The Resistance

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**The Resistance**, is professional wrestling stable primarily appearing in American promotion WWE, the group also appear in All Elite Wrestling. The original gimmick of the group was a dominate foreign faction but this changed in 2016 following the additions of American wrestlers, all of which only had short tenures with the group except for Bliss. The group originally formed in Japanese promotion Dragon with Harrison, Neville, then going by the ring name Pac and Masato Yoshino under the name **World-1**, a name Harrison and Neville used in their early NXT days.

The group temporarily split between March 2014 and 2015 after Harrison moved to the main roster and Neville remained on NXT. They reunited in March 2015 and first won the WWE Tag Team Championship at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view in June 2015, holding the titles and remaining unbeaten until December 2016, ending their run at a record 553 days. During this reign in March 2016 they were joined by Tyler Breeze, since then Nevill and Breeze have primarily competed for the tag titles with Harrison competing for singles titles. Over the next few years the team continued to dominate primarily on the Raw brand winning the Raw Tag Team titles a record eight times, they have also won the SmackDown Tag team titles twice and the NXT Tag Team Championship once. Following Drew McIntyre's call up to the main roster in 2018 he joined the group. During their time in the group both Harrison and McIntyre have won world titles, with Harrison winning six. Harrison, Breeze and Neville have also all won both the Intercontinental and the United States champions. The group has also competed within NJPW and Ring of Honor in 2018 and 2019 and feuded with the Bullet Club which led to matches at G1 Special in San Francisco and a tag match between Harrison, Neville and Breeze against Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks at All In. The group officially disbanded in June 2021 when both Neville and Breeze chose to leave WWE but would reform in April 2022 after WrestleMania 38 after Breeze and Neville returned to WWE. The group would disband again at the Royal Rumble in 2023 after Harrison turned on Pac and Breeze, but nine months late they once again reunited.

The groups heel turn in May 2015 and subesquent feud with The New Day saw them highly praised, the feud later won the *Wrestling Observer Newsletters* feud of the year award. The groups have continuation of success and praise outside of the WWE has led them to be considered the best WWE team of the 21st century and one of the best of all-time.

## History

### 2014–2021, 2022–present: WWE

#### 2016–2017: Stable formation and domination

The team continued to defend their WWE Tag Team Championship throughtout 2016, in March Neville suffered a fracture to his ankle meaning he would miss four months. Following this Harrison began defending the titles algonside Tyler Breeze, the WWE allowed this as a continuation of the ongoing reign. Harrison won the United States Championship from Kalisto at Extreme Rules in May, Neville would return in July 2016 from then he and Breeze began defending the titles to allow Harrison to focus on his singles career. On the October 4, 2016 episode of *Raw* Breeze and Neville defeated Anderson and Gallows, Sheamus and Cesaro, and The New Day in a fatal four-way tag team match to ensure they break Demolition's 478-day record for all WWE Tag Team titles. Harrison would win the Universal Championship from Kevin Owens on *Raw* on November 7. Breeze and Neville would eventually lose the titles at Roadblock: End of the Line on December 18, 2016 ending their record breaking reign at 553 days they would also hold the record for most defenses of 23, this figure only includes televised defenses, this figure would total 164 if house shows were included. Later in the night Neville attacked Rich Swann and T. J. Perkins following their Cruiserweight Championship match thus staking his intentions to claim the title. On *Raw* following Roadblock Harrison stated his intentions to focus on defending the Universal Championship and gave Breeze the United States Championship.

On the January 16, 2017 episode of *Raw* after a long run of defeats Brian Kendrick was kicked out of the group by James Harrison. He then stated that after he, Neville and Breeze had decided to focus on singles competition they needed a new tag team and Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows were added to group as new members.

At the Royal Rumble, Harrison not only defended his Universal Championship successfully but Neville and Gallows and Anderson won the Cruiserweight and Raw Tag titles respectively. This meant that the group held all of the mens titles in the WWE. Harrison would successfully defend the title once again this time at Fastlane against Goldberg, whereas Neville would retain his title against Jack Gallagher and Gallows and Anderson retain their titles against Enzo and Cass and Breeze would retain his title against Rusev

At WrestleMania 33 Harrison would retain his title against Sami Zayn, Neville would retain his against Austin Aries and Breeze didn't defend his title, but Gallows and Anderson lost their titles to a returning Hardy Boyz. Sasha Banks did fail to capture the WWE Raw Women's Championship. After the event Banks began to distance herself from the group and on the April 10, 2017 episode of *Raw* former two-time SmackDown Women's Champion Alexa Bliss moved over to Raw and would align herself with the group.

Throughout 2017 The Resistance continued to dominate singles competition, with Harrison remaining Universal Champion throughout the year. Tyler Breeze held both the US and Intercontinental Championships and Neville remained Cruiserweight Champion for the first nine months of the year. After winning the belt in late April 2017 Bliss remained Raw Women's Champion for the remainder of the year except for an 8-day reign for Sasha Banks.

