KroniK
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| KroniK | |
| Tag Team | |
|---|---|
| Members | Brian Adams Bryan Clark |
| Name(s) | Kronic Kronik |
| Heights | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) - Adams 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) - Clark |
| Combined weight | 605 lb (274 kg/43.2 st) |
| Debut | April 2000 |
| Disbanded | 2001 |
| Promotions | WWE |
KroniK was an American professional wrestling tag team comprised of Brian Adams and Bryan Clark. Their name was based on the word chronic, a slang term for marijuana.
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[edit] History
[edit] WCW
Adams and Clark, were recognized as singles wrestlers in both World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation. They first joined together as a duo in April 2000.
Upon joining together as a tag team, Kronik (originally spelled Kronic) assisted Vince Russo in his vision of a clean sweep for his New Blood faction at Spring Stampede 2000. Adams and Clark interfered in the WCW World Tag Team Championship match, allowing the team of Buff Bagwell and Shane Douglas to win the title.
While in WCW, Kronik moved between babyface and heel roles several times - holding the WCW Tag Team Championship twice and gaining many fans along the way. In the final months of WCW, Kronik became hired muscle, adopting the catch phrase "breaking necks and cashing checks", similar to the WWE's popular APA tag team. Their contracts were not picked up by WWF when WCW was sold by Time Warner.
[edit] WWF
In September 2001, Brian Adams and Bryan Clark each made their re-debut as a WWF tag team. Recruited by Stevie Richards, Kronik was called in to settle past differences Richards had with The Undertaker, stemming from the disbanding of Richards' stable, "Right to Censor" earlier that year. Kronik wrestled their first tag team match defeating Kaientai on the September 20, 2001 edition of Smackdown and their last tag team match for WWF a few days later at Unforgiven 2001, losing to then WCW Tag Team Champions Kane and The Undertaker. Due to their poor performance, Adams and Clark were dropped from the WWF roster soon after and assigned to a WWF developmental territory - to work on their in-ring skills. Unwilling to comply, Clark was released from his WWF contract while Adams reported to the Heartland Wrestling Association in Cincinnati, Ohio. In November 2001, Brian Adams was released from his WWF contract.
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
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- 2-time WCW World Tag Team Champions
[edit] Trivia
- Kronik's entrance theme in WCW was an in-house, instrumental cover of "Love Dump" by the band Static-X. This theme carried over to their short run as a tag team in WWF and was then passed onto Stevie Richards after the team's release. Richards would later use a different, WWF in-house cover of the same song for his entrance theme.
- Adams and Clark adopted several marijuana references as a part of their collective character. Chronic, the correct spelling, is a slang term used for marijuana; the name High Times (Kronik's double team signature move) refers to a specialty magazine of the same name - the publication focuses on marijuana culture; the green lighting effect used during the team's ring entrance is a color commonly linked to marijuana and associated products. Despite these, neither Adams and Clark, nor WCW or WWF announcers, explicitly referred to the drug.
