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The B-Team was a professional wrestling tag team in WWE, composed of Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel. The team are former one-time WWE Raw Tag Team Champions. They also formerly performed as The Social Outcasts and The Miztourage from 2016 to 2018 before assuming their recent tag team name The B-Team.
History
= Formation and early years (2013–2018)
=On January 2, 2013, episode of NXT, Michael McGillicutty turned face by saving Bo Dallas from a beating at the hands of Primo and Epico. On the next episode of NXT, Dallas and McGillicutty lost to Primo and Epico, though Dallas and McGillicutty would gain revenge when they defeated Primo and Epico in the first round of the NXT Tag Team Championship tournament to crown the inaugural champions on the January 30 episode of NXT. On the February 6 episode of NXT, Dallas and McGillicutty were eliminated in the semi-finals, when they lost to The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) due to interference of Bray Wyatt. After that, they had parted ways as Dallas went in a feud for the NXT Championship and McGillicutty returned to the main roster with a new ring name, Curtis Axel.
Three years later, on the January 4, 2016 episode of Raw, Adam Rose, Bo Dallas, Curtis Axel, and Heath Slater debuted a new villainous stable and assisted Slater in defeating Dolph Ziggler, calling themselves "The Social Outcasts". On February 21, at Fastlane, Axel defeated R-Truth, with interference from fellow The Social Outcasts members. At WrestleMania 32, all of them competed in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, which was won by Baron Corbin. In May, The Social Outcasts began filming The Marine 5: Battleground, taking them out of action. During this time, Rose was released from his WWE contract and The Social Outcasts returned minus Rose on the June 27 episode of Raw, confronting Enzo Amore and Big Cass, but lost to them the following week on Raw. At the 2016 WWE draft, Dallas and Axel were drafted to the Raw brand while Slater went undrafted, ending the stable. After the draft, Dallas and Axel continued as allies until the October 17 episode of Raw, where Dallas attacked Axel. The following week on Raw, Dallas defeated Axel by pinning him while grabbing Axel's tights.
On the June 19, 2017 episode of Raw, Intercontinental Champion The Miz approached Dallas and Axel, offering to make them "the stars [they] deserve to be" if they become his entourage, and later that night, Dallas and Axel appeared in bear costumes during an in ring segment between Miz and his wife Maryse, attacking Dean Ambrose. Dallas and Axel, now dubbed "The Miztourage", began helping Miz in his matches and occasionally teamed him with him, including winning efforts against Dean Ambrose, Heath Slater, and Rhyno on June 26 episode of Raw and Jason Jordan and The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) at SummerSlam. At No Mercy, they helped Miz to defeat Jason Jordan to retain his title. At WrestleMania 34 on April 8, 2018, they participated in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal but both of them failed to win the match. As part of the Superstar Shake-Up, Miz was moved to the SmackDown brand, while Dallas and Axel remained on the Raw brand. On the April 16 episode of Raw, during a tag team match, Dallas and Axel turned on Miz, ending their alliance.
= Raw Tag Team Champions (2018–2020)
=On the May 14 episode of Raw, the duo adopted the new team name "The B-Team" and defeated Breezango (Tyler Breeze and Fandango), their first win as a team since August 2017. On the June 4 episode of Raw, The B-Team won a tag team battle royal to determine the number one contenders for the Raw Tag Team Championships. At Extreme Rules, The B-Team defeated The Deleters of Worlds (Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy) to win the Raw Tag Team Championship. On the July 23 episode of Raw, they successfully retained their title against The Deleters of Worlds. In the following weeks, The B-Team transitioned into faces, adopting a new entrance theme and mannerisms, while also disassociating with The Miz at Summerslam. Also at SummerSlam on August 19, The B-Team successfully retained their title against The Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson). On the September 3 episode of Raw, The B-Team lost the championships to Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre, ending their reign at 50 days. The following week on Raw, they received a rematch for the titles, but they were unsuccessful.
At Survivor Series, The B-Team made up part of Team Raw as they took on Team SmackDown in a 10-on-10 Survivor Series tag team elimination match and Team Raw would go on to lose the match. At WrestleMania 35 on April 7, 2019, they competed in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, again failing to win the match. As part of the Superstar Shake-up, both Dallas and Axel were moved to the SmackDown brand. On the April 30 episode of SmackDown, The B-Team formed a brief alliance with Shane McMahon, thus turning heel once again. On the September 3 episode of SmackDown, Dallas became the WWE 24/7 Champion by pinning Drake Maverick on the backstage area thanks to the help of Axel, only to lose it to Maverick again some minutes later. The B-Team's final televised match was at Crown Jewel on October 31, where they failed to win the tag team turmoil match. On the November 15 episode of SmackDown, Dallas and Axel were attacked by Braun Strowman, this would the team's final appearance in WWE.
