La Résistance La Résistance are a professional wrestling tag team and formerly a heel stable previously performing for World Wrestling Entertainment . History . False start on SmackDown . The La Resistance angle had an unsuccessful start in February 2003 . During a pay - per - view show in Montreal , the WWE mocked the Montreal Screwjob in the main event . Sylvain Grenier had been working as a referee for two months prior to the re - match between Hulk Hogan and The Rock . During the aforementioned match , Grenier served as the referee , who contributed to Hogan ' s loss . It was later announced that Grenier was French - Canadian , so essentially it was a Canadian who cheated the fans this time ( overlooking that neither Hogan nor The Rock were from Canada , so neither was the hometown representative ) . Grenier would continue to serve as a biased official who decided matches to Mr . McMahon ' s wishes . The original planned result of this was for Grenier to continue playing in favor of villains long enough so that numerous fan favorites to be cheated and confront him . Claiming racial discrimination , he would call in friend René Duprée to help him enforce " cultural sensitivity " . However , after Hogan defeated McMahon at WrestleMania XIX , the angle was changed completely , removing Grenier ' s role entirely before it could begin to go far enough to call in Duprée . Debut on Raw . The stable was instead officially created on Raw , when WWE aired vignettes of Duprée and Grenier as two arrogant " Frenchmen " ( rather than French - Canadians ) attacking the United States and its foreign policy from a French news studio . Grenier and Duprée made their first appearance on the April 28 , 2003 edition of Raw as La Résistance by attacking then - fan favorite Scott Steiner . Steiner had made remarks two weeks earlier comparing France to hell and Grenier and Duprée were offended . La Résistance went on to feud with Scott Steiner and Test who was forced to be Steiner ' s tag team partner by Stacy Keibler . La Résistance ended up defeating Steiner and Test at Judgment Day on May 18 , 2003 in the team ' s pay - per - view debut . Their most notorious insult to the United States came on Memorial Day in 2003 when they interrupted Raw announcer Lilian Garcia as she was singing America the Beautiful . After several minutes of Grenier calling America barbarians and saying that France would not allow the US to be the police force of the world , the sound of glass shattering suddenly filled the arena when Steve Austin cleared the ring of La Résistance and said some unflattering remarks about the French nation . Adding Rob Conway . In spite of the team winning the Tag Team titles after only 1 month ( making Duprée the youngest title holder ever in the WWE ) , the pair failed to get over with fans . The duo made a number of silly mistakes during televised matches and skits , and fans were unable to take them seriously as a legitimate tag team . In mid - 2003 the decision was made to add a third member . Enter Rob Conway , who , on the August 18 edition of RAW , posed as an American serviceman being abused by Grenier and Duprée . When The Dudley Boyz came out to attack La Résistance they brought Conway in the ring with an American flag . Once the Dudley Boyz had their backs turned to Conway , he attacked them with the American flag and then tore it off the pole and laid it on top of them . However , Conway ' s role was that of a manager at first . Backstage , the idea to have Conway join La Résistance came from Grenier , who was not enjoying teaming with Duprée and later said " René was not helpful . He was not fun to travel with . It ' s sad , but Rob made me love wrestling again " . Originally , the Dudley Boys were due to get revenge on La Resistance in a non - title match at Unforgiven , allegedly leading to a title match loss at the following pay - per - view . The match was announced as a ' 6 - man Table Elimination match ' , declaring that the winning team would be the one to physically force each of their three opponents through wooden tables . La Resistance were due to team with Rob Conway to take on The Dudley Boyz ( including Spike Dudley ) . A few days before the pay - per - view , La Resistance beat down all three Dudleyz after an unrelated match . Grenier and Dupree picked up Spike Dudley and tried to perform a spinebuster move which was supposed to result in Spike going over the top rope and through a table that had been set up outside the ring . The move was botched as Spike was not thrown far enough , and instead of