{"id":850344,"date":"2026-04-03T00:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850344\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:38:22","slug":"browns-great-bernie-kosar-to-step-into-the-professional-wrestling-world-in-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850344\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns great Bernie Kosar to step into the professional wrestling world in Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are few, if any, former Cleveland Browns greats that elicit the kind of response from fans like QB Bernie Kosar. The greatest Brown to ever wear the #19 jersey<\/a>, Kosar made sure that he would be drafted by Cleveland by orchestrating his way to the league\u2019s Supplemental Draft to avoid playing for the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n

Kosar\u2019s name is a fixture on the franchise\u2019s record book as he is third in career passing yards with 21,904, fourth in career passing touchdowns with 116, third in single-season passing yards with 3,854, and holds three of the top 10 single-season passing marks.<\/p>\n

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In addition, Kosar\u2019s completion percentage of 58.8 during his nine years with the Browns is better than the franchise marks of such notables as Otto Graham, Brian Sipe, Frank Ryan, Bill Nelsen, and Milt Plum.<\/p>\n

Recent health issues<\/a> have led to a lot of concern from Browns fans about one of their franchise favorites. Thankfully, Kosar is healthy enough to step into the professional wrestling world as he escorts Cleveland native Nic Nemeth (fka Dolph Ziggler in the WWE) to the ring for TNA Wrestling\u2019s Rebellion showcase event on April 11th:<\/p>\n

Nemeth\u2019s opponent for the event has not been announced yet.<\/p>\n

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Tickets are still available for Rebellion through Ticketmaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are few, if any, former Cleveland Browns greats that elicit the kind of response from fans like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2054],"tags":[22546,86,85,54,2337,7,116405,259,122,249,6,116406,4779],"class_list":{"0":"post-850344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-bernie-kosar","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-frank-ryan","15":"tag-minnesota-vikings","16":"tag-national-football-league","17":"tag-new-england-patriots","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nic-nemeth","20":"tag-oh"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116337987170507812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}