Wrestling: Tag Teams We Would Love To See Again

Tag Team wrestling has become the lost art form. Many teams today are trying to make it work with little or no success. There are some good ones (Kane and the Big Show, Santino Marella and Kozlov and of course, the Nexus) and not so good ones.

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, you could not have a federation or promotion without prominent tag teams and a major segment on television with them involved.

Now, you are lucky if tag teams are shown 20 percent of the time.

In honor of what used to be, here are some tag teams we would not mind seeing again and again and again.

Warlord and Barbarian

They so wanted to be like the Road Warriors.

The gave the LOD a run for their money with size and strength.

Really an underrated tag team in the 1980s that was quite dominant in an age where other teams were getting more publicity.

The Rock and Roll Express

They were a teeny bopper's fantasy.

Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson could wrestle and sell it like few others. Ricky really was the star of the duo.

Their feuds with the Midnight Express and the Russians help build Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling's tag team division.

The British Bulldogs

Power and agility. Davey Boy Smith was the brawn of the group. The Dynamite Kid was the high-flyer.

After injuries to Kid, Smith joined the Hart Foundation and was successful as a singles wrestler.

The New Age Outlaws

Billy Gunn and Jesse James could bring the crowd to its feet as members of Degeneration X.

They were accomplished tag team wrestlers who could compete with the best WWE had to offer.

The Body Donnas

The only reason to watch this tag team was simple - SUNNY.

The two were entertaining in their own right in the WWE. But Sunny made this team successful and popular.

The Midnight Express

They battled the Rock & Roll Express and the Road Warriors in the NWA. Jim Cornette managed Bobby Fulton and Dennis Condroy and Fulton and Steve Keirn.

Either way, this was a highly successful tag team in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Masked Assassins

Jody Hamilton was the first real masked villain in wrestling, and he had partners that challenged other tag teams in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.

Hamilton was famous for feuding with the Briscos in Florida Championship Wrestling.

Degeneration X

Clearly the most entertaining tag team ever to grace the squared circle.

Shawn Michaels met his equal when he and Triple H tagged together. And with Chyna by their side, they were virtually unbeatable.

Demolition

They came on the scene as Road Warrior look-alikes, but there was nothing about this team that screamed copy-cat.

Ax and Smash were two powerful wrestlers who beat their opponents with raw power.

One of the best tag teams to ever wrestle in the WWE.

Ivan and Nikita Koloff

There were three of them including Barry Darsow, but Ivan and Nikita carried the team.

The Russian Nightmare and the Russian Bear dominated and feuded with the Road Warriors, Manny Fernandez and Dusty Rhodes, and of course they battled each other when Nikita had a face change.

The Road Warriors

They won every title there is to win. They were the first to truly dominate tag-team wrestling and showed in the NWA, WWE, WCW, and AWA.

A lot of what they did in the 1980s was mimicked and stolen for effect.

And that may be the greatest compliment a tag team can get.

The Mega Powers

They looked like a fashion nightmare with bright yellow clothes and blindingly fast interviews. They were as good on the microphone as Roddy Piper and Ric Flair.

Their wrestling was robotic, but their style brought fans to their feet until they separated because of differences, turmoil and jealousy.

Dusty Rhodes and Nikita Koloff

The duo was formed out of necessity because Magnum TA was forced out of wrestling.

And, for some reason, it worked.

Another idea in the fertile mind of Dusty Rhodes, they fought the Horsemen, Manny Fernandez and Rick Rude in all of the Mid-Atlantic states.

The Hart Foundation

Jimmy Hart and his megaphone. And the bright pink color. It all encompassed what the Hart Foundation was about.

Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart were one of the best tag teams of the 1980s in all of wrestling before Bret Hart started chasing singles gold.

The Four Horsemen

There has never been a better assembly of talent as these four men. All could wrestle on their own.

All held world titles and all could handle the microphone better than anyone. There have been others who have tried to duplicate the feat (DX, Evolution, Nexus), but none could.