The Briscoe Brothers

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The Briscoe Brothers are the professional wrestling tag team of Jay Briscoe (Jamin "Jay" McAlmond) and Mark Briscoe (Mark McAlmond). They are currently wrestling for the American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH).

The Briscoe Brothers are best known for their work in Ring of Honor and, along with Christopher Barnhart are the only wrestlers currently working for the company who were featured on its first-ever event on February 23, 2002. Other than an 18-month absence from August 2004 to February 2006, the brothers have been focal points of the company throughout its history, feuding with some of their biggest stars and holding the ROH World Tag Team Championship a record eight times as a team.

The Briscoes have also had success as a team outside of ROH. In Japan, they are the current IWGP Tag Team Champions and two-time holders of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (with Toru Yano) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling, and have held Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship once. They've also won numerous tag team titles on the independent circuit.

As singles competitors, Jay is a two-time ROH World Champion, while Mark won the 2013 Honor Rumble.

Early life

The McAlmond brothers, Jamin (Jay) (born January 25, 1984) and Mark (born January 17, 1985) grew up in Laurel, Delaware. As high schoolers, both received honorable mention All-State honors their junior and senior years for football, Jay as a fullback and a linebacker and Mark as a tight end and a linebacker. At one point, both were signed to play for Wesley College (Delaware), a fact even used in wrestling storyline at one point, at ROH Beating the Odds, to explain an absence from which they were returning.

The brothers first became interested in wrestling in their youth by watching the International Wrestling Federation on one of the two channels their television could receive. Originally, they practiced wrestling moves with one another on a trampoline before the family built a wrestling ring in their backyard. From the beginning, the two of them worked on honing their craft, taping their moves and trying to improve them. Despite the fact that their dad was a coach for their high school's wrestling team, they did not participate in amateur wrestling in their high school years. Their first foray into professional wrestling came with the East Coast Wrestling Association (ECWA), while they were still in high school. While their mother, Jana, was in line to purchase tickets to attend a wrestling event, a promoter for the ECWA approached her and asked if her sons had a tape of themselves wrestling. This led to the brothers debuting for ECWA on May 20, 2000 under the ring names "Jay and Mark Briscoe".

Professional wrestling career

Combat Zone Wrestling (2001-2002, 2003)

Jersey All Pro Wrestling (2001, 2002, 2005)

Ring of Honor (2002-2004)

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011)

Sabbatical from wrestling (2004-2005)

Pro Wrestling Unplugged (2005-2006)

Return to Ring of Honor (2006-present)

Full Impact Pro (2006-2007)

Pro Wrestling NOAH (2007)

World Wrestling Entertainment (2009)

Return to Combat Zone Wrestling (2010-2011, 2012)

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2016)

In wrestling

• Double-team finishing moves
  • Cut-Throat Driver (Mark) / Diving leg drop (Jay) combination
  • Shooting star press (Mark) / Diving leg drop (Jay) combination
  • Spike Jay-Driller (Springboard spike double underhook piledriver)
  • Springboard doomsday device, sometimes with Mark doing a 180° turn in mid-air
  • Briscoe Bottom (Double sitout side slam) – early 2000s
• Double-team signature moves
  • Double forehand chops using both hands to an opponent in the corner
  • High elevation double hip toss
  • High elevation double military press drop
  • Pendulum backbreaker (Jay) / Diving knee drop (Mark) combination
  • Redneck Boogie (Crucifix powerbomb (Mark) / Neckbreaker (Jay) combination)
  • Sidewalk slam (Mark) / Diving leg drop (Jay) combination
  • Simultaneous running low-angle big boot / running low-angle dropkick combination to the head of an opponent seated in the corner
  • Spinebuster (Jay) / Springboard spinning wheel kick (Mark) combination
  • Three-point stance followed into a double shoulder block<ref name=BriscoesProfile/>
  • Uppercut (Mark) followed by a leg lariat (Jay) followed by a jawbreaker (Mark) followed by a jumping big boot (Mark) and finished with a reverse STO (Jay)

• Jay's finishing moves
  • Crucible (Sitout suplex slam)
  • Jay-Driller (Double underhook piledriver)
  • Military press dropped into a Death Valley driver
  • Diving senton – early 2000s
• Jay's signature moves
  • Arched big boot
  • Cannonball senton
  • Diving leg drop
  • Elevated cutter
  • Frog splash
  • Hurricanrana
  • Muscle buster
  • Reverse STO, sometimes into the turnbuckle
  • Sitout inverted suplex slam, sometimes from the top rope
  • Three-quarter nelson suplex

• Mark's finishing moves
  • Cut-Throat Driver / Mark-Out (Cut-throat inverted Death Valley driver)
  • Shooting star press, sometimes springboarding to the outside
• Mark's signature moves
  • Fisherman buster
  • Moonsault
  • Froggy Bow (Frog Splash elbow drop)
  • Redneck Kung Fu (Multiple throat thrusts followed by a leg lariat to the back of the opponent's head)
  • Saito suplex<ref name=markprofile/>
  • Slingshot double foot stomp
  • Springboard cutter
  • Superkick
  • Ura-nage

• Manager
  • Jim Cornette

• Entrance themes
  • "Gimme Back My Bullets" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • "The Cross" by Nas
  • "Sleeping All December" by Death Valley Driver

Championships and accomplishments

• Combat Zone Wrestling
  • CZW World Tag Team Championship (2 times)
• Extreme Rising
  • Match of the Year (2012) vs. The Blk Out vs. Los Dramáticos
  • Extreme Rising Moment of the Year (2012) Debut in a Cage match against Blk Out and Los Fantásticos.
• Full Impact Pro
  • FIP Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• Jersey Championship Wrestling
  • JCW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time) – Mark
• New Japan Pro Wrestling
  • IWGP Tag Team Championship (1 time, current)
  • NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Toru Yano>
• NWA Wildside
  • NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • Ranked Jay #7 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2015
  • Ranked Mark #49 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2013
• Pro Wrestling Noah
  • GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• Pro Wrestling Unplugged
  • PWU Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• Real Championship Wrestling
  • RCW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • RCW Tag Team Championship Tournament (2009)
• Ring of Honor
  • ROH World Championship (2 times) – Jay
  • ROH World Tag Team Championship (8 times)
  • Honor Rumble (2009,¹ 2013)
• Squared Circle Wrestling
  • 2CW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• USA Xtreme Wrestling
  • UXW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
  • Tag Team of the Year (2007)

¹The Briscoe Brothers were the co-winners of the 2009 Honor Rumble due to it using a tag team-oriented format rather than a singles wrestler-oriented format.

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