To be the best tag team ever, copied by so many, and inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame…WHAT A RUSH! He was an actor, known for Pro Wrestling USA (1984), AWA All-Star Wrestling (1972) and Eastern Championship Wrestling (1993). Wrestling (2004). He has been married to Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman since February 5, 2005. They wore masks, were managed by Woman, and threw big nasty clotheslines. Every time a stable defends a tag title with a rotating lineup, it is using the Freebird rule. He showed ... Shelton Benjamin was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina on July 9, 1976. A year later, after sending tapes of his matches to the major wrestling companies at the time, he was contacted by the AWA, who proposed that he team ... Jeff Hardy was born on August 31, 1977 in Cameron, North Carolina, USA as Jeffrey Nero Hardy. Some of the best tag teams are built on contrast, and there’s never been a better example than The Rock and Mankind. Wrestling (2004), The Agency: Pursuit of the Ares Virus (2010) and TNA iMPACT! Long before his brawling, everyman persona in the WWE, he and Brian Pillman worked fantastic matches in WCW, and even earned a feud with The Four Horsemen. He is an actor and producer, known for WWE Raw (1993), WWE Smackdown! Without them this list might not exist. Call it recency bias, I don’t care, The New Day absolutely deserve to be on this list. Even though their styles are quite different (Sheik being a wild hardcore-style brawler, known for throwing fire, cutting his opponent's forehead's up with foreign objects like a pencil, ... Brian Yandrisovitz was born on May 6, 1964 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA as Brian E Yandrisovitz. He is an actor and producer, known for WWE Raw (1993), WWE Smackdown! It is difficult to rank them, given that some of them played in different eras. The team was short-lived, but it’s hard to find stories like that at the height of Cold War tensions. I don’t think any team represented the pure escapist potential of pro wrestling better than The Legion of Doom. THE HORSEMEN – The Four Horsemen formed in January 1986 with Ric Flair, with Flair’s storyline cousins Arn Anderson and Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard, with James J. Dillon as their manager. 15 Greatest WCW Tag Teams Of All Time A lot can be said for WCW but they didn't have any shortage of great tag teams. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. Every WWF storyline since, from CM Punk’s contract signing to the Yes Movement, has tried to capture the same blurred-lines zeitgeist that Kevin Nash and Scott Hall started. Tag teams have always been an integral part of pro wrestling but determining the greatest tag team of all time is a big challenge. Tag-team wrestling was first recorded in 1901, but The Fabulous Kangaroos put the style on the map when they started working matches in 1957. Retired American professional wrestler best known for his work for ECW and WCW during the 1990s. Before Bobby Roode was an up-and-coming NXT monster, he and James Storm established an insanely entertaining tag team called Beer Money, Inc. Storm and Roode were both slipping through the cracks at TNA, but found something that worked brilliantly and catapulted both of their careers. The best tag teams in the world aren’t even in WWE. He held the gold with Paul London for almost a year, and man, in retrospect they both certainly deserved better. Y2AJ Haha, just kidding. Did you know that Dusty Rhodes and Nikita Koloff teamed for a bit in the mid-80s? Yes, the Bushwhackers represented the ultimate mid-card kid’s act, and generally I prefer it when tag-team wrestling is taken a bit more seriously, but they were funny and weird and it’s hard to make a list of the Top 50 tag teams without including them. Both Hector and Amando ... Davey Boy Smith was born on November 27, 1962 in Manchester, England as David Boy Smith. Tag teams have been an integral part of professional wrestling's makeup for decades. The menacing duo performed in WWE, WCW, AWA, and won titles wherever they went. He also... Chris Candido was born on March 21, 1972 in Spring Lake, New Jersey, USA as Christopher B. Candito. Out of Angle’s shadow, Haas and Benjamin reemerged as The World’s Greatest Tag Team. The tenor of wrestling has changed drastically since the Legion’s heyday, but that has only made it more vital. One of the best tag teams I’ve ever been in the ring with. Al Costello and