Mark Briscoe
American professional wrestler
Mark Pugh (born January 18, 1985), better known by his ring name Mark Briscoe, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of The Conglomeration stable and is a one-time AEW TNT Champion. He also makes appearances for AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), where he made a name teaming with his brother Jay as the Briscoe Brothers. In ROH, he is a former ROH World Champion, a former ROH World Tag Team Champion with his brother Jay a record 13 times, and was one third of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions with Jay and Bully Ray. In January 2022, the Briscoe Brothers were honored as inaugural inductees into the ROH Hall of Fame.
He and Jay are also former Impact World Tag Team Champions, and have wrestled in Japan, working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where they held the IWGP Tag Team Championship once, and the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship twice (along with Toru Yano), and Pro Wrestling Noah, where they were GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.
All totaled between AEW, ROH, TNA, NJPW and Noah, Mark Briscoe has held 21 championships, all but two (the ROH World Championship and the AEW TNT Championship) being shared with Jay in either a traditional or six-man tag team.
Professional wrestling career
Combat Zone Wrestling (2001–2003, 2010–2012)
Jay and Mark Briscoe made their debuts for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) at Delaware Invasion on January 20, 2001, teaming with independent wrestler Eddie Valentine, being brought in to job as part of a three-on-one handicap match against Trent Acid. At the inaugural Best of the Best event, a show somewhat atypical of CZW in that it is a tournament spotlighting athletic junior heavyweight wrestling as opposed to violent hardcore matches, the two advanced past the first round in a three-way match with Nick Mondo where the stipulation was whoever took the fall would be eliminated. They were then matched against each other in the second round, with Jay winning and advancing further.
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