The Briscoe Brothers | |
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Mark (left) and Jay (right), at a Ring of Honor event in 2011
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Tag team | |
Members |
Jay Briscoe Mark Briscoe |
Name(s) |
The Briscoes The Briscoe Brothers The Briscoe Brothers 2000 The Midnight Outlaws |
Combined weight |
460 lb (210 kg) |
Hometown |
Laurel, Delaware Sandy Fork, Delaware Southern Delaware |
Debut | May 20, 2000 |
Years active | 2000–present |
Promotions |
1PW 2CW AIW Chikara CWE CZW DCW ECWA Extreme Rising FIP FSW FWA ICW IPW:UK JAPW JCW MCW NJPW NWA NWA Wildside OMEGA Noah PCW PWE PWG PWR PWU PWS PWX RCW ROH RPW TNA VPW Wrestling In Europa wXw |
Trainer |
CZW Training School ECWA Wrestletech Glenn Osborne Jon Dahmer Van Hammer |
The Briscoe Brothers are the professional wrestling tag team of Jay Briscoe (Jamin "Jay" Pugh) and Mark Briscoe (Mark Pugh). 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 Daniels 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.
The Briscoes are record eight-time ROH World Tag Team Champions and one-time IWGP Tag Team Champions. They have also held the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship once, the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship once with Bully Ray and the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship twice with Toru Yano. They have 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.
The Pugh 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.