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Jim Brunzell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1949-08-14,White Bear Lake, Minnesota, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
James Brunzell is a retired professional wrestler better known by his ring name "Jumping" Jim Brunzell. Known for his successful tag teams, Brunzell performed for various wrestling promotions over the course of approximately two decades. National Wrestling Alliance: During the later half of the 1970s, he signed to wrestle for the Mid-Atlantic region and won the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship twice, a significant singles title at the time. Return to AWA: Upon returning to AWA, Brunzell reformed his tag team with Greg Gagne, known as the "High Flyers", and was elevated to main event status. The tandem of Brunzell and Gagne held the AWA World Tag Team Championship on two separate occasions, feuding with teams like Jesse Ventura and Adrian Adonis and Jerry Blackwell and Ken Patera. Brunzell remained with the AWA in both tag team and singles competition until 1985. WWE: Brunzell then signed to wrestle with WWE as they continued their national expansion. Here, he formed the popular tag team, The Killer Bees, with another WWE newcomer, B. Brian Blair. Apparently, Verne and Greg Gagne felt somewhat betrayed by the move. Gagne even expressed his displeasure during an AWA broadcast, making subtle references to Brunzell's departure and his new gimmick. Brunzell and Blair experienced moderate success while with WWE. The two feuded with the likes of The Hart Foundation as well as the Funks, Jimmy Jack Funk and Hoss Funk, who they faced in front of over 74,000 fans at The Big Event. Their stay was also highlighted by a match against Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Sheik as part of WrestleMania III and a win at the inaugural Survivor Series on Thanksgiving Day 1987. The Killer Bees teamed together until Blair left the promotion in 1988. Brunzell continued in singles competition for a time, being used to put over newer talent like Curt Hennig and Damien Demento as late as a Raw episode in April 1993. Independent circuit: He left WWE in 1991 and competed on the independent circuit, primarily in the Chicago area. Brunzell also wrestled for Herb Abrams' Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) in 1991. While there, he reunited with B. Brian Blair under the name Masked Confusion, winning the tag team title twice. After the UWF closed, Brunzell returned to the independent circuit and continued to wrestle until late 1999, when Brunzell faced fellow wrestler, The Hater. Currently, Brunzell works as a financial planner for Focus Financial in the Minneapolis area, he is also active in his church and does charity work for children with diabetes.

Filmography

WWE WrestleMania III

7.7

WWE WrestleMania III
1987-03-29

WrestleMania II

6.3

WrestleMania II
1986-04-07

WCW Slamboree 1993

10

WCW Slamboree 1993
1993-05-23

6.896

Highlander
1986-03-07

WWE: Allied Powers - The World's Greatest Tag Teams

7.1

WWE: Allied Powers - The World's Greatest Tag Teams
2009-01-01

WWE: Bret 'Hitman' Hart - The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be

7.8

WWE: Bret 'Hitman' Hart - The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be
2005-11-14

8.5

AWA StarCage
1985-04-21

AWA Super Sunday

7.5

AWA Super Sunday
1983-04-24

The WWF's Even More Unusual Matches

0

The WWF's Even More Unusual Matches
1987-02-01

4.2

The Wrestler
1974-04-28

WWE The Big Event

8

WWE The Big Event
1986-08-27

WWE Survivor Series 1987

8.9

WWE Survivor Series 1987
1987-11-26

WWE Royal Rumble

6.9

WWE Royal Rumble
1988-01-24

WWE WrestleMania IV

7.3

WWE WrestleMania IV
1988-03-27

WWE WrestleFest

5

WWE WrestleFest
1988-07-31

WWE Survivor Series 1988

8.5

WWE Survivor Series 1988
1988-11-24

UWF Beach Brawl

0

UWF Beach Brawl
1991-07-09

WWE March to WrestleMania VIII

0

WWE March to WrestleMania VIII
1992-03-29

UWF Blackjack Brawl

0

UWF Blackjack Brawl
1994-09-23

AWA Christmas Night 1983

0

AWA Christmas Night 1983
1983-12-25

WWF Bashed in the USA

0

WWF Bashed in the USA
1993-06-23

WWE The Hart Foundation

0

WWE The Hart Foundation
1987-06-24

AWA Christmas Show 1984

0

AWA Christmas Show 1984
1984-12-25

PWUSA Mayhem at The Meadowlands

0

PWUSA Mayhem at The Meadowlands
1985-04-19

PWUSA Star Wars

0

PWUSA Star Wars
1985-02-24

The Best of the WWF: volume 5

0

The Best of the WWF: volume 5
1986-01-01

The Best of the WWF: volume 8

0

The Best of the WWF: volume 8
1986-08-20

The Best of the WWF: volume 16 Around the World

0

The Best of the WWF: volume 16 Around the World
1988-07-27

Saturday Night's Main Event

8

Saturday Night's Main Event
1985-05-11

AWF Warriors of Wrestling

0

AWF Warriors of Wrestling
1995-03-06

6.611

WWE Raw
1993-01-11

WWF Wrestling Challenge

6.8

WWF Wrestling Challenge
1986-09-06

WWF Wrestling Challenge

6.8

WWF Wrestling Challenge
1986-09-06