the Twitter handle @FlyinBrianJr as a tribute to his father. He made his debut in December 2017, and is now wrestling for All Elite Wrestling beginning in the summer of 2020, where he, Griff Garrison, and Julia Hart have formed a stable, the Varsity Blondes, paying tribute to the 1980s era and to his father's tag team with Steve Austin. Championships and accomplishments Football Division I-AA All-American (1983) Division I-AA All-American Second-team (1982) MAC Defensive Player of the Year (1983) Ed Block Courage Award (1984) Professional wrestling World Championship Wrestling WCW Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times) WCW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Steve Austin NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Steve Austin NWA United States Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tom Zenk Pro Wrestling Illustrated Ranked No. 18 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1993 Ranked No. 84 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003 Stampede Wrestling Stampede Wrestling International Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Bruce Hart Stampede Wrestling International Tag Team Title Tournament (1987) with Bruce Hart Stampede Wrestling Hall of Fame (Class of 1995) Wrestling Observer Newsletter Feud of the Year (1997) Most Underrated (1994) Rookie of the Year (1987) Tag Team of the Year (1993) Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame''' Class of 2016 Media WCW Superbrawl Wrestling (Video game - SNES, November 1994) Legends of Wrestling (Video game - December 3, 2001; May 27, 2002) Legends of Wrestling II (Video game - November 2002) Showdown: Legends of Wrestling (Video game - June 22, 2004) Brian Pillman: Loose Cannon (DVD, September 26, 2006) WWE '13 Downloadable Content (Video game, January 2013) WWE 2K16 (Video game - October 27, 2015) WWE 2K17 (Video game - October 11, 2016) Crazy Like A Fox: The Definitive Chronicle of Brian Pillman 20 Years Later (Book - November 5, 2017) See also Brian Pillman Memorial Show List of premature professional wrestling deaths References Further reading Crazy Like a Fox: The Definitive Chronicle of Brian Pillman 20 Years Later by Liam O'Rourke, 2017, ISBN/1-97654-124-7. Tributes'' by Dave Meltzer, 2001, . External links 1962 births 1997 deaths 20th-century American male actors American football linebackers American male professional wrestlers American people of Welsh descent American Presbyterians Calgary Stampeders players Cincinnati Bengals players Converts to Presbyterianism Ed Block Courage Award recipients Masked wrestlers Miami RedHawks football players