Tyson Kidd and Cesaro

Tyson Kidd and Cesaro

Tyson Kidd and Cesaro as the WWE Tag Team Champions in March 2015.
Tag team
Members Tyson Kidd
Cesaro
Natalya (valet)
Name(s) Tyson Kidd and Cesaro[1]
Heights Tyson Kidd
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Cesaro
6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)[3]
Natalya
5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[4]
Combined
weight		 571 lb (259 kg)[2][3][5]
Debut December 1, 2014
Disbanded June 7, 2015
Years active 2014–2015
Promotions WWE

Tyson Kidd and Cesaro was a professional wrestling tag team in WWE. They were former WWE Tag Team Champions. They formed a tag team in December 2014, and are accompanied to the ring by Natalya, Kidd's real-life wife. The team ended in June 2015 when Kidd suffered a legitimate injury, rendering him out of action for over a year.

History

Kidd and Cesaro first teamed on December 1, 2014, when they were eliminated by The Usos in a gauntlet match for a shot at the tag team titles.[6] In January 2015, Kidd formed an official alliance with Cesaro. The pair dubbed themselves "The Brass Ring Club" and proceeded to pick up multiple wins over Los Matadores, as well as allying with Adam Rose to feud with The New Day. At the Royal Rumble, Kidd and Cesaro defeated New Day members Big E and Kofi Kingston, before entering the Royal Rumble match at #12 (Kidd) and #28 (Cesaro) and being eliminated by Daniel Bryan and Dolph Ziggler respectively.[7]

At Fastlane on February 22, Kidd and Cesaro defeated The Usos to capture the WWE Tag Team Championship, a title Kidd had not held for nearly 5 years.[8] They retained their title in a rematch the following night on Raw after Natalya caused a disqualification, cementing Natalya as a villainess in solidarity with the duo.[9] On the WrestleMania 31 pre-show, Kidd and Cesaro retained their title by defeating The Usos, Los Matadores and The New Day in a Fatal-4-Way tag team match. At Extreme Rules,[10] Kidd and Cesaro lost their titles to rivals The New Day when Kofi Kingston held onto Cesaro's tights for the pin, ending their reign at 63 days. After The New Day turned heel, Cesaro and Kidd became faces for the first time as a tag team (also marking Cesaro's first true face turn in the WWE). On the May 4th episode of Raw, Cesaro and Kidd defeated The Ascension after Kidd drop kicked Viktor while Cesaro was performing his Cesaro Swing. Afterwards, they had a confrontation with The New Day backstage, leading the fans in chanting "New Day sucks" to The New Day's trademark clapping. At Payback, Kidd and Cesaro challenged The New Day in a rematch for the WWE Tag Team Championships in a two out of three falls match. The duo scored the first fall of the match, but ultimately lost the second and third falls (the third fall being made by Xavier Woods, who wasn't one of the legal participants in the match), failing to recapture the titles. It was announced Kidd and Cesaro would take part in the first ever tag team elimination chamber match for the tag team titles at Elimination Chamber on May 31, where they failed to win the titles after being eliminated by The Prime Time Players. On June 7, WWE announced that Kidd had suffered a legitimate neck/spinal injury during a dark match with Samoa Joe on June 1, and would be out of action for over a year.[11]

As a tribute to his tag team partner, Cesaro continued to wear armbands saying "KIDD" on them. On the June 29 episode of Raw, Cesaro answered John Cena's United States Championship open challenge and won by disqualification after Kevin Owens interfered and assaulted Cesaro.[12] He unsuccessfully challenged Cena for the championship again on the July 6 episode of Raw in a match that was hailed as an 'instant classic'.[13][14] Cesaro defeated Sheamus on the November 9 episode of Raw to advance to the quarterfinals in a tournament to crown a new WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Survivor Series, but lost to Roman Reigns in the quarterfinals on November 16. On November 23, WWE announced Cesaro had torn his left shoulder rotator cuff two months prior, but needed surgery, leaving him out of action for four to six months.[15] On the April 4 episode of Raw, Cesaro made his return as Sami Zayn's replacement to compete in a Fatal 4-Way #1 Contender's match involving AJ Styles, Chris Jericho, and Kevin Owens, which was won by Styles.[16]

In wrestling

Kidd and Cesaro performing the Cesaro Swing/Dropkick combination.

