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Previously on the Gospel According To The Ice Jesus we went over #10-6 on my top ten “Short Lived Tag Teams Of All Time”. Now before I get into my top 5, I want to take the time out to do some shameless shilling.

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Now let’s get down to brass tax, as we continue our fantastic little list.

#5 Vicious & Delicious (Scott Norton & Buff Bagwell) WCW 1996-1998 – I know what you’re thinking “two years in wrestling is a long, long time” fact remains that in spite of the fact they were together for so long, they teamed so infrequently due to Norton’s involvement in Japan that this counts. Also I’m sure you’re a little shocked to see Buff Bagwell make the cut. Yeah Buff’s a primadonna, yeah Buff for the most part dogged it, but he was just SOO good in his role here.

Buff was the guy you wanted to see get his ass handed to him, and the rough, tough rugged Scott “Flash” Norton was the monster to back him up. And their finisher, DAMN ! The Doomsday Style Blockbuster was just so innovative for it’s time. Seriously check it out, it freaking ruled. It’s a pity they were part of the N.W.O really as they were forced to play second fiddle to the Outsiders (Scott Hall & Kevin Nash).

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Gospel According to The Ice Jesus Aka Big Bidness Duh, Duh Dastardly:

The 80’s are long over, and so is the era of the tag team. Since the death of said era there have been “attempts” to make tag team wrestling seem important again, but often these are short lived. Sure TNA and ROH tend to have more long term tag teams, but who watches TNA? And Indy wrestling like ROH is freaking cool and all, but apart from diehards like me and Emilio Sparks most people don’t know what ROH is.

Not with standing today and next week we’ll be looking at my personal TOP 10 of SHORT LIVED TAG TEAMS.

#10 Vader & Mr. Hughes WCW ’92- Okay this was early 90’s when tag teams still meant something but still this was way to short lived. This team was as hard hitting as it gets and had a classic encounter with the Steiner Brothers at Clash of the Champions 18 in 92.

Seriously everyone should check out that match for the sheer brutality of it, Steiners looks like stars suplexing Vader and Hughes out of their freaking boots at points, and Vader and Hughes look like the monsters that they are (or were) giving it right back to them. Honestly it made sense as to why this team was so short lived, as Vader would go onto win the WCW Championship by the end of the year, but how flipping cool would it have been to see these two standing on top of the tag team mountain?

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