fight The Power on June 1, during a 6 man tag match, Brian Lee chokeslammed Dreamer from the ECW balcony through 3 tables, then pinned Dreamer for the win.

On June 22, at Hardcore Heaven '96, after losing a singles match to Dreamer after Dreamer's valet Beulah McGillicutty got involved, Lee again chokeslammed Dreamer off a balcony through 3 tables. At Heat Wave 96, during a 3 on 3 "Rage in the Cage" tag team cage match, Lee again chokeslammed Dreamer, this time from the top of the cage through three tables set up on the outside by Raven's henchmen. Finally, on October 5 at Ultimate Jeopardy 1996, during a tag match also involving Sandman and Stevie Richards, Lee once again chokeslammed Dreamer from the ECW balcony, this time through 4 tables set up below.

At several house shows released on ECW Fan Cam, Lee and Dreamer had Falls Count Anywhere matches which resulted in the two men brawling in moving traffic outside the building.

The feud culminated at ECW's High Incident event, in the match Lee is most remembered for from his ECW tenure. During his Scaffold Match with Tommy Dreamer, Lee took a major bump from the scaffolding high above the squared circle through a series of tables stacked up inside the ring.

At November to Remember '96, the main event was a tag match pitting Dreamer with Terry Funk against Shane Douglas and Lee. From here, Lee began a feud with Funk, which lasted until 1997. Lee also became a part of the revived Triple Threat stable with Douglas and Chris Candido. A masked man who was thought to be Rick Rude began stalking Douglas. At ECW's first pay per view event, ECW Barely Legal, it was revealed that the masked man was Brian Lee, who was promptly attacked and kicked out of the group. His spot was subsequently taken by Bam Bam Bigelow. This was Lee's last appearance with ECW.

[edit] World Wrestling Federation (1997-1998)

In 1997, Lee returned to the WWF as Chainz, a member the biker faction Disciples of Apocalypse (or DOA) along with leader Crush and Skull and 8-Ball (the Harris Brothers). The foursome feuded with Los Boricuas, the Nation of Domination, and the Truth Commission during the WWF's "Gang Warz" storyline. Lee remained in the WWF until the summer of 1998 before being released once again. Ironically, the Undertaker would adopt a biker gimmick in later years, mimicking his ex-doppelganger.