Lord Jasin Karloff and Preacher John Cannon have held championships in close to a dozen independent promotions as the merciless gothic tandem known as the Society of Ventrue. The duo united as a team in AWESOME in 2008 (although Karloff had been competing as a main event singles wrestler with AWESOME for a year prior to that) and quickly began competing with the top teams on the roster, forming a quick rivalry against the Cutting Edge of Nick Sabre and Chris Steeler.
At Summer Heat 2008 the duo became the first ever Jersey Shore Elite Tag Team Champions by defeating Sure Fire (Jay Blaze & Steve Zapf) and the United Nations (Diego and Demitrius) in a three way dance. Since then they have defended the titles against several top tandems including Cutting Edge & the Guitar Heroes