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The Viking Raiders
The Viking Raiders are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Erik and Ivar, and are managed by Valhalla. The team is currently performing in WWE on the SmackDown brand. Erik and Ivar were previously known as War Machine and went by the names Raymond Rowe and Hanson respectively. They are known for their time in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Ring of Honor (ROH) under the names, where they won the IWGP Tag Team Championship and the ROH World Tag Team Championship. Outside of Ring of Honor, they have also worked for multiple independent promotions in the United Kingdom and United States, including Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW), Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW), Progress Wrestling (Progress) and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). War Machine have also competed in Japan for Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah). They signed with WWE in 2018 as War Raiders and began performing on the NXT brand where they won the NXT Tag Team Championship once. In April 2019, they were ...
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Ivar (wrestler)
Todd James Smith (born March 3, 1984) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Ivar. He is also known under the ring name Hanson, which he used from 2013 to 2019. Smith and Raymond Rowe (now known as Erik), have been a regular tag team since 2014, initially under the name War Machine, then later War Raiders, The Viking Experience, and The Viking Raiders. Smith and Rowe have held tag team championships on two continents, being two times IWGP Tag Team Champions in Japan and having won the ROH World Tag Team Champion, the NXT Tag Team Championship and the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship in the United States. Professional wrestling career Early career (2001–2013) Trained by Killer Kowalski, Smith made his debut in 2001. For the next several years, he worked for a number of independent professional wrestling promotions throughout New England, most notably New England Championship Wrestling and Chaotic W ...
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List Of NXT Tag Team Champions
The NXT Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE for their NXT brand. The inaugural championship team was British Ambition ( Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey), who won a tournament final on the January 31, 2013 taping of ''NXT'' (aired February 13). As of , , there have been 30 reigns between 24 teams composed of 49 individual champions, and three vacancies. The Undisputed Era as a stable have the most reigns at three, while individually, stable member Kyle O'Reilly has the most reigns, also at three. The inaugural champions were British Ambition (Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey). The team with the longest reign is The Ascension ( Conor O'Brian/Konnor and Rick Victor/Viktor), who held the title for 364 days, while the shortest reign belongs to Moustache Mountain ( Tyler Bate and Trent Seven), who held the title for 2 days. However, due to tape delays, which are the date ...
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The Addiction (professional Wrestling)
SoCal Uncensored (SCU) was an American professional wrestling collective that consisted of Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, and Scorpio Sky. They are signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Daniels and Kazarian are no longer able to team together due to a stipulation in which they had to disband; their final teaming together came in May 2021. Sky, contrarily, began focusing on singles competition in early 2020 and then formed a heel tag team with Ethan Page in March 2021. Daniels and Kazarian formed a tag team during their time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Describing themselves as "The World Tag Team Champions of the World", they won the TNA World Tag Team Championship twice. After a feud with A.J. Styles, they became known as Bad Influence, and remained with the promotion until 2014. After leaving TNA, both signed with Ring of Honor (ROH), where they worked as The Addiction, winning the ROH World Tag Team Championship twice. Later, Scorpio Sky joined the team, f ...
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Wrestling Observer Newsletter
The ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' (''WON'') is a newsletter that covers professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. Founded in print in 1982 by Dave Meltzer, the ''Wrestling Observer'' website merged with Bryan Alvarez's ''Figure Four Weekly'' website in 2008, becoming ''Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online''. Issues are offered in print and digital. The newsletter is often considered the first "dirt sheet", which is a wrestling publication which covers the art from a real-life perspective. History The beginnings of the ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' date back to 1980, when Meltzer began an annual poll amongst those with whom he corresponded regarding professional wrestling. According to Meltzer, he was just a fan at first. A short time later, he began maintaining a tape-trading list, and would occasionally send match results and news updates along with tape updates. Meltzer stated that he wanted to keep his friends in college "in the loop" for his tape trading as ...
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Mike Bennett (wrestler)
Michael Bennett (born May 16, 1985) is an American professional wrestler best known under the ring name Mike Bennett. He currently competes for the National Wrestling Alliance. He is best known for his time in Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former ROH World Tag Team Champion, and also competed in the WWE under the ring name Mike Kanellis and Impact Wrestling where he was a member of Honor No More After a few years on the independent circuit, Bennett made his Ring of Honor (ROH) debut in 2008; his character was named The Prodigy. With his then-girlfriend Maria Kanellis, he worked as part of " The Kingdom" stable, winning the ROH World Tag Team Championship with Matt Taven. ROH's talent-sharing agreement with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) enabled the tag team to make limited appearances in Japan, where they won NJPW's IWGP Tag Team Championship. Bennett and Taven also operate a wrestling school in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Bennett left ROH in late-2015 to sign with rival p ...
