The Briscoe Brothers had two chances to go to the WWE.
Jay and Mark Briscoe will go down as one of the most decorated tag teams in professional wrestling. These two have had incredible matches against The Young Bucks, FTR, Guerillas of Destiny, SoCal Uncensored, and The Bullet Club. Since 2002, Mark and Jay have been tearing it up in Ring of Honor, and there was even a point where these two were singles stars.
Despite their excellent work on the independent scene, many were surprised that the Briscoe Brothers never stepped foot into the WWE. But apparently, they came close on two different occasions.
Mark Briscoe revealed on Busted Open Radio that the first was in 2013, but that offer was resincended because of the controversial comments that Jay made.
"There was just never a time when something else seemed like a better option or better opportunity. There were two different times when WWE came calling. One got put on the back burner because of some immature and unfortunate Twitter content that my brother put out there, just doing too much. That one, we got told, ‘Okay, we’re going to hold off for now.”
The second was in 2015 where the two were offered to go down to NXT, but it ultimately came down to money and Ring of Honor simply made a better deal.
"There was another time, 2015ish, that they wanted us to come down to NXT. They gave us a pretty good offer, more money than we were making in Ring of Honor. We didn’t want to leave Ring of Honor and move down to Florida with the family and all that, but they were offering pretty good money. Next thing you know, we get to talking with Joe Koff, God rest his soul, and Hunter Johnson, all the office there at Ring of Honor, and they end up making us a better offer than NXT did.
We came back and told WWE, ‘Here is what they are offering,’ kind of expecting them to say, ‘Okay, we can give you this,’ but they didn’t. Well, shit, this makes it a really easy decision. We don’t have to move to Florida. Florida is great, but we both had kids and were starting to grow our families. Here is more money and we don’t have to uproot the entire family, and we get to stay here at the place that we love. It was a real easy decision. Ring of Honor was always such a home.”
Check out the full interview where Mark talks about his brother passing, AEW, and plenty of other moments in his career.