The picture is from the September 1988 issue of Inside Wrestling magazine. It's from Pillman's Stampede Wrestling days when he was half of the tag team known as "Bad Company". There is a short blurb accompanying the photo which reads:
Brian Pillman, one-half of Stampede International tag team champs Bad Company with Bruce Hart, was sidelined for three weeks when he injured his right bicep in a match against The Cuban Assassin and Jerry Morrow.
Now, although I have been a wrestling fan since I was a kid, I wasn't actively watching wrestling on TV during the Monday Night Wars and the "Attitude" Era. What's more, I completely missed out on the original ECW promotion. So I never really followed Brian Pillman's career when he was alive, but I have become relatively familiar with his exploits through YouTube and my growing collection of wrestling DVDs. Although Pillman's career was still going pretty strong immediately before his untimely death, it's apparent by looking at the old Stampede photo that his better days were long behind him by 1997. A bad car accident and years of addiction ultimately took a terrible toll on what could have been a fantastic in-ring career.
