Brian Lawler

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Brian Lawler
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Brian Christopher Brian Lawler Too Sexy Grandmaster Sexay
Billed height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Billed weight	215 lb (98 kg)
Born	January 10, 1972 (1972-01-10) (age 35) Memphis, Tennessee
Trained by	Jerry Lawler
Debut	1988

Brian Christopher Lawler (born January 10, 1972 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a professional wrestler currently performing for Memphis Wrestling and other independent promotions, and the son of professional wrestling legend Jerry "The King" Lawler. He is perhaps best known for his career in World Wrestling Entertainment where he performed as Grandmaster Sexay as part of the tag team Too Cool with Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi.

1 Career
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 External links

During the early part of his career, Brian wrestled in the United States Wrestling Association under the name "Too Sexy" Brian Christopher. He was used as a top face as well as making his mark as one of the promotion's top heels. His feuds there included Jeff Jarrett, Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee, Tom Prichard and the Moondogs. Among his partners were Tony Williams (as the New Kids), Doug Gilbert, Scotty Flamingo and Eddie Gilbert.

Brian joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1997, still known as Brian Christopher, and began to compete in the fledgling lightweight division. Taka Michinoku defeated him in the finals for a tournament for the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship. He later teamed up with Scott "Too Hot" Taylor to form the tag team of Too Much. For a while, he and Scott Taylor played up a quasi-homosexual angle that involved them speeding around on scooters/mopeds and culminated with Too Much riding off on the back of the Disciples of Apocalypse motorcycles.

For a while, when Brian was known as Brian Christopher, his father Jerry Lawler didn't publicly acknowledge that Brian was his son, although Jim Ross (Jerry's broadcast partner) always hinted at it.

In 1999, Brian and Scott adopted the ring names Grand Master Sexay and Scotty 2 Hotty, renamed their tag team Too Cool, and were later joined by Rikishi. They enjoyed an immensely popular run as Too Cool; however, their run nearly ended at Royal Rumble 2000, when Brian and Rikishi were joined in the ring by Scotty-2-Hotty, leading the group to start dancing before Rikishi eliminated the other two from the match. It really ended in late 2000 when Rikishi was revealed as the man behind the wheel of Stone Cold Steve Austin's hit and run storyline.

While Scotty was sidelined in 2001 with a broken ankle, Lawler formed a short-lived tag team with Steve Blackman and was later released from the WWF. He had been stopped on the Canadian border on his way to a show, and drugs were found in his car, leading to his termination.

From June 2002 until April 2004, he worked for TNA Wrestling as Brian Lawler. He formed a group called Next Generation with fellow second generation stars David Flair and Erik Watts. They feuded with Dusty Rhodes and harassed him with a replica of the NWA World Title belt that he wore when he was champion.

In April 2004, he was signed back to the WWE roster as Jim Ross's last act as WWE talent scout, as a favor to Ross' on screen co-announcer and Brian Lawler's father, Jerry Lawler. After only a month, he was released. He currently wrestles for several independent promotions, including Memphis Wrestling, and competed in the inaugural CT Cup for the Connecticut promotion NAWF ran by John Brooks and Fred Yale.

Brian's most recent appearance in the mainstream spotlight was in an interview on Anderson Cooper 360° surrounding Chris Benoit and his family's deaths, and their possible links to steroids.