Nasty Boys

[5.0] "They were in some wild and entertaining matches but overall they were pretty sloppy in the ring. One thing I'll say for them is they never phoned in a match. They weren't good and looked like slobs but they filled a niche."

[9.0] "A completely unique, badass, legitimate tough-guy tag team. Great as babyfaces, great as heels. Extremely underrated by modern wrestling fans. Like it or not, a team like The Nasty Boys is true pro wrestling."

[5.0] "Actually quite a good heel tag team to put in hardcore matches. But as babyfaces they were god-awful."

[6.0] "I thought these guys always got a bad rap. The IWC used to dump on them in the late 90's because they were friends with Hogan and a lot of people were sick of them by 1996 which I think depreciated their early 90's stuff but they were a solid main event tag team in the dark ages of the WWF tag team scene where many of the established teams broke up. Their stuff in 1993 and 1994 WCW was good and 1995 was okay but yeah, they kinda lost steam as we got into 1996. Good gimmick and just natural heels because of it."

[6.0] "I didn't think highly of either Knobbs or Sags at the time, but looking back I can see how they were absolute brawlers and kind of brought an ECW style to WCW and WWF. These guys were meant to team together and I can't imagine them being apart at all."

[7.0] "The older I get, the more I appreciate the Nasty Boys. They're just a couple of gross assholes who like to mess with people and fight. That's it. Nothing flashy, no finesse, but a great look and crazy energy. They didn't really have any *good* matches, but they had a lot of *fun* matches. There are lots and lots and lots (and lots) of wrestlers from their time whose whole thing was walk around and punch people and hotdog to the crowd, but they were two of the best at it. And I mean that as a compliment. Their personalities and mannerisms were so over the top that they stand out among their peers and they don't have to do a whole lot of actual ringwork to get heat. It's basically min-maxing effort for crowd reaction, which isn't easy to sustain. But they managed to do it, and were a top tag team for both major promotions in America for most the 90's. Anything after that, let's just not talk about. 6.5 rounded up."

[6.0] "They were never great in-ring and their schtick was sort of around being gross punk rocker loser types, but it was a schtick they worked for decades and it worked. If you saw them in TNA they're a 1, but judging their body of work as a whole, they were entertaining and had some good feuds w Harlem Heat, the Steiners and the Midnight Rockers"

[6.0] "Nasty Boys were a decent team during the 1990s. They had a good match at Mania 7 against The Hart Foundation and somehow managed to be a team until 2019."

[6.0] "Nasty Boys in the ring were hit or miss, I enjoyed them against certain opponents, but they also were lackluster against others. Their characters were unique and made them into recognizable heels. Enjoyable most places they worked but they definitely should not have come back for a run in TNA."

[6.0] "They were two anti-social street punks who weren't in the best of shape, rocked black and blonde mullets respectively, wore all black gear/ graffiti styled shirts in their main stream years, sported the graffiti tinted sunshades, and had a reputation of being wild, crazy, and just down right NASTY while growing up on the streets of Allentown P.A. They both worked the brawling style, so a lot of their stuff came off as sloppy, which I personally loved because to me that made their matches more realistic, because a real fight is gonna look that way 90% of the time. They could also pull off the wild, unpredictable, more hardcore stuff too in matches, and make it entertaining. Which translated to many memorable feuds and matches: Harlem Heat, The Midnight Rockers, The Steiners, and The Blue Bloods come to mind right off hand. I thought their promo ability was unique because Knobs was the loud, over the top one of the two while sags was normally more serious and to the point. They were also one of a handful of teams that could work both babyface and heel and do it successfully. Also, the only team I can ever remember whose signature move, Pity City, was Knobs rubbing their opponents face in Sags armpit."

[1.0] "I have not once ever enjoyed watching anything Nasty Boys related. Their promos are obnoxious, their matches are absolutely horrendous. The pit stop is not only a dumb signature move but just really gross. As humans they are sex pests which is lower than low. Honestly I shouldn't even give them a 1 but I guess because they were highly pushed I'll give them a single point but they don't really even deserve that."

