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|image=[[File:PMTTYD Grubba Artwork.jpg|200px]]<br>Grubba's artwork from ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''

'''Grubba''' is a [[Spike]] wrestling manager and fight promoter at the [[Glitz Pit]] and a major character in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. A champion wrestler and martial artist in his younger days, Grubba retired as a fighter to become [[Glitzville]]'s famous fight promoter when he meets Mario; he claims to be past his prime, yet [[Bandy Andy]] observes him to be in good shape in spite of his years. Initially presented as an uninvolved third party in Mario's battle with the [[X-Nauts (organization)|X-Nauts]] for the [[Crystal Stars]], Mario eventually discovers that Grubba possesses the [[Gold Star]], and had been using it to drain other fighters of their strength. Grubba is then revealed as a callous egotist underneath, and Mario fights his enhanced alter-ego, [[Macho Grubba]], as the boss of the game's third chapter.

According to Grubba, in youth, he was poor, but he did not care for "fancy, big-city ways." His worldview changed when he became a martial arts fighter. Though some of his moves were made illegal as he progressed, he became recognized as a champion fighter and earned enough money to survive off of for the rest of his life. At some point, Grubba attained the [[Gold Star]], a [[Crystal Star]] with the ability to increase one's power by enabling its possessor to use [[Power Lift]]. The details behind Grubba's ownership of the Star are never explained.