{"id":36129,"date":"2019-01-22T15:31:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=36129"},"modified":"2019-01-22T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:31:47","slug":"canadian-tag-team-3-0-signed-to-nxt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/22\/canadian-tag-team-3-0-signed-to-nxt\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Tag Team 3.0 Signed To NXT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WWE&#8217;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&#8217;s <strong>International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS)<\/strong> let the cat out of the bag that two Canadian indie wrestlers on their roster, <strong>Scott Parker<\/strong> and <strong>Shane Matthews<\/strong> (collectively known as <strong>3.0<\/strong>), had signed with the WWE and would be heading to NXT.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/IWSHardcore\/status\/1087735307930345472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Falls, Ontario&#8217;s Scott Parker and Shane Matthews (better known these days as <strong>Big Magic<\/strong>) have been a tandem together since the very early 2000s, when they teamed up in Quebec&#8217;s <strong>Northern Championship Wrestling (nCw)<\/strong> as <strong>Under Construction 2.0<\/strong> (Matthews replaced Parker&#8217;s first partner, <strong>Nova Cain<\/strong>), which was eventually shortened to just <strong>2.0.\u00a0<\/strong>It didn&#8217;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&#8217;s <strong>Capital City Championship Combat (C4)<\/strong>, becoming 2x IWS Tag Team Champions as well.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NGE - Lock &amp; Load (Sky\/Alvein) vs 3.0 (Parker\/Matthews) 16.02.13\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sBm26Ourm-Q?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>In 2006, they made their US debut with <strong>CHIKARA<\/strong> in the<em><strong> Tag World Grand Prix<\/strong><\/em>, as well as working with <strong>IWA Mid South<\/strong>. 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 <strong>Ring of Honor, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Smash Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG)<\/strong>, and <strong>Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cesaro &amp; Ares vs. Scott &quot;Jagged&quot; Parker &amp; Shane Matthews [CHIKARA] September 18, 2010\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wq5q18ZDJbI?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>In 2016, they had an enhancement match with NXT against the <strong>Revival<\/strong> and last year appeared on <em><strong>Monday Night Raw<\/strong><\/em> from Montreal in a squash against <strong>The Authors of Pain<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Authors of Pain vs. Jean-Paul and Francois: Raw, April 30, 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7gP8LJLg39Q?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WWE&#8217;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&#8217;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), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":36133,"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":[2,5,3],"tags":[4296,4297,4298],"class_list":["post-36129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-3-0","tag-big-magic","tag-scott-parker"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36129","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=36129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}