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Beau Beverly

Beverly, as Wayne Bloom, started wrestling with the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in 1988. His initial run as a singles wrestler was not very successful, illustrated by the 24 second loss to Jimmy Valiant at SuperClash III. After his unsuccessful singles attempts, Bloom formed a tag team called The Destruction Crew with fellow rookie ”Mean” Mike Enos. In the fall of 1989, Wayne Bloom on behalf of the Destruction Crew challenged then AWA World Tag Team Champions Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans to a “car lifting” contest. During the challenge, the Destruction Crew attacked Patera and Rhenigans and injured them (kayfabe). This forced them to vacate the tag team titles.

A tournament was set up to crown new tag-team champions; in the tournament, the Destruction Crew would defeat the team of Sgt. Slaughter and Baron Von Raschke in the first round and then beat Greg Gagne and Paul Diamond in the finals to win the titles. Bloom also challenged the returning Brad Rheingans to a Greco-Roman match which Bloom lost.

On August 11, 1990, the Destruction Crew lost the AWA Tag Team Titles to longtime rivals The Trooper and D.J. Peterson. The Crew tried in vain to regain the titles over the following months until the AWA closed up in early 1991.

In 1990, the Destruction Crew joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In WCW, they wrestled under masks as the Minnesota Wrecking Crew 2 and were managed by Ole Anderson (a member of the original Minnesota Wrecking Crew). They attempted without success to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship from the Steiner Brothers over the spring of 1990.

In May 1991, the Destruction Crew went to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and became the Beverly Brothers, with Enos and Bloom wrestling under the ring names Blake and Beau Beverly, respectively. Now sporting matching bleach-blonde hair styles and wearing flamboyant purple tights and capes to the ring, their gimmick was that of two spoiled rich brats. They were originally managed by The Coach (John Tolos), then by The Genius. The team was initially promoted as a force to be reckoned with in the tag team division. After making their WWF pay-per-view debut on a winning team at Survivor Series '91, they were launched into feuds with the Legion of DoomThe Bushwhackers (whom they defeated at the 1992 Royal Rumble) and The Natural Disasters (whom they unsuccessfully challenged for the WWF World Tag Team Championship at SummerSlam '92). By the later part of 1992, however, they would be used primarily to put over other tag teams; they were on the losing end of an eight-man elimination tag team match at Survivor Series '92 and were defeated by their old rivals The Steiner Brothers at the 1993 Royal Rumble. They both left the WWF soon after.

Bloom and Enos had a brief reunion in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1997 and 1998. After a while together, the team finally disbanded for good.

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