5 WWE Tag Team Champions You Forgot About

#3 Kenzo Suzuki & René Duprée - 2004

Both foreign, so why not?

René Duprée and Kenzo Suzuki were both poised for big pushes at the same time on WWE SmackDown in 2004, before officially becoming a tag team. Duprée had spent a couple of months unsuccessfully pursuing the United States Championship from John Cena, while Suzuki had been winning squash matches for several months over everyone on the lower card from Scotty 2 Hotty to Billy Gunn.

WWE reached the point of not knowing what to do with either of them around the same time when they had no plans for Cena to drop the U.S title to Duprée at least, and Suzuki wasn't fairing very well, entertainment wise, in matches longer than 4 minutes.

For these reasons and the fact they were both foreign heels, it was decided to put them together as a tag team. They would literately be barely two weeks into teaming together before they defeated Billy Kidman and Paul London for the WWE Tag Team Championships on an episode of SmackDown in September 2004.

The reign was pretty uneventful. The only tag team they feuded with during their 3-month reign as Champs was Rob Van Dam and Rey Mysterio, who would eventually topple them for the gold that December.

During most of their time as a team, Suzuki had been attempted to have been made into a comedic character, but it never really caught on. After a few unsuccessful title rematches, Duprée and Suzuki were quietly disbanded in February 2005, after Suzuki left WWE TV to deal with an injury and was released before returning to TV.