Akam: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Rezar: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Combined billed weight
620 lb (280 kg) Akam (290 lb), Rezar (330 lb)
Former member(s)
Drake Maverick (manager)
Debut
June 8, 2016
Years active
2016–2020 2023–present
The Authors of Pain (AOP) are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Akam and Rezar, with Paul Ellering as their manager. They are currently signed to WWE, where they perform on the NXT and Raw brands as members of The Final Testament stable. In WWE, they are former one-time Raw Tag Team Champions and one-time NXT Tag Team Champions.
Akam and Rezar first teamed up in June 2016, paired with manager Paul Ellering in WWE's then developmental league NXT. They won the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic in 2016, leading to them winning the NXT Tag Team Championship. In April 2018, Akam and Rezar were promoted to the Raw brand, with Drake Maverick taking over as their manager and the team's name officially shortened to AOP. AOP took a hiatus in early 2019 and returned later that year, but without Maverick as their manager and later becoming enforcers to Seth Rollins. They were released in September 2020. They re-signed with WWE in 2023, and made their televised return in January 2024, once again aligning themselves with Ellering, as well as with Karrion Kross and Scarlett starting a stable as The Final Testament.
artist of Kosovo Albanian descent currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Rezar as a member ofAuthorsofPain (with...
attacked The Pride (Bobby Lashley and the Street Profits) alongside the AuthorsofPain (AOP; Akam and Rezar) and Paul Ellering who officially made their return...
WWE, where he serves as the manager for the AuthorsofPain and The Final Testament. Ellering spent most of his wrestling career managing the Road Warriors...
wrestlers. On the January 17, 2018 episode of NXT, The Street Profits suffered their first loss to The AuthorsofPain (Akam and Rezar), failing to earn a NXT...
Review – Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Bobby Roode for the NXT Title, DIY vs. AuthorsofPain for the NXT Tag Titles, Asuka vs. Nikki Cross vs. Billie Kay vs. Peyton...
culminating in November at NXT TakeOver: Toronto, where it was won by The AuthorsofPain, having defeated TM-61. There was no tournament held in 2017 after...
Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study ofPain defines pain as "an unpleasant...
first round and Alexander Wolfe and Eric Young of SAnitY in the semi-finals. They faced the AuthorsofPain in the finals on 4 April; however, the match...
episode of NXT, but were attacked by The AuthorsofPain (Akam and Rezar) afterwards. Ciampa and Gargano lost the championships to The AuthorsofPain at NXT...
Review – Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Bobby Roode for the NXT Title, DIY vs. AuthorsofPain for the NXT Tag Titles, Asuka vs. Nikki Cross vs. Billie Kay vs. Peyton...
episode of NXT, Frazer and Axiom defeated The Wolf Dogs to become the new NXT Tag Team Champions. After the match, The Final Testament's AuthorsofPain (AOP)...
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