Brick Bronsky

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.

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 two and a half years.

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".

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.

In the 1980s, Troma Studios experienced a surge in popularity due in part to creating its own stars such as The Toxic Avenger and Sgt. Kabukiman.

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.

In 1984, Beltzner won the Mr. Teenage Pennsylvania bodybuilding contest.

He went on to graduate from Pennsylvania State University with a degree in health and physical education.

At Penn State, 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.

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[ing] 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 24, began working for the World Wrestling Federation.

Beltzner reunited with his college friend Doug Flex, who had made his wrestling debut the previous year, and won a number of tag team titles in the NWA's Mid-Atlantic territory and elsewhere including the Canadian International Tag Team Championship in 1988 and 1989, the Galaxy Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship in 1990 and the North American Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship in 1991.

Both men were also involved in volunteer work with local youths in the Lehighton area during this time and counseled high school students across the United States about the dangers of drug and steroid abuse.

The two would often give lectures at the local high schools of wherever they were wrestling and would donate to a local charity if the promoters received a fee for their appearance.

They had both used steroids for several years before serious health risks and side effects forced them to stop.

After five years of steroid use, Beltzner developed degenerative connective tissue disease and eventually tore the short head of his biceps off the bone.

He was subsequently forced to take 12 to 16 months off to recover from this injury.

He was mainly used as a preliminary wrestler at various house shows, however, he did make an appearance on the April 29, 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."

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.

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.

As its financial troubles worsened in the early-1990s, however, Lloyd Kaufman attempted to recreate his earlier success in the form of Jeff Beltzner and later Jane Jensen (Tromeo and Juliet).

Beltzner would become the lead star in the Class of Nuke 'Em High series.

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.

Jeffrey Mark Beltzner was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and attended and graduated from Parkland High School in neighboring South Whitehall Township, where he developed an interest in bodybuilding and later won state and tri-state power lifting competitions.

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.

In 1996, Beltzner and Doug Flex formed their own promotion, International Pro Wrestling, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

It was there that they formed the heel stable "The Brat Pack" with Beltzner's "younger brother" and manager G.Q. Bronsky.

The trio eventually made appearances in other promotions throughout the Northeastern United States.

Beltzner himself would feud with "Handsome" Frank Stalletto in both IPW and American Commonwealth Wrestling before becoming the promotion's first heavyweight champion on November 30, 1996, in New Britain, Connecticut by defeating Dave Powers in a one-night tournament.