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Brutus Beefcake Timeline

By Eric Cohen, About.com

Brutus Beefcake Promotional Photo for Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling

Photo Credit: Ron Jaffe
The following is a timeline for the WWE and WCW career of the Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. Listed is every PPV match (excluding battle royals in which he was not involved in the ending) and title change that he has been involved in. Bolded items represent title victories while italicized items represent title losses. Please note that due to copyright reasons he wasn't known as Brutus Beefcake in WCW. While there, he was known by a variety of names including the Butcher, the Zodiac, and the Booty Man.

1985
3/1 Wrestlemania - fought David Sammartino to a double-DQ
8/24 - w/Greg Valentine won the WWF Tag Team Championship from Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo
10/5 Saturday Night's Main Event # 2 - w/Greg Valentine beat Lanny Poffo & Tony Garea

1986
3/1 SNME # 5 - w/Greg Valentine beat The British Bulldogs
4/7 Wrestlemania 2 - w/Greg Valentine lost the tag team titles to The British Bulldogs
10/4 SNME # 7 - Tag Team Champions The British Bulldogs beat Greg Valentine & Brutus Beefcake in a best-of-3 falls match

1987
3/29 Wrestlemania III - w/Greg Valentine beat Jacques & Raymond Rougeau
11/26 Survivor Series - Jim Duggan, Brutus Beefcake, Randy Savage, Ricky Steamboat & Jake Roberts beat Intercontinental Champ Honky Tonk Man, Harley Race, Hercules Hernandez, Danny Davis, & Ron Bass

1988
3/12 SNME # 15 - beat Greg Valentine
3/27 Wrestlemania IV - beat Intercontinental Champion The Honky Tonk Man by DQ
4/30 SNME # 16 - beat Danny Davis
11/24 Survivor Series - Intercontinental Champion The Ultimate Warrior, Brutus Beefcake, The Blue Blazer, Sam Houston, & Jim Brunzell beat The Honky Tonk Man, Bad News Brown, Greg Valentine, Ron Bass, & Danny Davis

1989
1/7 SNME # 19 - beat Ron Bass in a Hair vs. Hair Match
3/11 SNME # 20 - beat Rick Rude by DQ
4/2 Wrestlemania V - fought Ted DiBiase to a double-count out
7/29 SNME # 22 - beat Randy Savage by DQ
8/2 SummerSlam - w/Hulk Hogan beat Randy Savage & Zeus
11/23 Survivor Series - Dusty Rhodes, Terry Taylor, Brutus Beefcake, & Tito Santana beat Big Boss Man, Bad News Brown, The Honky Tonk Man, & Rick Martel
12/27 No Holds Barred The Match - w/Hulk Hogan beat Randy Savage & Zeus in a Steel Cage Match

1990
1/21 Royal Rumble - fought Lanny Poffo to a double-DQ
4/1 WrestleMania VI - beat Curt Hennig

1993
4/4 WrestleMania IX - w/Hulk Hogan lost to WWF Tag Team Champions Ted DiBiase & IRS by DQ

1994
11/16 Clash of Champions 29 - Handicap Match: Hulk Hogan & Sting beat The Butcher, Avalanche & Kevin Sullivan
12/27 Starrcade - lost to WCW Champion Hulk Hogan

1995
1/26 COC 30 - w/Kevin Sullivan lost to Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage
5/21 Slamboree - lost to Kevin Sullivan
9/17 Fall Brawl - War Games: Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Sting, & Lex Luger beat Zodiac, Meng, Kamala, & Shark
10/29 Halloween Havoc - lost to Randy Savage

1996
3/10 Uncensored - beat Dallas Page
5/19 Slamboree - w/Rick Steiner beat Meng & Hugh Morrus
5/19 Slamboree - w/Rick Steiner lost to Dallas Page & The Barbarian

Sources used include: Pro Wrestling Illustrated Almanac, wwe.com, and onlineworldofwrestling.com

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