10 Thrown Together WWE Tag Teams That Didn't Really Work

2. René Duprée & Kenzo Suzuki

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These guys again? Okay, I rag on René Duprée and Kenzo Suzuki a little too much, but everything about this pairing felt wrong. To make matters worse, they even received a three-month WWE Tag Team Championship reign, a sign of how weak the WWE tag team division was at the time. They defended the belts on PPV just once during this time, picking up a cheap win against the team that would eventually dethrone them, Rey Mysterio & Rob Van Dam.

WWE was desperate for Duprée to be a big star. When La Résistance won the tag titles from Kane & RVD in 2003 (so many thrown together teams!) Duprée became the first teenager to win gold in World Wrestling Entertainment. He was eventually drafted to SmackDown and immediately entered a singles feud with John Cena over the United States Championship. The crowd didn't care though, and Duprée in singles was forgotten.

Pairing the Frenchman with the Japanese Kenzo Suzuki made little sense outside of 'neither of them are American', and the chemistry between them was virtually non-existent. Kenzo Suzuki and René Duprée are a duo best left consigned to the bin of history.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.