The Bar (professional wrestling)

The Bar
Statistics
Members	Cesaro Sheamus
Name(s)	Cesaro and Sheamus Sheamus and Cesaro The Bar
Billed heights	Cesaro: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Sheamus: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Combined billed weight	499 lb (226 kg)
Debut	September 26, 2016
Years active	2016–present

The Bar is a professional wrestling tag team in WWE performing on the Raw brand consisting of Sheamus and Cesaro, where they are the current Raw Tag Team Champions in their second reign. They were originally in a feud together, but after a 'best of seven' series culminated in a tie, the two were forced to work as a team by then Raw General Manager Mick Foley.

History

Feud and formation

Cesaro wrestling with Sheamus

On the July 19 episode of SmackDown, Sheamus and Cesaro were drafted to Raw brand in the 2016 WWE draft. The two men started a feud shortly after the draft. Cesaro defeated Sheamus in two consecutive matches, resulting in Cesaro earning a championship match for the United States Championship, which he received on the August 8 episode of Raw against Rusev, but lost after interference from Sheamus. Both men had issues about being on Raw, with Cesaro saying he would have more opportunity on SmackDown Live!, and Sheamus having been in a career slump since the League of Nations dissolved. Raw General Manager Mick Foley then announced that the pair would face each other in a best-of-seven series with the winner to receive a future championship title match. Sheamus won the first match at SummerSlam. Sheamus would defeat Cesaro in the second and third matches, but Cesaro defeated Sheamus in the fourth, fifth and sixth match, tying the series 3-3. At Clash of Champions, Cesaro fought Sheamus to a no contest when neither man could continue, leaving the outcome of their best-of-7 series undecided. Because they impressed Foley, and because he did not want to insult the effort and performance the two had in the seventh match, he decided to make them a tag team and gave them a shot at the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship, and on the September 26 episode of Raw, they defeated local competitors, while trying to one-up each other.

Raw Tag Team Champions (2016-present)

Sheamus and Cesaro defeated The New Day on the October 24 episode of Raw and defeated them by disqualification at Hell in a Cell. As the titles cannot change hands on a disqualification, they did not win the titles. On the November 7 episode of Raw, Sheamus and Cesaro were announced as part of Team Raw for the 10–on–10 Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination match at Survivor Series on November 20, 2016, which Team Raw won. Sheamus and Cesaro were the sole survivors for their team. The next night on Raw, Sheamus and Cesaro again failed to capture the tag titles from The New Day following outside interference from Xavier Woods. After a scripted bar fight on the November 28th edition of Raw where they initially spoke of their apparent split as a tag team, the two men finally began to see eye-to-eye, reforming their team, and appearing to at last be on the same page. After getting on the same page, they again lost to The New Day in two more title matches on Raw, both defeats were a result of outside interference and not taking the fall in a triple threat tag team match respectively. They received another title shot at Roadblock: End of the Line, where Sheamus and Cesaro finally defeated The New Day to win the Raw Tag Team Championship, marking Cesaro's second reign and Sheamus' first reign.

On 16 January, Sheamus and Cesaro announced their participation in the Royal Rumble match. At the Royal Rumble, Sheamus and Cesaro lost the Tag Team Championship to Gallows and Anderson. Their rematch was sabotaged by Enzo and Cass who interfered and drew a disqualification loss for the pair. Cesaro defeated Enzo in a singles match before he and Sheamus were defeated by the duo the week after following a usage of underhand tactics of which afterwards Sheamus brogue kicked Enzo. The pair entered an altercation with Samoa Joe the following week where Cesaro was defeated by him. Sheamus, who had become a tweener, gradually turned face for the first time since his return. The pair had also dropped their antagonistic tension of outdoing one another during their entrances. It was later announced Sheamus and Cesaro were to compete for Raw Tag Team Championship against Enzo and Cass and the Raw Tag Team Champions Gallows and Anderson in a ladder match. At WrestleMania 33, Sheamus and Cesaro failed to recapture the Raw Tag Team Championships in a fatal-4-way ladder match involving the champs Gallows and Anderson, Enzo and Cass and the returning Hardy Boyz with the latter winning the match. The following night on Raw, Sheamus and Cesaro defeated Enzo and Cass to become the #1 contender's for the Raw Tag Team Championships at Payback. At Payback, after losing the title match against the Hardyz, Sheamus and Cesaro viciously attacked them after the match, turning both men heel in the process. From there, their entrances became further synchronised as they wore the same attire into the ring. At Extreme Rules, Sheamus and Cesaro defeated the Hardy Boyz in a tag team steel cage match to win the Raw tag team championships for the second time, making Cesaro a 3-time champion while Sheamus is a 2-time.

In wrestling

• Double team finishing moves
  • Spinebuster (Cesaro) / Brogue Kick (Sheamus) combination
• Double team signature moves
  • Military press lift (Sheamus) into a Very European Uppercut (Cesaro)
  • White Noise (Sheamus) / Diving DDT (Cesaro) combination
  • Rolling fireman's carry slam (Sheamus) followed by a double foot stomp (Cesaro)
• Entrance theme
  • "Swiss Fire" / "Hell Made" by CFO$ (2016–present)

Championships and accomplishments

• WWE
  • WWE Raw Tag Team Championship (2 times, current)