Demolition The Road Warriors/LOD Hart Foundation Rock and Roll Express Midnight Express
"You can't fire a gun in a confined space! What are you tring to do, make us deaf?!" "Just get out of the chopper." "What?" "Get out of the chopper!" "The crops!?" - Jack Lemmon and James Garner, "My Fellow Americans", and the reason I say "The crops?" instead of "Huh?"
Depends on what you're looking for here. One can look at a team like The Road Warriors, Rock & Roll Express, etc. They're long-term partners who are strictly tag team techinicians. On the other hand, you've got teams like the Canadian Chrisses or the Two Man Power Trip who, though usually singles stars, were great together as well. Personally, I marked out more for Benoit & Jericho than I did for regular tag teams, and found their tag matches more entertaining.
BTW, don't forget The Rockers.
WyldeWolf1 The Man of 1,007 holds, making him 3 holds better than Chris Jericho!
Arn Anderson and anybody else, but especially Ole. The whole "pick-a-limb-and-rip-it-in-half" thing they did was great.
Also, I really thought WCW's Cruiserweight tag titles would have been a great idea, if they had them in 97/98 when there was 30 some cruiser's instead of 10.
I've been to hell. I spell it...I spell it DMV. Anyone that's been there knows exactly what I mean. Stood there and I've waited, and choked back the urge to scream. And if I had my druthers, I'd rather screw a chimpanzee.
Gotta give credit to the Hollywood Blondes, the Dudleys, the Killer Bees, the Fantastics, the Fabulous Ones....and how about Pat Patterson and Ray Stevens!
The Eliminators Edge & Christian The Smoking Gunns The Quebecers Owen Hart and the British Bulldog Owen Hart and Yokozuna Money Incorporated Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas
I was born in a manger, like that other guy. You know, he wore a hat?
I always hear about the Midnight and Rock and Roll Express, but I always found them to be bland teams. But then I guess I can't argue with the question of "Greatest tag teams." I just always thought that the Road Warriors, Hart Foundation, and the Hollywood Blondes were just more entertaining and fun to watch. Honorable mention goes to the New Breed for being ahead of their time with their trippy gimmick in the eighties.
"Oh would you stop being all stealthy and just get in the truck"- Tom Servo
And by the looks of the Island Boyz, we may be calling them the best tag team in a few months. So far, they're bad-ass.
Also - Don't forget the Headshrinkers, Beveraly Brothers, Fabulous Rougeaus, Strike Force, Quebecers and Bushwackers.
"YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?" - The chilling words of the Shockmaster!
"Here comes Charles Benoit, and he's really mad.....Charles Benoit is here, and he's FUCKING CRAZY"- T.R. on the barbecued cat thread (it's too terrible to link)
THE AWESOME UNDERTAKER drives out - damn, how did those STEEL steps rise up onto their ends and out of the way of - hey wait, I see DUDES there! They must be soulless minions of Big Evil's Red Devil Underwood Deviled Ham Team Evil. What? - CRZ, back to his old antics
The Island Boyz? So far they're bad-ass? You have GOT to be kidding me. I am not slamming the Boyz, but how can anyone say that "so far" they've looked like anything spacial.
They came out dressed like they'd come straight from the nearest mall - GET SOME RING GEAR FELLAS! - and hit their finishers. Now admittedly, they've got some nice finishers.
Whupty-freakin-do.
The thread here is about the GREATEST tag teams of all time. I don't even want to hear about the Island Boyz being on that list until we've seen a few matches out of them.
Make that a great big steaming shit-load of matches.
And the Natural Disasters? Are you guys high? Where can I score some of whatever you're on?
The Shockmaster and Tugboat? Lordy...
I'll give you Strikeforce though, just foe Rick Martel alone.
Damn straight, OlFuzzy. Yes, I think the Island Boyz are bad-ass so far. I'm glad you have an opinion. I'm glad I have one, too. Everyone does. What I said was someday, we may be calling them the greatest tag team ever. I didn't say they are right now. As for the Natural Disasters...I guess I need to break out my [/sarcasm] html tags so the newbies will know humor when they see it. Sheesh.
"YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?" - The chilling words of the Shockmaster!
"Here comes Charles Benoit, and he's really mad.....Charles Benoit is here, and he's FUCKING CRAZY"- T.R. on the barbecued cat thread (it's too terrible to link)
THE AWESOME UNDERTAKER drives out - damn, how did those STEEL steps rise up onto their ends and out of the way of - hey wait, I see DUDES there! They must be soulless minions of Big Evil's Red Devil Underwood Deviled Ham Team Evil. What? - CRZ, back to his old antics
How about the Islanders, King Tonga and the Tonga Kid? Can't forget them... the Midnight Express, the Rockers, the Rock 'n' Roll Express, Arn and Tully... for some reason I always liked Ivan and Nikita Koloff... The Hart Foundation, Demolition, the Dudleys...
and, last but not least, THE VILLANOS!!!
"Young lady, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" - Homer Simpson
The Villanos are kinda bad these days, but it doesn't help that they're working alongside their older brother, V3, who owes Jesus money, and V5's knee has blown out on him in the last year or so. And they stopped wearing their number on their tights now, so you can only tell V4 & V5 apart by how pudgy one is compared to the other. But they were fun.
For best team ever, I think I'd take the Midnight Express (regardless of incarnation) for the States, El Santo & Gory Guerrero for Mexico, and Kawada & Taue for Japan. Good luck finding footage of Santo & Gory, though.
Arn and Ole Anderson / Road Warriors / Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda / Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Shiek.
Let's not forget Manny Fernandez and Ravishing Rick Rude, baby! ("WE WILL WE WILL ROCK YOU!")
Sure Midnight Express, and Rock N' Roll Express, and LOD were great, but what about another old NWA team-up--it was the Barbarian, and I forget the other guy (Meng?). Anyone remember the tag team the Barbarian was in?
DMC
"And win, lose, or draw, trust me. I'm gonna respect myself in the morning, and you're gonna respect me." -Arn Anderson
Originally posted by JubukiThe Villanos are kinda bad these days, but it doesn't help that they're working alongside their older brother, V3, who owes Jesus money, and V5's knee has blown out on him in the last year or so. And they stopped wearing their number on their tights now, so you can only tell V4 & V5 apart by how pudgy one is compared to the other. But they were fun.
For best team ever, I think I'd take the Midnight Express (regardless of incarnation) for the States, El Santo & Gory Guerrero for Mexico, and Kawada & Taue for Japan. Good luck finding footage of Santo & Gory, though.
I guess it's only a matter of time on wrestling boards before some douche drinker brings up some foreigners that no one cares about or has heard of before...
Has anyone even mentioned Los Gringos Locos-- Eddie Guerrero and Art Barr??And to think Eddie was the weak link of the team!!! By default of course. What these guys pulled off in mexico put the un americans to shame.
Yeah, really. That DDT was about one of the coolest spots of the night. Damn that Jamie Noble for making me a fan of his. He was never this good in WCW.