Eddie Golden

On February 26, at SSW's 5th Anniversary Show, The Beautiful Blondes lost the tag belts to Death & Destruction (Frank "The Tank" Parker and "Ruthless" Roger Anderson).

On March 1, Golden successfully defended the junior heavyweight title against Scott Sterling.

The Beautiful Blondes had less luck that month losing matches to Sterling with partners Steve Flynn and Danny Christian respectively.

Harold Edward Cox (born November 4, 1973), better known by the ring name Eddie Golden, is an American professional wrestler.

A member of the Golden wrestling family, he is the father of Evan Golden and the nephew of Bunkhouse Buck.

Harold Edward Cox was born on November 4, 1973, in Johnson City, Tennessee.

A member of the Golden-branch of the famed Welch-Fuller wrestling family, he is the grandson of Montgomery, Alabama, wrestling promoter Billy Golden and nephew of Jimmy Golden.

He briefly attended East Tennessee State University during his beginning tenures of professional wrestling.

Golden was one of the top junior heavyweights in the Southeastern territories during the 1990s and won numerous championship titles in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee.

He was known for his work in tag teams, specifically as part of The Beautiful Blondes with Stan Lee and the fourth incarnation of The Heavenly Bodies with K. C. Thunder.

A major star in Southern States Wrestling during the 1990s, Golden won the SSW Junior Heavyweight Championship three times and the SSW Tag Team Championship twice with Alex Shane and Stan Lee.

Golden made his professional wrestling debut in 1990.

He spent the first few years of his career wrestling on the local Tennessee independent circuit.

By October 1991, Golden was in Tennessee Championship Wrestling working with the likes of Stan Lee, E. Z. Money, J. C. Black, Wayne Rogers, Jeff Tankersley, The Christian Brothers (Bam Bam and Danny Christian), and a teenaged Beau James refereeing matches.

Golden also teamed with Big Ox as The Texas Outlaws in Bruce Wren's Southeastern Championship Wrestling.

The Texas Outlaws won the SECW Tag Team Championship three times between 1992 and 1999.

Golden was among several wrestlers who followed Beau James when he founded Southern States Wrestling.

On March 20, 1992, Golden defeated Jamie Gibson in Banner Elk, North Carolina, to become the first-ever SSW Junior Heavyweight Champion.

He held onto the title for over a year before losing to Alex Shane in Fall Branch, Tennessee, on April 30, 1993.

Golden regained the title in Sullivan Gardens, Tennessee, on May 28 but dropped it back to Shane in Fall Branch a month later.

He and his uncle, managed by The Godfather, feuded with The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers) that same year.

An encounter between the two teams occurred at WrestleFest 93, during a "Southern Hospitality" interview segment with "Big" Al Bass, and turned into a four-way brawl.

In the summer of 1994, Golden began teaming with former rival Alex Shane.

The two captured the SSW Tag Team Championship from The Death Riders (Chic White and The Tennessee Equalizer) in Fall Branch on July 15, 1994.

A week later in Johnson City, Tennessee, Golden defeated Keith Hart at a show for Tim Horner's National Championship Wrestling promotion.

Golen and Shane eventually lost the tag team title to Mike Powers and The Alabama Heartthrob in Kingsport, Tennessee, on August 6, 1994.

At the end of the year, Golden began teaming with Stan Lee as The Beautiful Blondes.

The team would win a number of tag team championships throughout the Southeastern United States during the next few years.

On December 17, 1994, Golden and Lane defeated The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) at an All-Star Wrestling show in Elizabethton, Tennessee.

That summer on the independent circuit, The Beautiful Blondes defeated The Young Guns (Scott Sterling and Jeff Lovin) in Elizabethton for Tennessee Championship Wrestling.

On September 9, Golden and Lane lost to Ricky Morton and The Crow in Rural Retreat, Virginia.

On October 1, 1995, they faced David Jericho and Chris Hamrick at a Great American Wrestling Federation show in Asheville, North Carolina.

Back in SSW, the team also defeated David Jericho and Danny Cooley in Ledgar, North Carolina on December 9, 1995.

Golden also defeated The Alabama Heartthrob for the SSW Junior Heavyweight Championship in Fall Branch that same week.

The Beautiful Blondes claimed their first tag title when they defeated Beau James and Ricky Morton for the SSW Tag Team Championship in Fall Branch on January 5, 1996.

A few weeks later, the team faced then WWF World Tag Team Champions The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher) at an International Pro Wrestling in Asheville.

On February 10, they wrestled The Olympian and Tony Prichard to a double-disqualification in Morristown, Tennessee.

On May 3, 1996, The Beautiful Blondes wrestled Battering Ram and Ironman at a United Wrestling Alliance show in Hansonville, Virginia; the following night in Nora, Virginia, the two wrestled their opponents in singles matches with Golden losing to Battering Ram.

In 2000, Golden joined NWA Wildside where he was part of Jeff G. Bailey's NWA Elite stable with Ruckus, Onyx, and Terry Knight.

He was considered by Pro Wrestling Illustrated as one of the promotion's "best young veterans", winning the NWA Wildside Television Championship three times and having impressive matches against AJ Styles, E. Z. Money, and Kid Kash.