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Rusty Brooks, who had a long history of working as an enhancement talent in the WWE in the 1980s, has passed away. PWInsider reports that Brooks passed away just a few days after his 63rd birthday. He had been dealing with some healthy issues and underwent surgery a few weeks back, but there’s no word on his cause of death at this time.
Brooks’ wrestling career ran 20 years, starting in the early 1980s. Trained by Boris Malenko and Jim Isler, he worked his debut match for the World Wrestling Association in a match against Steve Brody on Halloween in 1982. He had signed with the WWF a couple of years later and worked as a heel enhancement talent, with matches against the likes of Tony Parisi, Andre the Giant, Ricky Steamboat, Jake Roberts and The Junkyard Dog, and had a televised match in 1985 against Hulk Hogan. Often teaming with Steve Lombardi and Barry O, he would face teams like the British Bulldogs.