Brian Kendrick On Why Vince McMahon Shot Down Proposed Tag Team Name

Brian Kendrick and Paul London were WWE Tag Team Champions for almost a year, and they had a tag team name idea but Kendrick says Vince McMahon nixed it. Kendrick and London held the titles from May 2006 through April of 2007, during which they never had an official team name. Kendrick spoke on a recent Captain’s Corner virtual signing and noted that they had a plan to be called the “Hooliganz,” which was referenced in WWE Magazine and was on their ring gear, but Kendrick noted that McMahon shot the name down.

Kendrick said McMahon told them (per Wrestling Inc), “‘Inevitably when the tag team splits, if you guys are just The Hooliganz, we won’t be able to tell which one is which.'”

He continued to say, “It’s easy enough though in the sense that we were roughly the same size, moved roughly the same speeds, stuff like that. He [London] did amazing stuff I never did … You’d be able to tell us apart but in the same way a boy band looks the same, these two dudes look the same.”

The two also had a very brief run as the World Tag Team Champions in September of 2007 that lasted just three days. They stayed together as a team until the 2008 draft.