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1.The Road Warriors
In the early 1980s, in NWA's Georgia Championship Wrestling, Paul Ellering introduced a stable called "The Legion of Doom" that consisted of the Road Warriors, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, The Spoiler, Matt Borne, King Kong Bundy, Arn Anderson, The Iron Sheik and the original Sheik. Animal had briefly competed as the Road Warrior before Ellering paired him up with fellow Chicagoan Hawk to form the Road Warriors. The stable was short lived and the name "Legion of Doom" soon referred only to the Road Warriors and Ellering with either name used interchangeably throughout their career. The Road Warriors’ high impact power style and unique attire quickly got them noticed by fans and dreaded by opponents, so much so that some wrestlers would grab their bag and leave the arena when they saw they were scheduled to face the Road Warriors.
In March 1985, the Road Warriors began touring Japan, mainly with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) where they made an immediate impact squashing the monster team of Killer Khan and Animal Hamaguchi in under 4 minutes. This and subsequent dominant victories garnered the Road Warriors a lot of Japanese wrestling media headlines and front page stories. Their tours with AJPW in 1985 and 1986 made the Road Warriors such legends in Japan that they toured the country whenever they were “between contracts” of the big three.
The Road Warriors won the NWA International Tag Team Championship on March 12, 1987 from Jumbo Tsuruta and Genichiro Tenryu[4] and would hold them for 15 months before losing them to PWF World Tag Team champions Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu to unify the titles as the AJPW World Tag Team titles, making the Road Warriors the last defending champions of the NWA International Tag Team titles. Their last match in Japan was on July 22, 1990, for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), losing to Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh by disqualification.
When Hawk and Animal signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in June 1990, Vince McMahon retired the Road Warriors moniker. They both made their TV debuts on the July 15, 1990 episode of Wrestling Challenge. In the WWF the team would be known only as the "Legion of Doom". Hawk and Animal immediately entered into a feud with Demolition, the team McMahon had supposedly created in their likeness three years earlier, which led into a televised six-man tag-team match where Hawk and Animal teamed up with Ultimate Warrior against all three members of Demolition.[22] Ax was having health issues and an agreement was made to phase him out and eventually replace him with Crush. Ax was moved into a role as manager for the team with the hope of taking a front office position, which eventually fell through. The Legion of Doom / Demolition feud did not have the expected intensity because of the change and L.O.D. soon set their sights on the tag team titles. At SummerSlam 1991, the Legion of Doom defeated The Nasty Boys to win the World Tag Team Championship, becoming the only team to win world tag titles in all three of the top promotions of the 1980s. Hawk and Animal would eventually lose the titles to Money Inc. on February 7, 1992 after which they briefly left the promotion.
LOD would return a short time later with original manager Paul Ellering. The team incorporated a ventriloquist dummy called "Rocco" (Originally introduced as "Freckles" in front of a live crowd at a WWF TV Taping, the segment bombed so bad that it never aired) which served as their “inspiration”, but this gimmick was short-lived. Hegstrand left the company in disgust with the Rocco gimmick immediately after SummerSlam 1992, going AWOL in London after the event with John Nord and missing the flight back to the US, while Laurinaitis stuck around, finishing the team's contractual obligations with former Demolition member Crush (now repackaged as a face) replacing Hawk on house shows, before an injury to his back forced him into a lengthy hiatus. Their last TV appearance as a team occurred on the May 12, 2003 Raw episode in a tag team match against the WWE World Tag Team Champions, Rob Van Dam and Kane. Animal would die five months later.
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In the early 1980s, in NWA's Georgia Championship Wrestling, Paul Ellering introduced a stable called "The Legion of Doom" that consisted of the Road Warriors, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, The Spoiler, Matt Borne, King Kong Bundy, Arn Anderson, The Iron Sheik and the original Sheik. Animal had briefly competed as the Road Warrior before Ellering paired him up with fellow Chicagoan Hawk to form the Road Warriors. The stable was short lived and the name "Legion of Doom" soon referred only to the Road Warriors and Ellering with either name used interchangeably throughout their career. The Road Warriors’ high impact power style and unique attire quickly got them noticed by fans and dreaded by opponents, so much so that some wrestlers would grab their bag and leave the arena when they saw they were scheduled to face the Road Warriors.
