Couch and Murray were both born and raised in
Oban, Scotland, where the team was billed from. Couch was born on 20 September 1974 and Murray was born on 28 November 1979. Couch first started going to a wrestling school at the behest of co-worker at CAMI Automotive, Inc. where he met future tag team partner Murray. The two were trained by
Waldo Von Erich at the
Von Erich/Hart Brothers School of Wrestling. The team's last independent match before signing to WWE, was for PWA against Andrew Davis and Phil Latio in
Cambridge, Ontario.
World Wrestling Entertainment (2005–2008) Ohio Valley Wrestling (2005–2006) In July 2005, they signed a developmental deal with World Wrestling Entertainment and were assigned to their "farm territory"
Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) where they wrestled for several months. They followed this victory with another over the same team and were put on the fast track to a match for the
Spirit Squad's
Tag Team titles. When they were granted a match against Spirit Squad members
Kenny and
Mikey, The Highlanders were defeated after abundant interference by the other members. Throughout the month of August, The Highlanders continued to battle different tag teams until they won a
Triple Threat tag team match over the team of
Charlie Haas and
Viscera and
Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, which made them the number one contenders to the Spirit Squad's title on the 4 September edition of
Raw. They were unsuccessful in winning the title at
Unforgiven, again because of interference from Spirit Squad members not technically a part of the match. The Highlanders went on to lose a
Texas Tornado match at
Cyber Sunday and a
Tag Team Turmoil match at
New Year's Revolution for a future tag tile shot. In-between the pay-per-views, The Highlanders briefly feuded with
Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, both teams exchanging wins on
Heat before ending the feud on the 4 December episode of Raw, defeating Cade and Murdoch in a
Roddy Piper tribute match. In late 2006, they mostly competed on
Raw's sister show Heat, occasionally making appearances on Raw, throughout 2007, primarily to
job to other teams or singles wrestlers such as
Snitsky. On the 24 September 2007 episode of
Raw, The Highlanders interrupted a match between
Paul London and Brian Kendrick and
Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, due to The Highlanders getting tired of being held back from a World Tag Team Championship opportunity, thus the duo turning heel. Nothing came of this turn, however, as they lost a number one contenders match on 12 November. They then feuded with London and Kendrick and
Jim Duggan and
Super Crazy, mainly on Heat. The Highlanders had a
Royal Rumble qualifying match, but lost to the team of
Mick Foley and
Hornswoggle. The Highlanders only appeared once on
ECW before Rory tore his
pectoral muscle and was sidelined for six months in February 2008. Both members of the team were released from WWE on 15 August 2008.
Return to independent circuit (2008–2019) In September 2008, Rory and Robbie returned to the Independent wrestling scene appearing mostly in single matches all over the U.S. and Canada, as well as Europe. In April 2010 they became the CWI tag team champs in Ontario Canada. Also in 2010, Robbie became the MPW Ontario heavyweight champion by defeating
Tyson Dux. In August 2011 Highlander Robbie appeared on the CWI east coast tour with his hair cut short and beard shaved off and announced he was no longer Highlander Robbie McAllister and from that point on he was to be known as Robert Graham. The Highlanders reunited on 19 January 2013 at the WAR X - 10th Anniversary show in
Lima, Ohio. The two would reunite again at WAR 11th Anniversary on 18 January 2014. In December 2019 they reunited and fought in two tag team matches together at the Battle On The Border Christmas shows, during which they won the Battle On The Border Tag Team Championships. They never defended the titles however, with the titles remaining inactive. They were eventually vacated in September 2021, with the duo having technically reigned as Champions for 637 days. ==Personal life==