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ↑ "WWE Tag Team Championships -". WWE. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Tyson Kidd Bio". WWE. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Cesaro". WWE. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Natalya Bio". WWE. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Nattie Neidhart". SuperGirls Wrestling. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2010.
  6. ↑ "CALDWELL'S WWE RAW RESULTS 12/1: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live Raw - Anonymous GM, TLC hype, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2014-12-01.
  7. ↑ Meltzer, Dave. "WWE Royal Rumble 2015 results and coverage: Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena vs. Seth Rollins". F4W Online. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
  8. ↑ Caldwell, James (February 22, 2015). "CALDWELL'S WWE FAST LANE PPV RESULTS 2/22: Ongoing "virtual-time" coverage of Bryan vs. Reigns, Cena vs. Rusev, Sting-Hunter confrontation, final PPV before WM31". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ Caldwell, James (February 23, 2015). "CALDWELL'S WWE RAW RESULTS 2/23: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live Raw - Fast Lane fall-out, no Lesnar, Orton & Rollins vs. Bryan & Reigns main event, WM31 build-up, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
  10. ↑ http://www.wwe.com/shows/extremerules/2015/wwe-tag-team-championship-match-27298251
  11. ↑ "Tyson Kidd suffers injury". WWE. June 7, 2015. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
  12. ↑ Caldwell, James (June 29, 2015). "CALDWELL'S WWE RAW RESULTS 6/29: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live Raw - The Shield trio in big tag match, Cena's U.S. Title Open Challenge, Dolph/Lana, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  13. ↑ "The Eck Factor". Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  14. ↑ Tom Breihan and Ernest Wilkins. "Is John Cena The Best Wrestler Of 2015?". Deadspin. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  15. ↑ Pappolla, Ryan (November 23, 2015). "Exclusive interview: Cesaro on his shoulder injury and plans for return". WWE. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  16. ↑ "4/4 WWE Raw Results – CALDWELL’S Complete Report on post-WM32". PWTorch.com. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  17. ↑ Valvo, Anthony. "NXT Results – 2/22/12". Wrestleview. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  18. ↑ Big D. "More WWE developmental TV taping for no TV – but there may be news on that front" (PDF). Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Online. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  19. ↑ Tedesco, Mike. "Superstars Results – 1/6/11". Wrestleview. Retrieved 10 July 2011. Kidd hits the Fisherman's Neckbreaker for the win.
  20. ↑ James Caldwell. "CALDWELL'S WWE NXT RESULTS 4/19: Complete "virtual time" coverage of NXT Season 5, Week 7 – Yoshi-Lucky and Regal-Novak feuds continue". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2011-05-26. spinning neckbreaker for the pin and the win.
  21. ↑ "Main Event: Ambrose sends message to Wyatt". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 26 February 2015. Swinging fisherman's neckbreaker lands inside for Kidd. Winner by pinfall: Tyson Kidd
  22. ↑ Caldwell, James. "Royal Rumble PPV report 1/25 (Pre-Show): Rock at the Rumble teaser, Cesaro & Kidd vs. New Day". PWTorch.com. Retrieved 26 January 2015. Kidd to snap off a cradle suplex neckbreaker on Kofi for the pin and the win.
  23. ↑ Brummitt, Matt (2012-04-15). "Brummitt's FCW TV report 4/8: WWE Developmental TV coverage – Claudio vs. Steamboat, Ross & Regal commentary, Regal-Ambrose feud, Hero promo, new gimmicks for O'Brian & Harris". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
  24. ↑ James, Justin (2012-07-04). "James's NXT report 6/27: Week 2 of New NXT season - Bateman vs. Curtis main event, Cesaro, Seth Rollins, Steamboat". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
  25. ↑ "WWE NXT SPOILER REPORT FROM WINTER PARK, FL By Andres Santiago on 2012-11-16".
  26. ↑ Plummer, Dale. "Smackdown!: Randy Orton apologizes to The Authority". SLAM! Wrestling. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  27. ↑ Clevett, Jason (February 14, 2007). "TJ & Nattie: A perfect team". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
  28. 1 2 "Natalya Neidhart". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved April 26, 2008.
  29. ↑ McNamara, Andy (July 17, 2009). "SmackDown: Punk and Hardy heat up Miami". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  30. ↑ Namako, Jason (September 13, 2012). "Superstars Results – 9/13/12". WrestleView. Archived from the original on September 17, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
  31. ↑ Tedesco, Mike (November 25, 2011). "Smackdown 11/25/11". WrestleView. Archived from the original on December 3, 2011. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
  32. ↑ "Who Invented the Sharpshooter?". WWE. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  33. ↑ "Tyson Kidd and Cesaro's Tag Team Championship reign". WWE.
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