The Bollywood Boyz
| The Bollywood Boyz | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Tag team | |
| Members | Gurv Sihra Harv Sihra |
| Name(s) | The Bollywood Boyz |
| Billed heights | Gurv: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Harv: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Combined billed weight | 303 lb (137 kg) Gurv: 159 lb (72 kg) Harv: 144 lb (65 kg) |
| Years active | 2006–present |
The Bollywood Boyz are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of brothers Gurv Sihra and Harv Sihra currently wrestling in WWE on the Raw brand.
Early life
They graduated from Moscrop Secondary School in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Professional wrestling career
Early career (2006-2015)
The Bollywood Boyz wrestled in Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling, where they won the ECCW Tag Team Championship 5 times between 2011-2015.
In 2011, The Bollywood Boyz wrestled in India as part of the TNA-sponsored Ring Ka King promotion, On December 19, 2011, They took part of a tournament to crown the inaugural RKK Tag Team Champions defeating The Mumbai Cats (Leopard and Puma) in the quarterfinals.[1] The following night they were eliminated from the tournament by RDX (Sir Brutus Magnus and Sonjay Dutt) in the semifinals.[2]
On January 22, 2012, The Bollywood Boyz defeated RDX (Abyss and Scott Steiner) to become the RKK Tag Team Champions.[3] On April 23, 2012, They vacated the championships after the promotion closed.
On July 24, 2015, The Bollywood Boyz made their debut for Jeff Jarrett Promotion Global Force Wrestling (GFW), where they participated in a tournament to crown the inaugural GFW Tag Team Champions. They defeated The Akbar's in the quarterfinals of the tournament.[4] On October 23, 2015, at Global Force Wrestling's TV tapings The Bollywood Boyz defeated Reno Scum to become the first ever GFW Tag Team Champions.[5]
WWE (2016-present)
On 13 June 2016, Gurv and Harv were announced as participants in WWE's upcoming Cruiserweight Classic tournament.[6] On June 23, both Sihras were eliminated from the tournament in their first round matches with Gurv losing to Noam Dar and Harv losing to Drew Gulak.
The Bollywood Boyz debuted in the WWE developmental territory NXT at the September 15 tapings. They also took part in the second annual Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, however, they were eliminated by The Authors of Pain in the first round.[7] On the premiere episode of WWE 205 Live, The Bollywood Boyz debuted and defeated Tony Nese and Drew Gulak in a tag team match.
In wrestling
- Finishing tag team moves
- Gurv's signature moves
- Entrance themes
- "Mundian To Bach Ke" by Panjabi MC
- "Haishaba" by Lekha Rathnakumar and Veilumuth Chitralekha
- "Bollywood Breakdown" by CFO$ (WWE; November 29, 2016-present)
Championship and accomplishments
- Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling
- Global Force Wrestling
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Real Canadian Wrestling
- RCW Tag Team Championship (1 time)[10]
- Ring Ka King
References
- ^ "Ring Ka King #6 Results".
- ^ "Ring Ka King #7 Results".
- ^ "Ring Ka King #23 Results".
- ^ "GFW Amped TV Tapings results".
- ^ a b c Alvarez, Bryan (2015-10-24). "New champions crowned at Global Force Wrestling TV tapings". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
- ^ "Interview of Bollywood Boyz by Renjith Ravindran for The Fan Garage || The Fan Garage". 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
- ^ http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/755335-live-ongoing-wwe-nxt-tv-taping-results-for-september-and-october-spoilers
- ^ "ECCW Tag Team Championship history".
- ^ a b "Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 2016". The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
- ^ "RCW Showdown 2016 results".
- ^ "RKK Tag Team Championship history".