In December, Dallas asked WWE for time off, which was granted and he also suffered a neck injury which prevented him from working in the ring. On the February 28, 2020 episode of SmackDown, Axel was defeated by Daniel Bryan, in what would be his final appearance in WWE. The team disbanded on April 30, 2020 as Axel was released from his WWE contract due to budget cuts stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and Dallas was also released on April 15, 2021, after over a year of absence; but Axel was rehired for a brief period in 2022 while Dallas returned to the company that same year in which he was then repackaged as Uncle Howdy, who then became part of The Wyatt Sicks stable.
Other media
Although both of them had previously been featured in WWE video games, they were featured as a tag team for the first time in the video game WWE 2K19, and have further appeared as a tag team in WWE 2K20.
Championships and accomplishments
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Ranked Curtis Axel No. 172 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2019
Ranked Bo Dallas No. 176 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2019
WWE
WWE Raw Tag Team Championship (1 time)
WWE 24/7 Championship (1 time) – Bo Dallas
References
External links
Bo Dallas on WWE.com
Curtis Axel on WWE.com
The B-Team's profile at Cagematch.net
The B-Team's profile at Wrestlingdata.com
"The B. Team" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the American television satirical sitcom Arrested Development. It is the 57th overall episode of the series, and was written by series creator Mitchell Hurwitz and executive producer Jim Vallely, and directed by executive producer Troy Miller and Hurwitz. It originally released on May 26, 2013 with the rest of the season, and was distributed by Netflix.
The series, narrated by Ron Howard, follows the Bluths, a formerly wealthy, dysfunctional family, who made their money from property development. The Bluth family consists of Michael, his adopted sister Lindsay, his older brother Gob, his younger brother Buster, their mother Lucille and father George Sr., as well as Michael's son George-Michael, and Lindsay and her husband Tobias' daughter Maeby. Each episode of the season follows a different character, with this episode focusing on Michael meeting with real life Ron Howard to discuss making a film about the Bluths.
Plot
Michael (Jason Bateman) starts working at Google, where he receives a company car. He receives a call from Barry Zuckerkorn (Henry Winkler), who informs him that filmmaker Ron Howard (played by himself) is interested in making a film about the Bluth family. Michael drives to the building of Imagine Entertainment, where he runs into Kitty Sanchez (Judy Greer), who works there as Ron's assistant after being hired by Maeby (Alia Shawkat). Michael meets with Ron, who tells him that he saw the Altitude magazine that Michael was in. Ron tells Michael that he wants his daughter, Rebel Alley (Isla Fisher), who Michael thinks is Ron's mistress, to play Michael's wife, Tracey, in the film. Ron tells Michael that he needs to get all of his family members to sign a release so they can be portrayed in the film. Ron tells Michael that he wants to focus on the father-son dynamic in the film, and gives Michael a business card which states him as a co-associate producer of the film.
Michael calls Barry, who informs him that it will be difficult to get George Sr.'s (Seth Rogen) signature, because in 1982, he told him to not have a signature to avoid having to sign any legal documents. Michael then walks into Rebel Alley, who he does not recognise, causing them both to drop their paper. As they pick up their paper, Rebel tells Michael that she is looking for a movie producer, which he informs her that he is. Rebel invites Michael to watch her perform in a Scottish band, and as they part ways, Michael realizes that he never got her name. Michael finds George Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor) having an affair with Lucille Austero (Liza Minnelli), and he asks his father to sign the release form, which George Sr. declines. Kitty takes Michael to his office at Imagine Entertainment, where he asks Carl Weathers (played by himself) if he has the rights to the Bluth family's story. Carl tells Michael he never had the rights to begin with, instead advising Michael to falsify the events of the film.
