10 Worst Anti-American Wrestling Gimmicks
1. The Un-Americans
If WCW's Team Canada were a diluted Hart Foundation, then the Un-Americans were the flavoured water edition of the partisan Storm collective.
Formed in 2002 after a longstanding allegiance between Christian and Lance Storm took on an anti-American slant, the duo added fellow Canadian Test and later Brit William Regal to their fold.
Allegedly, the original concept for the group was for Chris Jericho to join the crew (having used Christian and Storm as his goons when holding the WWE Undisputed Title earlier that year) as a pro-Canadian faction, but the crew adopted a hatred of America as their raison d'être, and the idea was dropped.
Briefly dominating Raw as top heels away from the woeful Triple H programmes of the day, their repeated attempts to burn the American flag brought them rivals from up and down the roster, including Test scoring a SummerSlam match with The Undertaker and Storm and Christian trading tag titles with Booker T and Goldust.
Like most things in 2002, it was just so horrifically boring. The flag-burning allegedly drew so much heat inside arenas that the bulk of the group were uncomfortable with performing the role, but that wasn't easy to discern as a viewer. Michael Hayes commented that only William Regal was comfortable coping with the fan dissent, and the faction was hastily dissolved following a few token defeats.