Not every great tag team can reach the top of the tag team mountain, and today we shall remember them. These are the 10 greatest WWE tag teams that were never champions.
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04:40 - 6
05:35 - 5
06:24 - 4
07:25 - 3
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00:00 For many years, it felt as if Mike Myers would stand in front of a decimated WWE tag division,
00:05 while Kanye West would say Vince McMahon does not care about tag teams.
00:09 Things have gotten better since the days of WWE Tag Team Champions David Otunga and Michael
00:13 McGillicuddy, but the impact of those years has been felt, particularly with teams that
00:18 never got a chance to hold the gold.
00:20 Truthfully, there are top tag teams in every era that have been passed over for the gold
00:24 in WWE.
00:25 Just like there have been many singles stars who were never world champions, insert list
00:29 plug here, tag teams are not safe.
00:32 I'm Tempest hailing from PartsFunKnown, and these are the 10 greatest WWE tag teams that
00:37 were never champions.
00:38 But before we get on with this list, please make sure that you like this video, subscribe,
00:41 and enable notifications to always on so you never miss a fun list just like it, and check
00:45 out Dan Layton's latest list right here.
00:48 Number 10, DIY.
00:50 While Johnny Wrestling and Tommy Entertainment could certainly be called the best tag team
00:54 on this list, they'll slot in here at the bottom due to not really being a WWE tag team.
01:00 They have wrestled a pair of matches on the main roster in 2019 against The Revival and
01:05 The Bar, but since then, nary a tag match have they had.
01:08 Of course, this could change as soon as Tommaso Ciampa finds where they've been keeping Johnny
01:12 Gargano captive, but currently DIY stands as by far the best tag team in NXT history
01:17 to wrestle on the main roster and not win the tag titles.
01:21 It's a shame that injuries and such have seemingly stood in the way of a potential
01:24 DIY vs Owens and Zayn tag title match because my god, that would warm the PWG corners of
01:30 my heart and would have offered Owens and Zayn a set of challengers that weren't the
01:33 Judgment Day.
01:34 Two birds, one indie tag team.
01:36 Hopefully, this is one entry on this list that still has time to be rectified.
01:41 Number 9, The Bushwhackers.
01:42 Okay, I lied.
01:43 Now here is the best working team on the list.
01:46 The Bushwhackers are one of the most iconic WWF tag teams of the 80s, and yet they cannot
01:52 boast a single reign as tag team champions.
01:54 They can boast having more 5 star matches than Kurt Angle though, think about that rationally
01:59 commenters.
02:00 But what that does mean on a more serious level is that The Bushwhackers absolutely
02:03 had the chops to pull off being a real team in WWE had they been given a chance.
02:08 The immediate criticism of having these lads on this list would be their status as a comedy
02:12 team constantly trying to dry their incredibly wet arms in the least efficient way possible,
02:17 but their time as the Sheepherders would tell you that they were more than that.
02:20 It would also have been difficult to give them a run on top in an era with teams like
02:24 the Hart Foundation, British Bulldogs Demolition, and Brain Busters fighting for the straps,
02:28 and I'll let you know right now that is not going to be the only time this comes up
02:31 on this list.
02:33 Number 8, Team Road Scholars.
02:35 The front half of the 2010s were perhaps the absolute dirt worst time for WWE's tag division.
02:41 It was the age of the Franken-team, where it would not be uncommon for the teams challenging
02:44 for the tag titles on back-to-back pay-per-views to be Wade Barrett and Ezekiel Jackson, and
02:49 then CM Punk and Mason Ryan.
02:51 A dire time indeed.
02:53 But I tell you this to set the scene for when the mustachioed Cody Rhodes joined forces
02:57 with the intellectual savior of the masses Damien Sandow in 2012.
03:02 At first glance, another Franken-team, but upon further inspection, it was a very entertaining
03:07 tag team that would spend several months being the main rivals of WWE Tag Team Champions
03:12 Team Hell No.
03:13 Unfortunately for the pair, they were a victim of poor timing, as they weren't going to
03:17 be the ones to take the tag titles off WWE's new tag project of Brian and Kane or The Shield
03:22 months later.
