New Breed

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The New Breed was a professional wrestling tag team that wrestled in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in the late 1980's.

[edit] History

The New Breed was formed by Chris Champion and Sean Royal in Florida Championship Wrestling in 1986. They won the Florida Tag Team Titles and feuded with The Southern Boys (Steve Armstrong & Tracy Smothers). They claimed to have come from the year 2002, and stated that in that year Dusty Rhodes was President of the United States. They also supposedly believed that Lazer Tron was a robot, claiming that robots were commonplace in 2002. They also constantly referred to the fictional time conduit from Back to the Future, the Flux Capacitor, but always ended up incorrectly pronouncing it as Flux Capacitator.

In 1987, they arrived in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions and immediately challenged the Rock 'N Roll Express. The feud was heating up when they were injured in a car accident. Royal returned right away but was not pushed except to be attacked by the Midnight Express. Champion was out for quite awhile but did do some hilarious interviews with his cast all marked up to look like it was computerized. The team disbanded shortly after the accident as Royal quit wrestling to be a construction worker.

The team has been recreated in many small time Independent Federations.