After the tragic passing of former ROH World Champion, Jay Briscoe, his brother Mark Briscoe has become more active in the singles division.
Briscoe is currently competing in the AEW Continental Classic tournament. But he is not doing very well in the tournament, as he was the first wrestler mathematically eliminated from the tournament. At a Virtual Signing with K & S WrestleFest, Briscoe opened up about his current run. He claimed that this was his rookie year as a singles wrestler.
“My 22 is my first career, from 2000 to 2022, tag team wrestling, did it all the way. I think I’m happy with what we accomplished in them 22 years but now here we are, 2023 about to go into 2024. I consider this my rookie season as a singles wrestler.
“So, as a rookie singles wrestler, it’s like I said, I’m not trying to make excuses because I don’t condone losing, I’m not happy that I lost. Oh, it’s my rookie season so it’s okay that I lost. No, it’s not okay that I’m losing but I’ve been losing these (AEW) Continental Classic matches, I’ve been giving them hell. I’ve been giving them hell every single match but, yeah, I just gotta figure out this singles — the nuances of singles wrestling as compared to tag team wrestling and don’t worry. I think 2024, you’re gonna see big things from Sussex County’s favorite son (he smiled),” Mark Briscoe said. [H/T PostWrestling.com]
Mark Briscoe reflects on his tag team run with his late brother Jay Briscoe
The former ROH World Tag Team Champion also reflected on his 22 year journey as a tag team wrestler.
“I don’t mean to sound like I’m making the same excuse over and over or sound like a broken record that happens to be making excuses but, I really feel like… I’ll put it in this perspective for you: I’ve been a tag team wrestler for (22) years. I mean, from May 2000 up until December 2022, that was 22 years tag team wrestling. We (The Briscoes) left our mark on this business, on this sport and not trying to toot my own horn or toot our own horn or whatever but we’re the baddest team to ever do it.
“I think nobody could get down like The Briscoes can get down in multiple different situations. There’s some people that might be able to run with us in a technical, classical tag match. There might be some people that could run with us in a No-DQ Death Match, there might be some people that can run with us in a Ladder match, there might be some people that can run with us in any type of match that you could say but not one individual team that can do it all like The Briscoe Brothers can do it. The way we get down, nobody ever got down like that before in professional wrestling history so that’s 22 years.”
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