B. J. Annis

Bradley Joseph Annis, known as B. J. Annis, was born in Boston in 1947 and is an American retired bodybuilder, powerlifter, professional wrestler, gym owner and firefighter. He began bodybuilding at fifteen and competed mostly in Hawaii, where he opened his first gym, and he later won the Alberta Masters bodybuilding title in 1989. In Calgary he wrestled sporadically for Stampede Wrestling and ran B. J's Gym, which opened in 1972 and where many of that promotion's wrestlers trained. He is married to Georgia Hart, a daughter of Stu and Helen Hart, and was inducted into the Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2016.