Killer Elite Squad

Killer Elite Squad
(Left to right) Lance Archer and Davey Boy Smith Jr. in June 2013
Tag team
Members	Davey Boy Smith Jr./Harry Smith Lance Archer/Lance Hoyt
Name(s)	Killer Elite Squad (K.E.S.)
Heights	Archer: 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Smith: 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Combined weight	240 kg (530 lb)
Debut	September 7, 2012
Years active	2012–present
Promotions	NJPW GFW HLW HOH K-Dojo Noah NWA PWS ROH VIP WC

Killer Elite Squad, often abbreviated to K.E.S., is the professional wrestling tag team of Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer. The team made its debut in the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion in September 2012 and have since worked together also in North America, most notably for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). In Japan, they have worked as part of the larger Suzuki-gun stable ever since being put together by NJPW.

They are six-time Tag Team Champions between the U.S. and Japan, being former two-time IWGP Tag Team Champions, two-time GHC Tag Team Champions and two-time NWA World Tag Team Champions.

Japanese promotions usually refer to the team only by the initials, while North American promotions use the full name, while sometimes also referring to Archer and Smith by the ring names Lance Hoyt and Harry Smith, respectively.

On July 22, 2012, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) presented a show, during which Lance Archer, member of the villainous Suzuki-gun stable, challenged Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) to a match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship, however, without specifying who his partner would be. The partner was eventually revealed on August 13 as Harry Smith, best known from the WWE, but who also had worked for NJPW in 2005. Smith made his debut as a member of Suzuki-gun on September 7 in an eight-man tag team match, where he, Archer, the stable's leader Minoru Suzuki and Taka Michinoku were defeated by Tenzan, Kojima, Togi Makabe and Yuji Nagata via disqualification. On September 24, Smith was renamed Davey Boy Smith Jr., after his late father.