{"id":32861,"date":"2018-12-17T15:45:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=32861"},"modified":"2018-12-17T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T21:27:39","slug":"the-buffalo-brothers-a-western-new-york-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/12\/17\/the-buffalo-brothers-a-western-new-york-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Brothers: A Western New York Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro Wrestling has long had it&#8217;s behind the scenes stables of friends, some who worked together on screen or in the ring, but who travelled the roads together regardless of storyline. From the WWE&#8217;s infamous <strong>Kliq<\/strong> (Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Triple H &amp; X-Pac) to <strong>The Bone Street Krew<\/strong> (The Undertaker, Yokozuna, Savio Vega, Rikishi, The Godfather and The Godwinns), to more current groups like <strong>oVe<\/strong> (Sami Callihan and The Crist Brothers) and <strong>The Rascalz<\/strong> (Dezmond Xavier, Zachary Wentz, Trey Miguel &amp; Myron Reed). But there&#8217;s a new group of wrestlers from Buffalo, New York that is poised to break out in 2019, known collectively as <strong>The Buffalo Brothers<\/strong>. Based out of Buffalo&#8217;s <strong>Empire State Wrestling (ESW)<\/strong> and products of the Grapplers Anonymous school run by <strong>Brandon Thurston, Mikey Everynite<\/strong> and <strong>Pepper Parks<\/strong>, this tight-knit group is starting to take over the upstate New York and Southwest Ontario (Canada) indie scene and in recent months, venture beyond their regional territories.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andycomplains?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@andycomplains<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCWWRESTLING?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BCWwrestling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiverWorksBFLO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RiverWorksBFLO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/everytimeidie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@everytimeidie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Anthony__Gaines?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Anthony__Gaines<\/a> @DanielMTGarcia <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pufisgod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@pufisgod<\/a> @blaxkwood666 @BraxtonSutter fuck yes \u2018tid the season <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NXo6n94QgI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/NXo6n94QgI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bush Leauge A.Willams (@Double_R_R) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Double_R_R\/status\/1074064496019296258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>KEVIN BLACKWOOD<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32869\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32869 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/DrxLKsGU8AA-kcu-e1545026532852.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Bryan J. Weiss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Kevin Blackwood<\/strong> entered pro wrestling in 2016, and became a top star with Toronto&#8217;s <strong>Smash Wrestling<\/strong> last year, working from dark matches to top-level feuds with ease and quickness. Last year he even attended a tryout for <strong>EVOLVE Wrestling<\/strong> in Detroit. Kevin Blackwood continues to be a force in Smash Wrestling, as well as ESW, and has expanded his travel schedule to include stops with <strong>Synergy Pro Wrestling<\/strong>, a new company in New Jersey, as well as <strong>Blackcraft Wrestling<\/strong>, Maine&#8217;s <strong>Limitless Wrestling<\/strong>, Syracuse&#8217;s <strong>Wild\/Zero Wrestling<\/strong>, Erie, PA&#8217;s <strong>Revenge Pro<\/strong>, and <strong>Federation de Lutte Quebecoise (FLQ)<\/strong> in Quebec. A cruiserweight capable of hanging with the best of them, he&#8217;s also tough as nails, as seen on Sunday night&#8217;s hardcore match against <strong>Holden Albright<\/strong> at <em><strong>Smash: In Your Dreams<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[Free Match] AR Fox vs. Kevin Blackwood | ESW - Empire State Wrestling (Beyond, Lucha Underground)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FrlktHVN81M?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>PUF<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32866\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/27751845_472962199773561_8835555390197511009_n-e1545026545945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p>The big and lovable <strong>Puf<\/strong> has become an instant fan favorite\u00a0in every promotion he&#8217;s competed for, including ESW, Smash, Limitless and others. Puf made his splash on the indies this year and looks to be a break out star in 2019. Alongside fellow Buffalo Brother <strong>Daniel Garcia<\/strong>, Puf was named one of the Rookies of the Year in <strong>Pro Wrestling Illustrated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ESW - Sebastian Suave vs Puf (03\/24\/2018)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qpg-pRy0v1U?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>ANTHONY GAINES<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32868\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32868\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/DlvOkCMXoAAV_2e-e1545026580102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Joe Hrycych<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Anthony Gaines<\/strong> started out with Rochester&#8217;s <strong>Upstate Pro Wrestling (UPW)<\/strong> in 2014, but by 2016 he was firmly entrenched in ESW&#8217;s camp. A former ESW Interstate Champion, he also competes regularly with Erie, Pennsylvania&#8217;s <strong>Pro Wrestling Rampage<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s a 2x (and current) PWR Tag Team Champion with <strong>Jet Rebel<\/strong> in <strong>The Homewreckers<\/strong>. Gaines gained some notoriety this past year when a video of his match vs <strong>Ace Romero<\/strong>, where the considerably larger Romero slammed an airborne Gaines out of the ring, went viral.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ESW - Anthony Gaines vs Ace Romero (06\/30\/2018)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sxmLMpKJ7vc?