Tim Horner
{{Short description|American professional wrestler (born 1959)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}}
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| birth_name = Timothy Lee Horner
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|8|19|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Morristown, Tennessee, U.S.
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| ring_names = Tim Horner
Star Blazer
Kendo the Samurai
| billed = Knoxville, Tennessee
| trainer = Rick Connors
Jack Brisco
Jerry Brisco
| retired = 2013
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| office = Hamblen County Commissioner from the 13th District
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Timothy Lee Horner (born August 19, 1959) is a retired professional wrestler, best known as Tim Horner, one half of The Lightning Express with Brad Armstrong.{{cite web|title=Tim Horner profile|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profile/tom-horner/|access-date=2009-09-12|publisher=OWOW}}
Professional wrestling career
=Early career (1978–1988) =
Tim Horner started wrestling in 1978 in the Alabama territory.
= Jim Crockett Promotions (1984–1988) =
{{main|Lightning Express (professional wrestling)|l1=The Lightning Express}}
Horner signed to Jim Crockett Promotions in 1984, and formed The Lightning Express with Brad Armstrong.{{cite book | first=Graham | last=Cawthon | title=the History of Professional Wrestling Vol 3:Jim Crockett and the NWA World Title 1983-1989 | publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | year= 2013 |isbn=978-1494803476}} They won the Universal Wrestling Federation tag team title in 1987, defeating Sting and Rick Steiner. They also won the National Wrestling Alliance's National Tag Team title.{{cite web | url=http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com/jcp84.htm | title=Jim Crockett Promotions 1984 | date=16 January 2023 | publisher=The History of WWE}}{{cite web | url=http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com/jcp87.htm | title=Jim Crockett Promotions 1987 | date=16 January 2023 | publisher=The History of WWE}}
= World Wrestling Federation (1988–1989)=
Tim Horner signed with WWF in late 1988 and left in late 1989.{{cite book | first=Graham | last=Cawthon | title=the History of Professional Wrestling Vol 1: WWF 1963 - 1989 | publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | year= 2013 | isbn=978-1492825975}} On televised matches he was used as a jobber in both singles and tag-team matches, while at house shows he was frequently victorious over other jobbers including Danny Davis, Jose Estrada, Barry Horowitz, Jose Luis Rivera, Iron Mike Sharpe, Tom Magee, Steve Lombardi, and Johnny K-9 (Taras Bulba).{{cite web | url=http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com/89.htm | title=WWF 1989 | date=16 January 2023 | publisher=The History of WWE}}
= World Championship Wrestling / Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1990–1995)=
In the 1990s, Horner wrestled for World Championship Wrestling as the masked "Star Blazer",{{cite book | first=Graham | last=CawthoZUn | title=the History of Professional Wrestling Vol 4: World Championship Wrestling 1989-1994 | publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | year= 2014 | isbn=978-1499656343}} and for Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW). In SMW, he also played the original "Kendo the Samurai" (a masked samurai gimmick, also used by Scott Antol, Brian Logan, Dave Pillman and others) managed by Daryl Van Horne.
= Late career =
After WCW, he occasionally wrestled on independent shows in Georgia and Tennessee. He then worked in World Wrestling Entertainment as a producer for its SmackDown! brand, until October 26, 2006. On June 16, 2013, he teamed with Tom Prichard to defeat Bob Orton, Jr. and George South at the Brad Armstrong Memorial Event.{{cite web | url=http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=97046 | title=Brad Armstrong Memorial Event | date=June 16, 2013 | publisher=Cagematch.net}}
Political career
On May 1, 2018, he was elected County Commissioner in Hamblen County, Tennessee.
Championships and accomplishments
- All-Pro Wrestling
- APW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Keith Hart{{cite book | author=Royal Duncan & Gary Will | title=Wrestling Title Histories | publisher=Archeus Communications | year=2000|edition=4th | isbn=0-9698161-5-4 }}
- Georgia Championship Wrestling
- NWA National Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Brad Armstrong
- Independent International Wrestling Association
- IIWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chick Donovan
- Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Alliance
- MAWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Road Warrior Hawk
- National Championship Wrestling
- NCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Jeff Tankersley
- Southeastern Championship Wrestling
- NWA Southeast United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (5 times)
- Smokey Mountain Wrestling
- SMW Beat the Champ Television Championship (3 times)
- Southern States Wrestling
- Kingsport Wrestling Hall of Fame (Class of 2002)
- Tennessee Mountain Wrestling
- TMW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ron Garvin
- United Atlantic Championship Wrestling
- UACW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- UACW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Jimmy Golden
- Universal Wrestling Federation
- UWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Brad Armstrong
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{professional wrestling profiles}}
{{SMW Beat the Champ Television Championship}}
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