Roy Heffernan embraced a full-tilt Australian gimmick, and brought bush hats and boomerangs to the ring. The big men were the faces … If those names don’t do it for you, their seven NWA World Tag Team Championships should. Trained by the legendary Jose Lothario, Shawn Michaels wrestled in Kansas, where he met fellow wrestler, Marty Jannetty. He made his professional ... John Bradshaw was born on June 29, 1933 in Houston, Texas, USA as John Elliot Bradshaw. See which underclassmen have declared for the 2021 NFL Draft. Were they over? Realmuto, take a deep dive into the best players available this winter. He teamed with his brother Joe for years. It’s interesting to think how many tag teams have used the same bleach-blonde, party-boy profile. It was intimidating watching them come in 4 or 5 months before we wrestled With the New Day rising in popularity, this list looks back on the top ten tag teams of all time. The Wild Samoans’ gimmick hasn’t aged particularly well. Their straightforward tough-guy pomp was enough to propel them to five runs with the AWA title. It is really hard to make wrestling cool, but the Hardyz pulled it off over and over again. 10. While Tag Tournament is certainly a worthy fighter, even by today’s standards, the price tag for an HD remake may have been a little too steep for many. However, if I were to rank the best tag teams of all time, here are my top five teams. The Best Tag Teams in Wrestling Ever by jwoehr | created - 22 Dec 2011 | updated - 30 Dec 2011 | Public Sort by: View: 42 names 1. One of the best tag teams I’ve ever been in the ring with. He starred as one of the leads in the fifth season of the popular television series Haven on Syfy. The NWA didn’t want to dress up their jingoistic verbiage in anything too complicated, so instead they sent out Ivan Koloff, Krusher Kruschev and Nikita Koloff under Soviet banners to rile up the audience in the easiest way possible. Went to High School with five other pro wrestlers, Tom Zenk, John Nord, Nikita Koloff, the late Curt Hennig, and the late "Ravishing" Rick Rude. He played football at the North Texas State University. That’s textbook pro wrestling, OK? Watch WWE TLC 2010 on WWE Network The in-ring style, size and experience of the competitors varied greatly, creating a wild and fast-paced free-for-all that highligh… Otherwise knows as 'it', 'you're it!' WHY WWE DIDN'T MAKE FUN OF THE HOUSTON ASTROS SCANDAL, BEST TAG TEAMS, INTERVIEWS, FIRST WRESTLER I EVER MET AND MORE To ask questions for the PWInsider Q&A, click here. Early in his career he was known as Krusher Khrushchev, a Russian powerhouse who held the NWA World Tag Team Title with partnet, Ivan Koloff. He debuted in Florida in 1979 and proceeded to work all over the world, particularly in Japan. They called themselves The Blade Runners, which was intended to be a parody of The Road Warriors. Nick Jackson on FTR: “One of the best tag teams I’ve ever been in the ring with.” Matt Jackson on FTR’s passion for the business: “Nobody takes wrestling more seriously than them. Too kick off my blog I started with my top 15 favourite British wrestlers - here - So I thought i'd build on that and list my favourite British tag teams. He dropped out of school to become a pro wrestler in Mexico. Eadie spoke with WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard about Demolition’s legacy in the wrestling business, and was asked if … However, after losing the titles, the duo went on a losing streak, resulting in being fired by Angle. Let’s break it down from promotion to promotion and you Neither of these guys achieved solo success after the team disbanded in the '90s, but they helped create the language of tag-team wrestling that still echoes today. Advertisement The legendary ‘Boyz’ of pro wrestlingThe art of tag team wrestling is a dying art. I know I am a few weeks late on this, but I am watching the Royal Rumble and they are literally in the Houston Astros' house but there's nothing poking fun or mocking the … Maybe I’m a sentimental loser, but watching these guys succeed made wrestling magic. Fans might be surprised at our #1 pick, but no one in the industry is. Bret Hart is one of Canada's most successful wrestlers. In addition to his wrestling ... Ricky Morton was born on September 21, 1956 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA as Rickey Wendell Morton. Obviously Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose have reached new stratospheres as solo stars since The Shield’s dramatic breakup