The Highlanders (professional wrestling)

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The Highlanders
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Robbie (left) and Rory McAllister
Tag team
Members Robbie McAllister
Rory McAllister
Name(s) The Highlanders
Heights 6 ft (183 cm) - Robbie
6 ft 2 in (188 cm) - Rory
Combined weight 470 lb (34 stone) (213 kg)
Hometown Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Billed from Oban, Scotland
Debuted 2000
Promotions PWA
NSPW
OVW
WWE
Trainer Waldo Von Erich

The Highlanders are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of (kayfabe) cousins Robbie (Derek Graham-Couch) and Rory McAllister (Russell Murray), who currently wrestle for World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand.

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[edit] History

Couch and Murray were both born and raised in Oban, Scotland (where the team is currently billed from) before moving to Cambridge, Ontario, Canada in 1988[1].

Couch first started going to a wrestling school at the behest of co-worker at CAMI Automotive, Inc. [2] where he met future tag team partner Murray. The two were trained by Waldo Von Erich[1] at the Von Erich / Hart Brothers School of Wrestling.

The two men began wrestling as the team Highlanders in South-Western Ontario with promotions such as Pure Wrestling Association (PWA) and Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling, which ran shows in the Ontario, Canada region. The team's last independent match before signing a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) occurred in PWA, against Andrew Davis and Phil Latio in Cambridge, Ontario.

They then signed a developmental deal with World Wrestling Entertainment in July of 2005 and were assigned to their "farm territory" Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) where they wrestled for several months.

In July of 2006 vignettes began airing on WWE RAW featuring The Highlanders exploring "the big city" and comparing the differences to their native Scotland in classic fish out of water style.

The Highlanders made their RAW debut on July 3, with a victory over the duo of Matt Striker and Rob Conway. They followed this victory with another over the same team and were put on the fast track to a match for the Spirit Squad's Tag Team Titles.

When they were granted a match against Spirit Squad members Kenny and Mikey, The Highlanders were defeated after abundant interference by the other members.

Throughout the month of August, The Highlanders continued to battle different tag teams until they won a Triple Threat tag team match over the team of Charlie Haas and Viscera and Cade and Murdoch, which made them the #1 contenders to the Spirit Squad's titles on the September 4 RAW. However they were unsuccessful in winning the titles at Unforgiven, again because of interference from Spirit Squad members not technically a part of the match. Since then they mostly compete on RAW's sister show HEAT.

[edit] In wrestling

  • Finishing and signature moves
  • Entrance and mannerisms
  • Keeping with their Scottish background, The Highlanders weights are given in stone when announced instead of pounds.
  • The duo also have a seemingly subconscious constant itch and often tag each other in with hard slaps[3].

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Rennie, Steve. Highlanders set sights on WWE. Slam! Wrestling. Retrieved on July 6, 2006.
  2. ^ Smith, Cory. Highlanders make their Raw debut. Woodstock Sentinel-Review. Retrieved on July 5, 2006.
  3. ^ Lords of Pain RAW review with reference to both mannerisms.
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