10 B-Team WWE Tag Team Champions

9. Kenzo Suzuki & Rene Dupree

The B Team WWE Tag TEam Champions
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René Duprée endured a tumultuous WWE run. Crowned the youngest wrestler to ever hold WWE gold in 2003, he enjoyed moderate success as one half of the original La Resistance lineup, though his period with the company was blighted by allegations of backstage hazing, and his fortunes declined significantly after parting with Sylvain Grenier.

2004 saw him align with another directionless foreign heel in Kenzo Suzuki, and WWE strapped them without any real thought. They became Tag Team Champions on a September episode of SmackDown, dethroning former champs Billy Kidman and Paul London with relative ease. Three months of mundanity followed, before the thrown-together duo finally lost the gold to Rob Van Dam and Rey Mysterio, with an Armageddon '04 rematch shunting them out of the championship picture for good.

Theirs was exactly the kind of reign that should never happen. Suzuki and Duprée had no reason to team together, and the title win was just as pointless, though it admittedly came at a time when such haphazard booking was commonplace in the division at the time, with Kidman and London hardly setting the world alight as champions themselves.

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