Michael then asks Warden Stefan Gentles to help with the screenplay, who suggests getting a Philip Seymour Hoffman-type actor to play George Sr., which leads Michael to Andy Richter (played by himself). After being belittled by Conan O'Brien (played by himself), Andy agrees to the film. Michael brings Carl, Stefan and Conan to Ron, who is unimpressed. At the Orange County office of Imagine Entertainment, George Sr. visits Michael. After George Sr. finds out that Michael wants to impress Rebel, George Sr. agrees to sign the release form. Michael tells Ron that he has gotten George Sr.'s signature, but Ron clarifies that he wants to focus on Michael's relationship with George-Michael (Michael Cera). Michael then runs into Rebel, and he tells her over drinks that she could play his wife in the film, and they bond over them both having sons. Michael and Rebel then make out in a photo booth, where he learns from a tattoo on her back that her name is Rebel.
= On the next Arrested Development...
=Michael helps a customer with a hernia who went to the Orange County office of Imagine Entertainment, thinking it was an imaging centre. Conan O’Brien gets Andy Richter’s identical brother, Rocky, to replace him on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Production
"The B. Team" was directed by series creator Mitchell Hurwitz and executive producer Troy Miller, and written by Hurwitz and executive producer Jim Vallely. It was Hurwitz's fourth directing credit and 20th writing credit, Miller's fourth directing credit, and Vallely's 17th writing credit.
The season's format is different compared to previous seasons, as each of the 15 episodes focus on one individual character, with every episode happening at the same time within the show's universe, showing the character's activities since the conclusion of the third season. "The B. Team" was the second episode of the season to be filmed, and the second of two focusing on Michael.
Reception
Eric Goldman of IGN gave the episode a 7.5 out of 10, saying:"Episode 4 of the new season of Arrested Development is the last of the early episodes I felt were notably struggling to recapture that old magic. It’s certainly an improvement over the George Sr. and Lindsay episodes, but still doesn’t completely take off – but it does have some more inspiration behind it and more memorable moments."Goldman cited the "influx of old recurring characters" as the reason for the episode feeling "the most like an older [Arrested Development] of the Season 4 installments up to this point." He also commented on Ron Howard's appearance in the episode, calling it "a bit too self-aware, even for this show." The Guardian's Hadley Freeman called the episode the "most jampacked and in-jokey episode yet." Freeman criticized the lack of "interaction between the family", as well as Michael "becoming less and less likable ... not really in a fun way." Noel Murray and Erik Adams of The A.V. Club gave the episode a "C" grade. Adams commented on how "The sensation that [he] got from “Indian Takers” and “The B. Team” is one of emptiness". Murray called the episodes "a little exhausting". In 2019, Brian Tallerico from Vulture ranked the episode 54th out of the whole series, and praised Isla Fisher's guest appearance."
Notes
References
External links
"The B. Team" at IMDb
The B Team is a global nonprofit initiative co-founded by Sir Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz. It advocates for business practices that are more centered on humanity and the climate.
History
In 2013, a group of leaders came together following a series of workshops that included civil society leaders, systems experts, sustainability pioneers, economists and entrepreneurs. Inspired by the work of Lester Brown and the B Corporation movement, they labeled their vision for a better way of doing business 'Plan B,' and 'The B Team' emerged. The B Team intends to achieve this vision by starting at home, working to advance Challenges in their own companies that get right to the heart of the issues that cause companies to remain rooted in 'Plan A' - business as usual, and to empower business leaders around the world to join them.
The B Team was incubated by Virgin Unite, the charitable arm of the Virgin Group, which had previously incubated such organizations the Elders and the Carbon War Room. In October 2012, Branson and Zeitz announced the formation of The B Team. Its first CEO was Derek Handley, co-founder of The Hyperfactory. It has since grown to include over 32 leaders and is currently chaired by Jesper Brodin, CEO of Ingka Group (IKEA).
Leah Seligmann was appointed Chief Change Catalyst and CEO of The B Team in October 2024. This followed the departure of The B Team's long-serving CEO, Halla Tomasdottir, who campaigned for and won the 2024 Icelandic Presidential Election.
= Leaders
=The founding B Team leaders include: Sir Richard Branson, Founder of the Virgin Group and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the B Team, Kathy Calvin, President and CEO of the United Nations Foundation, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Deputy Chair of The Elders, Christiana Figueres, Convener of Mission 2020, Mats Granryd, Director General of GSMA, Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO of Thrive Global, Mo Ibrahim, Founder of Celtel, Guilherme Leal, Founder and Co-Chairman of Natura, Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Chairman of Econet Wireless, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance of Nigeria, François-Henri Pinault, CEO and Chairman of Kering, Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, Mary Robinson, Chair of The Elders and President of the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice, Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group, Zhang Yue, Chairman and Founder of Broad Group China, Professor Muhammad Yunus, Chairman of Yunus Centre, Jochen Zeitz, Founder of The Zeitz Foundation, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of The B Team.
