The Nasty Boys

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The Nasty Boys
Tag Team
Members	Brian Knobbs Jerry Sags
Name(s)	The Nasty Boys
Heights	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) (Knobbs) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) (Sags)
Combined weight	546 lb (248 kg)
Hometown	Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Billed from	"Nastyville"
Debut	1986
Disbanded	2000s
Promotions	AWA NWA WCW WWF XWF
Trainer	Verne Gagne Brad Rheingans

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."

1 Career
- 1.1 Reputation
2 Wrestling facts
3 Personal life
4 Championships and accomplishments
5 References

Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs, both natives of Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania^[1], 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 December 1990 and joined the World Wrestling Federation. Upon entry into the WWF, their theme song used for a very brief time was them singing "We are the Nasty Boys....we are the Nasty Boys" before it was changed to the theme that would follow them throughout their WWF career. 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. Since retirement the boys have both appeared on Hogan Knows Best along with WWE Magazine's Where are they now section.

On November 20, 2007, Brian Knobbs and Jerry Saggs reformed as The Nasty Boys at the SmackDown! tapings from Tampa, Florida to wrestle their first WWE match in years. The crowd loved the hometown team and the Nasty Boys received one of the largest "pops" of the night.

The Nasty Boys have a reputation of being very stiff with their opponents.^[2] 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 Saggs years later in an airport, but decided 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,^[2] 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) degenerated into a shoot. [2]

Finishing and signature moves
- Trip to Nastyville (Knobbs would execute a Running powerslam, then Sags 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 Boy would seize a victim by the back of the neck and rub his face into the other Nasty Boy's armpit)