In March 1985, the Road Warriors began touring Japan, mainly with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) where they made an immediate impact squashing the monster team of Killer Khan and Animal Hamaguchi in under 4 minutes. This and subsequent dominant victories garnered the Road Warriors a lot of Japanese wrestling media headlines and front page stories. Their tours with AJPW in 1985 and 1986 made the Road Warriors such legends in Japan that they toured the country whenever they were “between contracts” of the big three.
The Road Warriors won the NWA International Tag Team Championship on March 12, 1987 from Jumbo Tsuruta and Genichiro Tenryu[4] and would hold them for 15 months before losing them to PWF World Tag Team champions Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu to unify the titles as the AJPW World Tag Team titles, making the Road Warriors the last defending champions of the NWA International Tag Team titles. Their last match in Japan was on July 22, 1990, for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), losing to Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh by disqualification.
When Hawk and Animal signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in June 1990, Vince McMahon retired the Road Warriors moniker. They both made their TV debuts on the July 15, 1990 episode of Wrestling Challenge. In the WWF the team would be known only as the "Legion of Doom". Hawk and Animal immediately entered into a feud with Demolition, the team McMahon had supposedly created in their likeness three years earlier, which led into a televised six-man tag-team match where Hawk and Animal teamed up with Ultimate Warrior against all three members of Demolition.[22] Ax was having health issues and an agreement was made to phase him out and eventually replace him with Crush. Ax was moved into a role as manager for the team with the hope of taking a front office position, which eventually fell through. The Legion of Doom / Demolition feud did not have the expected intensity because of the change and L.O.D. soon set their sights on the tag team titles. At SummerSlam 1991, the Legion of Doom defeated The Nasty Boys to win the World Tag Team Championship, becoming the only team to win world tag titles in all three of the top promotions of the 1980s. Hawk and Animal would eventually lose the titles to Money Inc. on February 7, 1992 after which they briefly left the promotion.
LOD would return a short time later with original manager Paul Ellering. The team incorporated a ventriloquist dummy called "Rocco" (Originally introduced as "Freckles" in front of a live crowd at a WWF TV Taping, the segment bombed so bad that it never aired) which served as their “inspiration”, but this gimmick was short-lived. Hegstrand left the company in disgust with the Rocco gimmick immediately after SummerSlam 1992, going AWOL in London after the event with John Nord and missing the flight back to the US, while Laurinaitis stuck around, finishing the team's contractual obligations with former Demolition member Crush (now repackaged as a face) replacing Hawk on house shows, before an injury to his back forced him into a lengthy hiatus. Their last TV appearance as a team occurred on the May 12, 2003 Raw episode in a tag team match against the WWE World Tag Team Champions, Rob Van Dam and Kane. Animal would die five months later.
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genocidecutter
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It finally finshed
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh WHAT A RUUUUSHH!!!!!!
waterproof
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Great list and great thread, my list would of been a little different then yours i would of included DR. DEATH Steve WIlliams and Bam Bam Terry Gordy, The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Gene. Lars and Arn Anderson), Arn and Tully Blanchard, The Wild Samoans and Mr. Fuji & Professor Toru Tanaka. But again great list and thread
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waterproof;4520566 said:
Thank you
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Never really realized how many GREAT tag teams there were..... what WWE did to the tag division is a disgrace!!
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Great list but my list would include
Samoan Swat Team
Face of Fear(Meng and Barbarian)
The Bushwhackers
Samoan Swat Team
Face of Fear(Meng and Barbarian)
The Bushwhackers
dalyricalbandit
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Good list over all.....I would tweak afew spots around but but u have a respectable list
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MrSoutCity;4520734 said:
Some of my favs to use in WCW Revenge on the N64. Edit: OOps I forgot about the Wild Samoans I'll swap them with someone later
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DOPEdweebz
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Yes Faces of Fear i would over the nasty Boys, other than that this is pretty much a perfect list. Great job once again Genocide.
