{"id":27165,"date":"2018-09-30T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=27165"},"modified":"2022-01-17T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T19:30:50","slug":"andnew-tyson-dux-brent-banks-win-smash-wrestling-tag-team-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/09\/30\/andnew-tyson-dux-brent-banks-win-smash-wrestling-tag-team-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Tyson Dux &#038; Brent Banks Win Smash Wrestling Tag Team Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At tonight&#8217;s <strong>Smash Wrestling<\/strong> <em><strong>#DTK: Don&#8217;t Trust Karma<\/strong><\/em> event in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, <strong>The Pillars<\/strong> &#8211; a tag team featuring long time Smash Wrestling regulars and Canadian indie stars <strong>Tyson Dux<\/strong> and <strong>Brent Banks<\/strong> &#8211; defeated <strong>The Well Oiled Machines<\/strong> (<strong>Pepper Parks &amp; &#8220;Psycho&#8221; Mike Rollins<\/strong>) to become the new Smash Tag Team Champions.<\/p>\n<h2>Tyson Dux &amp; Brent Banks Win Smash Wrestling titles<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/smashwrestling\/status\/1046561763972534272<\/p>\n<p>The Well Oiled Machines were the inaugural Smash Tag Team Champions, winning the new belts at <em><strong>Any Given Sunday 6<\/strong><\/em> this past January against <strong>Tabernak de Team<\/strong> (Mathieu St-Jacques &amp; Thomas Dubois). Since then, they&#8217;ve fought off <strong>Kill\/Screen<\/strong> (Scotty O&#8217;Shea &amp; Kevin Blackwood) and former PWG World Tag Team Champions <strong>Super Smash Bros.<\/strong> (Evil Uno &amp; Stu Grayson) twice. But tonight, the newly formed tag team The Pillars proved too much and their 253 day reign as Smash Tag Team Champions has come to an end.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike Bailey vs Brent Banks (Pro Wrestling World Cup Canada - 1st Round)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yHWbhKpucJM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brent Banks has been one of Ontario&#8217;s &#8211; and Canada&#8217;s &#8211; best kept wrestling secrets, an absolute full package of charisma, swagger and athleticism. A 13-year veteran of the Canadian indies, Toronto&#8217;s Banks is a regular with the likes of Smash, <strong>Border City Wrestling (BCW), Capital City Championship Combat (C4), Superkick&#8217;D<\/strong> and more. He&#8217;s even appeared on IMPACT Wrestling Twitch and <em><strong>One Night Only<\/strong> <\/em>specials. Last year, he represented Canada in the <strong>WCPW<\/strong> (now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCAl6NLC0tnubiCMzYXawG3g\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Defiant<\/strong><\/a>) <em><strong>Pro Wrestling World Cup<\/strong><\/em>, facing <strong>Mike &#8220;Speedball&#8221; Bailey<\/strong> in the first round.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Smash Wrestling [Free Match] Kevin Steen\/Owens vs Tyson Dux\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wq18EWwGQZo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His partner Tyson Dux is a Canadian indie icon. A near 20-year pro, he&#8217;s wrestled for WWE, IMPACT Wrestling, and Ring of Honor, as well as indies like <strong>All American Wrestling (AAW), Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW)<\/strong> and more, particularly Canadian indies like Smash, BCW, and Superkick&#8217;D. He also wrestled in the WCPW World Cup &#8211; losing to <strong>Kyle O&#8217;Reilly<\/strong> in the first round &#8211; and represented Canada in the 2016 WWE Cruiserweight Classic. He <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/09\/11\/canadian-indie-vet-tyson-dux-guest-trainer-at-wwe-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">recently spent a week as a guest coach at the WWE Performance Center<\/a> and is the longest reigning Smash Champion at 435 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At tonight&#8217;s Smash Wrestling #DTK: Don&#8217;t Trust Karma event in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, The Pillars &#8211; a tag team featuring long time Smash Wrestling regulars and Canadian indie stars Tyson Dux and Brent Banks &#8211; defeated The Well Oiled Machines (Pepper Parks &amp; &#8220;Psycho&#8221; Mike Rollins) to become the new Smash Tag Team Champions. 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