Pretty Deadly (professional wrestling)
professional wrestling tag team
Pretty Deadly are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Lewis Howley (born 21 May 1997) and Sam Stoker (born 21 November 1994). They are signed to WWE, where they perform on the SmackDown brand under the respective ring names Elton Prince and Kit Wilson, although Prince is currently inactive due to a neck injury. In WWE, they are former two-time NXT Tag Team Champions and one-time NXT UK Tag Team Champions.
Professional wrestling career
Independent circuit (2015–2020)
Lightning Lewis trained with Dropkixx, whilst Sammy Smooth trained with International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom (IPW:UK).
Their first tag matches together were as Greased Lightning (Lightning Lewis and Sammy Smooth), making their debut on 10 January 2015 at the IPW:UK Weekend of Champions event, held by International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom (IPW:UK), defeating The Monsters (eXodus and Snare) in a pre-show dark match. They went on to have four more matches on record under the name Greased Lightning, two for IPW:UK, two for WrestleForce - winning three and losing two overall.
They captured the IPW:UK Tag Team Championship one-time as a freebird trio including James Castle known as The Collective, and one-time as Pretty Deadly (Lewis Howley and Sammy Smooth/Sam Stoker). They are also known for their tenures with professional wrestling promotions such as Progress Wrestling, Revolution Pro Wrestling, and New Generation Wrestling.
WWE
NXT UK (2020–2022)
Lewis Howley and Sam Stoker made sporadic appearances across NXT UK in 2019, making their debut on 20 March 2019 episode of NXT UK, losing to The Hunt (Primate and Wild Boar). In January 2020, it was announced that they had signed a contract with WWE and would report to the WWE Performance Center.
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