- The Lords of the Ring
Infobox Wrestling team
article_name=Lords of the Ring
type=T
members=Rob Conway Nick Dinsmore
names=The Lords of the Ring
Borkcin Brothers
Limited EditionLos Conquistadores
heights=Rob Conway:cite web |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/r/rob-conway.html|title=Rob Conway's OWW Profile |accessdate=2007-10-14 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling]
height|ft=6|in=0
Nick Dinsmore:cite web |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/n/nick-dinsmore.html|title=Nick Dinsmore's OWW Profile |accessdate=2007-10-14 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling]
height|ft=6|in=0
weights=convert|456|lb|kg|abbr=on|lk=on
debut=1998
disbanded=July 27 ,2003
promotions=OVW
MCW|The Lords of the Ring was a professional wrestling tag team from
1997 to2002 . The team consisted of future WWE superstarsRob Conway andNick Dinsmore . The duo wrestled as a tag team inOhio Valley Wrestling and Music City Wrestling.History
Ohio Valley Wrestling (1998-2002)
1998
Rob Conway andNick Dinsmore formed a tag team together known as The Lords of the Ring in1998 . They drew a record winning theOVW Southern Tag Team Championship ten times. Their first reign came onMarch 18 ,1998 when they defeated Trailer Park Trash and legendaryRip Rogers for the vacant titles.cite web |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-t.html|title=O.V.W. Southern Tag Team Title |accessdate=2007-10-14 |publisher=Hisa's Puroresu Dojo] At that time, they also worked forMusic City Wrestling . OnMay 3 , they lost the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship to Rip Rogers and his new partnerDave the Rave having a reign of 46 days. They started to feud with Rogers and Dave the Rave. The two teams had a series of title exchanges in May 1998.Lords of the Ring regained the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship from Rip Rogers and Dave the Rave ten days later on
May 13 . Four days later onMay 17 , Lords of the Ring lost the titles to Rogers and Dave the Rave but regained the titles the same night and became the first permanent tag team to hold the titles. It was also the first-ever tag team to hold the titles twice and triple times. Lords of the Ring were stripped of the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship after the titles were held up onMay 27 . OnJune 14 , Conway and Dinsmore won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship for a fourth time defeatingFlash Flanagan andJason Lee for the vacant titles. 14 days later, Conway and Dinsmore lost the titles to Dave the Rave and his new partnerJuan Hurtado .After three months, the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship was vacated. Conway and Dinsmore participated in a tournament for the vacant titles. They defeated
Jason Lee andRod Steel in the tournament final onSeptember 27 to win the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship for a fifth time. Less than a month, onOctober 25 , they lost the OVW Tag Team Championship to The Andretti Express (Guido and Vito) and started to feud with Andretti Express. OnNovember 24 , they regained the titles from Andretti Express. The titles were held up in a match againstMatt Bloom andBull Pain onDecember 12 .1999
Conway and Dinsmore faced Damaja and David C. on
January 6 ,1999 in a match for the vacant OVW Southern Tag Team Championship. Damaja and David C. won the match because Dinsmore no-showed in the match while Conway was counted-out. OnJanuary 27 , they hid their faces by wearing masks and called themselves Borkcin Brothers. They won the OVW Tag Team Championship as Borkcin Brothers from Damaja and David C. and then unmasked themselves after the match. They would lose the titles back to Damaja and David C. onFebruary 2 . After that match, Conway and Dinsmore did not team up for two years because they focused on singles careers and feuded with each other over theOVW Heavyweight Championship exchanging the titles several times.cite web |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-h.html|title=O.V.W. Heavyweight Title|accessdate=2007-10-14 |publisher=Hisa's Puroresu Dojo] They both went on to become the members ofKenny Bolin 's Bolin Services faction inJuly 1999 .cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/b/bolin-services.html|title=Bolin Services' OWW Profile|accessdate=2007-10-14|publisher=Online World of Wrestling]2001
Conway and Dinsmore reunited as Lords of the Ring in
2001 chasing the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship once again. OnDecember 12 ,2001 , they defeated The Suicide Blondes (King and Lee) to win the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship for an eighth time.2002
On
February 2 ,2002 , Conway and Dinsmore would lose the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship toBasham Brothers (Doug and Damaja). They regained the belts onMay 17 from Basham Brothers. Two weeks later, they lost the titles to Flash Flanagan and Trailer Park Trash. OnJune 14 , they regained the titles from Flash Flanagan and Trailer Park Trash winning the titles for the tenth and final time. Again two weeks later, they lost the titles to Flash Flanagan and Trailer Park Trash. By2003 , they left forWorld Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).Music City Wrestling (1998)
In
1998 , Conway and Dinsmore had also a stint withNashville, Tennessee basedMusic City Wrestling . They wrestled in MCW as Limited Edition.cite web |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/nwa-mainevent/musiccityt.html|title=M.C.W. North American Tag Team Title|accessdate=2007-10-14 |publisher=Hisa's Puroresu Dojo] They won the vacantMCW North American Tag Team Championship onApril 4 , 1998 in a fatal-four-way tag team match defeating Tennessee Volunteers (Reno Riggins and Steven Dunn), Ladies Night OutFrenchy Rivera andShane Eden ) and the legendary Rock N' Roll Express (Robert Gibson andRicky Morton ). The titles were vacated in May 1998 due to Dinsmore's injury.World Wrestling Entertainment (2003)
On
July 17 ,2003 television tapings of "SmackDown!", Conway and Dinsmore reunited for a final time as the maskedLos Conquistadores in a match againstBilly Kidman and Rey Mysterio. Conway and Dinsmore went on to lose the match.cite web |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/smackdown/030717.html|title=SmackDown! results - July 17, 2003 |accessdate=2007-10-14 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling]Championships and accomplishments
* Music City Wrestling:* MCW North American Tag Team Championship (1 time) - as Limited Edition
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Ohio Valley Wrestling :*OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (10 times) - as Lords of the Ring (Most Reigns as a team)References
External links
* [http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/r/rob-conway.html Rob Conway's OWW Profile]
* [http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/n/nick-dinsmore.html Nick "Eugene" Dinsmore's OWW Profile]
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