Message #103

[Hammy]

This is MAJORLY hard, there have been so many great teams.  I'll try though...

1. Demolition - Its weird because they were done as a team just as I was getting into wrestling, but as I mentioned in the other thread I lived wrestling through old VHS tapes for a long while.  I rented them from Blockbuster most weekends and Demolition ticked all the boxes for a reason I would like a team.  Entertaining matches? Check.  Quality Backstage promos?  Check.  Fantastic entrance music?  Check.  The "Look"...? Check.

Because the Tag Team division was so deep when Demolition were arounded they were paired with some fantastic teams who took them to great matches, Strike Force (Rick Martel and Tito Santana) as well as The British Bulldogs, The Rockers, The Brainbusters and The Hart Foundation.

After Ax began to get injury and illness problems they brought in Crush and worked as a 3-Man outfit with you never knowing which 2 would be defending the titles, and it worked well until they unfortunately phased them out after they brought in Legion of Doom the team many thought they were a rip off of, although I still think they were far superior.

The entrance music is classic..."Here comes the Ax, and here comes the Smasher"


and promo wise...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVC5vQ56AD8&feature=related

2. The New Age Outlaws - After about 18 months away from wrestling it was teams like this that got be back into it.  Admittedly they don't have a list of 10 Classic matches that people are going to want to watch over and over again, but personality goes a long way and these guys were super over in a crazy era and I popped huge for them.  I was gutted whenever they lost a match and back when I watched them I was so into them I loved every match of theres anyway, from the pre-match introduction to Billy Gunn clearing house after Roadogg had been beaten down for most of the match, they followed a similiar formula most matches but it worked, they will go down as the perfect example of what to do with two lower midcard singles guys who aren't over but do have talent.

3. The Steiner Brothers - Watching there matches in WWE and WCW, before they both got less agile they are a joy to watch.  Scotty is a suplexing machine.  I swear if you could transport the 1996 version of Scott Steiner to 2009 and have him feud with Kurt Angle you would have a 5 Star Classic.  Rick's entertaining but its definately Scott who carries this team, The Frankensteiner is such a sweet move when he nailed it so smoothly a perfectly, a hurricarana where the guy is dropped on the head, promo wise Scotty carries things there to, he wasn't quite as intense as he is now but he was clearly talented in the early 90s.