Robbie Brookside

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Robert Brooks
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Robbie Brookside Robby Brookside Rob Brookside
Billed height	6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
Billed weight	241 lb (109 kg)
Born	March 11, 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 in Liverpool, England) is an English professional wrestler, who wrestles under the ring name of Robbie Brookside, and is nicknamed "Wildcat". Brooks has toured all over the world during his career including such countries as America, Japan, Germany, and Mexico. He was a regular tag partner of Steve Regal in the UK 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.

1 Career
- 1.1 Wrestling career
2 Additional info
3 Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Career

Brooks was born in Liverpool in 1966, his father was a football player, who played a few pro games for Preston North End 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 watch the wrestling any chance he could, and even traveled to Liverpool Stadium for an 8 man knockout wrestling tournament.

[edit] Wrestling career

Brooks was found 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 real title after World Middleweight Champion, Mark Rocco retired and Brookside won the title in a tournament.

Robbie Brookside then teamed with Doc Dean as The Liverpool Lads and won another title. Frankie Sloan also teamed with Brookside as The Liverpool Lads at a separate time.

In 1996 Brookside got the chance to go to CWA thanks to 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.

On April 25, 2005 had a dark match on World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW during a taping of the show in the UK, Robbie Brookside was defeated by Simon Dean in that match. 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! battlers apart.

Brookside would continue wrestles in, and around, the UK and remaining 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 defeating former WWE Superstar Billy Kidman during a match at RQW's "A Night Of Champions" show. Brookside would later go on to win Frontier Wrestling Alliance's British Heavyweight Championship at 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 finisher.

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

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 23, 2007 edition of WWE RAW, in a squash match facing Shane McMahon, Vince McMahon, and Umaga in a no disqualification handicap match. Brookside was introduced as a man that Shane McMahon saw take down 6 men in a row at a local pub. Brookside would take part in future WWE tours in the UK.

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