genocidecutter
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I swapped out The natural Disaters with the Wild Samoans
Honorable Mention:
The Natural Disasters
Another great big man tag team form the early 90's. The precursor for the formation of the Natural Disasters happened on a June 1991 episode of WWF Superstars of Wrestling when Jimmy Hart announced he had signed André the Giant to form a tag team with Earthquake. When asked by interviewer Gene Okerlund to confirm, André denied the claims, leaving Hart angry and humiliated.The Natural Disasters faced the Bushwhackers, with André in their corner, at the 1991 SummerSlam pay-per-view, whom they made very short work of. After destroying the Bushwhackers, the Disasters targeted André, but the assault was stopped by the Legion of Doom who ran off the Natural Disasters and kicked off the Legion of Doom / Natural Disasters feud. Later in the night the Legion of Doom would go on to win the WWF World Tag Team titles from the Nasty Boys, which meant that the Natural Disasters became first in line to get a shot at the new champions. Their time on top would not last very long and in 1993 Earthquake would leave(He would return in 1998 and join the oddities). They would both compete in the gimmick battle royal at wrestlemania 17. Today Typhoon is little coach while Earthquake died of cancer.
Honorable Mention:
The Natural Disasters
Another great big man tag team form the early 90's. The precursor for the formation of the Natural Disasters happened on a June 1991 episode of WWF Superstars of Wrestling when Jimmy Hart announced he had signed André the Giant to form a tag team with Earthquake. When asked by interviewer Gene Okerlund to confirm, André denied the claims, leaving Hart angry and humiliated.The Natural Disasters faced the Bushwhackers, with André in their corner, at the 1991 SummerSlam pay-per-view, whom they made very short work of. After destroying the Bushwhackers, the Disasters targeted André, but the assault was stopped by the Legion of Doom who ran off the Natural Disasters and kicked off the Legion of Doom / Natural Disasters feud. Later in the night the Legion of Doom would go on to win the WWF World Tag Team titles from the Nasty Boys, which meant that the Natural Disasters became first in line to get a shot at the new champions. Their time on top would not last very long and in 1993 Earthquake would leave(He would return in 1998 and join the oddities). They would both compete in the gimmick battle royal at wrestlemania 17. Today Typhoon is little coach while Earthquake died of cancer.
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kingofbama205
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Seeing the New Age Outlaws in the top 10 threw me off.....but you said "My" top 25 tag team so it's whatever...
its....JOHN B
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Sion.;4523828 said:
Owen Hart and Yokozuna were pretty dominant too
mr.jamrock
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I would have put Harlem heat in the top 10. But great list none the less
genocidecutter
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mr.jamrock;4678842 said:
Thank you
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Great to see so many people like this list
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Good list. I didnt get Nasty Boys but thats old mark me that used to hate their guts so.
A quick top five of the top of my head:
5 Furnas and Lafon - Dudes had one of the best tag team matches i remember seeing. For good measure Dan Kroffat = Lafon
4 Kings Of Wrestling (Hero & Castagnoli) - Two of the finest workers this side of the millenium. And in and era where tag team wrestling means jack in WWE, these two could be the lifeblood
3 Stan Hansen & Bruiser Brody - Japan have always had a thing for rough and tough americans. And they didn't get tougher than these two. They spent a better half of a decade beating the ish out of Japan. If Brody hadn't been killed they would have done even more
2 Davey Richards & Super Dragon - PWG have had many stellar combos over the years. But this one is still one of the best
1 New Age Outlaws - you take two bland as hell midcarders with lousy gimmicks (Rockabilly anyone?) and put them together. It worked. And while niether Road Dogg or Billy Gunn have huge workrates or anything like that, they were solid in what they did.
A quick top five of the top of my head:
5 Furnas and Lafon - Dudes had one of the best tag team matches i remember seeing. For good measure Dan Kroffat = Lafon
4 Kings Of Wrestling (Hero & Castagnoli) - Two of the finest workers this side of the millenium. And in and era where tag team wrestling means jack in WWE, these two could be the lifeblood
3 Stan Hansen & Bruiser Brody - Japan have always had a thing for rough and tough americans. And they didn't get tougher than these two. They spent a better half of a decade beating the ish out of Japan. If Brody hadn't been killed they would have done even more
2 Davey Richards & Super Dragon - PWG have had many stellar combos over the years. But this one is still one of the best
1 New Age Outlaws - you take two bland as hell midcarders with lousy gimmicks (Rockabilly anyone?) and put them together. It worked. And while niether Road Dogg or Billy Gunn have huge workrates or anything like that, they were solid in what they did.
