Robbie Brookside
| Robbie Brookside | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Robert Edward Brooks |
| Born |
11 March 1966 Liverpool, England, United Kingdom |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) |
Robbie Brookside Robby Brookside Rob Brookside |
| Billed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Billed weight | 241 lb (109 kg) |
| Trained by | Liverpool Olympic Wrestling Club Carl McGrath Bobby Barron |
| Debut | 1984 |
| Retired | 2013 |
Robert Edward Brooks (born 11 March 1966), better known by his ring name Robbie Brookside, is an English retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he works as a trainer in its developmental territory NXT. He has toured all over the world during his career, wrestling in the United States, Japan, Germany, and Mexico. He was a regular tag partner of Steve Regal in the United Kingdom and has competed in New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual tournament, the Super J, in 1997, where he picked up a victory over Chris Jericho.
Brooks was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. His father was a footballer who played for Preston North End FC.
Brooks was discovered by Bobby Barren, who invited him to wrestle at the Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, and Brian Dixon, who got Brooks some jobs on the holiday camps with established wrestlers such as Steve Adonis. Wrestling as Robbie Brookside (a name given to him by Dixon, in reference to the Channel 4 soap Brookside), he first appeared on televiosn in Britain for All Star Wrestling in 1987-1988. During this period, he tag teamed regularly with Steve Regal as The Golden Boys. Their most notable match was against Kendo Nagasaki and "Blondie" Barrett at a late 1988 TV taping in Bedworth in which Brookside unmasked Nagasaki who retaliated by hypnotising Brookside to turn on Regal, causing their team to lose the match. This started an angle, running on after the end of TV and into the 1990s in which Nagasaki would hypnotise Brookside into assisting and even tag partnering him. Brooskide won his first title after World Heavy-Middleweight Champion "Rollerball" Mark Rocco retired and Brookside won the vacant title in a tournament. The following year, he lost it to Frank "Chic" Cullen.
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