diff --git a/3.0-HISTORY.rst b/3.0-HISTORY.rst
index 794ee34e..4fc2d4e8 100644
--- a/3.0-HISTORY.rst
+++ b/3.0-HISTORY.rst
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@
   to most people and breaks most of the assumptions that people have about
   Response objects. This resolves issue `#2002`_
 
-- Skip over empty chunks in iterators. Empty chunks could prematurely signal 
-  the end of a request body's transmission, skipping them allows all of the 
+- Skip over empty chunks in iterators. Empty chunks could prematurely signal
+  the end of a request body's transmission, skipping them allows all of the
   data through. See `#2631`_ for more details.
 
+- Remove the ``req`` argument from ``Session.resolve_redirects`` method.
+
 .. _#2002: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2002
 .. _#2631: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2631
diff --git a/requests/sessions.py b/requests/sessions.py
index 3630a567..5776ca0b 100644
--- a/requests/sessions.py
+++ b/requests/sessions.py
@@ -88,12 +88,13 @@ def merge_hooks(request_hooks, session_hooks, dict_class=OrderedDict):
 
 
 class SessionRedirectMixin(object):
-    def resolve_redirects(self, resp, req, stream=False, timeout=None,
+    def resolve_redirects(self, resp, stream=False, timeout=None,
                           verify=True, cert=None, proxies=None, **adapter_kwargs):
         """Receives a Response. Returns a generator of Responses."""
 
         i = 0
         hist = [] # keep track of history
+        req = resp.request
 
         while resp.is_redirect:
             prepared_request = req.copy()
@@ -591,7 +592,7 @@ class Session(SessionRedirectMixin):
         extract_cookies_to_jar(self.cookies, request, r.raw)
 
         # Redirect resolving generator.
-        gen = self.resolve_redirects(r, request, **kwargs)
+        gen = self.resolve_redirects(r, **kwargs)
 
         # Resolve redirects if allowed.
         history = [resp for resp in gen] if allow_redirects else []
diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index b3a8cde3..ff67460d 100755
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ class TestRequests(object):
         s = requests.Session()
         r1 = s.get(httpbin('redirect/2'), allow_redirects=False, stream=True)
         assert r1.is_redirect
-        rg = s.resolve_redirects(r1, r1.request, stream=True)
+        rg = s.resolve_redirects(r1, stream=True)
 
         # read only the first eight bytes of the response body,
         # then follow the redirect
@@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@ class TestRedirects:
         r0 = session.send(prep)
         assert r0.request.method == 'POST'
         assert session.calls[-1] == SendCall((r0.request,), {})
-        redirect_generator = session.resolve_redirects(r0, prep)
+        redirect_generator = session.resolve_redirects(r0)
         for response in redirect_generator:
             assert response.request.method == 'GET'
             send_call = SendCall((response.request,),