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Funk joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) on June 19, 2002 as Bruce, once again working a homosexual gimmick and forming a short-lived tag team with Lenny Lane known as The Rainbow Express. [1] [7] The team split on November 20, 2002. Bruce also won the Miss TNA Championship on July 31, 2002. [1]
Lane formed a short-lived tag team with Bruce known as The Rainbow Express and competed on the second-ever TNA pay-per-view on June 26. Lane sustained an injury, however, and the team split on November 20, 2002 after Bruce turned on Lane. He left TNA soon after.
They were set to reunite for the debut of NWA Total Nonstop Action under their West Hollywood Blondes gimmick as the "Rainbow Express" with manager Joel Gertner, but Lodi suffered a neck injury and was replaced by Bruce. Lenny and Lodi both made appearances for World Wrestling Allstars later on in their careers. They reunited in TNT Pro ...
TNA crowned the first TNA–era NWA World Tag Team Champions at their third weekly PPV event on July 3, 2002, when the team of A.J. Styles and Jerry Lynn defeated The Rainbow Express (Bruce and Lenny Lane) in a tournament final to win the championship. [6]
They were brought together at NWA:TNA PPV on June 26, 2002, when another tag team called The Dupps refused to fight the Rainbow Express (Lenny and Bruce). Storm and Harris won the match, and joined forces from then on. [3] On September 18, NWA:TNA PPV, AMW participated in a 20-man Gauntlet for the Gold match for the vacant NWA World Tag Team ...
Gertner made his Total Nonstop Action Wrestling debut on June 26, 2002 to introduce the a new tag team called the Rainbow Express (Bruce and Lenny Lane). However, he left TNA shortly after this and did not make any appearances for the company until 2010.
NWA-TNA management then announced that A.J. Styles and Jerry Lynn would replace AMW in the last match of the tournament. [46] Styles and Lynn went on to defeat The Rainbow Express to become the first NWA-TNA era NWA World Tag Team Champions [46] [58]
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) – is a professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee as a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment. [1]TNA personnel consists of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, ring announcers, interviewers, referees, trainers, producers, script writers, and various other positions.