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Jeff Sword and Doug Vines teamed as 'The Devil's Duo' in Angelo Poffo's ICW promotion, holding the ICW World Tag Team Titles from April 25 to June 15, 1981. They were managed by 'Izzy Slapowitz' who accompanied them to the ring holding a book and muttering supposedly occult phrases. These theatrical hints of mock-satanism helped to put the team over with the fans but also limited their exposure, as many other territories at that time were too 'Bible Belt' for any satanism gimmick to be used.

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  • Jeff Sword and Doug Vines teamed as 'The Devil's Duo' in Angelo Poffo's ICW promotion, holding the ICW World Tag Team Titles from April 25 to June 15, 1981. They were managed by 'Izzy Slapowitz' who accompanied them to the ring holding a book and muttering supposedly occult phrases. These theatrical hints of mock-satanism helped to put the team over with the fans but also limited their exposure, as many other territories at that time were too 'Bible Belt' for any satanism gimmick to be used.
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  • Jeff Sword and Doug Vines teamed as 'The Devil's Duo' in Angelo Poffo's ICW promotion, holding the ICW World Tag Team Titles from April 25 to June 15, 1981. They were managed by 'Izzy Slapowitz' who accompanied them to the ring holding a book and muttering supposedly occult phrases. These theatrical hints of mock-satanism helped to put the team over with the fans but also limited their exposure, as many other territories at that time were too 'Bible Belt' for any satanism gimmick to be used. Later, in 1991, Sword and Vines wrestled as both 'The Barroom Brawlers' and 'The Texas Outlaws' in the USWA promotion, feuding with the Robert Fuller/Jeff Jarrett team and beating them on two separate occasions to win the USWA World Tag Team Titles, once in July 1991 and again in September that same year. Sword and Vines were old school style wrestlers, with neither having a bodybuilder physique and Sword in particular having the appearance of an extremely burly roughneck. Both Sword and Vines were used by WCW in the early 1990s as enhancement talent. Sword retired at the end of 1991 due to injury. The original Devil's Duo was Angelo Poffo and Chris Markoff, and the original Texas Outlaws were Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch.
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