Wrestling
Fans of professional wrestling have long admired Steve Lombardi, best known as The Brooklyn Brawler, as one of the sport's premier jobbers. ECW legend Tazz is also proud of his Brooklyn roots, hailing from the Red Hook area of the city.
Other well-known wrestlers from Brooklyn include:
- Nelson Erazo, best known as Homicide in TNA.
- Brandon Silvestry, best known as Low Ki in the independent ranks, also a TNA alumnus, and now signed with the WWE and wrestling in its Florida Championship Wrestling developmental territory as Kaval.
- WWE wrestlers Shad Gaspard & JTG, also known collectively as Cryme Tyme.
Read more about this topic: Sports In Brooklyn
Famous quotes containing the word wrestling:
“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)
“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)