The Mighty Don't Kneel
| The Mighty Don't Kneel | |
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Left to right: Kosei Fujita, Mikey Nicholls, Zack Sabre Jr., Shane Haste, Robbie Eagles and Ryohei Oiwa in October 2024. | |
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| Members | Mikey Nicholls/Nick Miller Shane Haste/Shane Thorne Bad Dude Tito Zack Sabre Jr. Kosei Fujita Robbie Eagles Ryohei Oiwa Hartley Jackson |
| Name(s) | The Mighty Don't Kneel TMDK TM-61 The Mighty |
| Billed heights | Nicholls: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Haste: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Tito: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Sabre Jr.: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Fujita: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Eagles: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Oiwa: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Jackson: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Combined billed weight | 1,758 lb (797 kg) |
| Billed from | Perth, Australia (Nicholls/Haste) |
| Former member(s) | JONAH/Jonah Rock Elliot Sexton Marcius Pitt Slex |
| Debut | 16 May 2008 |
| Years active | 2008–2018 2022–present |
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The Mighty Don't Kneel (TMDK) are a professional wrestling stable performing in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The stable consists of Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste, Bad Dude Tito, Zack Sabre Jr., Robbie Eagles, Kosei Fujita, Hartley Jackson, and Ryohei Oiwa; Sabre Jr. is a former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion and was a former two-time and inaugural NJPW World Television Champion, Nicholls and Haste are former two time IWGP Tag Team Champions and Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions, and Fujita and Eagles are former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. The stable was primarily known as a tag team in Pro Wrestling Noah, with Nicholls and Haste being two-time GHC Tag Team Champions. They also worked for Ring of Honor (ROH), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and WWE (where they were named TM-61 and The Mighty in NXT).
Though best known as a tag team, TMDK has also been a stable, which included, in addition to Nicholls and Haste, fellow Australians Jonah (formerly Jonah Rock), Elliot Sexton, Marcuis Pitt and Slex. TMDK has also been said to stand for "Torture, Murder, Destroy, Kill".
Nicholls and Veryzer signed with WWE and were assigned to its developmental territory NXT, Nicholls and Veryzer were renamed Nick Miller and Shane Thorne, while their tag team was renamed TM-61 and later, The Mighty. However, the team would disband in 2018 following Nicholls' release.