On a *Raw* taping in London in November 2017 Harrison and Breeze defeated Dean Ambrose adn Seth Rollins to capture the Raw Tag Team Championship for a second time,  this would ultimately lead to a feud between The Resistance and The Shield.

#### 2018–2020: Various Feuds

The Resistance began 2018 feuding with The Shield which led to a six-man tag team match at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view in January which The Resistance won. The following day on *Raw* Neville and Breeze were defeated whilst defending their Raw Tag Team Championships against Sheamus and Cesaro ending their second reign at 84 days the longest since their 553-day record reign had ended 13 months earlier. The following week on *Raw* Neville challenged The Miz to a match for the Intercontinental Championship which Neville won successfully capturing the belt that Breeze had lost to The Miz only 14 days earlier. Harrison, Neville and Bliss all successfully defended their titles at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, with Bliss defending it in the events signature match.

### 2018–2019: NJPW and Ring of Honor

Over various weeks on *Ring of Honor Wrestling* various videos would play over the titantron intimidating the Bullet Club this continued until Cody Rhodes called out the person behind the messages. Before James Harrison came out in a mask declaring that Bullet Club was an empire that was about to be destroyed, and declaring that the group that takes down an empire is The Resistance. Harrison along with Tyler Breeze, Neville and Drew McIntyre attacked Rhodes, The Young Bucks and Hangman Page.

On June 9, 2018 after Kenny Omega defeated Kazuchika Okada to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship Harrison attacked Omega in the ring. At the press conference following the event Harrison, Breeze, Neville and McIntyre attacked Omega, The Young Bucks and Kota Ibushi. This would later set up one-on-one matches between Harrison and Omega and Neville and Ibushi along with The Young Bucks taking on McIntyre and Breeze at G1 Special in San Francisco.

### 2023–present: All Elite Wrestling

At Worlds End in December 2023 The Resistance appeared in All Elite Wrestling for the first time as Harrison reveleaed himself to be "The Devil" alongside his masked men of Pac, Breeze, Wardlow and Roderick Strong.

## Members

### Current

WWE
All these members appear in both the WWE and AEW.

 Neville / Pac | December 14, 2011 – June 25, 2021April 4, 2022 – January 28, 2023October 15, 2023 – present

The Devil's Resistance
These members appear exclusively in AEW.

### Former

 Masato Yoshino
 Brian Kendrick | October 24, 2016 – January 16, 2017
 Luke Gallows
 Alexa Bliss | April 10, 2017 – October 2, 2020

## In Wrestling

* **Triple team finishing moves**
	+ **​***Elite Shot*(Superkick (Harrison) followed by a *Beauty Shot*(Breeze) and then by a *Red Arrow*or a 630° senton (Neville))
* **Double team finishing moves**
	+ **​Harrison and Breeze**
		- *The Breaker* (Wheelbarrow hold, double knee facebreaker combination)
		- *The Final Nail* (*Beauty Shot* (Breeze) / Legsweep (Harrison) combination)
	+ **Harrison and Neville**
		- **​***Thunder Crack*(Backbreaker hold (Harrison) / double foot stomp (Neville) combination))
	+ **Breeze and Neville**
		- **​***The Rock Shot*(Top rope hurricanrana (Neville) thrown into a powerbomb (Breeze))
		- *The 947* (*Unprettier* (Breeze) followed by a *Red Arrow* (Neville))
	+ **Breeze and McIntyre**
		- *End of Worlds* (Jumping reverse bulldog (Breeze) / *Claymore* (McIntyre) combination)
* **Double team signature moves**
	+ *Botox Shot* (Front facelock cutter or *Unprettier* (Breeze) followed by a *Dragon bomb* (Harrison))
	+ Brainbuster (Harrison) followed by a frog splash (Breeze or Neville)
	+ Double superkick
	+ *Enzu Shot*(Enzugiri (Harrison or Neville) followed by *Supermodel Kick*(Breeze))
	+ *Elite Bomb* (Powerbomb (Harrison) into a jumping neckbreaker (Breeze) combination); parodied from Orton and Batista
	+ *Black Death Drop* (Flapjack (Harrison) / Cutter (Neville) combination); parodied from The Dudley Boyz
	+ *Epic Stampede* (Multiple stomps to a seated opponent in the corner with frequent tags), often followed by an Irish whip-assisted corner dropkick; parodied from The New Day
	+ Rocket launcher
* **Breeze's finishing moves**
	+ *Beauty Shot*(Spinning heel kick)
	+ *Unprettier*(Inverted double underhook facebuster) – 2015–present; adopted from Christian
* **Harrison's finishing moves**
	+ *Last Rites* (Canadian rack hold transitioned into a DDT)
	+ *The Last Shot* (Shining Wizard) – 2013–2016
	+ *High Fly Flow*(Split-legged frog splash) – 2018–present
* **Neville's finishing moves**
	+ *Red Arrow*(Corkscrew shooting star press)
	+ Imploding 450° splash; 2014
	+ *Rings of Saturn* (Crossface / scissored armbar combination) – 2017–present
* **Bliss' finishing moves**
	+ *Twisted Bliss* (Rounding moonsault)
	+ Backpack stunner – 2016–2017; used as a signature thereafter
	+ *Blisstation* (Pumphandle half nelson driver) – 2017–present
	+ Cradle piledriver – 2017–present; rarely used
* **McIntyre's finishing moves**
	+ *Claymore* (Running single leg front dropkick)
	+ *Future Shock* (Snap double underhook DDT)
* **Strowman's finishing moves**
	+ Running powerslam
* **Nicknames**
	+ **Tyler Breeze**
		- "Prince Pretty"
		- **"The Prince"**
	+ **James Harrison**
		- "The Ace"
		- **"The Ghost"**
		- "The God of War"
	+ **Neville**
		- **"The Man That Gravity Forgot"**
		- **"The King** (of the Cruiserweights)"
	+ **Alexa Bliss**
		- "Five Feet of Fury"
		- **"The Goddess"**
		- "Little Miss Bliss"
		- "The Wicked Witch of WWE"
	+ **Drew McIntyre**
		- **"The Scottish Psychopath"**
	+ **Braun Strowman**
		- **"The Monster Amongst Men"**

