The version of The Hollywood Blonds with the greatest exposure worldwide was the
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) incarnation consisting of
"Stunning" Steve Austin and
"Flyin'" Brian Pillman. Austin and Pillman teamed for the first time on October 17, 1992 and battled to a
draw with
Shane Douglas and
Brad Armstrong. Austin and Pillman also teamed against
Scott Steiner and
Marcus Alexander Bagwell,
jobber tag team Chris Sullivan and Tommy Angel,
Dustin Rhodes and Brad Armstrong (who was filling in for
Barry Windham), Armstrong and Bagwell,
Ricky Steamboat and
Nikita Koloff, and Steamboat and Douglas. Austin and Pillman temporarily stopped teaming when in late 1992, the recently
heel turned Brian Pillman started teaming with Barry Windham, but when Windham was groomed for a singles push and a run with the
NWA World Heavyweight Championship, and after one last unsuccessful attempt at winning the
WCW/
NWA World Tag Team Championship from Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas at
Starrcade 1992, Pillman and Windham stopped teaming. Windham declared his intention to pursue the
NWA world title, and told Pillman he should instead team with Austin. However, the real reason for the team's reunion was that the WCW bookers didn't have any other immediate plans for Austin. At first, the two were just billed as "Stunning" Steve and "Flyin'" Brian, but the two (with input from
Scotty "Flamingo" Levy) came up with the idea of The Hollywood Blonds, complete with matching trunks and vests. The duo was immediately thrust into a feud with Shane Douglas and Ricky Steamboat over the NWA and WCW World Tag Team titles, which gave the duo a chance to show off their teamwork and their trademark "mock filming" pose that they invented. After a successful move, one of the Blonds would move his hands like he was turning the handle on an old film camera. After winning a match, Austin or Pillman would arrogantly state that "Your brush with greatness is over" to further annoy the fans. Austin and Pillman made their
pay-per-view (PPV) debut on February 21, 1993 taking on
Buff Bagwell and
Erik Watts at
SuperBrawl III, which Austin and Pillman won the match. On the March 27, 1993 episode of
Power Hour, Austin and Pillman defeated Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas to win their only NWA/WCW World Tag Team Championship. After the feud with Steamboat and Douglas ended, the Blonds were programmed with the recently reformed
Four Horsemen, who at the time consisted of
Ric Flair,
Paul Roma, and
Ole and
Arn Anderson. Flair had recently returned from a run with then
World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and been given a talk show segment called "
A Flair for the Gold" to give Flair television time before his WWF release allowed him to wrestle for WCW. Pillman and Austin appeared on the show and mocked Flair and Anderson's age. Several weeks later, the Blonds continued their antagonism of Flair and Anderson by mocking them through their own segment called "
A Flare for the Old". Austin would stand in the background with a pillow under his shirt for a gut while slowly stroking his chin imitating Arn Anderson. Pillman dressed up in an old bathrobe, put on reading glasses and a grey wig and then cut into Flair for being too old and too scared of the Hollywood Blonds. Windham's attack shifted Flair's focus away from the Hollywood Blonds, which in turn meant that Arn Anderson needed a new tag team partner. Not long after the Clash, Paul Roma was introduced as the fourth Horseman and would team with Anderson in the Horsemen/Blonds feud. On July 18, at
Beach Blast, Roma and Anderson were beaten by the Blonds, who cheated to retain their titles. Not long after Beach Blast, Pillman injured his ankle and was unable to compete at a scheduled title match at
Clash of the Champions XXIV. However, due to
WCW taping policies, Arn Anderson and Paul Roma had already been taped as the World Tag Team Champions so the title change had to happen despite Pillman being injured. Austin teamed with
"Lord" Steven Regal at the Clash where they dropped the titles to Roma and Anderson. As soon as the Blonds dropped the titles, the team was again temporarily split up. Austin and Pillman both claimed that it was for political reasons. Austin was given a singles push challenging
Dustin Rhodes for the
WCW United States Heavyweight Championship. After Pillman finally recovered, he and Austin had a few more matches together taking on teams such as
Marcus Alexander Bagwell and
2 Cold Scorpio, Scorpio and
Ron Simmons, Simmons and
Ice Train, jobber tag teams
Frankie Lancaster and
Mark Starr and Frankie Rowe and Jimmy Rogers. The Blonds also confronted
The Nasty Boys and
Missy Hyatt during an interview after The Nasty Boys had won the titles from Anderson and Roma. The Blonds' last match as a team took place on the October 30, 1993 episode of
Saturday Night. After the Blonds had defeated a jobber tag team,
Col. Rob Parker (who had just become Austin's new manager) came to ringside to congratulate Austin (and not Pillman) on winning the match. Pillman took exception to Parker snubbing him. Parker brought up Pillman's bad leg and said if he was a
race horse, he would put him down. Pillman attacked Parker, which in turn led to Austin attacking and turning on Pillman, turning Pillman face and breaking up the Hollywood Blonds for the third and final time. The Austin/Pillman feud was never pushed intensely and at times played more for comedy than emotion, a fact underscored by Pillman being more interested in putting Parker in a
chicken suit than getting back at Austin. They would briefly reunite in the WWF in 1996, but not as the Blonds. Austin by then was using his new "Stone Cold" persona, and an injured Pillman was "The Loose Cannon" and acted primarily as his sidekick, until Austin turned on Pillman for showing his admiration for Austin's nemesis,
Bret Hart. According to WrestlingData.com, a compiler of available win–loss records, The Hollywood Blonds are perfectly balanced at 52-52, with 8 draws. In 1999,
Lenny Lane and
Lodi used the name
The West Hollywood Blondes as a play off the old name. == Championships and accomplishments ==