{{short description|Professional wrestler}} {{redirect|The Lobsterman|other uses|Lobstermen (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox professional wrestler |name=Bruiser Costa |names=Bruiser Costa<br>Lobsterman<br>Jeff Costa<br>Tony Costa<br>Tony DeCosta<br>Jeff McHale |image= |birth_name = Jeffery Costa |height= |weight={{convert|250|lb|kg|abbr=on}} |real_height= |real_weight= |birth_date={{Birth date and age|1962|6|26|mf=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=2952|title=Profile|publisher=Wrestlingdata|accessdate=2024-12-13}}</ref> |birth_place=Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. |death_date= |death_place= |debut=August 30, 1980<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=15221|title=Jeff Costa « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=}}</ref> |billed= |trainer=Killer Kowalski, Dean Ho |retired=2019 }} '''Jeff Costa''' (born June 26, 1962), better known by his ring name '''Bruiser Costa''', is an American retired wrestler who worked for NWA All-Star Wrestling in Vancouver during the promotions later days in the 1980s. In the 1990s he worked in the independent promotions in New England as '''The Lobsterman'''.
==Professional wrestling career== Costa was trained by Killer Kowalski in Salem, Massachusetts. He would make his debut on August 30, 1980 at 18 defeating John Callahan by disqualification at Kowalski's International Wrestling Federation in Sailsbury Beach, Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web |author=Creahin, David |url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/1900/04/09/bruiser-costa-career-record/ |title=Bruiser Costa Career Record |access-date =2024-12-14 |date =August 23, 2019 |work=SLAM! Wrestling|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer}}</ref> Later that year he went to Montreal to work for Lutte International.<ref>{{cite web |author=Rodgers, Mike |url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2008/03/11/an-interview-with-bruiser-jeff-costa/ |title=An Interview with 'Bruiser' Jeff Costa |access-date =2008-03-11 |date = March 11, 2008 |work=SLAM! Wrestling|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer}}</ref>
In 1981, he worked for the World Wrestling Federation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com/81.htm |title=1981 |website=Thehistoryofwwe.com |access-date=2016-12-31}}</ref>
Then in 1982, he worked in Vancouver for NWA All-Star Wrestling where he feuded with his trainer Dean Ho. He won the NWA International Tag Team Championship with Terry Adonis. Costa stayed in Vancouver until 1988 a year before All-Star Wrestling folded.
Costa returned to New England working as The Lobsterman in the early 1990s and wearing lobster claws to the ring. During that time he ran a promotion, All-Star Wrestling in New Hampshire from 1992 to 2006 and trained wrestlers such as Bob Evans, Gino Martino, Johnny Vegas and other wrestlers. Also in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, he continued to work in New England until his last match in 2019.
==Championships and accomplishments== *'''NWA All-Star Wrestling''' **NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (''Vancouver version'') (1 time)<ref>{{cite web|title=NWA Canadian Heavyweight Title|work=Wrestling Titles|url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/canada/bc/nwa/bc-can-h.html|access-date=2023-12-19}}</ref> **NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship ''(Vancouver version)'' (1 time) - with Spider Web (Drago Zhivago) (1)<ref>{{cite web|title=NWA Canadian Tag Team Title|work=Wrestling Titles|url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/canada/bc/nwa/bc-can-t.html|access-date=2024-02-13}}</ref> **NWA International Tag Team Championship ''(Vancouver version)'' (1 time) - with Terry Adonis (1)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/canada/bc/nwa/bc-in-t.html |title=N.W.A. International Tag Team Title (Vancouver) |access-date=2007-10-09 |year=2003 |publisher=Puroresu Dojo }}</ref>
== Discography ==
=== Lobsterman and the Crustaceans === *''Lobsterman and the Crustaceans'' (2018)
==References== '''General''' * {{cite book |last=Nevada |first=Vance |author-link=Vance Nevada |date=2022 |title=(Un)Controlled Chaos: Canada's Remarkable Professional Wrestling Legacy |location= |publisher=FriesenPress |isbn=9781039154797 }}
'''Specific''' {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{professional wrestling profiles}} * {{IMDb name|7407198|Jeff Costa}}
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