Sunshine Machine

Sunshine Machine is a British professional wrestling tag team consisting of Chuck Mambo (real name Gareth Snelling) (born 16 September 1992, Newquay, England) and TK Cooper (real name Tasman Bartlett-Masina) (born 18 April 1993, Auckland, New Zealand) currently signed to the English professional wrestling promotion Progress Wrestling. They are also performing in the British independent scene, where they are best known for competing in Revolution Pro Wrestling and various other promotions.[2]

Sunshine Machine
Chuck Mambo (left) and TK Cooper (right) in June 2022
Tag team
MembersChuck Mambo
TK Cooper
Name(s)Escaping The Midcard
Sunshine Machine
Billed heightsMambo: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Cooper: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[1]
Debut2019
Years active2019–present

Professional wrestling career

British independent scene (2018-present)

Due to mainly evolving as freelancers, Mambo and Cooper are known for competing in various promotions from the British independent scene. They made their debut as a team at ‘’Empire The Gauntlet”, a house show promoted by the Empire Wrestling promotion on September 23, 2018, where they competed in a gauntlet tag team match for the vacant Empire Tag Team Championship, bout won by Trial By Violence (Gabriel Kidd and Saxon Huxley), and also involving other notable teams such as Brendan White and Wild Boar, Amir Jordan and Prince Ameen, and many others.[3][4] On the first night of Over the Top Wrestling’s eighth anniversary event from October 28, 2022, Mambo and Cooper defeated Millie McKenzie and Session Moth Martina in an intergender tag team match.[5]

Progress Wrestling (2021-present)
Cooper (left) and Mambo (right) as the Progress Tag Team Champions in June 2022.

Chuck Mambo and TK Cooper made their debut in Progress Wrestling at PROGRESS Chapter 107 on March 27, 2021, where they defeated The Young Guns (Ethan Allen and Luke Jacobs). Mambo and Cooper won the PROGRESS Tag Team Championship for the first time as a team by defeating The 0121 (Dan Moloney and Man Like DeReiss).[6] At Progress Chapter 132 on April 17, 2022, Mambo and Cooper fell short to The 0121 (Dan Moloney & Man Like DeReiss) for the PROGRESS Tag Team Championship.[7] At PROGRESS Chapter 136 on July 24, 2022, Mambo and Cooper successfully defended the PROGRESS Tag Team Championship against Leon Slater and Ricky Knight Jr..[8]

Revolution Pro Wrestling (2020-present)

Chuck Mambo and TK Cooper made their debut in Revolution Pro Wrestling under the name of Escaping The Midcard at RevPro Live In Southampton 12 on February 23, 2020, where they fell short to The Legion (Rampage Brown and Great-O-Khan).[9] At RevPro High Stakes on January 29, 2022, Mambo and Cooper successfully defended their Rev Pro British Tag Team Championship against Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis).[10] Mambo and Cooper participated in the 2022 edition of thr Revolution Great British Tag League where they placed themselves in the Block B and scored a total of three points after fighting against various teams such as The VeloCities (Jude London & Paris De Silva), The Legion (Shota Umino & Yota Tsuji) and Lykos Gym (Kid Lykos & Kid Lykos II).[11]

Championships and accomplishments

References
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  2. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "Tag Teams Database » Sunshine Machine". cagematch.net. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
  3. Tarrier, Lee (September 15, 2022). "Sunshine Machine's TK Cooper: "We Will Be the Best Ever Tag Team in Progress History"". pwmania.com. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  4. Kreikenbohm, Philip (September 23, 2018). "Empire The Gauntlet". cagematch.net. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  5. Lambert, Jeremy (October 30, 2022). "OTT Eighth Year Anniversary Night One Results (10/28): Matt Cardona Faces Trent Seven". fightful.com. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  6. Hamilton, Ian (June 25, 2022). "Hamilton's PROGRESS Chapter 135: Super Strong Style 16 2022 – Night Two 06.04.2022 Review". 411mania.com. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
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  9. Toro, Carlos (February 24, 2020). "RevPro Live In Southampton 12 Results (2/23): Michael Oku, Hikuleo, Shota Umino, More In Action". fightful.com. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
  10. David, Neil (February 2, 2022). "REVPRO HIGH STAKES 2022 (JANUARY 29) RESULTS AND REVIEW". voicesofwrestling.com. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
  11. Revolution Pro Wrestling (March 30, 2022). "Great British Tag League Returns This May. News on schedule". revolutionprowrestling.com. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
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