10 Things You Didn't Know About Brodie Lee

4. He Was One Physically Intimidating Librarian

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In these curious days of pro wrestlers mostly looking like jacked-up ordinary people, it isn't difficult to imagine the guys and girls of the squared circle doing 'normal' jobs. Cody could quite easily pass for an estate agent (pre-tattoo, at least), Kip Sabian almost certainly works in a cocktail bar part-time, and I'm pretty sure Angel Garza once tried to sell me a car. Just a couple of years ago, Hangman Page was an actual school teacher.

Brodie Lee didn't look like an ordinary human being, so it is difficult (yet somewhat comical) to imagine him working so-called 'normal jobs'. Pre-intimidating professional wrestler, Brodie Lee was in charge of the textbooks at the Frederick Douglas campus of Rochester City School District library, a job he found through a family friend. Lee took the civil service test, passed, and the rest was history (and fiction, and travel, and biographies, and...). He had to deal with kids coming up to him and showing him YouTube videos, making him a minor celebrity in the dusty halls of a school library.

Getting signed by WWE allowed Brodie to give up the library gig and to go all-in on life as a professional wrestler. It is unlikely that Lee stalked the aisles of the library in vest and jeans with a wild beard, but that does make for a quite marvellous visual.

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