The New Breed was a professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

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 tag team

Tag team

Tag team professional wrestling is a variation in which matches are contested between teams of multiple wrestlers. A tag team may comprise two wrestlers who normally wrestle in singles competition, but more commonly are made of established teams who wrestle regularly as a unit and have a team name...

, formed in 1986, consisting of Chris Champion

Christopher Ashford-Smith

Christopher Ashford-Smith is an American professional wrestler better known under the ring names Chris Champion or Yoshi Kwan...

 and Sean Royal

Sean Royal

Sean Royal was a professional wrestler from Tampa, Florida, in the United States.-Career:Sean Royal started wrestling in 1986 in Florida Championship Wrestling in a tag team with Chris Champion called The New Breed They claimed to be from the year 2002 and came to the ring to the tune of the...

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History

In 1986, Chris Champion and Sean Royal were put together as a tag team in Florida Championship Wrestling. Their gimmick had them claiming to be from the future, specifically the year 2002. As a result, they often referred to Dusty Rhodes

Dusty Rhodes (wrestler)

Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr. , better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler currently working for WWE...

 as "Mr. President

President of the United States

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". They also believed that Lazer Tron

Hector Guerrero

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 was a real robot

Robot

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, since robots were common where they were from, and they constantly referred to the flux capacitor, the fictional time conduit from the Back to the Future

Back to the Future

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In 1987, they moved to the NWA

National Wrestling Alliance

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's Jim Crockett Promotions

Jim Crockett Promotions

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 and immediately challenged the Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton

Ricky Morton

Richard Wendell "Ricky" Morton is an American professional wrestler who has worked for such wrestling organizations as Jim Crockett Promotions, the American Wrestling Association, Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation and Total Nonstop Action...

 and Robert Gibson

Reuben Kane

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). The feud

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 was heating up when both men were legitimately injured in a car accident. Royal returned right away, but was not pushed

Push (professional wrestling)

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 except to be attacked by the Midnight Express (Stan Lane

Stan Lane

Wallace Stanfield "Stan" Lane is an American professional wrestler, trained by Ric Flair, who started wrestling in 1974 in Championship Wrestling from Florida. For a brief time in Florida, he was nicknamed Nature Boy...

 and Bobby Eaton

Bobby Eaton

Robert Lee "Bobby" Eaton is an American semi-retired professional wrestler, who made his debut in 1976. Eaton is most famous for his work in tag teams, especially his days as one-half of the team the Midnight Express. Under the management of Jim Cornette, Eaton originally teamed with Dennis...

). Champion was out for quite a while, but did return to cut some promos with his cast

Orthopedic cast

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 marked up to look like it was "computerized". The team disbanded shortly after the accident, with Royal quitting wrestling to become a construction worker

Construction worker

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Several variations of the team have been created in different independent promotions

Independent circuit

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over the years.