When you think of the best tag teams of all time, you might think of teams like The Rock 'n' Roll Express or The Young Bucks. But not all tag teams are as iconic or, to take it a step further, even look like they'd even be in a team to begin with. Join Tempest as he shows you 10 Teams You WON'T BELIEVE Have Wrestled Together! Let us know of any other surprising or mismatched tag teams in the comments below!
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00:00When you think of the best tag teams of all time, you might think of names like the Rock and Roll Express,
00:05FTR, the Road Warriors, the Midnight Express, the Dude Busters, the Young Bucks,
00:10Patterson and Stevens, all of which look like totally believable teams.
00:14But not all teams are so iconic. Hell, we even did a list of WWE teams you forgot were champions.
00:20Who could possibly forget the classic tag team of Kenzo Suzuki and Rene Dupree? But what if we go another level deeper?
00:27What about the combinations that don't even seem real? Forget dream teams.
00:31These are fever dream teams.
00:33Most of these combos only wrestled together once, meaning if you were not watching live or in person,
00:38you would probably need convincing to believe that these teams were even a thing. But hey, that's what this list is for.
00:44I'm Tempest hailing from PartsFunKnown, and these are 10 teams you won't believe have wrestled together.
00:49But before we get on with this list, make sure of course that you're subscribed to PartsFunKnown
00:54so that you don't miss a single list just like this one, and make sure that you go and check out our list of 10
00:59WWE teams you forgot were tag team champions.
01:02Number 10, Tommaso Ciampa and Rhyno.
01:05You may think that this unlikely duo would have wrestled during their shared time in NXT, as brief as it was.
01:10Rhyno, of course, made his WWE return to NXT in 2015, where he was primarily used as the frenemy of Baron Corbin.
01:17He and Corbin even wrestled Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano on NXT in the inaugural Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic,
01:23a year before DIY became the best babyface team in NXT history.
01:27But this was not the first time that the man-beast and the man-beard crossed paths.
01:32No, that would be in Ring of Honor, in one of the more high-profile matches on this list.
01:37In the opening match of Death Before Dishonor 9 in 2011,
01:40Rhyno teamed with Ciampa as The Embassy, a faction that would also include future WWE star Mia Yim, to defeat Homicide and Jay Lethal.
01:48This was the only time the two teamed up in ROH,
01:51but they would eventually have a singles match at ROH Reclamation in 2013.
01:59Unlike many of the entries on this list, this team actually wrestled a decent amount together.
02:03You would certainly not think of former IWGP Heavyweight Champion and NWOB team member Scott Norton as a regular tag partner of Bryan Danielson,
02:11considering Norton looks like if Bryan Danielson ate Bryan Danielson and then went back for seconds and thirds.
02:16But the two had a series of matches together spaced out from November of 2002 until October of 2004 while in Norton's home of New Japan Pro Wrestling.
02:24Just gonna sneak some New Japan content into your subconscious through these lists about other things.
02:29It's the perfect crime.
02:31This was during the days when the American Dragon was Bryan's ring name rather than his nickname,
02:35or a show on the Disney Channel starring certified legend Dante Bosco.
02:39They also may have had the highest caliber of opponents as well,
02:42with the duo competing as a team at least eight times against the likes of Minoru Suzuki,
02:46Yuji Nagata, Tiger Mask 4, and Jushin Thunder Liger.
02:54Two of Kenny Omega's greatest rivals, one in the ring and one in Street Fighter.
02:59Although to be honest, some of the DDT matches the Golden Lovers had look more like Street Fighter than actual Street Fighter.
03:04Before he would sign a part-time contract with New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2013,
03:08Kota Ibushi wrestled for the promotion as a freelancer while also performing as one of the top stars of his very silly home promotion DDT.
03:16Look at him take a hundred destroyers in a row from a blow-up doll.
03:19Haters stay mad.
03:20But during one of his stints with New Japan in 2010,
03:23he competed in the Super J Tag Tournament to crown new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions after the titles had been vacated.
03:30Ibushi's tag partner in the tournament?
03:32A lovely chap named Austin Creed.
03:34This of course being the previously used indie name of the man who would go on to be best known as Xavier Woods.
03:40The match is quite good.
03:41Unsurprising considering it was Kota Ibushi and Xavier Woods versus Kushida and a young still-mobile Gato,
03:47but this very charismatic duo was unable to make it past the first round.
03:51Fun fact, this was Woods' first match after leaving TNA and one of his last before signing with WWE later that year.
