Name: The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli)
From: Clayton, Ohio (Hero) and Lucerne, Switzerland (Castagnoli)
Height: 6' 4'' (Hero) and 6' 5'' (Castagnoli)
Weight: Combined 457; 225 (Hero) and 232 (Castagnoli)
Alignment: Tweeners
Bio/Gimmick: Simply the best tag tam in the fucking world.
Theme Song: KoW (Kings)" by Cody B. Ware, Emilio Sparks and J. Glaze
(Team) Finishers:
King's Landing (formerly Helicopter Crash; Giant swing by Castagnoli followed by a running dropkick to the head by Hero; Primary)
Royal Power and Glory (Superplex (Castagnoli) / Moonsault (Hero) combination; Secondary)
Signature moves
European uppercut to the back of an opponent's head (Castagnoli) / Discus elbow to the face (Hero) combination
Hero's Welcome Kings of Wrestling Edition (Aided rolling cutter)
KRS ONE – Kings Reign Supreme Over Nearly Everyone (Hero and Castagnoli flip the opponent in the air before dropping them into a sitout scoop slam piledriver)
KRS TWO – Kings Reign Supreme The World Over (Hero and Castagnoli grab the legs of an opponent seated in the corner before flipping them in the air and dropping them into a double release powerbomb)
Royal Bomb (Double straight jacket sitout powerbomb pin)
Aided senton
Double big boot
Double Cravate Cutter (Elevated corkscrew neckbreaker)
Double elbow drop
Electric chair (Castagnoli) / Cravate (Hero) combination
Hero monkey flips Castagnoli, who is propelled into either a splash or a spear
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Hero:
Cyclone Kill (Discus big boot)
Hangman's Clutch (Stepover toehold inverted cravate)
Hangman's Clutch II (Arm trap inverted cravate)
Hangman's Clutch III (Inverted cravate / Standing leg grapevine combination)
Hangman's Clutch Facebuster (Cravate twisted into a sitout facebuster)
Hero's Welcome Championship Edition (Wrist-lock scoop lift dropped into a sitout scoop slam piledriver)
Multiple cutter variations
Death is Welcome (Lifting rolling)
Hero's Welcome (Rolling, sometimes while applying a hammerlock)
Super Hero's Welcome (Jumping rolling)
Multiple elbow smash variations
Cerebral Cortex Rolling Elbow/ Death Blow/ Hangman's Elbow (Inverted headlock transitioned into a discus to the back of the opponent's head)
Discus, sometimes with a loaded elbow pad
Rip Cord Rolling Elbow (Wrist-lock transitioned into a short-arm discus)
Rivera cloverleaf – Innovated; named in tribute to Jorge "Skayde" Rivera
Rubik's Cube (Electric chair driver)
Stretch Plum Alpha (Stretch plum)
Signature moves
Backward roll into a standing corkscrew senton
Cravate
Cravate Buster (Three-quarter facelock neckbreaker)
Cravate Countdown (Three-quarter facelock drop)
Cravate Cutter (Diving somersault stunner)
Cravate-O-Clasm (Three-quarter facelock iconoclasm)
Double foot stomp, sometimes followed by a senton
Double leg slam
Elbow smash
Hero DDT (Spinning lifting DDT)
Hero Sandwich (Swinging side slam backbreaker, sometimes while applying a hammerlock)
Hero Sidekick (Running arched big boot to a cornered opponent)
Hero Stomp (Diving double foot stomp, sometimes while springboarding)
Indian deathlock piledriver
Johnny Saint special
Jumping senton, sometimes preceded by a somersault
Moonsault, sometimes while standing
Multiple forearm smashes
Multiple suplex variations
Crash Landing (Rolling release)
Cravate – Innovated
German
Trapping
Russ Abbot (Performs a leapfrog, crawls between opponent's legs, rolls over the opponent and performs a roll-up)
Tracy Smothers (Rapid double palm strikes to a cornered opponent's chest)
Topé con Hero (Somersault topé through the second and top ropes)
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Castagnoli
Alpamare Waterslide (Side Death Valley driver)
Inverted Chikara Special (Kneeling step-over head-hold armbar to a face down opponent followed by hooking the opponent's near leg)
Lasartesse Lift (Karelin lift transitioned into a side piledriver)
Neutralizer (Over the shoulder single leg Boston crab with neckscissors)
Ricola Bomb (Straight jacket sitout powerbomb pin, sometimes from the top rope)
Roaring Swiss Uppercut (Discus European uppercut)
Swiss Death (Pop-up European uppercut)
Signature moves
Bicycle kick
Cravate
Delayed vertical suplex
Giant swing
Jim Breaks Special (Lifting wrist-lock)
Match Killer (Horizontal back to belly suplex spun out into a sitout facebuster)
Money Dive (Diving headbutt)
Multiple European uppercut variations
Diving
Springboard
Swiss Uppercut (Standing, sometimes to the back of an opponent's head)
Ricola-Plex (Straight jacket suplex)
Suicide dive
Swiss Sleeper Holding (Bridging cobra clutch)
UBS Neckbreaker (Backbreaker rack flipped into a cutter)
UFO (Spinning backbreaker rack, sometimes with no hands)
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