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00:00 Odd couples come in all shapes and sizes, be they lonely, grubby, rubbish collectors
00:04 and his stylish partner who's into gardening and laser beams, or a sensitive, softly-spoken
00:08 writer and his sultry, supremely knowledgeable pocket-sized companion, or Pete Davidson and
00:12 literally any woman he has ever dated.
00:14 To paraphrase Paula Abdul, sometimes people just want to pork their phones.
00:19 Opposites definitely attract, but in wrestling far more tag teams have found success through
00:23 synchronicity.
00:24 Similar styles, similar goals, similar dress sense.
00:26 The Rockers, the Road Warriors, the Motor City Machine Guns, sometimes it's hard to
00:30 tell where one ends and the other begins, like the human centipede, but with sequins.
00:34 Not so with these tag teams who found success not because of their similarities, but despite
00:39 their differences.
00:40 I'm Laurie Hailing from PartsFundKnown and here are our 10 Greatest Odd Couple Tag Teams
00:44 in Wrestling History.
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02:22 10.
02:24 Tommy Dreamer and Raven
02:26 This team lands in the last spot on this list because honestly, they didn't last very long,
02:29 but in the history of the ECW tag titles, they might just be the oddest couple.
02:33 You see, Raven and Tommy Dreamer loathed each other, had one of the longest running and
02:38 most iconic feuds in the history of the land of the extreme.
02:40 Hell, in kayfabe, they'd been feuding since childhood, and their on-off rivalry lasted
02:45 two years, saw Dreamer plunge through countless tables and saw Raven emerge victorious every
02:50 single time apart from their last match, which saw him banished from the company in 1997.
02:56 Fast forward two years.
02:57 It was the Dudleys' last match in ECW before jumping ship to WWE, and they held the tag
03:01 titles.
03:02 Their aim was to take the gold to the dub and lay them at Vince's feet.
03:05 The only man who could stop them was Tommy Dreamer, who fought them two-on-one until
03:09 the end of the match, where Raven surprisingly returned to the company, hit Bubba with the
03:13 Evenflow and won the titles with his nemesis.
03:16 The team dissolved soon after, but got to love that call from Joey Styles.
03:19 Tommy Dreamer has finally won a world title, but he has to share the honour with the man
03:23 he hates more than anyone in the world.
03:26 That's wrestling magic.
03:27 9.
03:28 Steve Austin and Dude Love
03:30 Spoiler alert, this won't be Mick Foley's last appearance on this list.
03:33 Because that's the thing about being so goddamn weird.
03:35 Whenever you win a tag championship with someone who isn't so goddamn weird, it often makes
03:39 for brilliant odd-couple chemistry.
03:41 Which was the case when the coolest man in the world, Steve Austin, won gold with Dude
03:45 Love - Mick Foley's answer to what would happen if every single Muppet was stitched together
03:48 and someone taught that monster how to get high.
03:50 Dude was adorable.
03:51 He's basically tie-dye Towelie, but he's about as cool as an Udi.
03:55 The team got together in 1997 in much the same way as Dreamer and Raven, with Austin
03:59 wrestling by himself against the tag champs Owen and Davey Boy of the New Heart Foundation.
04:04 Then Austin's partner finally emerged with a pre-tape of Dude Love airing from the back
04:07 before he came out, Austin hit the stunner on Davey Boy, Dude covered, new tag team champions
04:12 who might as well have called themselves on with 'Stupid' for as much as Stone Cold
04:14 could tolerate Dude Love shenanigans.
04:16 A real shame the team only lasted a month before Austin went down with his infamous
04:19 SummerSlam neck injury.
04:21 8.
04:22 Kane and X-Pac
04:23 Like Mick Foley, Kane is all weird.
04:26 While his most notable tag combo is him teaming with his simile coconut's brother The Undertaker,
04:30 Kane's strong, silent and profoundly barbecue-friendly nature has seen him be part of a number of
04:35 odd-couple pairings.
04:36 He's the Bernie-wise to everybody else's Eric Morkham.
04:38 That's a deep cut.
04:39 Hurricane saw him team up with your friendly neighbourhood Gregory Helms, the combo of
04:43 him and RVD did gangbusters until Kane lost his mask and went even more crazy, and of
04:47 course there's another team we'll mention a little bit later.
04:50 But one of his most heartfelt and tragic pairings saw him team with X-Pac.
04:54 He's red, he's green, they go together like Christmas.
04:56 It was a notable team not only because of the size and style disparity, but also because
05:00 this was the first real humanising moment we saw from Kane.
05:04 Before the inevitable betrayal and endless feud between the two, Kane and X-Pac were
05:07 actually just bestest buds.
05:09 A first for the monster.
