The Nasty Boys

The Nasty Boys
The Nasty Boys in 2011. Brian Knobbs (left) and Jerry Sags
Tag team
Members	Brian Knobbs Jerry Sags
Name(s)	The Nasty Boys
Heights	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) (Knobbs) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) (Sags)
Combined weight	546 lb (248 kg)
Hometown	Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Billed from	"Nastyville" Allentown, Pennsylvania (WWF) "The Streets of New York City" (WCW)
Debut	1986
Promotions	AWA NWA TNA WCW WWF XWF
Trainer	Verne Gagne Brad Rheingans

The Nasty Boys are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags, active from the mid to late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Their gimmick was that of anti-social punks who specialized in 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 trenchoats, and their distinctive mullet-hawk haircuts.

Unlike most professional wrestling tag teams, Jerry "Biff" Sags and Brian "Buff" Knobbs were childhood friends (both hailing from Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania) who put themselves together (whereas most tag teams were and still are matched together by bookers). They began their careers in the American Wrestling Association in 1985 and began teaming together as The Nasty Boyz in 1986. They first started moving up the cards while in Memphis, as a heel team against the face team of the Midnight Rockers. In 1988, they moved to Florida Championship Wrestling, where they won five Tag Team Championship between 1989 and 1990. While they were in Memphis, Jerry Lawler gave them the idea to change their look (spandex gold tights and long boots), so Sags and Knobbs decided to cover their bodies. They also painted their faces, but they dropped the face paint when wrestling outside of Memphis.

In 1990, the Nasty Boys joined World Championship Wrestling. They initially feuded with The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott), but were unable to defeat them for the United States Tag Team Championship.