Brian Knobbs Brian Yandrisovitz ( May 6 , 1964 ) , better known as Brian Knobbs , is an American professional wrestler , best known as one half of the tag team The Nasty Boys along with Jerry Sags . Professional wrestling career . The Nasty Boys . Knobbs was born and grew up in Allentown , Pennsylvania and 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 National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) ' s Jim Crockett Promotions which had been purchased by Ted Turner and would be renamed World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) before they left a few months later . They feuded with Rick and Scott Steiner over the WCW United States Tag Team Championship but could not defeat them . Later that year , they went to the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) where they were managed by Jimmy Hart and won the World Tag Team Title from The Hart Foundation before feuding with and losing it to the Road Warriors . The Nasty Boys then wrestled many of the WWF ' s top face teams , including The Rockers , The Bushwhackers , and High Energy , before turning face in the fall of 1992 to feud with Hart ' s Money Inc . over the tag team title , which they were unable to regain . They left the WWF for WCW in 1993 and were quickly placed with manager Missy Hyatt , who led them to the WCW World Tag Team Championship . After she left them , they went feuded with Harlem Heat , The Blue Bloods , and the team of Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck . They won the tag team title a second time later in 1993 , but they were defeated by Cactus Jack and Kevin Sullivan the following year . In May 1995 , they defeated Harlem Heat for their third and final WCW tag title at Slamboree , but lost the belts back to Harlem Heat at Bash at the Beach . 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 Scott Hall and he had to retire due to this injury . Singles wrestler ; later career . Following Sags ' retirement , Knobbs became a singles wrestler and entered WCW ' s hardcore division . He feuded with Norman Smiley and defeated Bam Bam Bigelow at SuperBrawl in 2000 . In addition , he won the WCW Hardcore Championship three times . He lost the belt simultaneously to all three members of the boy band stable Three Count , making them the only co - holders of that belt , but he regained it from them later . Fit Finlay was briefly his manager as the " Hardcore Soldiers " with partner " The Dog " . He also was briefly in Jimmy Hart ' s The First Family . Knobbs has since returned to wrestling , including wrestling at the New Alhambra Arena ( formerly the ECW Arena ) for Pro Wrestling Unplugged on June 16 , 2007 . On November 20 , 2007 , Knobs and Sags reformed as The Nasty Boys at the SmackDown ! tapings from Tampa , Florida to wrestle their first WWE match in years . According to reports , the match was disastrous and the team were accused of unprofessionally working stiff with their opponents , Dave Taylor and Drew McIntyre . On January 4 , 2010 , The Nasty Boys made an appearance on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ' s television show , TNA Impact ! , starting a feud with Team 3D . On the January 21 edition of " Impact ! " the Nasty Boys competed in their first match for TNA , defeating the team of Eric Young and Kevin Nash . At Against All Odds The Nasty Boys defeated Team 3D in a tag team match , when Jimmy Hart made his return to the company and interfered in the match on the Nasty Boys ' behalf . On the February 25 edition of " Impact ! " Team 3D defeated the Nasty Boys in a tables match , when Jesse Neal interfered on Team 3D ' s behalf . The Nasty Boys and Hart continued their feud with Team 3D by defeating them and the returning Brother Runt , a replacement for Jesse Neal , whom the Nastys attacked prior to the match , in a six - man tag team match . After the match Neal attacked the Nastys and helped Team 3D put Sags through a table . On March 29 , 2010 , news broke that the Nasty Boys had been released by TNA following an incident at a TNA function with Spike executives present . On Tuesday , February 21 , 2012 Knobbs was involved in an altercation with indy wrestler New Jack . According to a Wrestlzone . com article , " Tuesday night , Florida Underground Wrestling had a show Clearwater , Florida where former ECW star New Jack knocked out Nasty Boy Brian Knobs in the locker room . According to New Jack ' s official Facebook page , Brian Knobs who was accompanied by his wife and 2 other people , stopped by in a locker room full of wrestlers which included New Jack . It was at this point according to New Jack ' s account that a drunk Brian Knobs began giving a speech that involved New Jack not being able to wrestle . New Jack says those comments were likely the last comments that Knobbs remembers before being knocked out " . Personal life . Knobbs ' wife is the sister of Greg " The Hammer " Valentine ' s wife . The couple have no children . He is a close friend of Hulk Hogan and has appeared in several episodes of " Hogan Knows Best " and " Brooke Knows Best " , as well as featuring as an on - screen trainer for " Hulk Hogan ' s Celebrity Championship Wrestling " and " Hulk Hogan ' s Micro Championship Wrestling " . During the 2009 baseball season , Knobbs performed a " Pit Stop " on Raymond , the Tampa Bay Rays mascot .