Brian Knobbs
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| Brian Yandrisovitz | |
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| Ring name(s) | Brian Knobbs The Terrorist |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) |
| Billed weight | 294lb (133 kg) |
| Born | May 6, 1964 Allentown, Pennsylvania |
| Resides | Tampa, Florida |
| Billed from | Allentown, Pennsylvania ("Nastyville") |
| Trained by | Verne Gagne Brad Rheingans |
| Debut | 1985 |
| Retired | 2002 |
Brian Yandrisovitz (born May 6, 1964 in Allentown, Pennsylvania), better known as Brian Knobbs and his wrestling name Terrorist, is an American former professional wrestler, best known as one half of the tag team The Nasty Boys.
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[edit] Career
Brian Knobbs was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He attended Whitehall High School in Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania.
Knobbs started his career in the American Wrestling Association as the masked Terrorist in 1985. In 1986, he formed a tag team called The Nasty Boys with Jerry Sags and wrestled in the Tennessee territory until they moved to Florida Championship Wrestling, where they won five Tag Team Titles from 1988 through 1990.
In 1990, they went to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions which had been purchased by Ted Turner and would be renamed World Championship Wrestling before they left a few months later. They feuded with Rick and Scott Steiner over the U.S. Tag Team Titles but could not defeat them. In early 1991, they went to the World Wrestling Federation where they were managed by Jimmy Hart and won the World Tag Team Titles from The Hart Foundation before feuding with and losing the titles to the Road Warriors.
They left the WWF for WCW in 1993 and were quickly placed with manager Missy Hyatt, who led them to the World Tag Team Titles. She left them and they went on to feud with Harlem Heat, The Blue Bloods and the team of Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck.
In 1996, they were tricked by the nWo into thinking they were going to become members but were attacked as soon as they received their shirts. Sags had been injured previously in a shoot-altercation with an intoxicated Scott Hall and he had to retire due to this injury.
Following Sags' retirement, Knobbs became a singles wrestler and entered WCW's hardcore division. He feuded with Norman Smiley and Bam Bam Bigelow and won the title three times. Fit Finlay was briefly his manager as the "Hardcore Soldiers" with partner "The Dog".
He also was briefly in Jimmy Hart's "First Family".
Sags returned to wrestling in 2001 with Knobbs as The Nasty Boys to wrestle in the short-lived Xtreme Wrestling Federation and they both retired after it folded in 2002.
Offstage, Knobbs is a real-life friend and running buddy of wrestling icon Hulk Hogan. In 2005, Knobbs has a supporting role in the VH1 reality series Hogan Knows Best.
[edit] Backstage stories
Knobbs was known for being the rowdiest and rudest party-going wrestler in the mid 1990s. One such incident occurred with now-UFC star Ken Shamrock. Allegedly, Knobbs & Sags repeatedly grabbed the breasts of Shamrock's friend's girlfriend at a bar. Shamrock got infuriated after a while and told them to stop it. Knobbs got in Shamrock's face and was knocked 'on his ass' according to Shamrock before the Nasty Boys were thrown out of the bar by bouncers. Later that evening, Shamrock tried to clear the situation up with the Nasty Boys in their hotel room. Knobbs got out of his bed (he was acting like he was asleep) and blindsided Shamrock. The Nasty Boys then beat up Shamrock. This would become a grudge within Shamrock for a 7-year period until he once again crossed paths with Knobbs & Sags.
Knobbs would go around for seven years gloating that he beat Shamrock in a one-on-one fight. But those claims were proven wrong when Shamrock cornered Knobbs in an airport where WWE & WCW wrestlers were congregating. With all his workmates laughing at his misery, Knobbs buried his face in his hands and started crying. Shamrock, disgusted by Knobbs' 'wimp-out', declined to take his seven-year grudge any further.
Eddie Guerrero wrote in his autobiography that the Nasty Boys were a nightmare to be around.
[edit] Trivia
- Knobbs is a regular at most home games for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, a Major League Baseball team.
[edit] In wrestling
[edit] Finishing and signature moves
- Top Rope Elbow Drop
- Running Powerslam
- Clubberin’ (multiple punches)
- Double DDT (with Jerry Saggs)
- Pit Stop (opponent's face rubbed in armpit)
[edit] Managers
[edit] Quotes
"We're as nasty as we wanna be!"
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
[edit] World Championship Wrestling
- 3-Time WCW World Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Sags)
- 3-Time WCW Hardcore Champion
[edit] World Wrestling Federation
- 1-Time World Tag Team Championship(with Jerry Sags)
[edit] American Wrestling Association
- 2-time AWA Southern Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Sags)
[edit] Florida Championship Wrestling
- 5-Time NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (with Jerry Sags)
[edit] Xtreme Wrestling Federation
- 1-Time XWF Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Sags)
[edit] Other titles
- 1-Time SAPC Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Sags)
- 1-Time YPW Heavyweight Champion
- 1-time NAWA Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Sags)
- 1-time PWF Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Sags)
[edit] Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI ranked him # 409 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003
- PWI ranked him # 53 of the best tag teams of the "PWI Years" (with Jerry Sags)
- 1994 PWI Tag Team of the Year Award (with Jerry Sags)
