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Finlay and Hornswoggle are an active professional wrestling tag team. The team currently works for World Wrestling Entertainment on its ECW brand and breifly it's SmackDown brand.

Career
On May 26, 2006, Finlay defeated Paul Burchill. After Finlay’s victory over, a mysterious little man (Hornswoggle) scurried out from under the ring and jumped on Burchill. Finlay pulled him off, only to slam him back down onto Burchill again. For the next few weeks, Hornswoggle continued to appear from under the ring after matches and attack Finlay's opponents. Eventually, SmackDown play-by-play commentator Michael Cole began referring to him as the Little Bastard. Little Bastard soon became more and more aggressive and started attacking Finlay's opponent during matches, much to Finlay's dismay.

Finlay picked up a win against Bobby Lashley to take Lashley's WWE United States Championship. Finlay defended the championship on several occasions, often with help from Little Bastard, and even defended it against fellow court member William Regal at The Great American Bash. He lost the title to Mr. Kennedy on the September 1 edition of SmackDown! in a triple threat match that also involved Bobby Lashley.

At No Way Out, Finlay and Hornswoggle defeated The Boogeyman and Little Boogeyman. Prior to the match was the first time Hornswoggle spoke, telling Finlay that little people scared him. Later that week on SmackDown!, Little Bastard pinned the Boogeyman with a jumping DDT, in a match pitting himself and Finlay against Boogeyman and Little Boogeyman.

During the Money in the Bank ladder match at WrestleMania 23, which Finlay was involved in, Mr. Kennedy hit Hornswoggle with a Green Bay Plunge off of a ladder when Hornswoggle tried to interfere. On the following edition of SmackDown!, Finlay attacked Mr. Kennedy after his match and challenged him to a handicap match against Hornswoggle and Finlay. Before the match, Mr. Kennedy apologized for hurting Hornswoggle. Finlay accepted his apology and formed a team with Kennedy.

Hornswoggle won the WWE Cruiserweight Championship after he pinned Jamie Noble (James Gibson) in a Cruiserweight Open at The Great American Bash. He briefly ran across the ring as the bell was rung before going back under the ring making him an official participant in the match. The other participants and commentators were unaware that he was a participant in the match until the referee counted the pin and awarded him the belt. On September 10, in conclusion to the Mr. McMahon (Vince McMahon) "illegitimate son storyline" on Raw, Hornswoggle was revealed to be Vince's son in a storyline. Hornswoggle still made appearances on SmackDown!, as well. Although his partnership with Finlay was quietly phased out, he still continued to feud with Jamie Noble. The Hornswoggle/Noble rivalry ended on the September 28 edition of SmackDown! when Acting General Manager Vickie Guerrero forced Hornswoggle to surrender the Cruiserweight Championship, citing that his status as Mr. McMahon's son and his diminutive stature would eventually jeopardize his well-being. After the affair of finding out who the illegitimate son was, Mr. McMahon began giving Hornswoggle matches against competitors that were much larger than him. His reason for doing this, was that he was showing his son, "tough love." Hornswoggle was placed into a match against The Great Khali (Dalip Singh Rana) at Survivor Series. At the event, Khali defeated Hornswoggle by disqualification when Finlay attacked Khali on Hornswoggle's behalf. This was the first time that Finlay appeared together with Hornswoggle since the beginning of the Hornswoggle/Vince storyline. Finlay's attack on Khali started a feud between the two. At Armageddon, Finlay defeated Khali with the help of Hornswoggle.

On the February 18 edition of Raw, Hornswoggle had a scheduled steel cage match against his kayfabe father, Mr. McMahon. Finlay tried to get involved, but was attacked and handcuffed to the ring ropes by JBL. Mr. McMahon left the ring and allowed JBL to beat up Hornswoggle while an enraged Finlay watched. Following this, WWE.com announced that Hornswoggle had kayfabe suffered internal injuries, including bleeding of the brain and spinal trauma. On February 25, JBL claimed that Hornswoggle is not Mr. McMahon's son, but in reality is the son of Finlay. The next week on Raw, Finlay confirmed Hornswoggle was indeed his son, then was forced to watch helplessly as JBL assaulted Hornswoggle in his hospital bed. Hornswoggle returned to live television at WrestleMania XXIV, accompanying Finlay to the ring for his Belfast Brawl with JBL, once interfering by hitting JBL with a kendo stick, allowing Finlay to get the shot in with the shillelagh. JBL won the match by hitting Finlay with the kendo stick in the shins and following up with the Clothesline from Hell.

As part of the 2008 WWE Supplemental Draft, Hornswoggle was drafted to the ECW brand along with Finlay. At Night of Champions, Hornswoggle and Finlay challenged The Miz and John Morrison for the WWE Tag Team Championship, but failed to win. Finlay and Hornswoggle were granted another shot at the WWE Tag Team Championship at The Great American Bash but came short.

In wrestling

 * Finishing and signature tag team moves 
 * Aided splash
 * Celtic Cross by Finlay followed by a Tadpole Splash by Hornswoggle


 * Signature foreign objects
 * Shillelagh
 * Squirt gun
 * Green mist
 * Marbles


 * Entrance themes
 * Hes Ma Da by Jim Johnston
 * Lambeg" – Available on WWE The Music, Vol. 7
 * Finlay used a song by The Swaggerin' Growlers as his theme on the March 3 edition of Raw

Championships and accomplishments

 * World Wrestling Entertainment
 * WWE United States Championship (1 time) - Finlay
 * WWE Cruiserweight Championship (1 time) Hornswoggle (Last)