Major Players

**The Major Players** are an American professional wrestling faction, consisting of **Brian Myers**, **Matt Cardona**, and **Chelsea Green**, who are currently appearing in IMPACT Wrestling and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Cardona currently holds the IMPACT Digital Media Championship, the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship, numerous independent championships, and his self promoted Internet Championship (with which he is in his second reign).

Myers and Cardona are best known for their time in WWE, where they are former two-time WWE Raw Tag Team Champions, having made their professional wrestling debut in 2004 as a tag team in New York Wrestling Connection, wrestling as **Brian Myers and Brett Matthews**. After the team signed with WWE, they would become almost exclusively tag team wrestlers. They debuted in WWE's main roster in 2007 on the ECW brand as **Brian and Brett Major**, collectively known as **The Major Brothers**. Later that year, they were repackaged and renamed to **Curt Hawkins** and **Zack Ryder** as associates of Edge and subsequently aligned themselves with **La Familia** on the SmackDown brand. Nicknamed "The Rated-R Entourage" and "The Edgeheads", Hawkins and Ryder continued their alliance with Edge until the team split in April 2009, after Ryder was drafted back to the ECW brand as part of the 2009 WWE draft. After the team's split, Hawkins and Ryder sporadically teamed together in matches, but would not officially reunite until almost ten years later in January 2019. They would go on to capture the WWE Raw Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania 35 in April 2019.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ Double lifting DDT
	+ *Heat Stroke* / *Long Island Express* (Samoan drop / Diving neckbreaker combination)
	+ STO / Russian legsweep combination

* **Signature moves**
	+ Double hip toss, sometimes preceded by a double leapfrog or transitioned into a backbreaker
	+ Double spear – 2008

* **Managers**
	+ Chelsea Green

* **Nicknames**
	+ "The Edgeheads"
	+ "The Rated-R Entourage"

* **Entrance themes**
	+ **Independent circuit**
		- "What I Want" by Daughtry
		- **"Major Players"** by Downstait Feat. John Kiernan
	+ **World Wrestling Entertainment**
		- "Gasoline Upcharge" by Chris Weerts & Daniel Holter
		- "Bone Crusher" by Didier Rachou
		- "In the Middle of it Now" (Instrumental) by Jim Johnston
		- "In the Middle of it Now" by Jim Johnston Feat. Disciple
		- "Radio" by Jim Johnston Feat. Watt White
		- "Radio" by Jim Johnston Feat. Downstait
		- "Face the Facts" by CFO$
		- "Still Major" by def rebel Feat. John McCurry
	+ **IMPACT Wrestling**
		- "When the Lights Go Down" by Downstait
		- "Major Players" by Downstait Feat. John Kiernan

## Championships and accomplishments

* **Absolute Intense Wrestling**
	+ AIW Absolute Championship (1 time, current) – Cardona
	+ AIW Intense Championship (1 time, current) – Cardona
* **All Star Wrestling**
	+ ASW Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current) – Cardona
* **Deep South Wrestling**
	+ DSW Tag Team Championship (2 times)
* **IMPACT Wrestling**
	+ IMPACT Digital Media Championship (1 time, current) – Cardona
* **National Wrestling Alliance**
	+ NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current) – Cardona
* **New York Wrestling Connection**
	+ NYWC Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current) – Cardona
	+ NYWC Tag Team Championship (2 times)
* **Ohio Valley Wrestling**
	+ OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time)
* **World Wrestling Entertainment**
	+ WWE (Raw) Tag Team Championship (2 times)
* **Other titles**
	+ Internet Championship (1 time, current) – Cardona