Basham Brothers's Biography
The Basham Brothers, Doug (Doug Basham) and Danny (Daniel Hollie), are a professional wrestling tag team, who formerly worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
Before they went to work in 2003 with WWE, they wrestled for the All World Wrestling League/Big Time Wrestling in Michigan. They were part of the talent signed by Ed and Tom Farhat, sons of the 'original' Sheik, who died in January 2003, to bring back the 'original' BTW that was requested by the fans.
The Basham Brothers made their official WWE debut on the May 29, 2003 edition of SmackDown! defeating Rikishi and Brian Kendrick. Shortly after this Shaniqua became their valet. Their gimmick was originally that of two S&M fans, with Shaniqua as their trash-talking dominatrix. The Bashams, who were kayfabe twins (despite obviously having no resemblance to each other), often switched places mid-match, so the "fresher" wrestler was always in the ring.
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Both would reunite in WWE's revived ECW brand in July 2006 as masked enforcers for ECW leader Paul Heyman. Primarily known as Paul Heyman's Personal Enforcers, they would wrestle with no identity, although they were often referred to as "Basham Security" by fans. In September, Danny suffered a triceps injury, and he was replaced by Derrick Neikirk. The team disappeared again shortly after Heyman was removed from WWE television in December.
On January 18, 2007, both Basham Brothers along with several other superstars were released by WWE. However, they did return to OVW on March 7, when they defeated Wyatt Young and Mike Tolar in a dark match.
Doug and Danny made their first appearance in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at a live event on April 20, 2007 as a surprise replacement for the injured Abyss.
The two then made their Impact! debut on May 10, 2007 as "Basham" and "Damaja", attacking the Voodoo Kin Mafia, as Christy Hemme's newest mystery team. At Sacrifice they defeated Kip James. On the May 24 episode of Impact!, Basham and Damaja would defeat James and Lance Hoyt (who replaced B.G. James, whom they'd injured prior to their match at Sacrifice).
At Slammiversary, B.G. and Kip James defeated Basham and Damaja, but as they were about to attack Christy Hemme post-match, they were betrayed - and Basham and Damaja were apparently joined under Christy's management - by Lance Hoyt, who attack VKM and kissed Christy. At Victory Road, Basham and Damaja were defeated by Voodoo Kin Mafia after B.G James hit Damaja with a steel chair and Kip James pinned him.
