Knobbs (left) and Saggs (right), as Nasty as they wanna be.
The Nasty Boys are a famous Professional Wrestling tag team, made up of Jerry Sags and Brian Knobs, or simply Knobbs and Saggs. To put it simply, they were two big, burly street thugs with mullet-hawks who developed a reputation for their intense brawls and brash attitudes (as well as being particularly stiff workers). They debuted in the AWA in 1986, and have made appearances in most of the major promotions of the last couple decades, including WWE, WCW and even TNA. They are 1x WWE World Tag Team Champions
and 3x WCW World Tag Team Champions.WE'RE GONNA NASTISIZE THESE TROPES!!!
- '80s Hair: Just look at those business in the front, spikes on top, party in the back mullets.
- Arch-Enemy: The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott), The Road Warriors, The Bushwhackers, Money Inc. (Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster), Cactus Jack, Maxx Payne, Kevin Sullivan, Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray), the Stud Stable (Col. Robert Parker/Bunkhouse Buck/Arn Anderson/Terry Funk), the Public Enemy, the New World Order.
- Badass Longcoat: Worn frequently to the ring.
- Fat Bastards: They did not have the classic wrestling physiques.
- Finishing Move: The Trip To Nastyville; a powerslam and elbow drop.
- Garbage Wrestlers: They were pioneers of the style in the USA, and the big brawls they had with Cactus Jack and friends in 1994 WCW were considered the pinnacle of their career.
- Heel–Face Turn: After manager Jimmy Hart swerved them and awarded Money Inc. the shot against WWE World Tag Team Champions The Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon) in October 1992.
- Hot-Blooded: They were always ready to start throwing fists and or clobbering people with weapons at the drop of a hat.
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: They combined neon colors with Jackson Pollock paint splatter patterns and matching shades. Sometimes they added leather jackets with road sign patches.
- Improbable Hairstyle: Just look at those business in the front, spikes on top, party in the back mullets.
- Jerkass: They were the same characters everywhere they went - big, loudmouthed bullies. Take this vignette for example!
- Large Ham: Every backstage interview was a tour-de-force of scenery chewing.
- Long Runner: Jerry and Brian have known each other since childhood, and have rarely been apart throughout their entire careers. Careers, by the way, that are pushing 30 years each.
- No Indoor Voice: Holy shit did these guys love yelling. Even in their good moods!
- No Name Given: During most of their WWF run, announcers would refer to Knobbs and/or Sags as "one-half of the Nasty Boys," without identifying who's who.
- Parts Unknown: "Nastyville."
- Pet the Dog: As written about on WrestleCrap, the whole thing where the Nastys went to the Baltimore Science Center. And that's to say nothing of the email a WrestleCrap reader sent in about a time the Nastys visited a children's hospital in response to the article.
- Put on a Bus: Disappeared from WCW in early 1997 after Sags beat the hell out of Scott Hall for real at a house show (non-televised event) in Arkansas. Knobs returned in mid-1999. Sags would not have a nationally televised match again until they debuted in TNA in 2010.
- Wrestling Family: Sags is/was a brother-in-law of Dusty Rhodes.