in 2014, but man were they white hot during their run as a stable. PWI - Top 100 Tag Teams of the PWI Years posted Aug 22, 2015, 7:54 PM by Wrestling Scout 1. The Russian Team consisted of quite a few wrestlers in their mid-80s heyday, and together they gathered everything from the Six-Man Tag Team Championship to, of course, The United States Championship. (1999) and WCW Saturday Night (1985). His mother, Beverly Jane (Harrison), remarried to Kenneth Williams, and he took his stepfather's surname. He is known for his work on WWE Smackdown! His most famous persona was Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake in the WWF from 1984-1993. I mean, they didn’t talk during interviews and instead relied on Captain Lou Albano to translate their grunts. He was married to Dale Watts and Judy Pendzimas. Seriously, can you imagine “Cowboy Bret Hart?” Instead Bret suited up in the pink and black with Jim Neidhart and had dozens of great matches with The British Bulldogs, The Rockers and Demolition. There’s always going to be space for people who are capable of putting on really good tag-team wrestling.You’re seeing it right now with American Alpha and The Revival. Tag Team GX Card Expansion Eevee & … 15 pick in the 2019 NFL draft. But he’s consistently said his favorite memories in the ring come from his time teaming with Jay Youngblood. Without their occasional amicability, we wouldn’t have one of the more macabre rivalries in wrestling history. Wrestling (2004), TNA: Genesis (2009) and One Night Only: GFW Amped Anthology (2017). Together they had fantastic matches around the world, but they also established a formula that you still see today in teams like Enzo & Cass. Wouldn’t it be great if wrestling were always as fun as The New Day? They have three children. Should be higher, I know. Consistency counts. Davey Boy Smith and The Dynamite Kid had great contrast. With the 16th anniversary of the WWE Tag Team Championship titles upon us, we look back at the 10 best matches in the title's lineage. Terry and Dory Funk Jr. are known for some incredible singles careers, (they’re the only brothers who have each held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.) Bobby Roode was born on January 1, 1977 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada as Robert Roode. He was an actor, known for WCW Thunder (1998), WWF Superstars (1986) and WWE Raw (1993). He owns a junior hockey team named after him and has his own column in the Calgary Sun. Headlined by Trevor Bauer, DJ LeMahieu and J.T. Obviously both of these men would go on to bigger and better things, but it’s amazing how much star power was accidentally cultivated in 1985. A website dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of the most played and popular activity in the world - Chase Tag . Prospect The first time the Prospect boys of Lucas Archer and Alex WWE, IWGP, TNA, ECW, the resume speaks for itself. Bret has held the ... Arn Anderson was born on September 20, 1958 in Rome, Georgia, USA as Martin Anthony Lunde. He has been the only wrestler to stay in WCW since the late 1980s and he had a reconstructive knee surgery in 1991. He is the nephew of wrestler Rey Misterio. It was During an interview with Fightful, The Young Bucks spoke on FTR being one of the best tag teams that they’ve ever been in the ring with as well as their passion for the wrestling business. Dinwiddie exited Sunday night's game against the Hornets after straining his right knee. Most people remember Ron Simmons for teaming with JBL in the APA and his meme-ish DAMN in backstage segments. The Steiner Brothers is known for his work on Slumber Party '57 (1976), The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) and The Jerry Lewis Show (1963). He’s certainly qualified, considering he had a hand in discovering an up-and-comer named Terry Bollea. You have to love the simplicity of The Russian Team. However, before they joined AEW, the Lucha Bros home in the United States was in Impact Wrestling. He ... Hollywood Blondes, awesome team. 9.9m Likes, 98.3k Comments - Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) on Instagram: “Always great to return to Spain and to Catalunya, always hard to play in Camp Nou against one of…” One of the top tag teams of the ‘70s, The Valiant Brothers perfected a pretty boy heel gimmick, with polished blond locks, gaudy plastic sunglasses and nicknames like “Luscious” and “Handsome.” They won the then-WWWF tag team belts, and held them for 370 days. It was Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson in the ring at the same time. Ray Traylor was born on May 2, 1963 in Marietta, Georgia, USA as Ray Washington Traylor Jr. Ax and Smash tore down every team in their way during the longest Tag Team Title reign in history, a record-breaking 478 days. The nWo storyline quickly got out of hand and, frankly, the emphasis on “old guys that don’t really care” wasn’t a great sustainable business model, but you have to give props to its genesis. Tag-team encounters have produced some amazing bouts throughout wrestling history. (1999) and WCW Thunder (1998). Here was a world in which rules didn’t matter, and you could dab up in warpaint and call yourself Animal and Hawk if you wanted. Money Incorporated? Macho Man Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan together. He was married to Angela Easterwood. 1. I feel like this needs to be included just for the historical curiosity. At first, he was a heel, but later turned face, around WrestleMania VIII (1992). Seriously, go back and watch some of those Disasters matches, it’s not exactly Big Show/Kane or whatever. They were tag team champions there as recently as 2019, with a … It always made me laugh that the Hart Foundation was originally conceived after a young Bret Hart turned down a cowboy gimmick. Together they were magic. They traded the belts back and forth before paying off the drama as a feature match at the first Starrcade. Jerry and Jack Brisco spent decades wrestling around the territories, but some of their most famous feuds happened when they paired as a team. Owen was one of the best wrestlers in the business and his major accomplishments include being the 1994 King of the Ring, former ... American-born, Canadian-raised professional wrestler, rock singer, actor and author. He was an actor, known for WWE Smackdown! Obviously the Von Erichs were more of a stable than a tag team, but it feels weird not ranking them if we’re going to include The Fabulous Freebirds. One of their most famous was when they turned heel and ambushed Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood. A definitive ranking of the top 50 wrestlig Tag Teams of all time, © 2020 ABG-SI LLC. He is an actor and director, known for WCW Monday Nitro (1995), WrestleMania 22 (2006) and Ready to Rumble (2000). We are so used to tag teams getting split up and pushed around the card (like that inevitable Big Cass singles run looming out in the distance, but Harlem Heat remained a team for much of the ‘90s and was always orbiting the tag belts. He has been married to Lottie since 1994. Site: WWE.com Seventeen years ago, … He died on May 8, 2016 in Houston. The Dudleyz won 23 championships all over the world. Obviously The Hitman went on to one of the greatest solo careers of all time, but his legacy began here. They have four children. (1999), WWE No Way Out (2008) and TNA iMPACT! Steve was also the only wrestler from WCW who never worked for WWE until 2014 when he made... One of the most colorful wrestlers in and out of the ring, Randy "Macho Man" Savage became a larger-than-life pop icon along with other wrestling superstars, such as "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Hulk Hogan, Jimmy Snuka (aka "Superfly Jimmy Snuka"), Jesse Ventura and Dwayne Johnson (aka "The Rock").When ... Deceased Canadian Sumo turned professional wrestler best known for his work for WWE from 1989 to 1993. THE ROAD WARRIORS – There is no explanation needed. He went undefeated as a Sumo wrestler but left the sport out of frustration with the lifestyle and knowing he would never get elevated to Yokozuna (Grand Champion) status. Booker Huffman was born on March 1, 1965 in Houston, Texas, USA as Robert Booker Tio Huffman. He has been married to Erin D. Lunde since 1984. Also ... Brian James was born on May 20, 1969 in Marietta, Georgia, USA as Brian Girard James. Demolition (in my mind) is the greatest tag team ever. Eddie's brothers, Hector, Amadno and Chavo, Sr. also became wrestlers. Demolition took Mad Max’s aesthetic and built a great career … which is an idea The Road Warriors had first. A medical student at Minnesota University (his father was a doctor, his mother an actress), Flair dropped out college to train for the mat wars under legendary former AWA World champ Verne Gagne. They have two children. You know how the Young Bucks have perfect synchronicity? We prefer to remember the Steiners as the clean-cut University of Michigan all-Americans, OK? That discipline was