Tim Horner
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| Ring name(s) | Star Blazer Kendo the Samurai[1] White Lightning[1] |
| Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Billed weight | 220 lb (100 kg) |
| Born | August 19, 1959 Morristown, Tennessee[1] |
| Trained by | Rick Connors[1] Jack Brisco Jerry Brisco |
| Debut | 1978[1] |
Tim Horner is a professional wrestler best known for his "Lightning Express" tag team with Brad Armstrong.[1]
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[edit] Career
Tim Horner started wrestling in 1982 in the Alabama territory. He formed a tag team called the "Lightning Express" with Brad Armstrong and they had a lot of success. They won the Universal Wrestling Federation tag team titles by defeating Sting and Rick Steiner in 1987. They also won the National Wrestling Alliance's National Tag Team titles. Horner then wrestled briefly with the WWF as a jobber, where the well-known phrase "Tagging with Tim Horner" originated, which indicates that the wrestler concerned's career is in the doldrums or likely to be released at any moment.
In the 1990s, Horner wrestled in World Championship Wrestling as the masked Star Blazer and in Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW). In SMW, he also played the original Kendo the Samurai[1] (a masked samurai gimmick managed by Dary Von Horn, that was played at different point by Scott Antol and Brian Logan, among others). He was part owner of SMW with Jim Cornette until they had a falling out. Thereafter he competed in WCW as a jobber (for a time, he and Brad Armstrong were the only jobbers who had their own ring entrances).
Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him # 430 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
He is now wrestling on the independents on occasion in the Georgia and Tennessee areas. Recently, he was working for the World Wrestling Entertainment as a Producer for the SmackDown! brand until October 26, 2006, when he was released along with Ted DiBiase.
[edit] Personal life
Horner is married to Allison and has two daughters.
[edit] In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Nicknames
- "White Lightning"
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
- All-Pro Wrestling
- APW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Keith Hart[2]
- National Championship Wrestling
- NCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Jeff Tankersley[2]
- Tennessee Mountain Wrestling
- TMW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ron Garvin[2]
- United Atlantic Championship Wrestling
- UACW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[2]
- UACW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Jimmy Golden[2]
- Universal Wrestling Federation
- UWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Brad Armstrong[1]
