Your Top 3 Favorite Tag Teams of All Time

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Hammy got the ball rolling with the Superstar thread.

Got to give some love to my favorite tag teams:


1.Rock N Roll Express: These guys were Hulk Hogan like to me. I have seen almost every Rock N Roll Express match ever *cept for Indy stuff* and it was one of my greatest honors when I got to meet and hang out with them at a show and get my picture taken with them. I still have it somewhere. I think I was like 12 or something. Anyhow, I remember when TBS ran a Superstar Dream Match on TV. This was a HUGE deal because back then, top guys didnt wrestle top guys on TV. They would wrestle jobbers and the feuds would happen due to promos and run ins etc. So when they wrestled on PPV which there weren't many, it was a huge deal. So the fact I was going to get to see huge matches on free TV was amazing. I'll never forget Jim Cornette hitting Ricky Morton in the back of the head with the tennis racket costing them the tag titles to the Midnight Express. I cried I was so upset. My friend owns an Indy wrestling promotion and about 5 years ago, he had Ricky Morton on one of his shows. It was amazing!

2.Steiner Brothers: Scott Steiner was the greatest wrestler for a stretch of about 3 years. He was virtually unmatched in the ring and with Rick as the bruiser they were an unmatched tag team.

3.Road Warriors/LOD  Scariest, most intimidating tag team ever. There spiked shoulder pads and face paint, crazy hair cuts, intensity in the ring, strength, power.... their feud with the Russians Ivan and Nikita Koloff almost cost me my life when I was 10. They had an angle where the Russians would hang them over the top rope with a chain.  I use to wrestle stuffed animals and I was on the top bunk of my brother and I's bunkbeds and I had a belt around one of my stuffed animals necks and was hanging it over the side of the bed. On old school bunk beds there was a wooden board that went across which stopped u from falling. well, ours was loose and when i hung the stuffed animal over, the board which was already loose came apart and I plunged 6 feet and landed straight on my head on the wooden floor. I thought I was dead. Couldn't walk for 3 days.


honorable mention:
1.Edge/Christian
2.Hardys
3.Rockers
4.New Age Outlaws
5. Beer Money

[timothy]

Steiner Brothers
Arn Anderson and Larry Z
the Hart Foundation

[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.

[James Lofton]

Road Warriors

No one will ever come close to the impact they had. Ruthless in the ring, killer promos, and while they were heels in every territory they wrestled in, the crowds cheered for them no matter who they were wrestling. Throw these guys into the WWF in 1985 and put them against Hogan and Andre, Hogan and Andre get booed out of the building. Their buzz was that huge at the time. They were totally wasted in the AWA. Verne Gagne can be handed golden eggs and he'll think its a giant turd.

Nikita/Ivan/Krusher Kruschev

Most underrated team in history. Always wanted to see them reunite in some capacity but it never happened. No demand for it really after the Cold War was over, but should have happened anyways at some point. Actually preferred the Nikita/Kruschev team, but it didn't happen often because Nikita was mainly focusing on singles wrestling.

Midnight Express

Wanted to put Demolition on this list, but the MX cant be overlooked. So much talent but simply had zero skills on the mic, and this clearly affected their legacy. The feud with Tully and Arne had so much potential, but they bailed and went to WWF killing it prematurely.

honorable mentions:

Demolition
Ole and Arn Anderson
Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda
Tully and Arn
Hart Foundation(could have been amazing with someone other than Neidhart)

[D]

Nice choices James. Agree on Road Warriors. They were the ****. Never forget their scaffold matches.

Their finisher was the best in tag team wrestling history also

[Gnrfan]

1/ New Age Outlaws - Just so much fun to watch. Good in-ring and good on the mic

2/ The Dudleys - Born to be a tag team. There work was incredible where ever they went. But there early work in ECW and in the Attitude Era was probally the greatest tag work i have ever seen.

3/ Egde/Christian - Much like NAO so much fun to watch both in ring and on mic. The series of TLC matches are the greatest tag gimmick matches of all time and set the bar that IMO has not be surpassed since