breaking the table he hit his head on the edge of it as he landed suffering a concussion . Two minutes later Duprée and Grenier tried again with Bubba Ray Dudley and the move worked , although Bubba landed on the injured Spike . At the Unforgiven pay - per - view , the match was changed to a 3 - on - 2 handicap match ( with the Dudleyz losing Spike ) . And if the Dudleyz were to win , they would win the Tag Team titles . And as such , the Dudleyz did win the match and the titles . La Résistance went on to feud with several other tag teams , including Hurricane and Rosey , and the team of Garrison Cade and Mark Jindrak before Grenier suffered a back injury in October 2003 . Conway was now inducted as a fully - fledged member of La Resistance , continuing the team with Duprée . However , the duo failed to make an impact as a tag team or singles competitors . Grenier returned to the stable on the March 15 , 2004 edition of Raw . One week later , Duprée was drafted in a lottery by WWE ' s other brand , SmackDown . While on SmackDown , Dupree retained the La Resistance theme song as his own . Conway changed his name to Robért Conway , and continued the La Resistance team with Grenier . Now that Dupree was on SmackDown , the stable stopped pretending to be French , and started representing French Canada ( particularly Quebec ) . Conway and Dupree also debuted a new finishing move based upon Conway ' s spinning neckbreaker . On the May 26 , 2003 edition of Raw , Grenier defeated Rob Van Dam in a Flag match to win a World Tag Team Championship shot . Grenier and Duprée went on to win the World Tag Team Championship from Kane and Rob Van Dam at Bad Blood . Conway and Grenier . While Duprée went to SmackDown and established his French Phenom persona , Conway and Grenier were left to keep La Résistance together as a unit . ( Neither Duprée nor the La Résistance tag team changed their entrance music ; Dupree and Japanese wrestler Kenzo Suzuki formed a short lived tag team that used a remixed version of it . ) Conway and Grenier began being announced as hailing from Quebec City ( later changed to simply the Province of Quebec ) instead of France and wore new ring attire with the blue and white colours of Quebec along with the traditional fleur - de - lis . Several months after the loss of Duprée , La Résistance went on to defeat Edge and Chris Benoit for the World Tag Team Titles in Grenier ' s home town of Montreal , Quebec to a standing ovation . With the help of Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff La Résistance managed to keep hold of the titles for five months . Towards the end of their run , La Resistance had become too dependent on cheating and Bischoff to help them retain their tag team titles . Both members of La Resistance had been included in an Internet poll for the first PPV Taboo Tuesday . The winner of this poll would challenge Chris Jericho for the Intercontinental Title ( being villains , neither man was likely to win ) . However , Bischoff told them that they were not representing the Tag Team Championship properly , and they were removed from the poll . There was another poll to determine who would challenge Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship ( either Shawn Michaels , Chris Benoit or Edge ) . La Resistance were told that they would have to defend the Tag Team titles against a team made up of the two men who did not earn the World Heavyweight Title shot . During Taboo Tuesday the announcement was made that Shawn Michaels had been voted for a title shot with 38 . 72 % of the vote compared to Edge ' s 33 . 42 % and Benoit ' s 27 . 86 % ; this meant La Résistance would meet Edge and Benoit in a rematch of their championship victory five months earlier . They would lose the titles to Edge and Benoit , even though Edge left the arena half - way through the match leaving Benoit to win the match on his own . As Grenier and Conway invoked their rematch clause thirteen days later on Raw , the dissension between Benoit and Edge would continue and finally be their undoing as La Résistance won the titles back ( Even though Benoit won and defended the titles alone , the WWE still recognises Edge as being the co - holder of the titles with Benoit ) . Soon after , on the November 15 , 2004 edition of Raw , La Résistance lost the World Tag Team Championship again , this time to Eugene and William Regal . Grenier and Conway managed to win the World Tag Team Championship for the third time together and fourth since the creation of the stable . This championship win was a rare one since it