Favorite Wrestling Tag Team Tournament

Omackeral

Following on from this week’s Old School WWF wrestler tournament, I’ve decided to up the ante and go bigger this time around with favorite Tag Team ever. This time I’ll be welcoming nominations (via PM only) and I’ll also be adding in some of the all time greats myself and... maybe some duds for the craic.

So have a think about it and check back later on tonight because that’s when we’ll kick off the action.

How many teams are we permitted to nominate?

Omackeral

Up to and including 5 nominations are permitted

Omackeral

Gonna be kicking this off at around 9pm folks

Omackeral

Ok so we're about to get started. I have chosen 64 teams from nominations and my own database. I had this planned with the idea of old school wrestling in mind so any teams that formed after the year 2000 aren't gonna be in this one. Might do that at a later date though if this goes well. Here are the rules.

* One vote per round.
* First to five advances.
* If there aren't enough votes after 45 mins, leading entry wins.
* If it's a tie, I'll cast deciding vote.
* Reasons for your choice are needed to be valid.
* All draws are random.

First match is coming up in the next couple of minutes, have fun!

Omackeral

Well this is an interesting draw to say the least!

Owen Hart and the British Bulldog



VS

Jeff Jarrett and Owen Hart

OOnegative

Owen Hart & The Bulldog, was there a better British wrestler in the WWF/E than Davey Boy?

Necro

British Bulldogs here in this Owen Hart off.

Davey Boy by far the better partner.

sonic85

Owen and Davey. I think they complimented each other really well. And I just preferred Bulldog to Jarrett

riffmongous

Not familiar enough with either I'm afraid

Omackeral

riffmongous wrote: »

Not familiar enough with either I'm afraid

That's alright, there's loads of 80's and early 90's to come. Stay with it!

Always preferred Owen and Jarrett. As I said in the singles match ups, I was never the biggest fan of Bulldog and I possibly underrate him a bit.

Sirsok

Neither, either Owen and Yoko or Owen and Koko B Ware! Might accept Owen and Neidhart but the rest never!!!!

Ok Owen and Davey Boy Smith

Omackeral

4-1 to Owen against Owen. Although I suspect a few Owen goals were scored.

salmocab

Owen and Jeff because I always loved Jeffs attitude

Wuff Wuff

Owen and Jeff

First wrestle mania I remember watching live was 15 and they were on that

Omackeral

4-3 now, is the comeback on for Canadian Country?

Omackeral

A good opening tussle but blood is thicker than water on this occasion. Absolute mesh of styles next up.

Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie



VS

Midnight Express

Necro

Midnight Express.

Foley/Jack/Dude Love etc far better known for his singles career than a dalliance with Funk wearing tights on his head.

Should be up there amongst the favorites imo (Express that is, not Chainsaw Jack)

Charlie and Jack were a bit of fun.

But for serious tag-team wrestling - it has to be The Midnight Express. Thank you, f*ck you, bye.

Itssoeasy

Midnight express easily as a tag team. Terry funk is a singles wrestling legend but this is a tag team thing. I prefer the condrey and eaton version of the midnights but Stan lane was good too.

Itssoeasy

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I prefer the condrey and eaton version of the midnights but Stan lane was good too.

Ooooooo, controversial...

gerrybbadd

Midnight Express for sure. Funk and Mick were somewhat thrown together whereas Midnight are bona-fide "Mount Rushmore" tag wrestlers

OOnegative

Midnight Express, nobody could beat Jim Cournette’s trash talk!!

Omackeral

5-0... a quick turnaround!!!

Itssoeasy

Deleted User wrote: »

Ooooooo, controversial...

Is it ? Condrey and eaton are the best known version of the team of the three versions I've seen. There were the original midnight express of condrey and Rhodes, then eaton joined condrey, and Stan lane joined when condrey went AWOL.

Omackeral

An unpredictable bout this...

Rob Van Dam and Sabu



VS

Natural Disasters

OOnegative

RVD & Sabu for superior athletic ability alone.

Necro

Van Dam and Sabu.

I prefer them over the lumbering Natural Disasters.

Itssoeasy

The disasters are they were a tag team and not two guys thrown together.

Never saw RVD and Sabu as a proper tag-team so Natural Disasters by default.

salmocab

Natural disasters, wasn’t typhoon tug boat Thomas or something for a few fights? Proper pair of athletes.

sonic85

The Natural Disasters were a proper tag team but I much prefer RVDs style so I'm gonna vote for him and Sabu

Itssoeasy

salmocab wrote: »

Natural disasters, wasn’t typhoon tug boat Thomas or something for a few fights? Proper pair of athletes.

Yeah he was tugboat at some point and was earthquake the Canadian earthquake early in his run ?

Wuff Wuff

Rvd & Sabu

salmocab

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Yeah he was tugboat at some point and was earthquake the Canadian earthquake early in his run ?

Yeah think so, which one was plucked out of the crowd to sit on Dino Bravo while he did push ups?
Actually he should have been in the singles thread.

Omackeral

Wuff Wuff wrote: »

Rvd & Sabu

Just stick in any auld reason pal if you don't mind.

Sirsok

Natural disasters for pure spectacle alone. One of the stand out teams and characters of the 90's when there was many great tag teams.

But taking it back to Midnight express... it's the New Midnight Express all the way...Holly and Gunn!

Yes I'm going to complain about every tag team unnecessarily from now on..... FYI RVD & Sabu < RVD & Kane

Itssoeasy

Sirsok wrote: »

Natural disasters for pure spectacle alone. One of the stand out teams and characters of the 90's when there was many great tag teams.

But taking it back to Midnight express... it's the New Midnight Express all the way...Holly and Gunn!

Yes I'm going to complain about every tag team unnecessarily from now on..... FYI RVD & Sabu < RVD & Kane

Haha holly and gunn. No just no.

Sirsok

salmocab wrote: »

Natural disasters, wasn’t typhoon tug boat Thomas or something for a few fights? Proper pair of athletes.

Also the Shockmaster!

Earthquake also known as Avalanche, Shark and my personal favourite Golga...his match in Japan v Kitao were it turned into a shoot is a sight to behold

Dr Turk Turkelton

Natural Disasters for me, they were a great tag team and again not just thrown together.

Sirsok

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Haha holly and gunn. No just no.

'Dem fighting words Bombastic Bob and Bodacious Bart were Saints lemme tell ya SAINTS!!!!. I won't have any body slandering their name!

Omackeral

The Big Beefy Bois go on! Hold tight for more first round action.

Omackeral

From Natural Disasters to Born Thrillers...

Natural Born Thrillers




VS

The Rockers

Itssoeasy

Ah the rockers and it's not even close.

Necro

Bah, well The Rockers obviously.

Though Natural Born Thrillers were decent too, if formed at a bad time in WCW.

I quite liked Palumbo and O'Haire, but has to be The Rockers. Just the more memorable tag-team for me.

salmocab

Rockers loved them, great energy

OOnegative

Rockers, HBK and Marty = Loads of fun!!

Dr Turk Turkelton

The Rockers for me, used love them from their old Nwa days.
The excitement and energy from them was unreal.

JP Liz V1

The Rockers, the beginning for HBK and of course that horrific barbershop window incident