03:23 The Road Scholars lasted little less than a year because the only thing WWE loved more
03:27 than a Franken-team was breaking up Franken-teams, but it did give Cody the chance to team with
03:32 his brother and take the titles from Seth and Roman Reigns in the end.
03:36 Heh, Cody beating Roman for a title.
03:38 Almost sounds like fantasy at this point.
03:40 Number 7, The Killer Bees We return to the 80s, this time for one of
03:44 the most reliable teams of the day, The Killer Bees.
03:47 Because their name started with B, you see.
03:49 Naming wrestling things isn't so hard, really.
03:52 B. Brian Blair and Jumping Jim Brunzel were a middle of the pack tag team in the stacked
03:56 division of the WWF, often being used as fodder for the more high-ranking teams previously
04:00 mentioned on this list, namely the Hart Foundation.
04:03 But they were still popular with the fans.
04:05 They were one of the first teams in WWE to utilize what would go on to be known as "twin
04:10 magic", then known as "masked confusion", and that certainly would seem like a strategy
04:15 that would win them the WWF Tag Team Championship, but alas, their time with the belts never
04:19 came.
04:20 They had plenty of shots, particularly against Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine, but unfortunately
04:24 they will have to go down as a team that was liked by fans, respected by their peers, but
04:29 never enshrined among the British Bulldogs, Brain Busters, Body Donnas, and of course,
04:33 Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas.
04:35 As the true B-teams to win the WWE Tag Team Championship.
04:40 Number 6.
04:41 Enzo and Cass From the moment Enzo Amore and Colin Cassidy
04:45 arrived on the main roster, WWE commentators couldn't help but shout from the rooftops
04:49 that "One day, Big Cass is gonna be a single star!"
04:53 And if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about Vince McMahon's thoughts
04:56 on this here team, I don't know what will.
04:58 It also means time was working against them, cause lord knows the top brass was itching
05:03 to hit that tag team breakup button.
05:05 Several times, fate stood in the way of Enzo and Cass going for the WWE Tag Team Championship.
05:10 They were going to win the number one contenders tournament at Payback 2016 before Enzo was
05:13 nearly decapitated live on pay-per-view, and then rumor has it they were set to win the
05:18 tag titles at Wrestlemania 33 before the Hardys became available.
05:22 Sure enough, by the summer of 2017, they had broken up, and somehow Enzo became the only
05:27 one of them to win a singles title in WWE.
05:29 Wouldn't have bet on that in a million f***ing years, but surely this means WWE cannot be
05:33 trusted.
05:34 5.
05:35 The Bella Twins The most iconic women's tag team in WWE history
05:40 whether you like it or not.
05:42 There are actually quite a few women's tag teams from years gone by that would have absolutely
05:46 held the women's tag titles hostage had they existed at the time.
05:50 Lay Cool, The Divas of Doom, but none of them come close to the top billing status of The
05:55 Bella Twins.
05:56 Quite frankly, I find it shocking that they haven't done a short run just to win the
05:59 titles in dip, because man, you look at the title history of the women's tag belts and
06:03 it sure is bizarre to see Natalya and Tamina and not The Bella Twins.
06:07 However, on the other hand, given how cursed the women's tag titles seem to have been,
06:11 maybe it's for the best that The Bellas are kept far away from them.
06:14 They've both got families, damn it, and I would give them about two weeks with the belts
06:17 before both would be bandaged up from head to toe.
06:20 Would have completed their resumes though, there is absolutely no denying that.
06:24 4.
06:25 The Fabulous Rougeaux The date is August 10th, 1987.
06:29 The event?
06:30 A terrible Canadian misjustice.
06:32 The Fabulous Rougeaux were wrestling the Hart Foundation for the WWF Tag Team Championship,
06:37 and upon the interception of Jimmy Hart's trademark megaphone by the Rougeaux brothers,
06:41 they used that same megaphone to get the win and win the titles.
06:45 Or so they thought.
06:47 Despite being announced as the winners and the new champs, the decision was overturned
06:51 by the WWF and their tag title win was never acknowledged.
06:54 Worse still, The Fabulous Rougeaux would never again raise the titles as this phantom win
06:58 would go down in their careers as the only time they were ever able to come as close.
