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Post by jasonjaconetti on Dec 27, 2010 11:57:08 GMT -4
From the new Inside Wrestling & The Wrestler (vol. 37, 2011): (Please note that the cover story says The 25 Greatest WWE Tag Teams of All-Time....but then list 50 in the article)
1. Edge & Christian 2. The Hardy Boyz 3. The Hart Foundation (Bret & Anvil) 4. The British Bulldogs 5. The Dudley Boys 6. The Wild Samoans 7. The Valiants (Johnny & Jimmy) 8. The New Age Outlaws 9. Demolition 10. Triple H & Shawn Michaels 11. Eddie & Jerry Graham 12. Tito Santana & Rick Martel 13. The Fabulous Kangaroos 14. The Miz & John Morrison 15. Tony Garea & Rick Martel 16. Paul London & Brian Kendrick 17. Don Curtis & Mark Lewin 18. The Rockers 19. The Mongols 20. Mr. Fuji & Prof. Tanaka 21. The Big Show & Kane 22. The Dream Team (Beefcake & Valentine) 23. The Rougeau Brothers 24. The Road Warriors 25. Mr. Saito & Mr. Fuji 26. The Steiner Brothers 27. The Quebecers 28. Ivan Putski & Tito Sanatana 29. Antonio Rocca & Miguel Perez 30. The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff 31. IRS & Ted DiBiase 32. Kane & Undertaker 33. The Valiants (Jerry & Johnny) 34. The Blackjacks 35. The Nasty Boys 36. The Smokin' Gunns 37. The Moondogs 38. Ted DiBiase Jr & Cody Rhodes 39. Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith 40. The Killer Bees 41. Tony Atlas & Rocky Johnson 42. Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo 43. Edge & Randy Orton 44. Chris Jericho & Big Show 45. Worlds Greatest Tag Team 46. Primo & Carlito Colon 47. M-N-M 48. Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard 49. The Bodydonnas 50. Andian Adonis & Dick Murdoch
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Post by jasonjaconetti on Dec 27, 2010 11:59:43 GMT -4
Considering the list is how tag teams did in WWE, teams like the Steiners, Road Warriors, etc... are way lower then they should be, but it is what it is.
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Post by tyguy on Dec 27, 2010 12:55:03 GMT -4
Triple H & HBK at #10 shows you how bad the list is.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2010 13:01:00 GMT -4
1. Edge & Christian - way too high in my book... 2. The Hardy Boyz 3. The Hart Foundation (Bret & Anvil) - should be #1... 4. The British Bulldogs - should be #2... 5. The Dudley Boys 6. The Wild Samoans 7. The Valiants (Johnny & Jimmy) 8. The New Age Outlaws 9. Demolition - should be #4... 10. Triple H & Shawn Michaels 11. Eddie & Jerry Graham 12. Tito Santana & Rick Martel 13. The Fabulous Kangaroos 14. The Miz & John Morrison 15. Tony Garea & Rick Martel 16. Paul London & Brian Kendrick 17. Don Curtis & Mark Lewin 18. The Rockers 19. The Mongols 20. Mr. Fuji & Prof. Tanaka 21. The Big Show & Kane 22. The Dream Team (Beefcake & Valentine) 23. The Rougeau Brothers 24. The Road Warriors - overall they are #1 but this is WWE runs... 25. Mr. Saito & Mr. Fuji 26. The Steiner Brothers 27. The Quebecers 28. Ivan Putski & Tito Sanatana 29. Antonio Rocca & Miguel Perez 30. The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff 31. IRS & Ted DiBiase 32. Kane & Undertaker 33. The Valiants (Jerry & Johnny) 34. The Blackjacks 35. The Nasty Boys 36. The Smokin' Gunns 37. The Moondogs 38. Ted DiBiase Jr & Cody Rhodes 39. Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith 40. The Killer Bees 41. Tony Atlas & Rocky Johnson - should be in the Top 20... 42. Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo - should be Top 20... 43. Edge & Randy Orton 44. Chris Jericho & Big Show 45. Worlds Greatest Tag Team 46. Primo & Carlito Colon 47. M-N-M 48. Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard 49. The Bodydonnas 50. Andian Adonis & Dick Murdoch
Just my view, but we all have our own rankings...
