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  • Crazy Is Cool: Suicide Dive through the ropes? That's fine. Shooting Star Press using your partner as a stepping stone? Sure! Climb a ladder and hurl you and your opponent onto the mat? Okay! A Shriranui/Power Bomb Combo? Hell yeah!
    • JBL—back when he was on commentary—heaped praise on them being this. He once called a strategy that they pulled off a 'Northern Light', meaning that they did something that no one has ever thought of before. (He also noted that they were both talented and weird kids that came from Pluto)
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Paul London and Spanky's tag team run on Velocity had frequent cries from people on the internet demanding they get more exposure. Paul London's Cruiserweight title run and The Brian Kendrick were also very much enjoyed. Their tag team, especially after Kendrick returned to the WWE, eventually got the exposure fans wanted too.
  • Fan Nickname: Their first run as Paul London and Spanky was known as the "Young Lions" on wrestling sites. Their second one was called Londrick (based on their last names). They were widely called 'Hooliganz' amongst fans after they started have the word their boots and took to wearing harlequin masks but none officially caught on in WWE.
  • He Really Can Act: Paul London got a lot of people talking about his role of Tiger Man in in which he plays Elvis Presley who knows karate
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Brian's rap against John Cena in 2003. 'Nuff said.
    Brian: "When I say 'Cena', you say 'sucks'! Cena.."
    Audience: "Sucks!"
    • They once had ring gear that was half green and half purple with a joker head on the back. You don't say...
    • As listed on the main page under Conspiracy Theorist, both London and Kendrick believed that lizard people were planning to take over the Earth. When London debuted on Lucha Underground in 2016 as the leader of the Rabbit Tribe, he and his compatriots soon found themselves matched up against... the Reptile Tribe, lizard people who apparently want to take over the Earth.
  • Never Live It Down:
    • London corpsing during the "limo explosion" segment.
    • Brian Kendrick, conspiracy theorist. He claims it was an ill advised gimmick he was trying out, either way it killed his shot at an AEW role when it resurfaced, and is most of the reason London stopped talking to him.
  • Shocking Moments: And how. Suicide dives are always a specialty when these two clear the ring. Let's also not forget the ladder match.
  • Vindicated by History: While London and Kendrick were a great tag team and had a pretty impressive reign, they didn't get very far after they lost the title belts and were drafted to Raw. By 2022, the IWC has seen them as the most underrated tag team ever and the best one to come out of the Attitude Era.

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