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Post by The Dude on Aug 28, 2009 16:33:37 GMT -5
Over the years tag teams have been broken up and then went nowhere. What teams do you think should have stayed together?
Me: Brian Kendrick and Paul London, and they should have never went to Raw. Even though The Brian Kendrick had an awesome gimmick, he was eventually released same with London. After they went to Raw they really kind of lost their spark whereas on Smackdown they were the best tag team.
Dudley Boyz in 2002: I loved the Reverend D-Von gimmick but still they should have stayed together.
The King and JR: Hall of Fame announce team, now I have to listen to Michael Cole saying everything is "vintage"
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Aug 28, 2009 18:37:12 GMT -5
Edge and Christian, ch'yeah.
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Post by wagwan on Aug 28, 2009 20:04:47 GMT -5
I really liked Test and Albert together. Also the UnAmericans & X-Factor were really good in recent times
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Aug 28, 2009 20:28:08 GMT -5
Dudley Boyz in 2002: I loved the Reverend D-Von gimmick but still they should have stayed together. Yeah, the Dudleys are just never going to be better as singles than they are as a team. When D-Von was the Reverend, they tried to turn Bubba Ray into a modern version of Dusty Rhodes, and they even had him doing Dusty's bionic elbow and mannerisms. It was just so obvious they had no clue what to do with Bubba as a single.
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Post by LeighD on Aug 28, 2009 20:38:27 GMT -5
Yeah the Dudley Boys in 2002 were a definite.
Owen Hart & Jim Neidhart - WWF could of made them in the 2nd coming of the Hart Foundation in 1995. However they were reduced to jobber status when they should of made awesome tag team champions.
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Post by BAD LUCK BRIAN on Aug 28, 2009 20:49:50 GMT -5
the dudley's breaking up was one of the dumbest things wwe ever
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Post by samsson on Aug 28, 2009 22:59:01 GMT -5
Worlds Greatest Tag Team ,Test/Albert Miz/Morrison,Manny Fernandez/Rude
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Post by Jimmy on Aug 28, 2009 23:30:36 GMT -5
It's not my top pick or anything, but remember when WWE broke up Cade and Murdoch in 2005 a few months after their hype videos and debut? That seriously was the most ing random thing in the world considering they both did absolutely nothing until they started teaming again.
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Post by joker123 on Aug 29, 2009 0:09:34 GMT -5
It's not my top pick or anything, but remember when WWE broke up Cade and Murdoch in 2005 a few months after their hype videos and debut? That seriously was the most ing random thing in the world considering they both did absolutely nothing until they started teaming again. Yeah that was stupid as hell. They were supposedly grooming Murdoch for an IC title feud against Flair. Cade & Murdoch are decent on their own, but are much better as a tag team, and I feel they're quite underrated.
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Post by HugoOne on Aug 29, 2009 9:12:16 GMT -5
Primo and Carlito should still be a team. They were a VERY solid team, and now neither are doing anything relevant.
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Aug 29, 2009 9:25:57 GMT -5
I was about to add the Powers of Pain to this list, since Warlord and Barbarian never did much in singles in the WWF. But looking back, the POP were destroyed by Demolition for like a full year before they broke up, losing to them virtually every time they wrestled.
By the time the WWF split the POP up, they had already ruined any chance that fans would consider them a credible tag team threat anyway. If they stayed together, they probably would have been fighting the Bushwhackers (and probably losing) for the next year anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2009 13:18:32 GMT -5
I was about to add the Powers of Pain to this list, since Warlord and Barbarian never did much in singles in the WWF. But looking back, the POP were destroyed by Demolition for like a full year before they broke up, losing to them virtually every time they wrestled. By the time the WWF split the POP up, they had already ruined any chance that fans would consider them a credible tag team threat anyway. If they stayed together, they probably would have been fighting the Bushwhackers (and probably losing) for the next year anyway. +1 for that post.POP sprang to mind with me too until I read your post.you speak the truth. they should never have broke up Neidhart and Owen.......and they should have been in effin pink/black too. also Primo and Carlito.breaking them up made no sense at all..........they are both lost in the shuffle now
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Post by The Best in the World on Aug 29, 2009 14:35:15 GMT -5
Dudley Boys: The Bubba/Spike team sucked.
Londrick: They were great and look where they are now.
World's Greatest Tag Team: They were great and really clicked. I missed them.
cade and Murdoch: A brawler tag team and were released within months of being seperated.
Unamericans: They had great heat and worked well.
Lance cade and William Regal: They were great and I loved them.
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Post by carly1988 on Aug 31, 2009 23:06:31 GMT -5
-Demolition (Non of the 3 really accomplished anything as Single stars)
-Rockers (I know Shawn went on to have a great career but there was so much left they could have done)
-Doom (Outside of Simmons short title run, both Reed and Simmons really didnt do much as single stars)
-Steiner Brothers (Probably the 1 break up i hate the most. They were the perfect tag team and should have stayed that way)
-RnR Express (After they broke up their careers went straight down the toilet)
-Powers of Pain (Neither man accomplished anything as single stars)
-Miracle Violence Connection (Outside of Gordy dying of course, this honestly has to be one of the most bad ass tag teams Ive ever seen. Doc and Gordy were beasts)
-Fabulous Freebirds (Hayes/Gordy & Hayes/Garvin: Both sets really could have been big. The splitting of Hayes and Garvin came at a bad time. Im not sure what happened but Hayes as a singles star just didnt cut it for me)
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Sept 1, 2009 5:08:58 GMT -5
Dudley Boys: The Bubba/Spike team sucked. World's Greatest Tag Team: They were great and really clicked. I missed them. . I totally agree on these two. Some teams are greater than the sum of their parts. These are prime examples.
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Sept 1, 2009 6:16:32 GMT -5
-Doom (Outside of Simmons short title run, both Reed and Simmons really didnt do much as single stars) I gotta disagree with you here. While Doom was the last decent thing Butch Reed ever did, Ron Simmons had a strong enough career after Doom that it would be a shame if they'd stuck together. Reed was pretty much done by then, so Reed would have eventually dragged Simmons down as a partner. Aside from winning the WCW title, Simmons had the whole Nation of Domination thing in the WWF, and then the APA, etc. He wasn't the biggest star ever, but he did well enough to make the breakup of Doom a good idea in hindsight.
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Post by TTF4eva on Sept 1, 2009 6:19:51 GMT -5
Definitely E and C and the Dudley Boys
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Post by Sam Hain on Sept 1, 2009 21:17:01 GMT -5
Hart Foundation.
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Post by layton on Sept 2, 2009 8:45:09 GMT -5
Hollywood Blonds (the Austin and Pillman version)
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Post by indywrestling on Sept 2, 2009 9:12:52 GMT -5
Hollywood Blonds (the Austin and Pillman version) O yeah hollywood blonde were split way to soon, they were an unreal tag team
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