Brian Knobbs

Brian Knobbs, born Brian Yandrisovitz in Allentown, is exactly the brand of professional wrestler I love. As one half of the Nasty Boys alongside Jerry Sags, he turned roughneck heel work into an art and dragged that act across the AWA, All Japan, WCW, WWF, and New Japan. I will always take a loud, brawling, rule-bending villain over a squeaky-clean babyface, because heels like Knobbs are what make crowds genuinely furious and genuinely invested. His scrappy, in-your-face style understood the real job of a heel: get a reaction. To me, that is top-tier ring craft and pure entertainment.

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Name (English)

Brian Knobbs

Name (Japanese)

ブライアン・ノッブス

Reading

ぶらいあん・のっぶす

Born

May 6, 1964 (age 62)

Origin

Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States

Height

185 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

High school

Whitehall High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Knobbs
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8E%E3%83%83%E3%83%96%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712539

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• professional wrestler

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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