Just six months after the breakup of The Un-Americans, the untested team of Sylvain Grenier and Rene Dupree were paired together as Frenchmen who believed that America was failing in the post 9/11 "War on Terror." Grenier and Dupree became World Tag Team Champions after defeating the makeshift tag team of Kane and Rob Van Dam Bad Blood 2003. However, just winning the tag straps and generating heat as an evil tag combination wasn't enough. Then Ohio Valley Wrestling standout Rob Conway was added to the duo playing the role of an American serviceman being ostracized by La Resistance until the Dudley Boyz made the save. However, when the Dudleys turned their backs, Conway attacked with the American flag the Dudleys gave him, then buried them under the flag. The duo-turned-trio carried the French flag to ringside, sang French national anthem before matches, and Conway would belittle the crowd with anti-American rhetoric, too.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
