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Bruce Woyan

1969 - 1992 (age 22) • Acting

Bruce Alan Woyan was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Buzz Sawyer. Sawyer started wrestling in 1978 (other sources state 1979) in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) affiliate Jim Crockett Promotions. He stayed there with some stints in Georgia Championship Wrestling until 1984. He mainly teamed with his brother, Brett Sawyer. Buzz had a feud with The Road Warriors after he left their manager Paul Ellering's Legion of Doom. Pez Whatley was the first wrestler to pin Sawyer on live television. He also had an epic feud with Tommy Rich that led to many bloody matches, the greatest of which occurred on was billed as the "Last Battle of Atlanta" and for the first time featured a completely enclosed cage; Rich won the match. It also featured manager Paul Ellering suspended 20 feet above the ring in a smaller cage. This is the match that Shawn Michaels credits for inspiring the Hell in the Cell concept used by WWE. The stipulation for this match was that Sawyer and Rich would never wrestle one another again. Tommy Rich lost a match to Ted DiBiase in which the stipulation was a loser leaves town match. Rich appeared the next week on TV under a mask and calling himself the mysterious Mr. R. WWE released the entire match on the WWE Network on September 5, 2016. Sawyer had a short WWE run in 1984 as "Bulldog" Buzz Sawyer (since the moniker Mad Dog was being used by Maurice Vachon) with Captain Lou Albano as his manager. Sawyer's gimmicks included a dog chain, a lot of barking, and a new bulldog finisher. After his WWF stint, he surfaced in the NWA territory Championship Wrestling from Florida, under the mind control of Kevin Sullivan. He feuded with Mike Graham, Dusty Rhodes, and Adrian Street. In 1985, Buzz went to Mid-South Wrestling (which became the Universal Wrestling Federation in 1986) and became a protégé of Dick Slater's. After Slater won the North American title, he gave the Mid-South TV title to Sawyer to defend for him. The promotion tricked Slater into letting Sawyer defend the North American title (which he promptly lost), and Sawyer then refused to give the TV belt back to Slater. In 1986, Sawyer left the UWF for World Class Championship Wrestling. He formed a team with Matt Borne and they won the WCWA Tag Team Championship. He also won the WCWA Television Championship and the WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship and feuded with Brian Adias while there. He got into a feud with Dingo Warrior and he lost his tag team titles, with Master Gee substituting for him, to Warrior and Lance Von Erich before reportedly being fired after failing a drug test.[6] He returned to WCW in 1989 as part of Gary Hart's J-Tex Corporation that was feuding with the Four Horsemen, and he had several matches against Arn Anderson.[6] He then joined Kevin Sullivan's "Slaughterhouse" stable in 1990. At the Wrestle War event in 1990, he was victorious in a tag team match where he and Sullivan defeated The Dynamic Dudes (Shane Douglas and Johnny Ace), but also fractured his wrist. He left WCW in 1991. Sawyer died at his Sacramento, California apartment from heart failure due to a drug overdose on February 7, 1992.

Known For

NWA Clash of The Champions X: Texas Shootout

40%

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1990

WCCW Labor Day Star Wars '86

100%

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1986
Poster for Clash of the Champions

Clash of the Champions

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1988

Mid-South Wrestling: November 11, 1985

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1985
Poster for Mid-South Arena Shows

Mid-South Arena Shows

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1985

GCW at The Omni (December '83)

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1983

NWA The Last Battle of Atlanta

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1983
Poster for WCW Arena Shows

WCW Arena Shows

Buzz Sawyer

1983

Legends of Mid-South Wrestling

93%

Buzz Sawyer

2013

Bret Hart: The Dungeon Collection

100%

Buzz Sawyer

2013

Giants, Midgets, Heroes and Villains II

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

2008

Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

2007

WCW WrestleWar 1990

75%

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1990

NWA Clash of The Champions X: Texas Shootout

40%

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1990
Poster for Clash of the Champions

Clash of the Champions

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1988

WCCW Cotton Bowl Extravaganza '86

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1986

WCCW Labor Day Star Wars '86

100%

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1986

The First Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament

100%

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1986

Mid-South Wrestling: November 11, 1985

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1985
Poster for Mid-South Arena Shows

Mid-South Arena Shows

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1985

NWA The Great American Bash 1985

Buzz Sawyer

1985

GCW at The Omni (December '83)

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1983

NWA The Last Battle of Atlanta

"Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer

1983
Poster for WCW Arena Shows

WCW Arena Shows

Buzz Sawyer

1983
Poster for World Class Championship Wrestling

World Class Championship Wrestling

Buzz Sawyer / Mad Dog Buzz Sawyer

1982
Poster for Mid-South Wrestling

Mid-South Wrestling

'Mad Dog' Buzz Sawyer

1981
Poster for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling

Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling

Buzz Sawyer

1981

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