The Highlanders

The Highlanders are a professional wrestling Tag team consisting of Rory McAlister (Russell Murray) and Robbie McAlister (Derek Graham-Couch), billed as cousins. As their name indicates Rory and Robbie’s gimmick is that of a pair wild highlanders from Scotland. After graduating from the World Wrestling Entertainment farm league Ohio Valley Wrestling the Highlanders were introduced to the Raw audience through a series of humorous vignettes that showed the backwards country Highlanders as they ventured into the big city. The Highlanders made their debut as faces but recently turned Heels on the team of Paul London and Brian Kendrick because of their ambitions of a shot at the World Tag Team Championship held by Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch.