#gxw

I am realizing while Deep in my rabbit holes I may have failed to pass along some info that the Internet is doing its best to bury but is still very much there if you go DEEP into Swerve's official channels:

Meet Deacon Strickland, one half of The Holy Union, circa 2010.

His very first debut, 'a tag match that wasn't very good', ring name and gimmick was at GXW aka Ground Xero Wrestling school in West Virginia, and his run there was mostly entirely as part of a Tag Team, where they did have a Tag Team Champ run.