The Nasty Boys Shoot Interview - Wild Stories

The Nasty Boys are a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_team consisting of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Knobbs and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sags. The team were active from the mid-1980s through the 1990s. Their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_terms#G was that of anti-social https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_ideology who specialized in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_wrestling and brawling. They were noted for their distinctive all-black "street look", which, while very commonplace among today's wrestlers, was vastly different from the colorful attire of their wrestling peers of the late 1980s and early 1990s. This included graffiti-sprayed T-shirts, chain-adorned leather trenchcoats, and their distinctive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(haircut)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_hairstyle haircuts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sags and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Knobbs were childhood friends growing up in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall_Township,_Pennsylvania. They both attended https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall_High_School_(Pennsylvania) in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh_Valley region of eastern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania. While most professional wrestling tag teams were and still are matched by bookers, Sags and Knobbs friendship led them to form The Nasty Boys without any such professional booking guidance or input. The Nasty Boys began their career in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Wrestling_Association in 1985 and began teaming together as The Nasty Boyz in 1986. They began moving up the cards while in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee, as a heel team against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rockers, a face team. In 1988, they moved to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_Wrestling_from_Florida, where they won five tag team championships between 1989 and 1990. While they were in Memphis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lawler suggested they change their look to spandex gold tights and long boots. Sags and Knobbs also decided to cover their bodies and paint their faces, though they dropped the face paint when wrestling outside of Memphis.In 1990, the Nasty Boys joined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW). They initially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud_(professional_wrestling) with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner_Brothers but were unable to defeat them for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_United_States_Tag_Team_Championship. In December 1990, they left WCW and joined the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE (then known as the WWF), debuting on the December 29, 1990, episode of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF_Superstars_of_Wrestling.Along with their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manager_(professional_wrestling) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hart, The Nasty Boys quickly announced their intention to "Nastisize the WWF". They became number one contenders after winning a seven team battle royal on February 16, 1991, that aired on WWF Superstars. On March 24, 1991, they eliminated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Warriors thanks to interference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_and_Glory and defeated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hart_Foundation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WrestleMania_VII in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles to win the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tag_Team_Championship_(WWE).The Nasty Boys held the title until https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SummerSlam_(1991) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden on August 26, 1991, where they were defeated by Legion of Doom in a no disqualification, no count out match. They then feuded with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rockers and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bushwhackers, leading to a match at...