The Colóns | |
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Primo (left) and Carlito (right) as Unified Tag Team Champions.
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Tag team | |
Members |
Eddie Colón/Primo Colón/Primo Carlito/Carlito Colon |
Name(s) | Carlito and Primo Carly and Eddie Colón Carlito and Primo Colón The Colón Brothers The Colóns |
Heights | Carlito: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Primo: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Combined weight |
438 lb (199 kg) Carlito: 220 lb (100 kg) Primo: 218 lb (99 kg) |
Debut | 2002 |
Disbanded | May 21, 2010 |
Years active | 2002–2010 |
Promotions |
WWC WWE |
Trainer | Carlos Colón Sr. |
The Colóns were a professional wrestling tag team that consisted of real-life brothers, Carlito and Primo. The team worked for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). They were the first-ever Unified WWE Tag Team Champions, being holders of both the WWE Tag Team Championship and World Tag Team Championship.
Their father is former World Wrestling Federation wrestler Carlos Colón, Sr., and they initially began teaming together in his promotion, World Wrestling Council and held the WWC World Tag Team Championship. In 2008, they began teaming together in WWE, when Primo debuted on SmackDown alongside his brother. In their debut as a tag team within the promotion, they defeated then-WWE Tag Team Champions Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder. This win earned them a title opportunity two weeks later, in which they were also successful. At WrestleMania XXV they became the first team to unify both tag team title sets by defeating John Morrison and The Miz.
The Colóns initially began teaming in their father's company, World Wrestling Council (WWC) to defeat the tag team of Thunder and Lightning for the WWC World Tag Team Championship on March 16, 2002. They lost the title to Thunder and Lightning on the very next night. At Lockout 2009, the brothers performed in the promotion for the first time since teaming in WWE. Although they were not booked in a match, The Colóns hosted a segment of Carlito's Cabana with David Sierra as the invited guest. In this segment, the promotion tried to explain why Eddie was renamed to "Primo", claiming that he wanted to preserve Eddie Guerrero's legacy by not using his actual name. On May 20, 2009, The Colóns issued an open challenge to any tag team for Aniversario 2009, the promotion's anniversary event.