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:
“We have been weakened in our resistance to the professional anti-Communists because we know in our hearts that our so-called democracy has excluded millions of citizens from a normal life and the normal American privileges of health, housing and education.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“We laugh at him who steps out of his room at the very moment when the sun steps out, and says: “I will the sun to rise”; and at him who cannot stop the wheel, and says: “I will it to roll”; and at him who is taken down in a wrestling match, and says: “I lie here, but I will that I lie here!” And yet, all laughter aside, do we ever do anything other than one of these three things when we use the expression, “I will”?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)