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Beverly Brothers
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| Beverly Brothers | |
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| Image:DestructionCrew.jpg 1989 PWI Rookies of the year |
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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 | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) – Blake Beverly 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) – Beau Beverly |
| Combined weight | 542 lb (246 kg) |
| Billed from | Shaker Heights |
| Debuted | 1990 |
| 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.
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Mike Enos & Wayne Bloom started out in 1989 in the American Wrestling Association after being trained by Eddie Sharkey and managed by Johnny Valiant. 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. the Destruction Crew had forced the tournament after they injured the previous tag-team champions "the Olympians" (Ken Patera & Brad Rheingans)
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. At this point the Destruction Crew left the AWA, which itself would cease to promote matches less than 6 months later.
In 1990 the Destruction Crew joined World Championship Wrestling which was still a part of the National Wrestling Alliance. 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 over the summer of 1990. During their stint with WCW they were also STILL under contract with the AWA, in fact they were the the AWA World Tag-Team Champions for most of their stint.
After leaving the AWA 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
In 1991 the team went to the World Wrestling Federation and were transformed into The Beverly Brothers, with Mike Enos changing his name to Blake Beverly and Wayne Bloom changing his name to Beau Beverly. Their gimmick was that of two spoiled rich brats. They were originally managed by Coach, 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.
Beau (Wayne Bloom) left the WWF in 1993 and semi-retired from the sport while Blake (Mike Enos) remained with the company for an additional 6-8 months as a singles competitor.
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. After a few matches together the team finally disbanded.
- American Wrestling Association
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI Rookie(s) of the Year: 1989