Mark Pugh

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Mark Pugh


Statistics
Ring name(s)	Mark Briscoe
Billed height	6 ft (183 cm)
Billed weight	180 lb (82 kg)
Born	January 17, 1985^[1] Laurel, Delaware
Trained by	Combat Zone Wrestling Glen Osbourne
Debut	May 20, 2000

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.

1 Career
2 Finishers and signature moves
- 2.1 Managers
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 References

[edit] 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 extented 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 .

Mark was seriously injured on 31/03/07 during a ROH event in Detroit. He came off the top rope attempting to deliver a shooting star press to the outside but landed on his head on the concrete floor (a spot many compared to Brock Lesnar's botched shooting star at WrestleMania). Briscoe was in the ICU until Saturday night after going through a seizure in the hospital. There remains no word on his return to the ring.