Best underrated tag teams of the 80's/90's

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And of course...the Sheepherders. This was pre-Bushwhackers because they sucked ass when Vince got their mitts on them.

Remember the NWA days when they had Johnny Ace waving the New Zealand flag or the CWF days when they were heels?

 

Chalk me down for the Lightning Express.

Brad Armstrong & Tim Horner? WCW did their best at trying to get the Armstrong Brothers over on tv too bad it never lasted. I think Steve Armstrong was part of Wild Eyed Southern Boys and Young Gunns in the early 90's then came back to work with brother Scott on the syndaticaded show WCW Worldwide in the late 90's. I was always a fan of theirs even though the whole curse angle made for some bad tv but at least Larry Zybrisco had something to say other than "This is a game of human chess".

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Ditto when Steve Williams teamed with Terry Gordy...it was gold in Japan and Bill Watts fucked it up in WCW.

 

How did he "fuck it up?" They held the NWA and WCW World Tag Team Titles at the same time. Seemed like they were pretty successful to me.

 

Just thought of another team...I liked Marcus Bagwell and the Patriot as "Stars and Stripes" in WCW, for some reason. I guess I was a huge mark for Patriot in GWF.

 

 

Dr. Death and Bam Bam were a team you could have built the tag team division around long term. They only held the titles for a couple of months, then lost them to Dustin Rhodes and Barry Windham. They basically had a ritzy cup of coffee in WCW for a few months and then left.

 

Another tag team that was awesome back then but no one gives much love these days...the Eliminators.

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The Young Pistols

123 Kid and Marty Jannetty (short lived, but a fun team)

Barry Windham and Dustin Rhodes

 

Ditto for the mentions of the Dynamic Duo (Hernandez and Adams) as well as the Coastal Connection (Rod Price and John Tatum).

 

I also liked the pairing of The Sandman and "2 Gold" Scorpio (this was when he had both the TV and Tag Titles in ECW).

 

One of my favorite teams of all time was the duo of Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas. The feud with the Hollywood Blondes (which put my four favorite wrestlers of all time in the ring together) was killer.

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Totally forgot Windham and Rhodes, I remember marking out bigtime when they beat Williams & Gordy for the WCW title. It was just after ITV started showing WCW in the UK and Windham was my favourite wrestler at the time. Great team.

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No love for the Can-Am Connection wow. I always thought they were a fun team as was Pillman and Zenk in WCW. To add to what others were saying that I thought Dustin Rhodes and Barry Windham were an awesome tag team as was Rhodes and Steamboat if you watch Clash of the Champions XVII.

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Ditto when Steve Williams teamed with Terry Gordy...it was gold in Japan and Bill Watts fucked it up in WCW.

 

How did he "fuck it up?" They held the NWA and WCW World Tag Team Titles at the same time. Seemed like they were pretty successful to me.

 

Just thought of another team...I liked Marcus Bagwell and the Patriot as "Stars and Stripes" in WCW, for some reason. I guess I was a huge mark for Patriot in GWF.

 

 

Dr. Death and Bam Bam were a team you could have built the tag team division around long term. They only held the titles for a couple of months, then lost them to Dustin Rhodes and Barry Windham. They basically had a ritzy cup of coffee in WCW for a few months and then left.

 

Another tag team that was awesome back then but no one gives much love these days...the Eliminators.

 

I thought I've read Williams and Gordy's run there was planned to be short all along, then they'd go back to Japan. I might be thinking of others though.

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Totally forgot Windham and Rhodes, I remember marking out bigtime when they beat Williams & Gordy for the WCW title. It was just after ITV started showing WCW in the UK and Windham was my favourite wrestler at the time. Great team.

agreed, I also wa s big windham fan back then for whatever reason

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Well the Can Ams were pretty good, but let's face it...they just weren't Strike Force.

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Then there was High Energy, Koko B Ware and Owen Hart, before they knew what to do with him. In that 92-94 Tag team ranking era, when you had a version of Demolition, before Crush and Repoman took off the paint, Natural Disasters, Money Inc, Steiners, Headshrinkers etc etc.

 

High Energy, and even the New Foundation was entertaining.

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Well the Can Ams were pretty good, but let's face it...they just weren't Strike Force.

 

The Can Ams actually put on some very good and entertaining squash matches where they always gave the heels plenty of offense and even a face-in-peril segement. Granted, their opponents always seemed to be some combination of Iron Mike Sharpe, JJ Funk, and Terry Gibbs but the matches were always a breath of fresh air compared to something like Hercules vs. Rick Hunter.

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That brings up another team I really liked...Money Inc. It seemed like Dibiase and Rotunda were a natural pairing that no one had ever really thought of before. They had some awesome matches against the Steiners, too. Sure, they held the WWF Tag Titles, but no one really brings them up much when you talk about great tag teams of the past.

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Going back to my answer of the Rougeaus, the Quebeccers were a decent team, and tag champs, who no-one ever mentioned. Their double teams were great fun, they managed to drag Men on a Mission to a watchable match at WMX and they complimented each other well, Jacques as the quicker, more technical member and Pierre as a great highflying big man. Their later run as the Amazing French Canadians was patchy, but "We're not mounties", Johnny Polo-managed Quebeccers were great.

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What did The Killer Bees use as a finisher.

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Quebecors were a lot of fun to watch and great to hate, exactly what you'd want in a team (and they had the team aura not just a "slapped together" feel that most teams have today)

 

and I believe the Killer Bees used a double Drop Kick as their finisher

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The thing is though, The Quebecers signalled the end of the WWF having a quality tag division. I point to the Steiners losing the belts to them in the Quebec Rules match as the start of a downturn in WWF tag wrestling that lasted pretty much until the New Age Outlaws revived interest in the division (although I did like the Owen/Bulldog title run, but the division itself was still crap).

