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Top 5; Tag Teams
By: Sel Date: September 13, 2012, 10:27 am
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Since I mentioned it in another thread, figured I'd confess my
guilty pleasures. What's your favourite 5 tag teams of all time?
Here's mine, based on many things, not necessarily skill;
1. Demolition - The WWE ripoffs of the Road Warriors. They
didn't actually have any real skill. They just pummelled people
an awful lot. In fact, they didn't really have any real
wrestling skills until Crush joined them, but the truth of the
matter is, without Demolition I might never have embraced the
WWE. It was during a chance flicking through of a friend's
channels that I caught these BDSM bastards in spiked hockey
masks walking to the ring. Having only seen World of Sport until
then, they made me look twice. From then on I was hooked, even
down to arguing with my best mate as a kid in the traditon of
'Heel vs Face' that wrestling promotes, me taking on the role of
Jesse Ventura and he Gorilla Monsoon, justifying cheating and
all. Good times. Ax was still responsible for all their losses
though!
2. DX (HHH and Shawn Michaels) - Love 'em. Best mic work around.
They got into that ring and it didn't matter what they did, I
was usually snickering or grinning sadistically. Be it the first
DX or the latter incarnation, they entertained me greatly. And
Shawn is my favouritist wrestler of all time, so yanno, extra
bonus points with their in ring style. They could win a crowd
over by simply sneezing. Even when bad, we loved them.
3. The Outsiders - I'm a fan of Nash. There, I said it. Despite
being a bastard, he has been responsible for some great
storylines. Without Nash, I don't really think the nWo would
have sold so well. Hogan was obviously an influence, but when
they split, I was Wolfpac all the way, and no matter what Hogan
did for the black and white, I just wasn't interested. Diesel
and Razor Ramone won us just as easily back in the day. Again,
their theatre puts them into my top 5.
4. Two Man Power Trip - Brutal. Is there any other word for
them? It was the shock heel turn that we thought we'd never see.
It came from nowhere, caught us all by surprise and the showed a
mean streak no one could have comprehended. Short lived team,
but holy crap did they leave an impression.
5. Power and Glory - I love their finishing move, and it took
Hercules from 'huh, interesting' to 'oooh, check him out' for
me. Roma was great, one of the zippy flyers combined with this
man who was a power house. Thought it was a great partnership,
seemed to come from nowhere and sold me.
See? Guilty pleasures. My top 5 singles are more skill based,
but tag teams I was more a brutality kind of guy. Bubbling
under; Original Skyscrapers, Twin Towers, Steiner Brothers and
maybe Doom.
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Re: Top 5; Tag Teams
By: Steve B Date: September 14, 2012, 12:52 pm
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Ahh tag teams. The 80's and 90's were a golden age. A time when
titans ruled. A time when they tagged in and out and the belts
mattered. Heres my top 5. Accompanied by their entrance music!
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z4ABVyH_l0
The Hart Foundation - In my opinion the greatest of them all.
Purely because they look so unlikely and as though it all
shouldn't work. You have the slick, good looking ferrari of a
wrestler in Bret Hitman Hart - technical, quick, precise - along
with the squat, bearded tank like Jim The Anvil Neidhart -
powerful, eccentric, workmanlike - but together they were a
dream. Where one lacked the other filled, Bret at this point was
shy so Jim talked. Jim had a limited moveset so Bret, who was
schooled in the Hart Dungeon had the holds and moves. Bret
wasn't that strong, Jim had raw power to spare. They both had a
cool theme tune and one of the coolest finishing moves in tag
team history. Still don't buy it? Go back and watch Summerslam
1990 for the titles, that whole buildup and match is pretty much
how it should be.
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXQ8Z96onk
The Rockers - Although we're used to seeing the X Division and
people flying all over the ring now before the Rockers hit the
mainstream wrestling was mostly a pretty ponderous affair. Big
old dinosaurs of men would lumber around and beat on each other
until one did a finishing move and the match was over. Then we
get these two guys who look like a hair band from sunset strip.
They were unlike almost anything we'd ever seen before. They
were flying off the ropes, the turnbuckles, each other, calling
out moves to each other in code they were bright and exciting
and people loved it. One in particular stood out to me. That
guys going places thought young me. Marty Janetty will be world
champion one day. Guess I was stupid as a kid! But he was the
better of the two - tougher, braver, more high flying and
seemed to make the team tick. Shawn though went on to greatness.
But those days of the Rockers were incredibly influential.
Without them there would pretty much be no X Division. A
generation of young, small american wrestlers would never have
thought they could do it.
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLbIKrTfpOw
New Age Outlaws - DX were a fine outfit but I never bought Shawn
and Hunter as a team. However NAO were a great team.
Charismatic, entertaining, talented, tough and probably the last
great hurrah for tag teams. They worked together well, had a
good gimmick and more importantly they won. Road Dogg held it
all together but Billy wasn't just along for the ride. They were
both legitimately good wrestlers. It was one of the teams which
was greater than the sum of its parts. All through the 90's they
caused mayhem and won titles under the DX banner and beseeched
our ass to call somebody which we did. When they later reformed
in TNA it wasn't the same. The magic was gone which just goes to
show sometimes its all about the right time and the right place.
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD50cL5CMAw
Roadwarriors/LOD - I had to include these guys. They loom large
over tag team history. They span a couple of decades and several
federations. The pop when their music hit was deafening, their
promos were superb, their finishing move often copied. Simply
put they were badasses, entertaining and they could draw heat
when they were heels and the crowd loved them when they were
faces. They had cage matches where everyone ended up bleeding
including the managers, they beat up all three of the Freebirds,
their influence is felt still. Quite simply what a rush.
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwiVUxS-CWQ
The Brainbusters - No theme song but the Brainbusters are one of
the most influential tag teams ever. One half of the four
horsemen these towo tough guys more or less wrote the book on
how to tag team wrestle. Not like The Rockers but in a very
different way, these two were classic mat wrestlers, chain
wrestlers, but they'd string it all together with sweet slick
tags and grind opponents down and win. This ground and pound
style coupled with Andersons dry mic skills meant these two were
successful for years. The British Invasion had a "european
style"? Not one bit. They were Brainbusters style. Not very
fancy but effective. They didn't need to be that flashy because
Flair was doing it for them in the Horsemen which is why they
floundered in the WWF, even with Bobby Heenan as a mouthpiece
they looked a bit lost when they had to talk but in the ring
they were titans.
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Re: Top 5; Tag Teams
By: Sel Date: September 14, 2012, 1:55 pm
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Somehow, just soooomehow, I knew you'd have the Brainbusters.
Summerslam '89, man *sage nod*
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