Robert Brooks
Ring name(s)	Robbie Brookside Robby Brookside Rob Brookside
Billed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Billed weight	241 lb (109 kg)
Born	11 March 1966(1966-03-11) Liverpool, England
Trained by	Liverpool Olympic Wrestling Club Carl McGrath Bobby Barron
Debut	1984

Robert Edward Brooks (born March 11, 1966), better known by his ring name Robbie Brookside, is a British professional wrestler. He has toured all over the world during his career including such countries as the United States, Japan, Germany, and Mexico. He was a regular tag partner of Steve Regal in the United Kingdom and he has competed in the New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual tournament, the Super J in 1997 where he picked up a victory over Chris Jericho.

Contents 1 Early life 1.1 Professional wrestling career 2 In wrestling 3 Championships and accomplishments 4 Notes

[edit] Early life

Robert Edward Brooks was born in Liverpool on March 11, 1966. His father was a football player, who played a few professional games for Preston North End^{[citation needed]} and chose his son, Robert as the man to carry on his place in the sport. At age 8 Brooks was playing football with people who were 12 years old and by age 9 he was playing in organised leagues for a team named Rockingham.

When Brooks first caught a glimpse of wrestling he was eager to continue watching, however his father hated wrestling and wouldn't let Brooks watch it when at home. Brooks would continue to watch wrestling with any chance he had, and even traveled to Liverpool Stadium for an 8 man knockout wrestling tournament.

[edit] Professional wrestling career

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, he won his first title after World Middleweight Champion "Rollerball" Mark Rocco retired and Brookside won the vacant title in a tournament.

Brookside then teamed with Doc Dean as The Liverpool Lads, together winning a tag team title. Frankie Sloan later teamed with Brookside as The Liverpool Lads in place of Dean.

In 1996, Brookside got the chance to wrestle in Germany for the Catch Wrestling Association through his contact with the group, Dave "Fit" Finlay. From then through to the turn of the century, Brookside could be found wrestling across many promotion in Europe, and won many titles during his travels.

Brookside spent 6 months in America wrestled for World Championship Wrestling, including several matches on Nitro.

On April 25th, 2005, Brookside had a dark match on World Wrestling Entertainment's 'WWE Raw' during a taping of the show in the UK, losing to Simon Dean. When WWE once again returned to England, Brookside joined other British wrestlers Thunder and Steve Lewington as part of the WWE security squad that helped keep the waring Raw and SmackDown! wrestlers apart.

Brookside continued to wrestle in and around the UK and remained one of the top British wrestlers, winning many of the top titles in the UK. Brookside became the first-ever Real Quality Wrestling Heavyweight Champion on April 29th, 2006, defeating former WWE and WCW Superstar Billy Kidman during a match at RQW's A Night Of Champions event. Brookside would later go on to win the Frontier Wrestling Alliance's British Heavyweight Championship at the FWA Summer Classic in a no-DQ elimination three-way match, finally pinning Jonny Storm after then-champion Hade Vansen, who was eliminated first, returned to the ring and hit Storm with his 'South City Driller' finishing move.

Though FWA Champion, Brookside was in fact wrestling under the banner of another promotion, All Star Wrestling. Brookside would remain an All Star wrestler throughout his reign, with various FWA wrestlers trying to take back 'their' championship. During this time, Brookside would vacate his RQW Heavyweight title and leave the promotion.

Brookside would also take an interest in the future of the business by going on to train future wrestlers, eventually opening his own Leicester based wrestling school, Wrestleicester, in late 2006.

Brookside appeared on the April 23rd, 2007, edition of 'WWE Raw', losing a no disqualification, 3-on-1 handicap match to Shane McMahon, Vince McMahon, and Umaga. Brookside was introduced as a man that Shane McMahon had personally seen take down six men by himself in a fight at a local pub.

Brookside has also had WWE matches against Snitsky and Maven.

In February 2008, Brookside won All Star Promotions Heavyweight Championship for the second time.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] In wrestling

• Finishing moves
  • Iconoclasm, sometimes floated over into a bridging double leg roll-up pin

• Signature moves
  • Northern Lights suplex

• Managers
  • Lisa Fury

• Nicknames
  • "Wildcat"

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

• All Action Wrestling

• AAW North East Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• All Star Wrestling

• ASW British Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current)^[1]
• ASW British Mid-Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[1]
• ASW British Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Doc Dean

• Catch Wrestling Association

• CWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• CWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time)^[2] - with Cannonball Grizzly

• European Wrestling Promotion

• EWP Intercontinental Championship (2 times)^[3]
• Ironman Hardcore Knockout Tournament (2001)

• European Wrestling Union

• European Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
• European Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Doc Dean
• Manfred Koch Memorial Cup (2001)

• Frontier Wrestling Alliance

• FWA British Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[4]
• FWA European Union Championship (1 time)

• New Alliance of Wrestling Athletes

• NAWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[5]

• Premier Wrestling Federation

• Worthing Trophy (1995, 1999, 2005)
• Ken Joyce Trophy (2004-2006)^[6]
• Wrestler of the Year (1995, 2005)

• Professional Wrestling Alliance

• PWA European Championship (2 times)^[7][8]

• Real Quality Wrestling

• RQW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[9]

• The Wrestling Alliance

• TWA British Heavyweight Champion (2 times)^[10]
• TWA Hardcore Championship (1 time)
• TWA British Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Doug Williams (1)

• westside Xtreme wrestling

• wXw World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[11]

[edit] Notes