MARK PUGH

:''This article is about the professional wrestler. For the Footballer see Marc Pugh''
'Mark Pugh', better known by his ring name 'Mark Briscoe', is an American professional wrestler.

Contents

Career

Finishers and signature moves

Managers

Championships and accomplishments

References

External links

Career

He has wrestled extensively for Combat Zone Wrestling and Ring of Honor, where he and his brother Jay Briscoe are 4-time tag team champions as 'The Briscoe Brothers'.
In CZW, their breakout match came when they had to wrestle each other in a match at CZW's Best of the Best Tournament, Jay won via a top rope Jay Driller to which they received a huge standing ovation. At the time of the match Jay was 17 and Mark was 16.
After wrestling under masks as "The Midnight Outlaws" to avoid legal trouble, the Briscoes started wrestling for a new upstart promotion Ring of Honor. Shortly afterward, CZW owner John Zandig informed his brother Jay that Mark would no longer be used, which led the Briscoes to leave CZW.
In Mark's first stint in ROH, he began feuding with his brother before forming as a tag team. As a tag team, they won the ROH Tag Team Championship, and had very memorable matches against A.J. Styles and Samoa Joe, the Havana Pitbulls, Amazing Red and A.J. Styles, and the Second City Saints' members CM Punk and Colt Cabana.
After his brother's injury (a concussion after suffering a kick to the head from Low Ki), which put him out of action for a short while on August 7 2004. Mark was injured soon afterwards in a motorcycle accident, causing Mark to put his wrestling career on hold. Jay didn't want to return to wrestling without Mark, so he also put his career on hold.
After their extended absence, Mark, with his brother Jay, returned to Ring of Honor full time on February 25 2006 at ROH's ''Fourth Anniversary Show'' in Edison, New Jersey.
When participating in the Pitbulls/Public Enemy Tag Tournament for Pro Wrestling Unplugged on October 20th, Mark was injured by a chairshot, knocking out his four front teeth ^[2] (although the kayfabe version of the story is he hit a shooting star press off a bar roof during a bar fight).
Mark was seriously injured on March 30, 2007 during an ROH event in Detroit, after attempting a Shooting Star Press to the floor. He was in the ICU until the following night after going through a seizure while in the hospital. He has since returned to active competition.

Finishers and signature moves

★ '''Cut-Throat Suplex / Cut-Throat Driver''' (Cut-throat inverted Death Valley driver)

★ 'Shooting star press'

★ Fisherman brainbuster

★ Moonsault

★ Shooting star plancha

★ Springboard cutter

★ Slingshot double foot stomp

★ Saito suplex

★ Ura-nage

★ Redneck Fu (Flurry of throat thrusts followed by a Leg lariat to the back of the opponent's head)

Managers

★ Jim Cornette

Championships and accomplishments

★ 'Combat Zone Wrestling'
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★ CZW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jay Briscoe

★ 'Full Impact Pro'
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★ FIP Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Jay Briscoe

★ 'NWA Wildside'
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★ NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Jay Briscoe

★ 'Pro Wrestling NOAH'
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★ GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jay Briscoe

★ 'Pro Wrestling Unplugged'
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★ PWU Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jay Briscoe

★ 'Ring of Honor'
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★ ROH World Tag Team Championship (4 times, current) – with Jay Briscoe

★ 'USA Pro Wrestling'
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★ USA Pro Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jay Briscoe

References

1. Rolfe, Glenn: "Laurel siblings have the right moves", [1] Read on January 25, 2006
2. Pro Wrestling Unplugged (11/1): Breaking News! prowrestlingdaily.com

External links

★ OWW profile