Meet Jeff Farmer, Paul Farmer’s Brother Who Is A Retired Professional Wrestler

Jeff Farmer is a professional wrestler best known as Fake Sting, and later nWo Sting.

A mainstay of World Championship Wrestling during the 1990s, Jeff Farmer led a Japanese faction of the heel stable New World Order in New Japan Pro Wrestling competing in the promotion until WCW’s close in 2001.

Jeff Farmer started wrestling in 1991 as Lightning in the tag team of “Thunder and Lightning” in the IWF promotion in Florida and in 1993, they moved to World Championship Wrestling and had a small feud with Harlem Heat.

Jeff Farmer left WCW and toured Europe but returned to WCW in 1995 as Cobra to feud with Craig Pittman.

Cobra made his WCW debut on September 9, 1995 edition of WCW Worldwide, defeating Bobby Starr with his Cobra clutch slam finisher.

The highlight of Jeff Farmer’s WCW stint came on September 15, 1996 at the Fall Brawl pay-per-view where he participated in the main event WarGames match.

Jeff Farmer, as the nWo Sting, along with Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall defeated Lex Luger, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and the real Sting when Farmer made Luger submit to the scorpion death lock.

Jeff Farmer is project manager of a research program known as GEAR (Genetics, Exercise, and Research) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

GEAR aims to identify how “people’s genetic background influences their response to physical activity.”