07:03 Raymond and Jacques Rougeaux were a pretty consistent heel fixture in the WWF Tag Division
07:08 of the 80s, working primarily with the Hart Foundation after Jimmy Hart turned on his
07:12 former team.
07:13 But even despite a big angle with a top tag team, the Rougeaux would never be given the
07:17 ball as THE top team of the territory.
07:20 But the Canadians in the room know the truth.
07:23 We all really know.
07:24 3.
07:25 Chad Gaspard in Primetime Yo yo yo yo, Chad Gaspard in JTG, it's a mildly
07:30 offensive 2000s tag team name.
07:33 Set aside for a moment that Chad Gaspard talked about not wanting to be perceived as a thug
07:37 in his Tough Enough audition, and then WWE promptly putting him in THIS tag team, because
07:42 it is still wild as hell that one of the most recognizable and beloved teams of the late
07:47 2000s were never tag team champions.
07:50 This is the era where teams like CM Punk and Kofi Kingston and Cody Rhodes and Hardcore
07:54 Holly were tag team champions, and yet one of the most put together and popular teams
07:58 around never got a turn.
08:00 They had plenty of shots, challenging for the tag titles on pay-per-view against Priceless
08:03 and Jericho, but for some reason WWE never went all the way with Chad and JTG, leading
08:09 to perhaps the single most unproductive tag team breakup ever in 2010.
08:14 Always remember, Chad is the man, and if I had to go back and award a reign to any tag
08:18 team on this list, it would probably be this one.
08:21 Because Chad deserved it.
08:23 2.
08:24 The Mega Powers In terms of pure star power, maybe the biggest
08:27 tag team in the history of WWE.
08:30 The one year showing of Can They Coexist the Musical was all the rage in WWE from WrestleMania
08:36 4 to WrestleMania 5, standing as one of the all-time greatest builds to a WrestleMania
08:40 main event WWE has ever done.
08:42 It was a different era then, but if done with today's tropes in mind, there is no question
08:46 whatsoever that Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage would have been tag team champions.
08:51 F*** John Cena has been tag champion with three of his mania opponents, so I rest my
08:55 case.
08:56 Hogan and Savage didn't have a ton of time to win and lose tag titles during their one
08:59 year storyline, given the infrequency of WWE's pay-per-views, but it could have offered them
09:04 another thing to build tension over on the road to WrestleMania.
09:07 I say that, but I'm also not exactly going to say that I could have improved one of the
09:10 most acclaimed storylines in WWE history.
09:13 Not today, that is.
09:14 1.
09:16 The Rockers One of the greatest, most popular, and most
09:20 influential tag teams of all time, yet never did The Rockers get to etch their name in
09:25 history as WWE tag team champions.
09:28 Much like the Rougeos, The Rockers also had a phantom title change, although this one
09:32 is much more famous.
09:34 On a 1990 episode of Saturday Night's Main Event, The Rockers and the Hart Foundation
09:38 were set to have a 2 out of 3 falls match that would have seen Shawn Michaels and Marty
09:42 Giannetti win the WWF Tag Team Championship for the first time.
09:46 I don't know about you, but that also sounds like a pretty damn good match.
09:49 Unfortunately, we got neither a title change nor a good match, as during the match the
09:53 top rope broke, and even on a taped show, the referee could not figure out that maybe
09:57 it would be a good idea to FIX THE F***ING ROPE.
10:01 Most of the rest of the match was wrestled without it, and when you have a high-flying
10:04 tag team and a team that frequently runs the ropes for their finish, you kinda need a top
10:08 rope if you want the match to be any good.
10:11 Not happy with the match, it was decided that the match wouldn't air and by extension,
10:15 The Rockers never won the titles, and wouldn't either.
10:18 One of the all-time great teams never reached the top of the tag team mountain.
10:22 I guess that AEWA Tag Team Championship reign will have to be enough.
10:27 And that's our list!
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10:34 Shoutout to Edge and Christian, Rock and Jericho, Austin and Triple H, Angle and Cena, and many
10:38 many more.
10:39 But, because life is about balance and life is hard, I must acknowledge that No Mercy
10:44 was also the stage for a series of stinkers.
10:47 Thus, in the name of balance, I'm Dan hailing from partsFUNknown, and here are the 10 worst
10:51 No Mercy matches ever.