Mark Waugh Mosman. At the start of the 1984–85 season, the brothers were included in the New South Wales state squad. At the end of the season, the Waugh twins signed a contract to spend the Australian winter to play for Egerton in the Bolton League in Lancashire in northern England. Each club was allowed to have one professional; Steve was officially designated as such but would split the earnings with Mark. The twins were billeted with a local family. However, during the year, an Australian rebel tour to South Africa was staged, breaking the boycott against the apartheid regime. Some players
The Batten Twins Idol and Tony Givens that same night. They remained champions for only two more weeks when they were defeated in Kingsport by K.C. Thunder and Steve Flynn on October 27, 2001. In 2002, The Battens began wrestling for the Mid-South Wrestling Alliance out of Oak Hill and Blue Ridge Wrestling out of Princeton, West Virginia, alongside another former SMW veteran "Player" Brian Logan. On August 3, 2002, The Batten Twins lost to Death & Destruction at a Mason-Dixon Wrestling show for the Blackberry Festival in Nutter Fort, West Virginia. The two teams met again in Williamson, West Virginia three months