Professional Wrestling
- Eric Bischoff, wrestling promoter and former World Championship Wrestling president (born in Detroit)
- Monty Brown, professional wrestler who originally began as a football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills (born in Bridgeport)
- Ed Farhat aka The original Sheik, professional wrestler (born in Lansing)
- Kevin Nash, professional wrestler (born in Detroit)
- Rhino aka Terry Gerin, professional wrestler (born in Detroit)
- Bob Roop, Greco-Roman wrestling participant at the Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics turned professional wrestler under such names as "The Gladiator" and "The Enforcer" (born in Blacksburg, Virginia; raised in East Lansing)
- Chris Sabin, (aka Josh Harter ) professional wrestler (born in Detroit)
- Sabu, (real name Terry Brunk), professional wrestler (born in Detroit)
- Jimmy Jacobs, (aka Chris Scoville ) professional wrestler (born in Grand Rapids)
- Dan Severn, mixed martial artist and professional wrestler (born in Coldwater, Michigan)
- Alex Shelley, professional wrestler (born in Detroit)
- Tank,(aka Tim Swan ), professional wrestler (retired)born in Lansing
- Lou Thesz, professional wrestling legend (born in Benat)
- Rob Van Dam, professional wrestling legend ( born in Battle Creek)
- Rick Steiner, professional wrestler legend (born in Bay City, Michigan)
- Scott Steiner, professional wrestler legend (born in Bay City, Michigan)
- George "The Animal" Steele, professional wrestler legend (born in Detroit, Michigan)
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Famous quotes containing the words professional and/or wrestling:
“As a scientist I’m afraid I’m a professional skeptic who doubts everything, even the certainties.”
—Karl Brown (1897–1990)
“There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)