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The Nasty Boys were a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags, active in the mid to late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Their gimmick was that they were crude, anti-social punks who specialized in hardcore wrestling and brawling.
Former professional wrestler Mick Foley described the Nasty Boys in his autobiography as "sloppy as hell, and more than a little dangerous, but they knew how to brawl."
Career
Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs, both natives of Allentown, Pennsylvania, began their careers in the American Wrestling Association in 1985 and began teaming together as The Nasty Boys in 1986. In 1988, they moved to Florida Championship Wrestling, where they won five Tag Team Championship between 1989 and 1990.
In 1990, the Nasty Boys joined the National Wrestling Alliance affiliate Jim Crockett Promotions, soon to be renamed World Championship Wrestling. They initially feuded with Rick and Scott Steiner but were unable to defeat the Steiner Brothers for the United States Tag Team Championships.
The Nasty Boys left WCW in early 1991 and joined the World Wrestling Federation. Along with their manager Jimmy Hart, they announced their intention to "Nastisize the WWF". They defeated The Hart Foundation for the WWF World Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania VII, and held the titles until SummerSlam 1991, when they were defeated by the Road Warriors in a street fight.
They returned to WCW in 1993, where they were managed by Missy Hyatt. Hyatt left the Nasty Boys after their first reign as WCW World Tag Team Champions, and they went on to feud with tag teams such as Harlem Heat and the Blue Bloods. In 1996, the New World Order offered them membership in the nWo, but attacked them as soon as they received their nWo t-shirts. Sags retired later that year, and Knobbs began pursuing the WCW Hardcore Championship.
The Nasty Boys were briefly reunited in the short-lived XWF, but both retired when it closed.
Reputation
The Nasty Boys were the original hardcore wrestlers, before there was an ECW to give the The Nasty Boys style of wrestling a name. People were actually scared for the opponents of Nobbs and Saggs as their style of in ring brutality seemed so extreme, that the people thought that they were actually trying to maim and kill their opponents.
The Nasty Boys have a reputation of being very stiff with their opponents. They have also been involved in several legitimate fights with other wrestlers:
- UFC mixed martial artist Ken Shamrock had an argument with the Nasty Boys after they harassed his friend and his friend's fiancée in a nightclub. Later that night, Shamrock went to The Nasty Boys' hotel room to continue the argument, but was hit from behind and beaten. Shamrock confronted Sags years later in an airport, but deigned not to attack him.
- The Nasty Boys fought with Ric Flair in a Manhattan nightclub, with Flair being thrown out of the club as a result.
- In 1994, The Nasty Boys faced Cactus Jack and Maxx Payne in a series of wild brawls which Payne later described as "not far away from gladiator days".
- In 1997, a match between The Nasty Boys and The Outsiders (Scott Hall and Kevin Nash) allegedly degenerated into a shoot.
Profile
- Combined weight: 546 lb (247.7 kg)
- Hometown: Whitehall, PA - went to Whitehall - Coplay School District
- Billed from: Nastyville
- Debut: 1986
- Previous managers: Jimmy Hart, Missy Hyatt
- Quotes: "We're as nasty as we wanna be!"
Finishing and signature moves
- One of the Nasty Boys would execute a Running powerslam, then the second Nasty Boy would climb to the top rope and perform a Diving elbow drop.
- Clubberin’ (The Nasty Boys would simultaneously repeatedly punch their opponents) - named by Dusty Rhodes who, while commentating, would announce to his partner Tony Schiavone: "They be clubberin', Tony!"
- Double DDT.
- Pit Stop / Pity City (One of the Nasty Boys would raise their arm, exposing their armpit while the other Nasty Boys would seize a victim by the back of the neck and rub his face into the other Nasty Boy's armpit)
Championships and accomplishments
- AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (2 times)
- FCW Tag Team Championship (5 times)
- 1994 Tag Team of the Year
- PWI ranked them # 53 of the best tag teams of the "PWI Years" in 2003.
- XWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time)
- Other Titles
- NAWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
- PWF Tag Team Championship (1 time)
- SAPC Tag Team Championship (1 time)