Sylvain Grenier

Sylvain Grenier (born March 26, 1977) is a Canadian TV host and semi-retired professional wrestler.

He was also signed to WWE as a producer.

Grenier made his professional wrestling debut in 1998.

Grenier auditioned for series one and two of Tough Enough, the reality television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment in 2001 and 2002, but was unable to attend the selection process due to visa problems.

While he was in Florida training and taking part in a modeling shoot, Grenier met WWE producer Pat Patterson, with whom he became good friends.

Patterson invited Grenier to attend WWE events for a few tryout matches under the ring name "Sly Grenier".

Following a match, Grenier was offered a contract by WWE, and assigned to WWE developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling.

He is best known for his time wrestling for WWE between 2002 and 2007 where he was part of La Résistance and became a four-time World Tag Team Champion (once with René Duprée and three times with Rob Conway).

After his release from WWE, Grenier became a French language commentator for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) Impact! for a number of years and continued to wrestle on the Quebec independent circuit.

As a child, Grenier lived with his Parents in Varennes, Quebec.

Grenier played baseball, tennis and hockey at an amateur level.

Grenier worked as a model.

During this period, Grenier made two appearances for WWE, the first at No Way Out in 2003 as a referee during the match between The Rock and Hulk Hogan in which he helped The Rock to win that match; the other at WrestleMania XIX during the match between Hogan and Vince McMahon.

On April 28, Grenier returned to WWE, debuting on the Raw brand alongside fellow French Canadian René Duprée.

The duo were collectively known as La Résistance, and were billed as Frenchmen who were highly critical of American efforts in the War on Terror.

Grenier and Duprée made their first appearance on the April 28 episode of Raw as La Résistance by attacking Scott Steiner who had recently made remarks comparing France to hell, offending Grenier and Duprée.

La Résistance went on to feud with Scott Steiner and Test (who was being forced to be Steiner's tag team partner by Stacy Keibler) until the Judgment Day pay-per-view where La Résistance defeated Steiner and Test.

Grenier and Duprée went on to win the World Tag Team Championship from Kane and Rob Van Dam at the 2003 Bad Blood event.

After that the decision was made to add Rob Conway as a third member who began by posing as an American serviceman being abused by Grenier and Duprée until the Dudley Boyz came out to save him.

Once the Dudley Boyz had their backs turned to Conway, he attacked them with the American flag they had given him before tearing it off the pole and laying it on top of them.

The trio began carrying the French flag to ringside and singing the French national anthem before their matches.

During their time together the trio feuded with several tag teams; including the Dudley Boyz, The Hurricane and Rosey, and Garrison Cade and Mark Jindrak.

They held the titles until Unforgiven 2003 when they dropped them to The Dudley Boyz in a three-on-two handicap tables match.

During the match, Grenier suffered neck and back injuries, and was diagnosed with a broken neck a month later.

The trio eventually reunited on the edition of March 15, 2004, of Raw.

when Grenier returned.

This reunion only lasted a week, as Dupree was drafted to SmackDown! on March 22, 2004, during the Draft Lottery.

Without Dupree, Grenier and Conway continued to team together as La Résistance on Raw.

With American-Franco hostility subsiding, WWE ceased billing the team as being from France and instead promoted them as being haughty French Canadians who carried the flag of Quebec to the ring, with Grenier often singing the Canadian national anthem.

Grenier has later said that he preferred teaming with Conway over Duprée, stating "Rob made me love wrestling again".

The team held the World Tag Team Championship three times.

Their first title reign began when they defeated Chris Benoit and Edge on the May 31, 2004, episode of Raw in Grenier's home town of Montreal.

They dropped the championship to them at Taboo Tuesday when Benoit was able to defeat both Grenier and Conway, despite Edge abandoning Benoit during the match.

La Résistance re-captured the championship on the November 1 episode of Raw when Edge walked out on Benoit again.

Two weeks later, however, in a three-way tag team elimination match, William Regal and Eugene were the last men standing, beating both La Résistance and the team of Tajiri and Rhyno.

Their final Tag Team Championship win occurred at a Raw house show in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on January 16, 2005.

La Résistance defeated William Regal and Jonathan Coachman (who substituted for Eugene due to suffering an injury).

La Résistance dropped the championship a few weeks later on the February 7, 2005, episode of Raw in Tokyo, Japan to William Regal and his new tag team partner Tajiri.

on the March 14 episode of Raw, La Résistance were defeated by The Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty) in a Rockers's Reunion.

at WrestleMania 21, Grenier competed in a 30-man battle royal where he was eliminated by Heidenreich.