The New Breed was a professional wrestling tag team, formed in 1986, consisting of Chris Champion and Sean Royal. The team had a gimmick of being time travelers from the then-future of 2002. As a team, Royal and Champion won the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship while working for Championship Wrestling from Florida.
| New Breed | |
|---|---|
 The New Breed, Sean Royal (left) and Chris Champion (right), circa 1988 | |
| Tag team | |
| Members | Chris Champion[1] Sean Royal[2] |
| Name(s) | New Breed[3] |
| Billed from | "The future" |
| Debut | 1986 |
| Disbanded | 1987 |
History
editIn 1986, Chris Champion and Sean Royal were put together as a tag team in Florida Championship Wrestling. Their gimmick had them claiming to be from the future, specifically the year 2002.[4] As a result, they often referred to Dusty Rhodes as "Mr. President".[5] They also believed that Lazer Tron was a real robot, since robots were supposedly common where they were from. They constantly referred to the flux capacitor, the fictional time conduit from Back to the Future. They also made many references to robot toys, referring to Lazer Tron as one of the Go-Bots, and using Transformers references like Cybertron and showing their loyalty to the Decepticons.[5] For a while they were managed by a robot called XTC-1[6]
In 1987, they moved to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions and immediately challenged the Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson). The feud was heating up when both men were injured in a car accident.[7] Royal returned right away, but was not pushed except to be attacked by the Midnight Express (Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton). Champion was out for quite a while, but did return to cut some promos with his cast marked up to look like it was "computerized".[5] The team disbanded shortly after the accident, with Royal quitting wrestling to become a construction worker.
Championships and accomplishments
editReferences
edit- ^ "Wrestler profiles: Chris Champion". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
- ^ "Wrestler profiles: Steve Regal". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
- ^ "New Breed". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
- ^ "From the future to Florida?". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States: Sports and Entertainment publications LLC. April 1987.
- ^ a b c RD Reynolds and Randy Baer (2003). "Welcome to Oz! Welcome to Oz!". Wrestlecrap – the very worst of pro wrestling. ECW Press. pp. 97–118. ISBN 1-55022-584-7.
- ^ Braxton, Blade (April 11, 2015). "Inducion: XTC-1 – the world's first robotic wrestling manager!". WrestleCrap. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
- ^ Meltzer, Dave (July 6, 1987). "News". Wrestling Observer Newsletter (7.06.87).
- ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). "Florida: NWA Florida Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. pp. 160–161. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.