{"id":31233,"date":"2018-11-20T23:33:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T04:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=31233"},"modified":"2018-12-07T13:01:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:01:55","slug":"west-coast-indie-stars-make-wwe-debut-as-bryant-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/11\/20\/west-coast-indie-stars-make-wwe-debut-as-bryant-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Indie Stars Make WWE Debut As Bryant Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the <strong>MizTV<\/strong> segment of Tuesday night&#8217;s <em><strong>SmackDown Live<\/strong><\/em>, <strong>The Miz<\/strong> threw an impromptu tag match with himself and <strong>Shane McMahon<\/strong> teaming against a team of &#8220;local wrestlers&#8221; that was clearly supposed to provide an easy win for The Miz in his tag team debut with Shane-O-Mac. The team that came out was a team called &#8220;<strong>The Bryant Brothers<\/strong>&#8220;, who took advantage of a miscommunication between Miz and McMahon, scoring the pinfall on the Miz. The Bryan Brothers were portrayed by two West Coast indie stars, in <strong>Eli Everfly<\/strong> and <strong>Keita Murray.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HERE WE GO!<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BestTeamInTheWorld?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BestTeamInTheWorld<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikethemiz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@mikethemiz<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanemcmahon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ShaneMcMahon<\/a> vs. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BryantBrothers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BryantBrothers<\/a> RIGHT NOW! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SDLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SDLive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sbX1vb7fY4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/sbX1vb7fY4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1065058186376359937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>ELI EVERFLY<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31239\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31239\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/11\/DaXygOEXcAAeSJM-e1542774644368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Chris Grasso \/ GCW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LA native <strong>Eli Everfly<\/strong> has been wrestling on the West Coast circuit since 2013, a product of the <strong>Santino Bros Wrestling School<\/strong>, who worked with <strong>Empire Wrestling Federation (EWF), Championship Wrestling From Hollywood<\/strong>, and others. Last year, he debuted with <strong>PCW ULTRA, Bar Wrestling<\/strong>, and <strong>Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong>, which really upped his profile on the US indie scene. A gifted aerialist, he&#8217;s also part of the tag team <strong>DoomFly<\/strong> with <strong>Delilah Doom<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brody King vs. Eli Everfly - Limitless Wrestling (ROH, Santino Bros, PWG, Bar Wrestling, AAW)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yu6-R-9EV40?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<h3><strong>KEITA MURRAY<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31240\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/11\/vG8PRCvg_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/11\/vG8PRCvg_400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/11\/vG8PRCvg_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/11\/vG8PRCvg_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All That&#8221; Keita Murray started out in the Pennsylvania indies in 2014, but has since moved to the West Coast, working with <strong>Supreme Pro Wrestling (SPW), Maverick Pro<\/strong>, and others. Murray actually made another WWE appearance over the weekend, working against <strong>Lars Sullivan<\/strong> in a match filmed prior to <strong>NXT TakeOver: War Games II<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UWC:101 Matt Cage vs Keita Murray\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TU7t8QuCs-8?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<figure id=\"attachment_31238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31238\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31238\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/11\/094_SD_11202018hm_3009-170fbd6ad0f03909bd7bd95b79cc64ee-e1542774691795.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the MizTV segment of Tuesday night&#8217;s SmackDown Live, The Miz threw an impromptu tag match with himself and Shane McMahon teaming against a team of &#8220;local wrestlers&#8221; that was clearly supposed to provide an easy win for The Miz in his tag team debut with Shane-O-Mac. The team that came out was a team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":31237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26,3],"tags":[3908,2035,3909,166,148,55],"class_list":["post-31233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-smackdown","category-wwe-universe","tag-bryant-brothers","tag-eli-everfly","tag-keita-murray","tag-shane-mcmahon","tag-smackdown-live","tag-the-miz"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}