Robert Edward Brooks (born 11 March 1966), better known by his

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Robbie Brookside, is an English retired

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. He is currently signed to

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, where he works as a trainer/producer for the

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brand. 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

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's annual tournament, the Super J Cup, in 1997, where he picked up a victory over

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Professional wrestling career

Brooks was discovered by Bobby Barron, who invited him to wrestle at the

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, and Brian Dixon, who got Brooks some jobs on the

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s with established wrestlers such as Steve Adonis. Wrestling as Robbie Brookside (a name given to him by Dixon, in reference to the

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soap ''

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''), he first appeared on television in Britain for

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in 1987–1988. During this period, he tag-teamed regularly with Steve Regal as The Golden Boys. Their most notable match was against

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and "Blondie" Barrett at a late 1988 TV taping in

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in which Brookside unmasked Nagasaki who retaliated by hypnotizing 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 hypnotize Brookside into assisting and even tag partnering him. Brookside won his first title after World Heavy-Middleweight Champion "Rollerball" Mark Rocco retired and Brookside won the

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title in a tournament. The following year, he lost it to Frank "Chic" Cullen. Brookside then teamed with

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as The Liverpool Lads, together winning the British Tag Team Championship. During this period, Brookside produced a

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for

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including footage inside the ring (including the Liverpool Lads' 21 January 1993 tag title loss to Steve Prince and Vic Powers in Norwich) and backstage footage, as well as a visit to the United States to reunite with Regal, by then working for

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. 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 promotions in Europe and won many titles during his travels. Brookside spent six months in the U.S. wrestling for

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, including several matches on ''

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'', WCW's main TV shown worldwide. On 25 April 2005, he had a

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's ''

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'' during a taping of the show in the UK, losing to

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. 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 warring ''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 29 April 2006, defeating former WWE and WCW Superstar

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during a match at RQW's ''A Night of Champions'' event. Brookside would later go on to win the

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's British Heavyweight Championship at the ''FWA Summer Classic'' in a no-DQ elimination three-way match, finally pinning

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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,

. Brookside remained an All-Star wrestler throughout his reign, with various FWA wrestlers trying to take back "their" championship. During this time, Brookside vacated his RQW Heavyweight title and left the promotion. Brookside also took an interest in the future of the business by going on to train future wrestlers, eventually opening his own

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-based wrestling school, Wrestleicester, in late 2006. Brookside appeared on the 23 April 2007 episode of ''Raw'', losing a no disqualification, 3-on-1 handicap match to

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, 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. Brookside wrestled around the country in 2008, including defeating James Mason in a World of Sport rules match at

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. In February 2008, Brookside won All-Star Promotions British Heavyweight Championship for the second time but was forced to vacate the title in May 2009 due to injury. At a WWE house show in Birmingham on 7 November 2011, William Regal announced that Brookside was in the crowd and credited him with his success as well as that of

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and

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. In 2013, Brookside, who had already been working as a talent scout for WWE, began working as a coach in WWE's developmental system,

, also ending his career in the active competition after nearly 30 years. Brookside made an appearance on the 16 February 2015 episode of ''Raw'', separating a brawl between Daniel Bryan and

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. According to ''Pro Wrestling Torch'' in 2017, Brookside teaches the beginner class at the

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, the first of four levels of classes.

Personal life

Brookside's daughter

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is also a wrestler, performing on

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Championships and accomplishments

* All Action Wrestling ** AAW North East Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *

** ASW British Heavyweight Championship (

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) ** ASW British Tag Team Championship (

) – with

** ASW World Heavy-Middleweight Championship (1 time) * Catch Wrestling Association ** CWA British Commonwealth Championship ( 1 time) ** CWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time) **

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( 1 time) – with

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* European Wrestling Promotion **EWP Intercontinental Championship (2 times) ** Ironman Hardcore Knockout Tournament (2001) * European Wrestling Union **

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(

) ** European Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Doc Dean ** Manfred Koch Memorial Cup (2001) *

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( 1 time) ** FWA European Union Championship (1 time) * New Alliance of Wrestling Athletes ** NAWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time) * Premier Promotions ** PWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time) * Premier Wrestling Federation ** Worthing Trophy (1995, 1999, 2005) ** Ken Joyce Trophy (2004, 2006, 2009) ** Wrestler of the Year (1995, 2005) * Professional Wrestling Alliance ** PWA European Championship (2 times) * Real Quality Wrestling ** RQW Heavyweight Championship (1 time) * The Wrestling Alliance ** TWA British Heavyweight Champion (2 times) ** TWA British Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with Doug Williams (1) ** TWA Hardcore Championship (1 time) *

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( 1 time) **

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References

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