Kevin Steen and El Generico

Kevin Steen and El Generico
Steen (left) and El Generico (right).
Tag team
Members	Kevin Steen El Generico
Name(s)	Kevin Steen and El Generico Kel Steenerico Steenerico Team IWS
Debut	February 17, 2006
Disbanded	December 19, 2009
Promotions	ROH PWG IWS WWE

Kevin Steen and El Generico was a professional wrestling tag team that performed on the independent circuit. The two both ended up in the WWE as Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, respectively.

On July 29, 2007, at Giant Size Annual #4, Generico and Steen defeated PAC and Roderick Strong to become the PWG World Tag Team Champions for the first time. They successfully defended the belts for almost three months, losing them to the team of Davey Richards and Super Dragon on October 27 in England as part of PWG's European Vacation II tour. The next night, Steen teamed with PAC in an attempt to regain the belts from Dragon and Richards, announcing pre-match that if he lost, he'd leave the company indefinitely. He was unable to win the bout.

Generico and Steen won the title for a second time, this time from The Dynasty (Joey Ryan & Scott Lost) on March 21, 2008, after Steen returned to PWG for an impromptu match. They became the first team in PWG history to be a part of the annual Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament to defend the belts in each match they had. In the tournament finals, they lost to Jack Evans and Roderick Strong, thus ending their second reign. After El Generico had agreed to a deal with WWE, he and Steen reunited one more time on January 12, 2013, by entering the 2013 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament. After wins over The Briscoe Brothers and Future Shock (Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly), they were defeated in the finals of the tournament by The Young Bucks.