Farmer Brooks

{{Short description|Canadian professional wrestler (1957–2022)}} {{Infobox professional wrestler |name=Farmer Brooks |birth_name=Clifford Fraser |names=Farmer Brooks  |height= |weight= |children = 4 |family = Stacia Fraser (mother) |spouse = Kim Hutt |birth_date = {{birth date|1957|10|10}}<ref name=hof/> |death_date = {{death date and age|2022|11|20|1957|10|10}} |birth_place = New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada<ref name=hof/> |death_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |billed= |trainer=Billy Watson<ref name=hof/> |debut= |retired=1992<ref name=hof/> |}}

'''Clifford Fraser''' (October 10, 1957 – November 20, 2022) was a Canadian professional wrestler, known as the midget wrestler '''Farmer Brooks'''.<ref name=hof>{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.com/SlamWrestlingBios/brooks_farmer.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109113833/https://canoe.com/sports|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 9, 2019|title=Canadian Hall of Fame: Farmer Brooks|publisher=SLAM! Wrestling|access-date=2008-11-05}}</ref> He was a major participant in Grand Prix Wrestling throughout the 1980s and a longtime rival of Sky Low Low.

==Professional wrestling career== Clifford Fraser moved to Rexdale in Toronto when he was growing up. He later dropped out of school and trained to become a professional wrestler under Whipper Billy Watson.<ref name=hof/> He also was a member of Earl Sullivan's Sully's Gym, another wrestling program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.com/SlamWrestlingArchive/mar31_sully.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310071501/http://slam.canoe.com/SlamWrestlingArchive/mar31_sully.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 10, 2016|title=Earl Sullivan, owner of Sully's Gym dies |author=Hutchinson, Ron|publisher=SLAM! Wrestling|access-date=2008-11-05|date=March 31, 1999}}</ref> During his career, his most prolonged rivalry was with Sky Low Low.<ref name=hof/> He retired in 1992 when Grand Prix Wrestling closed.<ref name=hof/>

==Personal life== After retiring from the wrestling business, Fraser began working in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.<ref name=hof/>

His mother's name is Stacia Fraser. He was married to Kim Hutt and had four children: Andrew, Leanna, Blair, and Shelby.<ref name=hof/>

Fraser died on November 20, 2022, after a short illness.<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary of Clifford Lloyd Fraser |url=https://angusfuneralhomes.com/tribute/details/2037/Clifford-Fraser/obituary.html |website=H.C. MacQuarrie Funeral Chapel |access-date=5 December 2022}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Professional wrestling profiles}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brooks, Farmer}} Category:1957 births Category:2022 deaths Category:Canadian male professional wrestlers Category:Midget professional wrestlers Category:20th-century Canadian professional wrestlers Category:People from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia Category:Professional wrestlers from Nova Scotia Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen