History Wrestling / LukeHarper

* DropTheHammer: Part of his gimmick with Rowan as the Bludgeon Brothers, who carried huge, heavy-looking mallets. They didn't use them against opponents, though- they were perfectly capable of "bludgeoning" them with their bare hands.

* GutturalGrowler: Spoke in a very intimidating, coarse voice.

->''[[{{Catchphrase}} "It's [today]. You know what that means."]]''

Jonathan Huber (December 16, 1979 - December 26, 2020) was an American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er from Rochester, [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState NY]] best known in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Luke Harper and elsewhere (in particular [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]]) as ([[InsistentTerminology Mr.]]) Brodie Lee.

He debuted in late 2002 as in the upstate New York independent scene where he competed until he arrived in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} in 2007. His original gimmick, "The Right Stuff" Brodie Lee, was based on the Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock. This ended at the CHIKARA show ''Here Come the International Invaders: Attack of the Phantom Sith'', August 17, 2007, when he introduced his new trucker gimmick, "The Big Rig" Brodie Lee, and allied himself with the Olsen Twins (Colin [Delaney] and Jimmy) against the Colony ([[Wrestling/OrangeCassidy Fire Ant]], Soldier Ant and Worker Ant) and scored the win for his team by pinning Worker Ant. This was during a year-long streak where he did not get pinned or submitted.

* {{Jerkass}}: One of his shticks in CHIKARA was refusing to play along with the normal tomfoolery. For example when a spontaneous baseball game broke out during a Throwbacks match, instead of playing along he just decked the nearest opponent with an open hand slap. To say nothing of the way he treated Grizzly Redwood when they teamed.

* LightningBruiser: He was 6'5", 275 lbs. and could do dropkicks and hurricanranas.
** Hell, he could even dive between the ropes to get at someone!

* PowerTrio: Age Of The Fall was cut down to just him, Wrestling/JimmyJacobs and Wrestling/{{MsChif}}(not counting stragglers outside of ROH). The Wyatt Family was a trio for most of its existence too.

He debuted in late 2002 as in the upstate New York independent scene where he competed until he arrived in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} in 2007. His original gimmick, "The Right Stuff" Brodie Lee, was based on the Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock. This ended at the CHIKARA show ''Here Come the International Invaders: Attack of the Phantom Sith'', August 17, 2007, when he introduced his new trucker gimmick, "The Big Rig" Brodie Lee, and allied himself with the Olsen Twins (Colin [Delaney] and Jimmy) against the Colony (Fire Ant, Soldier Ant and Worker Ant) and scored the win for his team by pinning Worker Ant. This was during a year-long streak where he did not get pinned or submitted.

* {{Irony}}: In WWE, Luke Harper was best-known as one of the followers of a creepy, charismatic cult leader. In AEW, Brodie Lee ''was'' a creepy, charismatic cult leader as the Exalted One of The Dark Order.

* BaldOfAwesome: Luke Harper had a variant of this with a noticeable bald spot on top of his head. That bald spot was actually a scar left over from a particularly nasty chairshot he took during his indy wrestling days, but he liked the way it looked and kept it rather than having it repaired.

* WrestlingFamily: He married fellow wrestler Synndy Synn (his wife Amanda) and, while their two children are too young to wrestle, his older son Brodie Jr.[[note]]Brodie Lee's real name is Jon Huber, but he and Amanda named their son after his ring name[[/note]] was signed to an AEW contract and declared TNT Champion for life after his father's passing, with the understanding that he can begin performing for AEW as soon as he comes of age, and he has actually already made several appearances on AEW shows as -1 of the Dark Order, cutting short but sharp promos on other wrestlers.

** There's also the way he ''always'' made a beeline for ring announcer Wrestling/GavinLoudspeaker, who had to flee for his safety. No reason was ever given for his irrational hatred of him.

* HiddenDepths: Both in the ring and on the mic. He went from speaking just as often as Wrestling/ErickRowan (read: never) to being able to send creepy, unnerving messages to his opponents nearly as well as Wyatt himself. As far as between the ropes, he seemed to pull out a move you'd never expect from a man his size at least once a month, and executed them with the grace of a man 100 pounds lighter. Plus he continued to improve overall in the ring over time with no limit in sight... until his [[AuthorExistenceFailure Wrestler Existence Failure]].

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Harper The Other Wiki]].

* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: He (and his minions) insisted on him being addressed as MR. Brodie Lee.

* DueToTheDead: Because of the enormous respect everyone in AEW had for Jon Huber, Mr. Brodie Lee is permanently listed as an active member of [[https://www.allelitewrestling.com/aew-roster the AEW roster]] even after his death.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Ever since he had a Twitter account, he took to tweeting "It's <day>. You know what that means.", ''everyday''. What that really meant will probably never be known. This would take special importance after his passing, where virtually every tribute show to his memory would instert variations of the phrase in them, to the point AEW, the promotion he was working on at the time of his death, would take "It's Wednesday, you know what that means." as a sort of unofficial {{Tagline}} for their flagship TV show ''Dynamite''.

