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Jeffrey "Jeff" Beltzner (born 1964), also known by his ring name Brick Bronsky, is an American actor, film producer, professional wrestler and sports promoter. He gained particular notoriety for starring in a string of films for Troma Studios during the early-1990s, most notably, in ''Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.'' (1990), ''Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown'' (1991), and ''Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid'' (1994); he also had a small role in Jean-Claude Van Damme's ''The Quest'' (1996). Beltzner was a bodybuilder prior to entering pro wrestling. He won a number of power lifting competitions in Pennsylvania and the Tri-State area as a teenager and qualified for the Mr. America bodybuilding competition after becoming Mr. Teen-age Pennsylvania in 1984. He eventually turned to professional wrestling after graduating from Pennsylvania State University and spent the late-1980s in Canada where he achieved some success wrestling for Stu Hart in Calgary Stampede Wrestling. He was among the small group of wrestlers trained by Mr. Hito and widely considered the strongest wrestler in the territory at the time. Following the close of Stampede Wrestling, and the subsequent collapse of the NWA territory system, at the end of the decade, Beltzner returned to his home state where he became a mainstay for local independent promotions throughout the 1990s. He often teamed with Doug Flex during his wrestling career and, along with manager G.Q. Bronsky, were collectively known as The Brat Pack; he and Flex later ran the Harrisburg-based International Pro Wrestling together from 1996 until 2004. He and Flex expanded into other areas of sports promotion and, in 1992, they organized the first boxing matches held in the Lehigh Valley region in nearly ten years. ==Early life and wrestling career== Jeff Beltzner was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and attended Parkland High School where he became interested in bodybuilding and later won state and tri-state power lifting competitions. In 1984, Beltzner won the Mr. Teen-age Pennsylvania bodybuilding contest. This qualified him for the Mr. America contest, however, Beltzner declined to participate in the event. "I just wasn't interested," he recalled in an interview years later "To me it's not a sport; it's a male beauty contest." He went on to graduate from Pennsylvania State University with a degree in health and physical education. It was at Penn State that he met his future tag team partner Doug Flex. Both men shared a mutual interest in bodybuilding and professional wrestling and would eventually enter the business together. Following his graduation, he worked as a child-care worker for the Lehigh County Detention Home before enrolling in a wrestling camp run by Brad Rheingans, a champion amateur wrestler and competitor at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Beltzner subsequently traveled to Canada where he wrestled as "Mr. Canada" for the next 2 and-a-half years; Doug Flex later claimed that "Jeff was as popular as Hulk Hogan is in the United States".〔 He was most visible in Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling in Calgary, often appearing on its weekly television program, and was "probably the strongest guy in the territory at the time".〔Meltzer, Dave. ''Tributes: Remembering Some of the World's Greatest Wrestlers''. Winding Stair Press, 2001. (pg. 17) ISBN 1-55366-085-4〕 He received additional training from Mr. Hito, joining him in several six-man matches, and faced many of the toughest Stampede veterans such as Bad News Allen, Gerry Morrow, "Great" Gama Singh and Steve DiSalvo in late-1987 and 1988. According to Dave Meltzer, Beltzner was once ordered to "shoot" on another young wrestler, Brian Pillman, during a live match. After sucker punching Pillman, and "knock() Pillman to the deck", his opponent "got up and tore him to shreds, but suffered a torn triceps in the melee". Pillman left the promotion shortly after this incident.〔 Beltzner too soon returned to the United States and, at age 22, began working for the World Wrestling Federation. He was mainly used as a preliminary wrestler at various house shows, however, he did make an appearance on the May 4, 1989 edition of ''WWF Challenge'' where he and Terry Daniels lost to The Brain Busters (Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard) at the War Memorial in Syracuse, New York. He was eventually offered a contract after six months. Unhappy with his experience in the WWF, he declined the offer. Critical of the sports entertainment aspect of the organization he later commented the "WWF was a big letdown. Competition is completely eliminated. There's a lot more to professional wrestling than the phoney stuff you see on TV."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brick Bronsky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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