Smokin' Aces (professional wrestling)

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Smokin' Aces
Tag team
MembersCharlie Sterling [1]
Nick Riley [2]
Name(s)Smokin' Aces
Billed heightsSterling: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) [3]
Riley: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) [4]
Combined
billed weight		Sterling: 224 lbs
Riley:156 lbs
Debut2021
Years active2021–present

Smokin' Aces is a British professional wrestling tag team consisting of Charlie Sterling (real name Zack Garrett) and Nick Riley (real name Nick Griffin) currently signed to the English professional wrestling promotion Progress Wrestling where they are three-time PROGRESS Tag Team Champions. [5] They also perform on the British independent scene and for various other promotions. [6]

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Professional wrestling career

Progress Wrestling (2021–present)

Sterling and Riley made their debut as a tag team at Chapter 109: Dreaming In 3D Results on April 24, 2021, where they defeated Greedy Souls (Brendan White and Danny Jones) in the quarterfinals of a tournament disputed for the vacant PROGRESS Tag Team Championship. [7] They came unsuccessful in the tournament, but several months later at Chapter 121: In 20 Years This Will All Be Orange on September 11, 2021, they defeated Lykos Gym (Kid Lykos and Kid Lykos II) to win the titles for the first time. [8] At Progress Chapter 170: Wrestling Never Sleeps on August 26, 2024, they unsuccessfully challenged Sanity (Big Damo and Axel Tischer) and Sunshine Machine (Chuck Mambo and TK Cooper) in a three-way tag team match for the PROGRESS Tag Team Championship. [9] One month later at Progress Chapter 171: History Is Written By The Victors on September 22, 2024, Sterling and Riley succeeded in defeating Damo and Tischer to win the tag team titles for a record three-times at the moment of th event. [10] At Progress Chapter 172: Werewolves Of London on October 27, 2024, they are scheduled to defend the titles against The Experience (LA Taylor and Skye Smitson).

Revolution Pro Wrestling (2022–present)

Sterling and Riley made their debut in Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro) at RevPro Epic Encounter 2022 on May 22, where they teamed up with Lykos Gym (Kid Lykos and Kid Lykos II) to defeat Shota Umino, Sunshine Machine (Chuck Mambo and TK Cooper) and Yota Tsuji in an eight-man tag team match. [11] Sterling and Riley competed in the 2022 edition of the Great British Tag League in which they placed themselves in the A Block of the competition and fought against the teams of Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis), Destination Everywhere (Connor Mills and Michael Oku) and Arrows Of Hungary (Dover and Icarus), failing to score any points in the competition. [12]

Championships and accomplishments

Notes

  1. ↑ Maxted was not sanctioned as a freebird rule member of the team during this reign.

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