In the weeks leading up to Bad Blood, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin had been questioning Kane’s toughness, claiming that he was no longer the same monster he once was. This left Kane in a terrible mental state at the time of his and Rob Van Dam’s World Tag Team Championship defense against La Resistance. To make matters worse, RVD accidentally nailed Kane with a move on the outside. La Resistance capitalized and Rene Dupree and Sylvain Grenier won their first World Tag Team Championship. The relatively new duo went on to hold the titles for more than three months.