The Briscoe Brothers

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The Briscoe Brothers
Mark (left) and Jay (right), at a Ring of Honor event in 2011
Tag team
Members Jay Briscoe
Mark Briscoe
Name(s) Briscoe Brothers'
The Briscoes
The Midnight Outlaws
The Briscoe Brothers 2000
Combined
weight 		460 lb (210 kg)
Hometown Laurel, Delaware
Sandy Fork, Delaware
Southern Delaware
Debut May 20, 2000
Years active 2000–2023
Trainers CZW Training School
ECWA Wrestletech
Glenn Osborne
Jon Dahmer
Van Hammer

The Briscoe Brothers or the Briscoes were a professional wrestling tag team consisting of American brothers Jay Briscoe (Jamin "Jay" Pugh, 1984–2023) and Mark Briscoe (Mark Pugh, born 1985). They were known for their 20-year tenure with the American professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), where they were record-setting 13-time ROH World Tag Team Champions.

The duo were featured on Ring of Honor's first-ever event on February 23, 2002, and other than an 18-month hiatus from August 2004 to February 2006, the brothers were focal points of the company throughout its history, feuding with some of its biggest stars. The Briscoes were 15-time world tag team champions overall with a record 13 ROH World Tag Team Championship reigns, one IWGP Tag Team Championship reign in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and one Impact World Tag Team Championship reign. They also held Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship once, were winners of the 2022 Crockett Cup in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and held numerous titles on the independent circuit.

They were also part of three Six-Man Tag Team Championship teams - winning the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship once with Bully Ray and NJPW's NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship twice (with Toru Yano). On January 31, 2022, they were the inaugural inductees into the ROH Hall of Fame. As singles competitors, Jay Briscoe was a two-time ROH World Champion, while Mark Briscoe won the 2013 Honor Rumble.

The Briscoe Brothers teamed together from 2000 until Jay Briscoe's sudden death in a car accident on January 17, 2023.

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[edit] Early life

The Briscoe 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".

[edit] Professional wrestling career

[edit] Combat Zone Wrestling (2001-2002, 2003)

[edit] Jersey All Pro Wrestling (2001, 2002, 2005)

[edit] Ring of Honor (2002-2004)

[edit] Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011)

[edit] Sabbatical from wrestling (2004-2005)

[edit] Pro Wrestling Unplugged (2005-2006)

[edit] Return to ROH (2005–2023)

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Mark (left) and Jay (right) at a Ring of Honor show in 2006.

[edit] Independent circuit (2006–2018)

[edit] IWE tryout (2009)

[edit] New Japan Pro Wrestling (2016)

[edit] National Wrestling Alliance (2022)

[edit] Impact Wrestling (2022)

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

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Jay Briscoe was a two-time ROH World Champion, as well as a record 13-time ROH World Tag Team Champion with his brother Mark.
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The Briscoe Brothers as the IWGP Tag Team Champions in June 2016.
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The Briscoes were two-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions (with Toru Yano)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ 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. Mark won the 2013 Honor Rumble.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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