T & A | |
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Tag team | |
Members |
Test Albert Trish Stratus (manager) |
Name(s) | Test & Albert (T & A) Test & Albert Protection Agency (T & APA) |
Heights | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) - Test 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)- Albert |
Combined weight |
710 lb (320 kg) |
Debut | March 30, 2000 |
Disbanded | January 8, 2001 |
Years active | 2000-2001 |
Promotions | WWF |
Trainer | Funkin' Conservatory Dory Funk, Jr. |
T & A (Test and Albert) was a professional wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Federation. T & A had Trish Stratus as their team manager with their name being a pun on the initials of the two wrestlers and the slang expression "T&A" (referring to Tits and ), spawning numerous coarse jokes on fan's signs and from commentator Jerry Lawler in reference to the buxom Trish Stratus.
Test and Albert met in Dory Funk, Jr.'s training center, the Funkin' Conservatory, where they were trained. Following this, both men took on individual careers in the business leading them to the WWF, where they were repackaged as a tag team during 2000. On the March 19, 2000 episode of Sunday Night Heat Stratus made her debut with the gimmick of scouting wrestlers to form a team. Shortly after this Test and Albert (who both wrestled on that show) became her wards. Their first match as a team was on the March 30 episode of SmackDown!, when they lost to the Hardy Boyz. Their first pay-per-view match was at WrestleMania 2000, when they defeated Steve Blackman and Al Snow. They competed against established teams in the WWF's tag team division, including Road Dogg and X-Pac, The Godfather and D'Lo Brown, and The Holly Cousins, before beginning a feud with the Dudley Boyz. In a match against the Dudley Boyz at the Backlash 2000 pay-per-view Stratus was the recipient of a powerbomb through a table from Bubba Ray Dudley, although T & A won the match.