originally perfected by Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson of The Rock ‘n Roll Express. But he was also in Doom, a great late-80s partnership with Butch Reed. Two guys named Ax and Smash in bondage gear, and yet somehow this is a list about wrestling! He was married to Diana Hart. These guys held the WCW and NWA tag belts. The best tag teams in the world sadly are not on Raw. We poured through hours of footage to come up with our top 50 all-time teams. Honestly, where would the WWE be without the Hardy Boyz? Tag-teams matches involve fighting in a team with one member of the team inside the ring at any given time Download Android App Like, how their superkicks pop at the exact same time? One day he could not find humor was April 4th, 1968 as that was the day his father died of a heart ... Began his career in Texas. The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) 2. DiBiase entered the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the late 1980s where he gained most of his fame as "The ... Owen Hart was one of twelve children from a legendary Canadian wrestling family. Here are some of the best Tag Team cards available right now (the list only features a maximum of three cards per set). The Miracle Violence Connection is almost postmodern in its brilliance, and Dr. Death and Bam Bam totally lived up to it with their vicious ring style. in a gimmick called Money Inc. Money Inc.! Please leave any feedback on our Facebook page (the post is right here) and be sure to check out our ranking of the 101 greatest singles wrestlers of all time. One-on-one action generally takes precedent, but as impossible as … The Funks didn’t team up often, but their wars against the likes of Stan Hansen and Bruiser Brody were incredible. Saviors like John Cena hadn’t quite landed, and the McMahons were searching for a tone that worked on an audience that moved on from the fart jokes and nu-metal. From The Hollywood Blonds and the Outsiders to Doom and Harlem Heat, these are the 10 Best WCW Tag Teams Ever. He died on September 22, 2004 in Dallas, Georgia. In 2020, the Lucha Bros are one of the top tag teams in All Elite Wrestling, as well as south of the border in Mexico. It’s hard to think a tag-team breakup that affected the respective parties in a worse way than the Steiners. Rick fell into irrelevance and Scott … um, completely lost his mind. Bryan Clark started wrestling in the independent wrestling organizations as "The Nightstalker", and was even on a WCW PPV in the early 90s under that name (as a last-minute replacement). He competed for Stampede Wrestling, for the Canadian National Wrestling Alliance (no connection to the National Wrestling Alliance) and West ... Ed Leslie started his wrestling career in the late-1970s under various identities such as "Dizzy" Ed Boulder, most of the time playing the brother of Terry Bollea (now known as Hollywood/Hulk Hogan). The two "brothers" … It’s hard to think of a tag team that’s had so much heritage in a relatively short run. His father, from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, is black (of Black ... Ron Simmons was born on May 15, 1958 in Perry, Georgia, USA. He has been married to Beth Britt since March 9, 2011. For this article, let’s take a look back and rank the 10 greatest NBA teams of all time. He attended Tonga College, an all-boys school, where the top sport was rugby. Unfortunately, Los Guerreros marked one of Eddie’s final gimmicks before his tragic passing in 2005, but it did springboard him to an eventual WWE championship reign. I know their roguish, JNCO charm doesn’t look great to modern eyes, but the punishment Matt and Jeff (well, specifically Jeff) endured opened up this industry to previously unconscionable three-dimensional heights. Fans have been complaining for years about the lack of a good tag … They gave us … It goes without saying that The New Age Outlaws have aged poorly. Back in the ‘70s, before Mr. Fuji made his name as one of the greatest managers in the business, he was a pretty great in-ring worker and known for putting on some great matches with the powerhouse Professor Tanaka (who would later go on to have a decent film career.). You can’t find them on Smackdown or Main Event. Both of these guys were past their in-ring prime before they struck a partnership in the ‘80s, but The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff still knew how to wave foreign flags and get heel heat. 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