The WWE’s new class of recruits at the Performance Center should be unveiled officially soon, but the rumor mill has been running rampant for months. Today, Montreal’s International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) let the cat out of the bag that two Canadian indie wrestlers on their roster, Scott Parker and Shane Matthews (collectively known as 3.0), had signed with the WWE and would be heading to NXT.
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Niagara Falls, Ontario’s Scott Parker and Shane Matthews (better known these days as Big Magic) have been a tandem together since the very early 2000s, when they teamed up in Quebec’s Northern Championship Wrestling (nCw) as Under Construction 2.0 (Matthews replaced Parker’s first partner, Nova Cain), which was eventually shortened to just 2.0. It didn’t take long for the 2x nCw Tag Team Champions to gain attraction from other Canadian indies, and they began to work with IWS and Ottawa’s Capital City Championship Combat (C4), becoming 2x IWS Tag Team Champions as well.
In 2006, they made their US debut with CHIKARA in the Tag World Grand Prix, as well as working with IWA Mid South. By 2010, they were full blown regulars with CHIKARA, becoming 3.0 in the process en route to becoming 2x CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas (Tag Team) Champions in an 11-year career with CHIKARA. They also worked in Ring of Honor, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Smash Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), and Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw).
In 2016, they had an enhancement match with NXT against the Revival and last year appeared on Monday Night Raw from Montreal in a squash against The Authors of Pain. They duo were at a WWE tryout last year and now it appears as if the longtime tag team veterans are on their way to the NXT tag team division.
