About
Professional wrestler and wrestling trainer who performed under the ring name Brett Sawyer. He has competed for promotions such as Georgia Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions, Heart of America Sports Attractions, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling, to name a few. After retiring from professional wrestling in 1998, he established his own professional wrestling school in St. Petersburg, FL, which is known as Mad Dog's Palace School of Professional Wrestling.
Before Fame
He participated in amateur wrestling throughout his high school years when he was a student at Dixie M. Hollins High School in St. Petersburg. He went on to be trained by his older brother Buzz Sawyer and the legendary Ricky Steamboat before his official 1976 debut when he was just 16 years old.
Trivia
He has won the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship 4 times. He also won the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship a total of five times throughout his career. Pro Wrestling Illustrated named him the PWI Most Improved Wrestler of the Year in 1983. It later ranked him at #404 on their 2003 list of, "500 Best Singles Wrestlers during the PWI Years."
Family Life
He was married and had two children. His older brother Bruce Alan Woyan was also a professional wrestler who competed under the name Buzz Sawyer until he passed away from drug overdose-induced heart failure in 1992.
Associated With
In the year 1983, he and his brother defeated Road Warrior Hawk and Joe Laurinaitis (Road Warrior Animal) for the NWA National Tag Team Championship. The pair also worked together in the late 1980s to train future UFC Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock.
