Swiss Money Holding | |
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Ares (right) and Castagnoli (left) as the Chikara Campeones de Parejas, with Tursas (center) at the 2010 King of Trios.
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Tag team | |
Members |
Ares Double C Marc Roudin |
Name(s) | Swiss Money Holding $wiss Money Holding Swi$$ Money Holding |
Heights | Ares: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Double C: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Roudin: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
Combined weight |
457 lb (207 kg) (Ares and Double C) |
Billed from |
Zurich, Switzerland United Bank of Switzerland |
Former member(s) |
Don Heavy |
Debut | 2001 |
Disbanded | September 2011 |
Promotions |
IWA Mid-South Chikara wXw |
The Swiss Money Holding was a professional wrestling tag team originally composed of Ares and Claudio Castagnoli, and later joined by Marc Roudin in late-2004. Their in-ring personas parodied Swiss bankers from the United Bank of Switzerland. The team first worked for westside Xtreme wrestling in Essen, Germany for much of their early career and later competed in promotions throughout the continent. Within a few years, $MH were considered one of the top tag teams in Europe having won titles in Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
They are regarded as one of the most dominant tag teams in the history of International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom having held the promotion's tag team titles for a record 12 months, and have been acknowledged by Britain's UK Pitbulls and visiting American wrestlers such as Chris Hero and Colt Cabana
At the invitation of Hero, Ares and Castagnoli eventually traveled to the United States where they wrestled in several major independent promotions, most notably, IWA Mid-South and Chikara. After their return to Europe in 2004, Castagnoli went back to the US wrestle full-time for Chikara while Ares remained to Europe to carry on with Marc Roudin. Though Castagnoli would continue to team with Ares from time to time, they would not reunite until Ares' surprise appearance at Chikara's “Three-Fisted Tales” show in 2009. Becoming part of the BDK, they would go on to win the 2010 King of Trios with Tursas.