[4.0] "The tag team was fine because when they wrestled everything fell apart. At least their matches at Uncensored '97 and Bash at the Beach '96 were fun"

[1.0] "Two guys who cannot wrestle a good match to save their lives and they don't have a good look or any redeeming values to them as humans or wrestlers. They only made it for so long in the industry because they had good friends to help them out."

[5.0] "Sloppy brawling slobs - but not without their charm. The match against The Steiners at Halloween Havoc 1990 is a hard hitting CLASSIC. Go out of your way to watch that match before you die, preferably about 30 or so times. Undeniable chemistry with The Rockers as far back as the AWA. Some of the WWF stuff is deeply regrettable, some of the latter WCW stuff is almost disturbingly awful but buried in all of that is some real gems. Sags could surprise you with just how good he could be at times and Knobbs gets nods for being able to fling around all of that excess baggage with relative ease. Glimmers of excellence propel their rating but still, 5.25 rounded down (because the bad stuff is reeeeaally baaaaad)."

[1.0] "Show me a single good Nasty Boys match....they simply don't exist. Just awful bollocks. Nothing positive to say about them. There promos were just screaming incoherent nonsense. They got a long run thanks to being mates with Hulk Hogan."

[2.0] "I never understood why so many people like the Nasty Boys, they weren't good at anything except making their own theme song which I'll give them credit for doing. They weren't good wrestlers infact they were pretty bad, hardcore or brawls was there go to, nothing scientific about their matches."

[1.0] "Somewhere out there, in the otherwise empty space between universes, there's a great library filled with long lost pro-wrestling tapes featuring some of the greatest mysteries of this great sports of ours. Among these tapes there's a whole section labeled "Great Nasty Boys Matches" in which Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs display their incredible skills inside the ring and outside of it. Unfortunately this library cannot be accessed by mere mortals like me, so all I am left with is watching two dorks using the same toilet humor that could entertain a not particularly bright six year old and having one bad forgettable "hardcore" match after another. A truly horrible tag team, but two extra points for their longevity. And minus one point because that logetivity is chiefly due to these two being friend with another character featured in the Great Lost Pro-Wrestling Matches Library, the one and only Hulk Hogan."

[2.0] "The Nasty Boys... what can you say? The name was accurate, give them that. They were gross, that's true. They were also lousy in the ring and even with years and years in the business, their characters never advanced beyond shouting a lot and being gross. I can honestly never remember being entertained by them, despite seeing them work in three companies."

[3.0] "If you wanna see two dorks brawl around, you're better off watching Public Enemy. Nasty Boys were acceptable in *their* time but being Hogan's mates, they don't know when to quit. Each passing year they become more annoying, more old and more outdated. By the mid 90s they were finished but over 2 decades later they'll take any paycheck from anyone."

[4.0] "I'd say these guys were just about the bare minimum of what I'd consider acceptable. Poor workers but somehow got over and did okay with that."

[4.0] "They certainly aren't technical masters but they found what worked for them and stuck by it. When they devolve into fart jokes and gross out humour they just annoy me, also they've got the worst ring names in history."

[6.0] "They can actually be entertaining when they are playing vicious brawlers, but when they devolve into being gross it does very little for me."

[7.0] "Looking back, the Nasties were very good at working their particular style and, in the '80s and '90s, could be counted on to provide wild, entertaining brawls. They also had the look and talking ability to convey their antisocial characters. Their TNA run in 2010 was somewhat unfortunate, but in their own time they were a memorable team."

[6.0] "Not technical masters or ring generals, but two of the best brawlers in the business."

[8.0] "While Knobbs & Sags may not have been the best workers in the world, seeing with your very own eyes how amazing the Nasty Boys were as villainous characters back in the early 90's in WWF, that right there was enough to captivate you alone! Brian Knobbs & Jerry Sags both played their parts as bad guys on TV so well and they made their characters as well as themselves feel larger than life with their looks, how they acted out their promos when they spoke, the whole nine yards, and even though the Nasty Boys were great talkers and they never needed a mouthpiece to begin with, having "The Mouth Of The South" Jimmy Hart as their manager still helped them out tremendously in other areas! Jimmy Hart being alongside the Nasty Boys got them noticed, it got them a lot of heel heat from the crowd, and it ultimately got them to be remembered as one of the greatest tag teams in wrestling history!"