Blake Beverly

The Mauler

The Masked Skyscraper

Beverly, as **Mike Enos**, started wrestling in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the late 1980's. Early on, Enos worked mainly as a referee but slowly got more and more bookings as a wrestler. He was billed as "The Construction Worker" Mike Enos, that name was soon replaced by “Mean” Mike Enos, as he teamed up with fellow rookie Wayne "The Train" Bloom to form The Destruction Crew. The Destruction Crew was managed by Johnny Valiant. In the fall of 1989, the Destruction Crew challenged then-AWA World Tag Team Champions Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans to a "car lifting" contest. During the challenge the Destruction Crew attacked Patera and Rhenigans and injured them, forcing them to vacate the tag team titles.

A tournament was set up to crown new tag team champions. In the tournament, the Destruction Crew would defeat the team of Sgt. Slaughter and Baron Von Raschke in the first round and then beat Greg Gagne and Paul Diamond in the finals to win the titles.

At the last original AWA television taping on August 11, 1990, the Destruction Crew lost the AWA Tag Team Titles to longtime rivals The Trooper and D.J. Peterson.

While still AWA World Tag Team Champions, the Destruction Crew joined World Championship Wrestling during the spring of 1990. In WCW they wrestled under masks as the "Minnesota Wrecking Crew II" and were managed by Ole Anderson, who was part of the original Minnesota Wrecking Crew. They attempted without success to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship from The Steiner Brothers during a brief feud.

Enos also made a one-off appearance at WrestleWar 1990 as the (masked) third member of The Skyscrapers, called "**The Masked Skyscraper**." He was a last-minute replacement for Dan Spivey, who had left WCW days earlier.

In May 1991, Enos and Bloom signed with the World Wrestling Federation. The two wrestlers were repackaged as a team of spoiled rich brothers from Shaker Heights, Ohio. They became known as the Beverly Brothers, with Enos given the name **Blake Beverly** while Bloom was given the name Beau Beverly. They were originally managed by Coach, then later on by The Genius. The team was initially promoted as a force to be reckoned with in the tag team division. After making their WWF pay-per-view debut on a winning team at Survivor Series '91, they were launched into feuds with the Legion of Doom, The Bushwhackers (who they defeated at the 1992 Royal Rumble) and The Natural Disasters (who they unsuccessfully challenged for the WWF World Tag Team Championship at SummerSlam '92). By the later part of 1992, however, they would be used primarily to put over other tag teams; they were on the losing end of an eight-man elimination tag team match at Survivor Series '92 and were defeated by their old rivals The Steiner Brothers at the 1993 Royal Rumble.

The team broke up in 1993, when Beau decided to leave the business. Blake stuck around for a while longer, mostly serving as an enhancement talent on the WWF's weekly syndicated shows.

Beverly, one again as Mike Enos, rejoined WCW in 1996. Enos was initially known as **The Mauler**, but then returned to wrestling as Enos. He teamed with Dick Slater as "Rough and Ready" and once again worked mainly as enhancement talent for tag teams on the rise. In 1997, Enos and Bloom had a brief reunion in WCW, with the announcers briefly acknowledging their history as a team. After a few matches together, the team split up without much fanfare. He was managed by Col. Rob Parker but did not have much success. A notable moment in Enos' second WCW run was him wrestling against Steve Doll on the May 27, 1996 episode of *WCW Monday Nitro* when Scott Hall interrupted and made his WCW debut, planting the seeds for the New World Order.

Enos competed in the WCW double elimination tournament for the vacated WCW Tag Team Titles in February 1999, teaming with Bobby Duncum Jr. and became one of the final four teams along with Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko, Dave Taylor and Fit Finlay, and Curt Hennig and Barry Windham, until he and Scotty Riggs (replacing Duncum) were eliminated by Benoit and Malenko.