Top 10 Favorite Short Term Wrestling Tag Teams - Follow cuzo Drew on twitter 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. [...]

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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?

#9 London Brawling (Desmond Wolfe & Brutus Magnus) TNA 2010 The Hogan Era. Pre-Hulkster TNA was able to secure the services of ROH’s top draw Nigel McGuinness, re-dubbing him Desmond Wolfe. Wolfe got the star treatment by entering into a feud with TNA’s top star Kurt Angle for the first few months, but then faded into the background once the Hogan regime took over.

Brutus Magnus had a similar start in TNA, where he was pushed to the moon as part of the British Invasion tag team, but again once Hulkster took over he was doing almost nothing. So logically, and since they were both British these two were paired together. Their team was awesome, for their promos alone.

Sadly it only lasted a handful of bouts on TNA’s syndicated (or B show) show. Wolfe would mysteriously get hurt and vanish for several months, and Magnus was put back in the Invasion out of no where. Their promos were freaking funny as all hell and should be checked out immediately.

#8 The PitBulls (Kid Kash & Jamie Noble) WWE 2006 – Two of my favorite NON-INDY, NON-Foreign cruiserweights ever. With not much to do in the dying WWE Cruiserweight Division: Noble and Kash were giving dog collars, and took on a new much more aggressive style forming a team that would go onto be called the PitBulls.

They worked an awesome program with then WWE tag team champions: Brian Kendrick & Paul London, but since London/Kendrick was rarely promoted neither were the Bulls. The team was disbanded just as they got off the ground when the WWE decided to release Kash.

Still a fun ride and a fun series of matches while it lasted. Always thought they had the potential to be the long term Midnight Express to Kendrick and London’s Rock ‘n’Roll Express.

#7 1-2-3 Kid & Sid Vicious WWF ’95- Kid was so freaking perfect as a “snot noised brat” that you wanted to see get his butt kick during this period, add in the near 7 foot 325lbs Sid Vicious and you’ve got something special. An interesting and complex dynamic of strength and speed, and having Ted DiBiase at ringside only added to the mix.

It’s a pity this team came about during the end of the Kid’s tenure as it never really got off the ground. I do recall an awesome little tag match on TV against Barry Horrowitz and Hakushi where Sid simply murder, death, kills Hakushi dead with a choke slam. I put them this high on the list simply because I had big hopes for them as a kid.

I remember them being advertised for a PPV bout against then champs: The Smoking Gunns but the team split up before that could happen (that’s the definition of “card subject to change”). A few years later, WWE would re-tap into the big man, little man dynamic when the Kid as X-Pac was teamed up with Kane, still didn’t feel the same. Kane was over, Kane was good, but Sid… Sid killed people dead.

Sid & 1-2-3 Kid vs Avatar & Aldo Montoya + Shawn… by TSteck160

#6 The Two Man Power Trip (Triple H & “Stone Cold” Steve Austin) WWF 2001 – It’s the biggest draw in the history of the business; he’s paired up with the biggest heel of the era. and they KILL HARDY BOYS DEAD. Although most people frown on Austin’s 2001 heel run, I for one loved it, especially at the start.

Aligned with Hunter the two seemed poised to remain unstoppable. Sadly Hunter would tear his quad during an EPIC tag team encounter with “The Man Who’s Name Can’t Be Said Out-Loud” and Chris Jericho. Austin would replace him with Kurt Angle, and do a bunch of comedy spots with Vince (which were very entertaining but lacked the edge that the Power Trip presented), leaving the rest of us to wonder what could have been.

#5-1 COMING NEXT WEEK!!!!