 

Speaking of the Can Ams I was watching an old Prime Time from 1987 on the 24/7 and they had a really cheesy bit with them comparing Canada and the US. Hearing Rick Martel discuss the merits of Montreal reminded me of Sylvan.

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We should do a WCW tag roster from 97ish:

 

Fantastics

RnR Xpress

Power Company

Public Enemy

Enos/Bloom

Juvi and Psicosis (I think that was Juvi's frequent partner)

Disorderly Conduct

Jim Powers/Pittman/Walker

Eaton and Joey Maggs

Steve and Scott Armstrong

Vicious and Delicious

Amazing French Canadians

Faces of Fear

Steiner bros

Harlem Heat

Outsiders

Nasty Boys

 

Missing quite a few I'm sure...

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Don't forget Villano IV and V.

 

 

 

I always thought Lenny Lane and Lodi were a perfectly acceptable tag team except switching gimmicks every other week pretty much killed them. If they had stuck in the role of goofy heels they could have been a poor man's Edge and Christian (And I mean that as a compliment)

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The weird thing about the Quebecers was that one month, Jacques Rougeau was the Mountie, and a little while later he's just "Jacques of the Quebecers", and they didn't really explain the transition, even though it was obvious he was the same guy. I mean, even their theme music was a parody of the Mountie's music.

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Don't forget Villano IV and V.

 

 

 

I always thought Lenny Lane and Lodi were a perfectly acceptable tag team except switching gimmicks every other week pretty much killed them. If they had stuck in the role of goofy heels they could have been a poor man's Edge and Christian (And I mean that as a compliment)

Lenny looked too much like Lex Luger and Chris Jericho thus confusing alot of people.

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Don't forget Villano IV and V.

 

 

 

I always thought Lenny Lane and Lodi were a perfectly acceptable tag team except switching gimmicks every other week pretty much killed them. If they had stuck in the role of goofy heels they could have been a poor man's Edge and Christian (And I mean that as a compliment)

Lenny looked too much like Lex Luger and Chris Jericho thus confusing alot of people.

 

yes, in fact when I met Lenny in 02, he did the Jericho arrogant cover pose and looked just like him circa 98

I should scan my pics form that autograph signing

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'Mr Wonderful' Paul Orndorff and 'Pretty' Paul Roma - 'Pretty Wonderful'. A good 'random yet logical' heel pairing that did some good stuff in 1994.

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Brian Pillman & Tom Zenk.

 

They got the U.S. tag straps, WCW figures out of it, and a **** Capital Combat match with the Midnights.

 

And no one's mentioned them.

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And The York Foundation says hello.

 

They main evented like every WCW B and C show in 1991, so that has to count. Plus, when that scumbag Thomas Rich tricked Big Josh into thinking he was gonna turn good again, after getting Alexandra York's labtop broken over his face and BLOOD ON WCW SUNDAY NIGHT 6:05 MAIN EVENT (a crimson mask on a WCW C-Show was the equivalent of Hogan slamming Andre to me), and then knocked Josh out, I marked out like I just won the lottery. After months of setbacks, my favorite stable of 1991, the York Foundation had won the sport's ultimate prize:

 

The WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship

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Pillman & Z-Man I agree with, they were a great combo could have done great things in the very strong tag-team division back then

 

York Foundation - I'm gonna go with nah on that one, Tommy Rich (over the hill) Ricky Morton (over the hill) and Terry Taylor (never recovered from being a Rooster)

 

It was a mid-card gimmick that was alright but Rich & Taylor were forever midcarders and Ricky will always be the "in peril" half of the Rock'N'Roll Express

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The York Foundation were a perfectly good midcard heel stable, but they were never presented as anything more than that, which was probably for the best. Also, their tag matches never seemed that memorable.

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The Killer Bees finisher was a dropdown dropkick. Blair would whip the opponent into the ropes and drop down so that the opponent would jump over him coming back off the ropes, and Brunzell would nail him in the face with that dropkick of his.

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The New Foundation, Owen and The Anvil.

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A good team that had a too short stint back in 1996 : Doug Furnas and Phil Lafon.

 

I know they had a short rivalry with Owen/Bulldog. The only PPV match they had I can remember was at Survivor Series 96 in a 4-on-4 match. I don't know if they had a proper PPV match between these two teams though.

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Furnas and Lafon were a great team...they had some really awesome matches in AJPW.

 

I thought their angle during their stint in WWF was kind of funny...I think they were sarcastically nicknamed "the world's most exciting tag team" and came out with basically no entrance music and regular wrestling tights and jackets.

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A good team that had a too short stint back in 1996 : Doug Furnas and Phil Lafon.

 

I know they had a short rivalry with Owen/Bulldog. The only PPV match they had I can remember was at Survivor Series 96 in a 4-on-4 match. I don't know if they had a proper PPV match between these two teams though.

 

They did at IYH: Final 4 although it had a very cheap ending. Excellent match though.

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the two most memorable underated tag teams for me are

 

rougeau bros. (in any form - including quebecers)

strike force

 

i loved those two. they were everything great about tag team wrestling.

 

furnas & lafon were fun, too. and really fun with the extremely fun team of owen & the bulldog. arguably the last great tag team. the last great tag team that could be in the main event of raw each week & the fans would DIE to see them lose.