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Post by behindthebook on Dec 27, 2010 16:09:25 GMT -4
Really? Really? The Bodydonnas are #49, but the Natural Disasters don't make the list?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2010 17:04:05 GMT -4
Demolition should be in the top 3, if not at the top. No disrespect intended to the Hart Foundation, but when I think of THE tag team during that era of the WWF, Demolition immediately comes to mind.
Edge and Christian, while I like Edge, were not that great of a team. I thought that back during the Attitude Era. They ended up making much better opponents IMO. Edge and Rey Mysterio was a better pairing than Edge and Christian. And if it weren't for ladders, nobody would even care about Matt or Jeff. The Samoans being that high kind of bothers me, too. Same with Miz and Morrison, as well as Londrick.
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Post by jasonjaconetti on Dec 27, 2010 17:09:56 GMT -4
Sorry guys. I just report the list, not create it.
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Post by ljacone on Dec 27, 2010 17:12:48 GMT -4
Really? Really? The Bodydonnas are #49, but the Natural Disasters don't make the list? I'm the biggest Chris Candido mark in the world and I agree with you 100% on this. The Disasters are legends!
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Post by behindthebook on Dec 27, 2010 17:55:32 GMT -4
I think the one I have the biggest issue with is how high DiBiase and Rhodes are. Higher then Atlas & Johnson or Windham & Rotundo...
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Post by todd on Dec 27, 2010 18:30:37 GMT -4
One team I noticed missing are the Moondogs. They weren't the greatest but held the WWF tag team championship, had a cool gimmick, and some good feuds during their run in the WWF. They deserve to be on the list over guys like Primo & Carlito Colon and Men On A Mission , and Jerry and Johnny Valiant. Another team missing is Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf
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Post by maddog1981 on Dec 27, 2010 19:20:32 GMT -4
I know these lists are going to be more centered on the modern tag teams. But I don't consider Edge and Christian to be the best tag team of their era let alone the best tag team ever. Just a bad list overall.
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Post by wildfire on Dec 27, 2010 21:27:51 GMT -4
I actually don't have a problem with Edge/Christian at the top. They had, what, 7 title runs? 8? They launched two star careers.
I'd put Demolition 2nd, then the Harts, then the Bulldogs.
I'm satisfied with the Outlaws at #8, so that means they're probably too high.
HHH and HBK shouldn't be on there at all.. that's dumb... nor should Jericho/Show and Edge/Orton.. those where makeshift teams that had a short title run due to story line.
MNM should be higher, IMO, as should Sheik/Volkoff.
The biggest oversight, IMO, is the APA/Acolytes... I would have put them in the high 20s, low thirties.
Others I think should be on there:
X-Pac/Kane - That was a HUGE story, that lasted a year at least... better than the body donnas and the others I mentions.
Natural Disasters I agree with.
Where the Quebecers the most recent team with Conway and Grenier? If not, that one should be on there.
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Post by maddog1981 on Dec 27, 2010 21:44:05 GMT -4
7 reigns but you have to look at Edge and Christian like this. They had 7 reigns but...
1st reign - 57 days 2nd reign - 91 days 3rd reign - 1 day 4th reign - 8 days 5th reign - 33 days 6th reign - 0 days 7th reign - 16 days
Not exactly a stellar run of championships. And it didn't launch two star careers in my opinion. Edge was already well on his way to being a star before they started teaming up together.
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Post by tyguy on Dec 27, 2010 23:33:35 GMT -4
Edge & Christian came in together. They became stars together. Then both went on to be big singles stars, with Edge having an 'edge' over Christian then.
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Post by ljacone on Dec 28, 2010 8:08:36 GMT -4
Where the Quebecers the most recent team with Conway and Grenier? If not, that one should be on there. No, Conway and Grenier were La Resistance. The Quebecers were Rougeau and Oulette. If the qualification is "success in the WWF/WWE," then I agree mostly with the teams in the Top 10 but not the order. I'd put the Harts up top, and Demolition a good bit higher, but E&C and the Hardys would still be in the Top 10. HBK & HHH (along with Jerishow) is the sort of psuedo-"real" journalism one expects from an Apter mag. "Oh this team had they stuck together would have dominated the division for years" sort of stuff.
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