03:58Number 7, Sergeant Slaughter and the Hurricane.
04:02In the time-old WWE tradition of person from somewhere else, person must be bad,
04:07La Resistance graced Madison Square Garden on the June 23rd, 2003 episode of Raw and sang the French National Anthem.
04:14Poorly, according to editor Terry, as WWE cut to commercial.
04:18When they returned from commercial, they were still singing,
04:21which is not unusual according to editor Terry, who tells me that the song is up to five minutes long.
04:27Sort it out, France.
04:28But who would it be to defend the honor of America, an honor that did not need to be defended
04:33because people from other places can be patriotic without it being a smear campaign against America,
04:38but the Hurricane.
04:39He said that he had a partner who could take care of these two maggots,
04:42an in-walked former WWF champion, Sergeant Slaughter, who received a standing ovation from the MSG crowd.
04:49The match isn't much of anything.
04:51Hurricane hits a big crossbody to the floor and Sarge locks in the Cobra Clutch,
04:54only to be clocked with a tag belt and beaten.
04:56This was also the show where Triple H Force came to unmask, so, sorry MSG.
05:01Number six, Paul Burchill and Terry Funk.
05:04Because when I think of the ideal tag team partner for a then 60-year-old Terry Funk,
05:09I really think of pre-pirate Paul Burchill.
05:12Burchill's WWE run may have been littered with swashbuckling and implied incest,
05:16but his career before that saw him team up with one of the all-time greats in professional wrestling, Terry Funk.
05:23This was at Frontier Wrestling Alliance's British Uprising 3 event in 2004,
05:27in between Terry's fourth and fifth official retirements.
05:30I've tried to keep this to strictly two-on-two tag matches,
05:33but this combination was so absurd that I couldn't not include it, despite it being a trios match.
05:38Paul and Terry were aligned with a fella named Paul Travel,
05:41as they beat the formidable gang of Drew McDonald, Guy Thunder, and Raj Ghosh.
05:46Yeah! I have no idea who any of these Brits are.
05:49It doesn't appear that any of them ever wrestled outside of the UK,
05:52aside from Raj, who wrestled a match in WXW.
05:55Hi, Dan.
05:56But for one night, they all got to share the ring with a true blue legend of pro wrestling, and Terry Funk.
06:02Number five, The Undertaker and Chris Benoit.
06:05This one might not seem so unbelievable, considering the amount of time both men spent in WWE together,
06:10but in fact, The Undertaker and Chris Benoit never wrestled as teammates under the WWE umbrella.
06:16Rather, to find this ridiculous styles clash of a tag team, you have to go back to, you guessed it,
06:22New Japan Pro Wrestling!
06:24Here's another complete Fever Dream lineup, so hold on to your pasty white butts,
06:28and let this marinate in your brain.
06:30In his last match with New Japan before returning to the States to finish up with WCW
06:34and eventually sign with WWE in 1990,
06:37The Undertaker, wrestling as Punisher Dice Morgan,
06:40not sure why he didn't let that name ride,
06:43teamed up with the Pegasus Kid, a.k.a. a young Benoit,
06:46to face the duo of WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall and Rock-O-Rock of Public Enemy.
06:52I challenge you to find a stranger tag team match,
06:55and if you can, please tweet them to me at Pete Quinnell.
06:58What is really fascinating is that during this five-show tour with New Japan,
07:02the Dungeon Dice Monster had five different tag team partners that could all have made it onto this list.
07:08Benoit, Scott Hall himself, Corporal Kirshner, The Berserker, and Bam Bam Bigelow.
07:15You certainly can't tell me those fans were seeing the same match every night.
07:19Number four, Batista and Mr. Perfect.
07:22This one will be difficult to find pictures of, as it was a dark match in February of 2002.
07:27Sorry, Brandon.
07:28But there is a funny story to go along with it, so, oh well.
07:31Still working as The Leviathan, yet to be called up from Ohio Valley Wrestling,
07:35Batista was teamed up with another all-time great, Mr. Perfect,
07:39to take on OVW peers Randy Orton and Shelton Benjamin.
07:43However, as Big Dave would write in his book,
07:45the match absolutely did not go as planned.
07:48Less than a minute in,
07:49The Leviathan with the dragon tattoo took a standard back elbow and was covered,
07:53and he used this time to think of what spot to do next.
07:56He had a good think about this.
