They hailed from the future---more specifically, from the year 2002. At least, that's what we were told at the time of their NWA debut, in 1986. Sean Royal and Chris Champion were known as The New Breed, and they had traveled back in time to 1986 on a mission to dominate the wrestling universe. [Read: the Carolinas, pockets of Virginia, and parts of Southern Maryland.]
They claimed that, in the future (2002), Dusty Rhodes [See Profile #2] was President of the United States, and that every citizen owned a personal robot. Not unsurprisingly, they frequently made nebulous and repeated references to a "flux capacitor" and bee-bopped their way toward the ring to the tunes of the, uh, futuristic Beastie Boyz' "You Gotta Fight for Your Right [To Party]."
Perhaps not ironically, The New Breed actually did possess the talent, skills, athleticism, and move-sets that not many North American wrestling fans had ever seen before. For all intents and purposes, they were from the future, in a way---bringing high body crosses from inside the ring out onto the concrete floor, utilizing the bear hug-flying clothesline combination that the Hart Foundation [See Profile #1,095] made famous, and employing a dizzying array of flying dropkicks, crucifix pins, and other assorted luche libre flares.
They stormed onto the scene in Jim Crockett's NWA and immediately began feuding with the Rock & Roll Express [See Profile #107], getting the better of the duo in short order before suffering an untimely car accident that kept Royal and Champion out for an extended period of time. Upon their return, Champion sported a cast "from the future!" [read: glued circuits and wires from a computer onto his arm] and the two began a feud with the Midnight Express [See Profile #4,014]. Maybe the only thing better than watching the two youngsters wrestle was watching them bumble through promos that, even at age 10, made me chortle at their collective stupidity:
Ultimately, Royal's knowledge of the future must've steered him away from wrestling, as he decided to embark on a career in construction. Champion disappeared as well, resurfacing years later in the then-WCW as a character named Yoshi Kwan, replete with makeup and slitted eyes. Making him kinda-sorta Asian, and vaguely racist.
Where are they now? Assuming they left 1987 and transported back to 2002 at the time, that places them [approximately] in the year 2016 right now. Where I can only assume they are ardent supporters of President Brutus Beefcake [See Profile #88].
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