In December 2013, Sylvester Lefort and Marcus Louis formed a tag team under the name The Legionnaires playing up a gimmick based on their French heritage.
[5] On August 21 episode of NXT, The Legionnaires began a feud with Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady losing to them in a tag team match.
On the October 16 episode of NXT, Louis finally snapped and turned on Lefort and attacked him during a tag match.
On March 17, 2016, Tom La Ruffa and Pierre Marceau made their TNA Wrestling debuts at One Night Only: Victory Road 2016 pay-per-view losing to The BroMans.
[9] On the May 24 episode of Impact!, Baraka and Dax made their televised debut, attacking Grado and Mahabali Shera, and aligning themselves with Al Snow.