Jonathan Huber (December 16, 1979 - December 26, 2020) was an American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Rochester, [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState NY]] best known in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Luke Harper''' and elsewhere (in particular Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling) as ([[InsistentTerminology Mr.]]) '''Brodie Lee'''. He debuted in late 2002 as in the upstate New York independent scene where he competed until he arrived in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} in 2007. His original gimmick, "The Right Stuff" '''Brodie Lee''', was based on the Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock. This ended at the CHIKARA show ''Here Come the International Invaders- Attack of the Phantom Sith'', August 17, 2007, when he introduced his new trucker gimmick, "The Big Rig" Brodie Lee, and allied himself with the Olsen Twins (Colin [Delaney] and Jimmy) against the Colony (Fire Ant, Soldier Ant and Worker Ant) and scored the win for his team by pinning Worker Ant. This was during a year-long streak where he did not get pinned or submitted. As Brodie Lee he also competed for Wrestling/RingOfHonor, [[Wrestling/DragonGate Dragon Gate[=/=]Dragon Gate USA]], Wrestling/{{CZW}}, the German westside Xtreme wrestling and a variety of independent promotions. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-nxt-t.html WWE NXT Tag Team Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/nj/japw/japw-h.html JAPW Heavyweight Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/nj/japw/japw-t.html JAPW Tag Team Champion]] and was the final [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/nj/japw/japw-nj.html JAPW New Jersey State Heavyweight Champion]].

He debuted in WWE as a member of Wrestling/TheWyattFamily. On November 17, 2014, he won the Intercontinental Championship from Wrestling/DolphZiggler, ending Ziggler's 56-day reign. He also was a [=SmackDown=] Tag Team Champion, alongside Wrestling/BrayWyatt and Wrestling/RandyOrton. But after Randy's machinations led to Bray ousting Harper out of the Family, he turned on his former master and started a singles career. Later in 2017 he teamed up with Rowan again to form the Bludgeon Brothers. After an injury in August 2018 sidelined him for several months, Huber was planned to engage in a feud with Wrestling/SamiZayn throughout 2019, but after a post-[=WrestleMania=] ''[=SmackDown=]'' dark match with Wrestling/{{EC3}} was poorly received by Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, the feud was scrapped. After a fallout with Vince led to him being off television for five months, he once more paired with Rowan to feud against Wrestling/RomanReigns and Wrestling/DanielBryan at a tag team match for that year's Wrestling/HellInACell pay-per-view, which the Bludgeon Brothers lost. Two months after that match, Huber was released by WWE on December 8. As WWE owns the Luke Harper name, he reverted back to the Brodie Lee ring name, and on the 18th of March episode of Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling's ''AEW Dynamite'' he revealed himself as the true identity of the 'Exalted One' of Wrestling/TheDarkOrder. On August 22, 2020 he defeated [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Cody]] to become the second [[https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/aew/aew-tnt.html AEW TNT Champion]]. Brodie Lee would hold onto the TNT championship for 8 weeks defeating Dustin Rhodes and Orange Cassidy before Cody reclaimed the title in a dog collar match on the October 7 episode of ''Dynamite''.

Sadly, that match was the final one for Jon Huber, as he passed away on December 26, 2020 due to non-COVID related lung issues (later revealed by his widow to be idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis), surrounded by his family and loved ones.

Sadly, that match was the final one for Jon Huber, as he passed away on December 26, 2020 due to non-COVID related lung issues, surrounded by his family and loved ones.

* OminousLatinChanting: His theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT4urTiJUGQ&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling-Topic contains]] ominous ''English'' chanting ("He Is Exalted!").

* TakeThat: During his debut promo as the Exalted One, Brodie said to Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, "You are not the first [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon out-of-touch old man]] to not believe in me, but I will make damn sure you are the last."
** There was a popular perception that the Exalted One character was a straight-up parody of Vince (getting angry at underlings who coughed or yawned in his presence, etc.), with several people complaining that they were taking it too far and being petty and immature before it became apparent the character was more a [[TheDon mob boss-type character]] with only the occasional Vince in-joke. Some people have also suggested there's just as much [[Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} Mike Quackenbush]] in there as there is Vince (particularly the "you WILL wear a mask and you WILL use the gimmick I give you" bit), which is supported by the fact that both Lee and several of his followers (Uno, Greyson, Reynolds and Silver) all worked in CHIKARA.

* BadassBeard[=/=]BeardOfEvil: The Wyatt Family was a trio of evil bearded individuals. Brodie Lee wasn't much better, what with being the servant of a railroad spike wielding "zombie princess". In the early days of his trucker gimmick before his hair grew out, he sported a pair of muttonchops.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Took to tweeting "It's <day>. You know what that means." everyday. What that really means is not known yet.

-->''[[CatchPhrase "It's [today]. You know what that means."]]''

* TheBully: Back in 2008, he would push around the smaller CHIKARA wrestlers, leading to Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli standing up to him and a short feud, which Castagnoli won by defeating Lee in CHIKARA's first-ever cage match. He's also quite the bully as Mr. Brodie Lee as head of the Dark Order.

* WrestlingMonster: In the land of the giants he's right in the gray area, size wise - he has 'monster moments' and he might be able to pull it off if he were booked to be formidable more consistantly. On the indies and particularly in CHIKARA though, where he was often twice the size of his opponents, he was the very definition of a monster.