Lightning Express

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Lightning Express
Tag Team
Members Brad Armstrong
Tim Horner
Heights Brad Armstrong:
6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Tim Horner:
5 ft 11 in (175 cm))
Combined weight 453 lbs (206 kg)
Debut 1984
Disbanded 1994
Promotions NWA
UWF
WCW

The Lightning Express was a professional wrestling tag team that worked for World Championship Wrestling. It was composed of Brad Armstrong and Tim Horner.

[edit] History

Brad Armstrong and "White Lightning" Tim Horner teamed up under the moniker The Lightning Express in 1984 for the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions. The name evolved from Horner's nickname and the fact that Armstrong was as explosively quick as Horner.

A baby-face team, they won the NWA National Tag Team Championship from The Hollywood Blondes team of Rip Rogers and Ted Oates. They split up soon after and went their separate ways, until reforming in Jim Crockett Promotions in 1986 where they feuded with The Midnight Express and the team of Ivan Koloff and Krusher Khruschev over the NWA United States Tag Team Championship.

They left Crockett for the Universal Wrestling Federation in 1987, where they won the UWF Tag Team Championship from Sting and Rick Steiner and feuded with The Sheepherders. When Jim Crockett, Jr. bought the UWF in 1987, they came back to his promotion and teamed until 1988, when they split up again. In January of 1991 the duo wrestled on WCW Power Hour and had a handful of appearances under that name for WCW. They teamed up once again in 1994 for WCW; only wrestling as jobbers, the team name was rarely used by the announcers.

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