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>DANIEL GARCIA<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32874\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32874\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-11-at-3.39.51-AM-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-11-at-3.39.51-AM-1.png 598w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-11-at-3.39.51-AM-1-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Bryan J. Weiss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Red Death&#8221; Daniel Garcia has been <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/12\/11\/indie-watch-red-death-daniel-garcia-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the fastest rising stars out of the Buffalo area in some time<\/a>. A regular wrestling machine that is one of the top\u00a0young stars in Smash Wrestling and ESW, he&#8217;s also worked with Limitless and other indies. He even made his WWE earlier this year in a match on WWE\u00a0<em><strong>205 Live<\/strong><\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>in a match against <strong>Drew Gulak<\/strong>. Alongside Puf, Garcia was picked as one of the Rookie of the Years for PWI.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drew Gulak vs. Danny Garcia: WWE 205 Live, July 17, 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AvP6tGCDwrI?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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tyson Dux vs. Daniel Garcia (Barrie Wrestling Back2School 5)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0EusCPWJoeM?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>KEVIN BENNETT<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32875\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/29512259_10211895077951990_5482415527478465297_n-e1545027219378.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Bennett remains one of the premier prospects out of Western New York. A long time staple and main event star with both Smash Wrestling (where he&#8217;s the company&#8217;s top heel) and ESW (where he&#8217;s a top face), the former ESW Heavyweight Champion also made his WWE in-ring debut this year on an episode of <em><strong>SmackDown Live<\/strong><\/em> against <strong>Andrade &#8216;Cien&#8217; Almas<\/strong>, as well as multiple on-camera roles. He made his <strong>Rockstar Pro<\/strong> debut this past Friday as part of the Rockstar Pro\/IMPACT Wrestling event live on Twitch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andrade &quot;Cien&quot; Almas vs. local competitor: SmackDown LIVE, May 22, 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QLgx_o_v6jQ?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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FREE MATCH - Trey Miguel vs Kevin Bennett - Best Of 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NAa9kHMM7NE?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>BUTCHER &amp; THE BLADE (Pepper Parks &amp; Andy Williams)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32876\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-1.13.10-AM-e1545027266859.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\"><\/p>\n<p>The elder statesmen of the group, the new tag team <strong>The Butcher &amp; The Blade<\/strong> features one of the groups mentors, Pepper Parks (formerly <strong>Braxton Sutter<\/strong> in IMPACT Wrestling). Parks is a near 20-year veteran of the indies, and a student of <strong>Les Thatcher<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA)<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s a former 2x HWA Heavyweight Champion. Throughout his career, he&#8217;s also worked for <strong>Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW)<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s a former CZW World Tag Team champ with <strong>BLK JEEZ i<\/strong>n <strong>#TVReady<\/strong>, as well as a four year run with IMPACT. As a testament to Parks&#8217; own coaching and training skills, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/07\/16\/former-impact-star-guest-coaches-at-wwe-performance-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he was recently a guest trainer at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando<\/a>. In Butcher &amp; The Blade, Parks teams with real life best friend <strong>Andy Williams<\/strong>, who has only been wrestling since 2016. But Williams isn&#8217;t some young kid &#8211; for many music fans, Andy Williams is best known as the guitarist for international hardcore band <strong>Every Time I Die<\/strong>, which has been rocking the world since 1998 as part of Epitaph Records. Williams joined his lifelong love of pro wrestling in 2016 with Parks&#8217; help, where he&#8217;s become a dominant force in Smash, ESW, PWR and Blackcraft Wrestling. One of his earliest matches was an intergender match at the first <em><strong>Joey Janela&#8217;s Spring Break<\/strong> <\/em>in 2017, where he teamed with <strong>Penelope Ford<\/strong> against <strong>Pepper Parks<\/strong> and his real life wife, former IMPACT Knockouts Champion <strong>Allie<\/strong>. The duo also host the successful wrestling podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/kickin-ass-with-jesse-and-andy\/id1277089689?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Kickin&#8217; Asss with Jesse and Andy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ESW : The Butcher &amp; The Blade live in \u201cruins\u201d\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JLqIV1rRd2I?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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ESW - Andy Williams &amp; Braxton Sutter vs Daniel Garcia &amp; Tarik (01\/20\/2018)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2WhMF4fhag4?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>With so much young potential in the group, and the veteran leadership of Butcher &amp; The Blade, 2019 could be the year that the Buffalo Brothers make their impact on the national US and Canadian indie scene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro Wrestling has long had it&#8217;s behind the scenes stables of friends, some who worked together on screen or in the ring, but who travelled the roads together regardless of storyline. From the WWE&#8217;s infamous Kliq (Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Triple H &amp; X-Pac) to The Bone Street Krew (The Undertaker, Yokozuna, Savio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":32863,"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":[2,6],"tags":[2160,4031,4029,4032,3657,4030,2605,3991],"class_list":["post-32861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-andy-williams","tag-anthony-gaines","tag-buffalo-brothers","tag-butcher-the-blade","tag-daniel-garcia","tag-kevin-blackwood","tag-pepper-parks","tag-puf"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32861","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=32861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}