T & A (professional wrestling)

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Tag Team
T & A
Members	Test Albert Trish Stratus (valet)
Name(s)	Test & Albert (T & A) Test & Albert Protection Agency (T & APA)
Heights	6 ft 7 in (201 cm) - Test 6 ft 8 in (203 cm)- Albert
Debut	2000
Disbanded	2000
Trainer	Funkin' Conservatory Dory Funk, Jr.

T & A (Test & Albert) is a former heel professional wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Federation. T&A had Trish Stratus as their team manager with their name being a pun on the initials of the two wrestlers and the slang expression T&A (referring to Tits and Ass), spawning numerous coarse jokes on fan's signs and from commentator Jerry Lawler in reference to the buxom Trish Stratus.

Test and Albert met in Dory Funk, Jr.'s training center, the Funkin' Conservatory, where they were trained. Following this, both men took on individual careers in the business leading them to the WWF, where they were repackaged as a tag team during 2000. On the March 19, 2000 episode of Sunday Night Heat Stratus made her debut with the gimmick of scouting wrestlers to form a team. Shortly after this Test and Albert (who both wrestled on that show) became her wards.

The team feuded with other established tag teams including Too Cool, and the Hardy Boyz. A match against the Dudley Boyz at the Backlash 2000 pay-per-view Stratus was actually the recipient of a powerbomb through a table from Bubba Ray Dudley. The incident was deemed excessively violent by Channel 4, providers of the event in the United Kingdom and edited from their showing of the event.

During a feud with the Acolytes Protection Agency (APA), the two men parodied the team under the name T & APA (Test & Albert Protection Agency). Though the men became an established tag team in the promotion, they never won the World Tag Team Championship.

In December 2000, Albert turned on Test, causing (kayfabe) internal injuries which resulted in bleeding from Test's mouth. Trish continued to manage Albert for a while, but eventually began a storyline involving Vince McMahon. Albert went on to join X-Pac and Justin Credible in their own stable, X-Factor. Test went on to feud with Eddie Guerrero over the European title before eventually joining The Alliance.