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| + | Axel and Ryback initially formed out of mutually spite for their former advocate/manager, Paul Heyman. While they scored a substantial win over tag team champions; The Brotherhood, they often were on the losing side of their matches and didn't particularly gel in the first several weeks of teaming, though In late-January, they began coming into their element and in the meantime, even adopted an official team name. They thwarted the likes of Los Matadores, The Usos and even decimated Darren Young enough for his partner Titus O'Neil to attack and leave him. This short run of dominance ended on the kick-off to Elimination Chamber when they were defeated by The Brotherhood, with Curtis' grandfather in their corner. |
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| + | After Elimination Chamber, RybAxel became noticabely closer, with Ryback going as far as to wear their faces on his singlet and changing his signature phrase to "RybAxel Rules!". The Authority felt they had helped enough to earn themselves a WWE Tag Team Championship match at Wrestlemania 30 against champions The Usos and challengers Los Matadores and The Real Americans, they were eventually the second team eliminated. Along with their new found friendship, they became a more confident and established tagteam, causing friction between The Brotherhood while also proving themselves worthy of a championship match, but were once again defeated by The Usos; April 28th on RAW. |
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[[December 27, 2013 Smackdown results|December 27]] they were defeated by [[The Prime Time Players]]. |
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Revision as of 19:28, 29 April 2014
RybAxel[1] is a heel tag team of Ryback and Curtis Axel. Both had formerly worked together as "Paul Heyman guys", but then rejected their mentor and formed a tag team together.
Their team name is a portmanteau formed from the shared A of Ryback (derived from "Ryan the Silverback") and Axel, the surname Joseph Curtis Hennig chose to honor his grandfather.
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History
Rocky Beginnings (November 2013 - March 2014)
Axel and Ryback initially formed out of mutually spite for their former advocate/manager, Paul Heyman. While they scored a substantial win over tag team champions; The Brotherhood, they often were on the losing side of their matches and didn't particularly gel in the first several weeks of teaming, though In late-January, they began coming into their element and in the meantime, even adopted an official team name. They thwarted the likes of Los Matadores, The Usos and even decimated Darren Young enough for his partner Titus O'Neil to attack and leave him. This short run of dominance ended on the kick-off to Elimination Chamber when they were defeated by The Brotherhood, with Curtis' grandfather in their corner.
Number One Contenders (April 2014 - present)
After Elimination Chamber, RybAxel became noticabely closer, with Ryback going as far as to wear their faces on his singlet and changing his signature phrase to "RybAxel Rules!". The Authority felt they had helped enough to earn themselves a WWE Tag Team Championship match at Wrestlemania 30 against champions The Usos and challengers Los Matadores and The Real Americans, they were eventually the second team eliminated. Along with their new found friendship, they became a more confident and established tagteam, causing friction between The Brotherhood while also proving themselves worthy of a championship match, but were once again defeated by The Usos; April 28th on RAW.
Teaming
November 25 they were defeated by Henry & Langston
November 29 Ryback was in the corner of Axel, but Axel lost to Mark Henry (accompanied by Langston).
December 2 they defeated Kofi Kingston after his partner Miz abandoned him.
December 6 they defeated the Rhodes Brothers
December 9 they teamed up with The Real Americans but lost to the combined team of The Rhodes Dynasty and Show & Mysterio.
December 11 at Tribute to the Troops 2013 they lost to Henry & Langston in a dark match.
December 13 Axel accompanied Ryback, but he lost to Big Show (accompanied by Rey Mysterio).
December 16 they defeated Tons of Funk with Ryback pinning Tensai. This caused Brodus Clay to attack Tensai, and the team's breakup. Truth & Consequences ran out to rescue Tensai but RybAxel had left at that point.
December 27 they were defeated by The Prime Time Players.
Background
Axel used to hold the Intercontinental Championship until he lost it to Big E. Besides being proteges to Paul Heyman under their new identities, they were both former members of Nexus as Skip Sheffield and Michael McGillicutty.
See also
- The Beard and the Best, a team including another former Heyman guy, CM Punk
External links
References
- ↑ Ryback & Curtis Axel def. Tons of Funk December 16 2013: "It was tons of fun for “RybAxel” when they knocked off WWE’s boogieing brutes one night after a failed play for the Tag Titles at WWE TLC"
