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| Brick Bronsky | |
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| Birth name | Jeffrey Mark Beltzner |
| Born | April 18, 1964 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1] |
| Died | August 23, 2021 (aged 57) Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Brick Bronsky Brick Bronski Jeff Beitzner Jeff Bronsky Jeffrey Belzner |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[2] |
| Billed weight | 245 lb (111 kg)[2] |
| Billed from | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[3][4][5] |
| Trained by | Brad Rheingans[3] Mr. Hito |
| Debut | 1985[3][4][5][6] |
| Retired | 1998 |
Jeffrey Mark Beltzner (April 18, 1964 – August 23, 2021), known by his ring name Brick Bronsky, was 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.
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