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Matt Taven
Matthew Marinelli (born March 20, 1985), known by his ring name, Matt Taven, is an American professional wrestler and wrestling trainer, who currently wrestles for All Elite Wrestling. He is best known for his work with Ring of Honor (ROH), where he won the Ring of Honor World Championship in Madison Square Garden in 2019 and Impact Wrestling where he is a former member of Honor No More. He also appears for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where he is a former NWA World Historic Welterweight Champion. Taven's Ring of Honor work includes being a member of The Kingdom (with Adam Cole, Michael Bennett, Maria Kanellis, Vinny Marseglia, and T. K. O'Ryan at various times) as well as performing across the Northeastern United States independent circuit. Taven won ROH's 2013 Top Prospect Tournament to become a full-time wrestler for the promotion. He is a former one-time ROH World Champion, one-time World Television Champion, one-time ROH World Tag Team Champion with Mich ...
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The Kingdom (professional Wrestling)
The Kingdom are an American professional wrestling tag team, who work for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Ring of Honor (ROH), and previously also appeared with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), consisting of Adam Cole, Matt Hardy, Matt Taven, Mike Bennett, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia. Under multiple incarnations The Kingdom formerly held the ROH World Tag Team Championship, the IWGP Tag Team Championship (Taven and Bennett) and the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship a record three times (Taven, O'Ryan And Marseglia). In 2020, Taven and Bennett reunited as The OGK. In 2022, Taven, Bennet, & Maria debut in AEW under The Kingdom name once again. History Ring of Honor (2014–2019) Adam Cole’s Kingdom (2014–2016) At Final Battle 2013, prior to the official formation, Matt Hardy helped Adam Cole retain the ROH World Championship, forming a tag team in the process. Shortly thereafter Michael Bennett and Maria Kanellis joined both Hardy and Cole involving himself in ...
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Final Battle (2015)
Final Battle was a two-night professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the U.S.-based wrestling promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on December 18 and 19, 2015 at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the 14th event under the Final Battle chronology. The first night was a pay per view broadcast, and the second night was a set of tapings for ROH's flagship TV show ''Ring of Honor Wrestling''. In the first night, nine matches took place with one in the pre-show. In the main event, Jay Lethal defeated A.J. Styles to retain the ROH World Championship. In another prominent match of the event, Adam Cole defeated Kyle O'Reilly in a grudge match. Other matches in the undercard, Roderick Strong retained the ROH World Television Championship against Bobby Fish, War Machine defeated The Kingdom to win the ROH World Tag Team Championships, Alex Shelley, Matt Sydal and A. C. H. defeated The KRD (The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian ...
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GHC Tag Team Championship
The Global Honored Crown (GHC) Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah. It was created on October 19, 2001, when Scorpio & Vader defeated Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito in a tournament final. Though it is typically contested among heavyweights (>), some junior heavyweights such as Naomichi Marufuji and Yoshinari Ogawa have held it in the past. It is currently one of two tag team titles in Noah, along with the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (reserved for junior heavyweights). There have been a total of 62 reigns shared between 49 different teams, consisting of 56 different individual champions. The current champions are Takashi Sugiura and Satoshi Kojima who are in their first reign as a team. Title history Combined reigns As of , . By team By wrestler See also *GHC Heavyweight Championship *GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship *GHC National Championship *GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Cha ...
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Lance Archer
Lance Hoyt (born February 28, 1977) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Lance Archer. He also makes sporadic appearance for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is also known for his time with WWE as Vance Archer, and impact Wrestling (TNA) under his real name and as Lance Rock. Hoyt began his career in 2000 and worked in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2004 until 2009. In TNA, he wrestled first as Dallas, winning the NWA World Tag Team Championship twice with Kid Kash. After Diamond Dallas Page signed with TNA, he changed his name to Lance Hoyt and formed a rock band themed tag team with Jimmy Rave and Christy Hemme, the Rock N Rave Infection, eventually changing his name to Lance Rock in 2008. After Hoyt left TNA, he signed with WWE, where he worked until 2010 as Vance Archer. After he left WWE, he signed a contract with Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he worked as Lance Archer. Du ...
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Davey Boy Smith Jr
Davey may refer to: People * Davey (given name) * Davey (surname) * Edward Davey Dunkle (1872–1941), American Major League Baseball pitcher * Davey Havok (born 1975), stage name of David Marchand, lead vocalist of the rock band AFI Places Antarctica * Davey Nunataks, Princess Elizabeth Land * Davey Peak, Marie Byrd Land * Davey Point, King George Island, South Shetland Islands Australia * Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania * Davey River, Tasmania Other * Davey Lake (Alberta), Canada * Davey Lake (Saskatchewan), Canada * Davey, Nebraska, United States, a village Entertainment * The title character of the 1960s American stop-motion children's program ''Davey and Goliath'' * "Davey", an episode in the fifth season of ''Adventure Time'' Other uses * Baron Davey, a life peerage bestowed on Horace Davey, Baron Davey (1833–1907), an English judge and politician * , a harbor patrol entrance patrol and boarding vessel during World War I See also * Davey Boy Smith (1962–2002) ...
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Killer Elite Squad
Killer Elite Squad, often abbreviated to K.E.S., was 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 seven-time Tag Team Champions between the U.S. and Japan, being former three-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. History New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2012–2015) On July 22, 2012, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) presented a show, during which ...
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