In 2015, Marc Benioff, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, Bob Collymore, CEO of Safaricom and David Crane, ex-CEO of NRG joined as B Team Leaders.
In July, 2016 Oliver Bäte, CEO of Allianz Group, Andrew Liveris, Chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company and Arif Naqvi, Founder and Group CEO of Abraaj Group joined as B Team Leaders.
In 2018, Emmanuel Faber, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Danone, Indra Nooyi, Chairman and Former CEO of PepsiCo, Isabelle Kocher, CEO of Engie, and Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Chobani joined The B Team.
In 2020, The B Team welcomed Hiro Mizuno, CIO of Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), Torben Möger Pedersen, CEO of PensionDanmark, Jesper Brodin, CEO of Ingka Group, and Jean Oelwang, Founding CEO and President of Virgin Unite to the group.
In 2021, Ester Baiget, President and CEO of Novozymes, Ilham Kadri, CEO and President of Solvay, Joseph Kenner, President and CEO of Greyston, and Van Jones, a CNN contributor and founder of the Dream Corps joined as B Team Leaders.
In 2023, Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen, and Juan Carlos Mora, CEO of Bancolombia joined as B Team Leaders.
In 2024, Ryan Gellert, CEO of Patagonia joined The B Team.
Work and Collective Action
In 2015 The B Team leaders advocated for a climate agreement at the COP21 meeting. They supported a long-term goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, to preserve oceans and save low-lying island nations from rising sea levels. Ten companies associated with The B Team set aspirations for their own organisations to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, including the French apparel and accessories group Kering; the US electricity company NRG Energy; the Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom; the global enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com; the internationally renowned jeweler Tiffany & Co; the Chinese construction company BROAD Group, the African telecommunications group Econet, the Brazilian cosmetics manufacturer Natura, the consumer goods company Unilever, and the international investment group Virgin Management. The B Team leaders called on governments around the world to adopt Net-Zero by 2050 as a long-term goal in the COP21 agreement. The B Team worked as part of the We Mean Business Coalition, alongside partners like Ceres and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, to drive bold climate action by business in 2015.
In 2014 The B Team, along with Unilever, Natura, Transparency International, Global Witness, Global Financial Integrity and OpenCorporates formed a working group to support and increase the number of companies implementing beneficial ownership transparency and worked to articulate a business case for doing so. B Team leader's advocated to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative board in favour of adopting a beneficial ownership transparency standard for its 51 members, which they did in March 2016. Following the release of the Panama Papers in April 2016 The B Team announced, along with its partners Global Witness, ONE, Open Contracting Partnership, OpenCorporates, The Web Foundation, and Transparency International, the creation of a Global Beneficial Ownership Register for businesses to share their company structures, and eliminate the use of shell companies like those used to obfuscate the owners of assets in the Panama Papers.
In 2015 The B Team launched the 100% Human at Work initiative and network as they believed it was "time for businesses to stop looking at people as resources and to start seeing them as human beings". The B Team have built the People Innovation Network, to bring companies together to share and learn from one another about how to help their employees thrive at work.
Working as part of the Natural Capital Coalition The B Team supported the development of the first global, standard Natural Capital Protocol - a set of tools for companies to measure their impacts and dependencies on nature. The protocol was launched July 2016, following pilots by more than 40 companies, including Kering and Dow Chemical. Kering Group also published its pioneering group-wide environmental profit and loss accounts in 2015.
In 2016, as part of their work for The B Team Sir Richard Branson and Marc Benioff launched a movement of entrepreneurs and business leaders building their companies with people and planet alongside profit as part of their DNA from the outset, called "Born B'".
In 2017 The B Team launched The B Team Africa, its first regional B Team. Its initial leadership included Bob Collymore, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Dr. Mo Ibrahim, and Jochen Zeitz. Subsequently, it added The B Team Australia Network as a regional team.
In 2018, The B Team partnered with Ceres to launch 'Getting Climate Smart - A Primer for Corporate Directors in a Changing Environment'. The project sought to make corporate directors aware that climate change is a board-relevant issue and teach them how to manage the risks and opportunities related to climate. Sponsoring the project was the Ikea Foundation and the We Mean Business Coalition.
In 2021, The B Team launched The New Leadership Playbook, a collection of stories, insights and resources on 21st-century business leadership. This included 10x Bolder, a conversation-based podcast series exploring how leaders align values with influence.
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