was won at a Raw - brand house show on January 16 , 2005 in Winnipeg , Manitoba . This time , La Résistance defeated Regal and Jonathan Coachman , who was taking the place of the legitimately injured Eugene ( who would miss several months due to a left patella tear at New Year ' s Revolution ) . Grenier and Conway soon lost the belts back to Regal and his tag team partner Tajiri , on an episode of Raw taking place from Tajiri ' s hometown of Tokyo , Japan . La Résistance repeatedly attempted to regain the gold ( mainly on Sunday Night Heat ) from Regal and Tajiri in many different matches but just fell short during each one . During their " last shot " for the gold the team thought they had won back the titles only to have the decision reversed by referee Mike Chioda due to La Résistance ' s Grenier pinning Tajiri , not Regal , who was the legal man . La Résistance went on to lose the match . While this was to be their last chance to win back the gold from Regal and Tajiri , the team were given one more chance during a Tag Team Turmoil match during Backlash . In the match , La Résistance managed to eliminate the champions but were still unable to win the match and regain the titles as they were defeated by the winners of the match , Rosey and The Hurricane . The next night on Raw , La Résistance tried again to win the titles in a match against the new champions but were unsuccessful again . They would feud with Hurricane and Rosey , having various filler matches on multiple Pay - Per - View events . Disbanding . Grenier and Conway went into singles competition with announcers claiming that the members of La Résistance were trying to " one up " each other in singles matches without the other man in their corner . This saw Conway defeat a jobber and Val Venis , while Grenier was defeated by both Val Venis and Chris Jericho before both men competed in a triple threat match ( against Intercontinental Champion Shelton Benjamin for the title ) , Benjamin won the match , not long after the La Résistance members began to argue and fight . This altercation between the two led to a taped main event match on June 6 , 2005 , for the June 12 episode of Sunday Night Heat . This match saw Rob Conway portray the heel character , and defeat Sylvain Grenier . On June 30 , 2005 , Grenier and Dupree were last minute trades in the 2005 WWE Draft , which saw Grenier leave Raw to go to SmackDown ! and Dupree come back to Raw . This seemingly marked the end of Grenier ' s already shaky tag team partnership with Conway , who remained a Raw superstar . The door was left open for Dupree to , once again , become a La Résistance member and team with Conway , but there was no attempt to take Dupree and Conway out of singles competition . All three men continued in singles careers with new gimmicks . Dupree continued to use the original La Resistance theme as his theme music . Dupree would also claim he was from Canada and France simultaneously . After several months , Grenier started billing himself as the Embassador for Quebec . Conway changed his name back to Rob Conway and stopped linking himself to France or Canada . Reformations . On April 3 , 2006 Rene Duprée and Rob Conway teamed together in a dark match before Raw , in a losing effort against The Highlanders While in WWE Developmental Territory , Ohio Valley Wrestling , Conway and Grenier briefly reteamed as La Résistance in a match on November 15 , 2006 to earn an OVW Southern Tag Team Championship match by defeating the reigning champions , Cody Runnels and Shawn Spears . However the team would not win the title match . [ 1 ] The original two members , Duprée and Grenier , returned to the main roster on February 20 , 2007 as La Résistance , though this time they are wearing a Quebec - themed ring attire with the old French - themed La Résistance titantron . They briefly worked for Ohio Valley Wrestling and the ECW brand , but on March 1 , 2007 Dupree was suspended due to a violation of the Health and Wellness policy . This left Grenier and Conway to team together again in OVW and dark matches for the next couple months until May 11 , 2007 when Conway was released from WWE . On July 26 , 2007 Duprée was also released from his contract . On August 13 , Grenier was released from his WWE contract officially ending the WWE careers of all three La Résistance members . Grenier and Conway now take independent bookings , under the name " The Resistance " . On August 30 , 2008 , Grenier and Conway , as La Résistance , defeated Jay Phenomenon and Karl Briscoe to win the NCW Tag Team Championships .