## Championships and Accomplishments

* **Dragon Gate**
	+ Open the Twin Gate Championship (1 time) – Harrison and Pac
	+ Open the Triangle Gate Championship (1 time) – Harrison, Pac and Yoshino
* **Dragon Gate USA**
	+ Open the United Gate Championship (1 time) – Harrison and Pac
* ***Pro Wrestling Illustrated***
	+ Wrestler of the Year (2016–19, 2022) Harrison
	+ Match of the Year (2015) Harrison vs. Seth Rollins on August 3.
	+ Match of the Year (2016) Harrison vs. Kevin Owens on November 7.
	+ Match of the Year (2017) Harrison vs. Kevin Owens on January 29
	+ Tag Team of the Year (2015) Harrison and Neville
	+ Tag Team of the Year (2016) Harrison, Neville, Breeze
	+ Tag Team of the Year (2016) Harrison, Neville, Breeze and McIntyre
	+ Feud of the Year (2016) vs. The New Day
	+ Most Improved (2015) Harrison
	+ Most Hated Wrestler (2017) Harrison
	+ PWI ranked **Harrison** #1 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
	+ PWI ranked **Banks** #2 of the top 50 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2016.
	+ PWI ranked **Bliss**#3 of the top 50 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2017.
	+ PWI ranked **Neville** #17 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2017.
	+ PWI ranked **Breeze** #20 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2017.
* **Ring of Honor**
	+ ROH World Championship (1 time) – Harrison
	+ ROH World Tag Team Championship (2 times; current) – Harrison and MJF (1), Strong and Wardlow (1; current)
* ***Rolling Stone***
	+ WWE Wrestler of the Year (2016, 2017) Harrison
	+ Rookie of the Year (2015) Harrison
	+ WWE Match of the Year (2015) Harrison vs. Seth Rollins on August 3
	+ WWE Match of the Year (2017) Harrison vs. Kevin Owens on January 29
	+ Most Improbably Awesome Match of the Year (2017) Harrison vs. Braun Strowman on September 24
* ***Sports Illustrated***
	+ Wrestler of the Year (2017) Harrison
* ***Wrestling Observer Newsletter***
	+ Pro Wrestling Match of the Year (2016) James Harrison vs. Kevin Owens on November 7
	+ Wrestler of the Year (2016–18, 2022) Harrison
	+ Feud of the Year (2016) vs. The New Day
	+ Tag Team of the Year (2016)
	+ Best on Interviews (2014, 2016) Harrison
	+ Best Flying Wrestler (2015, 2016) Harrison
	+ Most Underrated (2014) Harrison
	+ Most Underrated (2016) Breeze
	+ Rookie of the Year (2014) Harrison
* **WWE**
	+ WWE Championship (5 times; current) – Harrison (4; current), McIntyre (1)
	+ WWE Universal Championship (4 times; current) – Harrison
	+ WWE Intercontinental Championship (3 times) – Breeze (1), Harrison (1), Neville (1)
	+ WWE United States Championship (4 times) – Harrison (2), Breeze (1), Neville (1)
	+ WWE (Raw) Tag Team Championship (9 times)
	+ WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship (2 times)
	+ WWE Cruiserweight Championship (2 times) – Neville (1) Kendrick (1)
	+ WWE Raw Women's Championship (5 times) – Bliss (3), Banks (2)
	+ Royal Rumble (2019) – J. Harrison
	+ Royal Rumble (2020) – McIntyre
	+ Women's Money in the Bank (2018) – Bliss
	+ Slammy Awards (1 time)
		- Breakout Star of the Year (2015; Neville)
		- Extreme Moment of the Year (2015; Harrison)
* **WWE NXT**
	+ NXT Championship (1 time) – Neville
	+ NXT Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Harrison and Neville

## Notes

* † Adrian Neville's ring name was shortened to Neville when he debuted on the main roster in 2015.