Beverly Brothers

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The Beverly Brothers
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Tag Team
Members Blake Beverly (Mike Enos)
Beau Beverly (Wayne Bloom)
Name(s) The Beverly Brothers
The Destruction Crew (AWA)
Minnesota Wrecking Crew II (NWA)
Heights Blake:
6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Beau:
6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Combined weight 542 lb (246 kg/38.7 st)
Billed from Shaker Heights, Ohio
Debut 1989
Disbanded 1997
Promotions AWA
NWA
NJPW
WWF
WCW
Trainer Eddie Sharkey

The Beverly Brothers were a professional wrestling tag team comprised of Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom in the World Wrestling Federation. They were also known as The Destruction Crew in the American Wrestling Association and the Minnesota Wrecking Crew 2 in the National Wrestling Alliance. The Destruction Crew won the Pro Wrestling Illustrated 1990 Rookie of the Year award, the only team to win this accolade[1].

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[edit] AWA

Mike Enos & Wayne Bloom started out in 1989 in the American Wrestling Association after being trained by Eddie Sharkey and managed by Johnny Valiant[2]. They were known as The Destruction Crew and won the AWA World Tag Team Championship in a tournament where they beat Greg Gagne & Paul Diamond in the finals to lift the gold[3]. the Destruction Crew had forced the tournament after they injured the previous tag-team champions "the Olympians" (Ken Patera & Brad Rheingans)

Although neither Enos nor Bloom were technically "rookies", fans voted them 1989 Rookie of the Year in Pro Wrestling Illustrated. The Destruction Crew held the AWA Tag-Team titles from October 1, 1989 to August 11, 1990 where they were defeated by The Trooper & D.J. Peterson[3]. By the end of 1990, the AWA was effectively on hiatus and would eventually shut down entirely by May 1991. Their entrance theme in the AWA was the very popular Queen song "We Will Rock You", a song about defeating and destroying your opponents in sports and leaving them in humiliation afterwards as a result. Which was most fitting considering by the time the AWA went under, they were viewed upon as one of the tag teams with one of the best win/loss records in the history of the company.

[edit] WCW

While still AWA World Tag Team Champions, the Destruction Crew joined World Championship Wrestling during the summer of 1990. In WCW they wrestled under masks as the Minnesota Wrecking Crew 2 and were managed by Ole Anderson who was part of the original Minnesota Wrecking Crew. They attempted without success to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship from The Steiner Brothers during a brief feud.

After the AWA closed, the Destruction Crew went to Japan and compete in a series of matches in the NJPW including an unsuccessful title match against then NJPW Tag-Team champions Keiji Mutoh & Masahiro Chono[4].

[edit] WWF

In May 1991, the team went to the World Wrestling Federation and were transformed into Beau (Bloom) and Blake (Enos), The Beverly Brothers. Their gimmick was that of two spoiled rich brats. They were originally managed by Coach (John Tolos), then by The Genius. The team was initially promoted as a force to be reckoned with and launched into feuds with the Legion of Doom, The Bushwackers and The Natural Disasters, the latter of which revolved around the WWF World Tag Team Championship. However, by the later part of 1992, the Beverly Brothers would be used primarily to put over other tag teams. The Beverly Brothers were seldom promoted as serious players in the tag team division, making only a few PPV appearances between 1991 and 1993.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Bloom left the WWF in April 1993 and semi-retired from the sport while Enos, still under the Blake Beverly moniker, remained with the company for an additional four months as a singles competitor, primarily putting over other talent.

[edit] WCW

The team had a brief reunion in World Championship Wrestling in 1997 for a few matches, but the announcers never made any comments on their past history. They remained low-card performers, and after a few matches together, the team finally disbanded.

[edit] In wrestling

Finishing and signature moves

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[edit] References

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  1. ^ Pro Wrestling Illustrated. "PWI 1989 Rookie of the Year Award", PWI 1989 Reader Awards, London Publishing Co., 1990. (English) 
  2. ^ Greg Oliver and Steve Johnson (2005). The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-5502-2683-6. 
  3. ^ a b Royal Duncan & Gary Will (4th Edition 2006). Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4. 
  4. ^ prowrestlinghistory.com. NJPW show results 1990. Retrieved on 04-04, 2007.
  5. ^ prowrestlinghistory.com. Survivor Series Show results (1991). Retrieved on 04-04, 2007.
  6. ^ prowrestlinghistory.com. Royal Rumble Show results (1992). Retrieved on 04-04, 2007.
  7. ^ prowrestlinghistory.com. SummerSlam Show results (1992). Retrieved on 04-04, 2007.
  8. ^ prowrestlinghistory.com. Survivor Series Show results (1992). Retrieved on 04-04, 2007.
  9. ^ prowrestlinghistory.com. Royal Rumble Show results (1993). Retrieved on 04-04, 2007.