07:58So good, in fact, that he became lost in that thought,
08:01and the referee counted the three.
08:04For three seconds, Batista forgot how this whole hokey stupid business works,
08:08and he and Mr. Perfect lost in a matter of seconds.
08:11How this didn't lead to Batista being cut from the roster, I'll never know.
08:15Oh wait, yes I do.
08:17Muscles!
08:18The match would be restarted with Mr. Perfect and Batista winning,
08:21but no one involved was thrilled.
08:23Number three, Big Boss Man and John Cena.
08:27I often forget that the Big Boss Man was under contract with WWE in 2002.
08:31Granted, he had been relegated to putting over young talent on shows like Heat and Jacked with 2Ks,
08:36because WWE was hard like that,
08:38but Ray Traylor's final match with WWE actually came in Ohio Valley Wrestling,
08:43teaming with the future face that runs the place, John Felix Anthony Cena Jr.,
08:48or as he was known in OVW at the time, Mr. P.
08:51F*** great name that.
08:53Cena had been called up to SmackDown in June of that year,
08:56but still fulfilled his dates with OVW,
08:58with this being his last match as a developmental talent.
09:00This is the case for many of the entries on this list,
09:03but this one truly feels surreal,
09:05as John Cena and Big Bubba Rogers come from two completely different eras,
09:09with hardly any overlap.
09:11I love finding little tidbits like this,
09:13and hopefully you do too.
09:15That's what this video is all about,
09:16just neat little pieces of wrestling knowledge,
09:18that you would probably never know otherwise.
09:21This was another trios match,
09:22with Charlie Haas joining this pair,
09:24to beat future main roster stars Lance Cade,
09:27Sean O'Hare,
09:28and reportedly s*** at singing the French National Anthem,
09:31Rene Dupree.
09:36No, this did not take place during Kurt Angle's
09:38thoroughly underwhelming retirement run with WWE,
09:41slash Shinsuke Nakamura's thoroughly underwhelming normal run with WWE.
09:45And I'm not upset about it.
09:46Rather, this came during Kurt Angle's all-too-short run
09:49with New Japan Pro Wrestling in the late 2000s.
09:52Angle would work with New Japan during his run with TNA,
09:54and while he was certainly not at his physical best at the time,
09:57a fact that would rob us of a run that would almost certainly
10:00have solidified him as the best wrestler of all time,
10:02we still got some really cool moments in matches,
10:05including this one.
10:06Lumpies and germs, I present to you the tag match
10:09from day six of the 2008 G1 Climax
10:12of Kurt Angle and Shinsuke Nakamura
10:15versus Hiroshi Tanahashi and AJ f***ing Styles.
10:19These men were not all at their respective peaks at this time,
10:23but if they were, sweet, merciful Christ,
10:26that is a formula for the greatest tag match of all time.
10:30And it is still great, but my God what it could have been.
10:34And number one, Kenny Omega and Heath Slater.
10:38That's right, the best wrestler in the world, and Kenny Omega.
10:42Many will, but some may not know that once upon a time,
10:45Kenny Omega was under a WWE developmental contract
10:48and working in Deep South Wrestling.
10:50He hated it and very nearly quit the business
10:52before realizing wrestling can be fun,
10:54and he didn't need to spend his career listening
10:56to Bill DeMott and Bob Holly pretend to know
10:58how to train wrestlers.
10:59Hell, when Kenny started making waves in New Japan,
11:02WWE themselves added one of his matches
11:04to the Hidden Gems section of the WWE Network.
11:07Frankly, I can't imagine any Deep South match
11:09has been watched more at this point.
11:11But among the many highlights of this Deep South run,
11:13like losing to Vladimir Kozlov and losing to Matt Stryker,
11:17was teaming with the men who may or may not
11:19have had kids at this point, Heath Slater.
11:21Their opponents, this dude named Derek Nelkirk,
11:24whose biggest claim to fame appears to be
11:26being eaten by Bobby Lashley while dressed
11:28as Paul Heyman's security the week after December
11:31to dismember.
11:32He's one of them.
11:33Look at him go.
11:34And Mike Knox, a longtime member of the ground floor
11:37of the WWE Monster Tier list.
11:39And all right, guys, I'm not kidding.
11:41I just learned this.
11:42Derek Nelkirk and Mike Knox's tag team name
11:45was Team Elite.
11:48I feel like I just found the origin of all elite wrestling.
11:51You truly heard it here first, folks.
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12:02you forgot were tag team champions.
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