05:10 He grew as a person, he learned to talk, he got a girlfriend, he said "suck it" as
05:14 his first words.
05:15 I mean, it's not exactly up there with Frankenstein, but it's something.
05:18 They even won the tag titles twice.
05:20 It was lovely.
05:21 And then it went "oh so wrong, so so wrong".
05:24 7.
05:25 Jericho
05:26 He's small, he's big, let's call the whole thing off.
05:29 WWE put Chris Jericho and Big Show together at Night of Champions 2009 in a random-ass
05:34 pairing after Jericho's partner and co-tag champion Edge went down with a legit injury.
05:39 While anyone would have expected the team to be short-lived, then implode and potentially
05:42 feud amongst themselves, Jericho not only lasted as a team for the rest of the year,
05:46 but also successfully defended the tag belts the entire time, finally losing them to DX
05:50 at TLC in an awesome match no less.
05:53 The two had fantastic brains and brawn chemistry, the evil mastermind in his mahoosive henchmen,
05:59 leading to a bunch of fun pay-per-view defenses, a slammy for Tag Team of the Year and even
06:02 a triple threat match at Survivor Series for Undertaker's World Heavyweight Championship.
06:06 Despite literally having been thrown together last minute, Jericho kept themselves and their
06:10 tag belts relevant for just shy of six months.
06:14 Turns out, Chris Jericho is a very smart professional wrestler.
06:17 6.
06:18 RVD and Sabu
06:20 The homicidal, suicidal, genocidal Sabu and infamous stoner Ronald Van Donald may have
06:25 had very similar styles, but what made them odd couple enough for this list is a) RVD
06:29 was a pothead and Sabu was insane, and b) it's another classic bitter enemies turn
06:35 reluctant friends situation.
06:36 I smell a sitcom.
06:38 The two men were intertwined throughout their ECW careers, whether it was their lengthy
06:41 feud over respect when RVD first arrived in the company, becoming a tag team, wrestling
06:46 each other for RVD's TV title while still being a tag team, teaming up with history's
06:50 most annoying manager Bill Alfonso, famed for not being able to stop blowing his goddamn
06:53 f***ing whistle during Sabu and RVD's tag matches, or when the two men won the ECW
06:58 tag titles twice, spending a cumulative near 250 days as champions.
07:03 Despite constantly having stepped in the ring against each other, the lunatic/stoner combination
07:06 found a huge amount of success when they put their many differences aside.
07:10 He's a stoner, I'm crazy, let's call the whole thing off.
07:15 5.
07:16 RK-Bro
07:17 And speaking of stoners and lunatics, this odd couple pairing was so successful that
07:21 they're still technically, technically together.
07:25 Albeit at the time of writing this Randy Orton has been missing in action for quite a long
07:28 time.
07:29 The key to RK-Bro's success is twofold.
07:31 First of all, both dudes are very talented in the ring and have strong, distinct gimmicks.
07:35 Riddle is the world's most dangerous himbo, and Randy Orton is a big f***ing snag.
07:39 The second key to RK-Bro's popularity is tension.
07:43 Not sexual tension, although let's be honest, but more of a tension built from Randy Orton's
07:47 history of betraying people with a sudden but inevitable RKO out of nowhere.
07:51 He's a bad man, and for ages people kept waiting for him to do bad things to Matt Riddle
07:55 so that they could feud.
07:56 But somehow, they just sort of kept scooting along happily as friends.
08:00 Friendship persevered, and Orton seemingly breaking his habits of betrayal really rallied
08:04 the fans behind this unlikely pairing.
08:06 Like the Brozoates in NXT, deeply unserious Matt Riddle spins gold out of being friends
08:11 with deeply serious men.
08:13 4.
08:14 Beer Money
08:15 One guy likes beer, one guy likes money.
08:17 That's all well and good, but what do we call them?
08:20 Beer Money, or Beer Money Incorporated, is one of TNA's most iconic tag teams.
08:24 And from a company that brought you America's Most Wanted, the Motor City Machine Guns,
08:27 and various forms of LAX, that's really saying something.
08:31 In 2008, TNA didn't have much for either Cowboy James Storm or Robert Roode Incorporated
08:35 to do, so they threw them together into a tag team.
08:38 What happened next was that the seemingly mismatched team of Beer Money found they had
08:41 tremendous chemistry and stayed together for three years, racking up a crazy number of
08:45 accolades, holding tag titles five times, having the second most cumulative days with
08:49 the belts, becoming part of Fortune, and their breakup angle saw Roode beat Storm for the
08:55 TNA Heavyweight Championship.
08:56 A pillar of late 2000s TNA, Beer Money were DWI.
09:00 Dependable.
09:01 Wonderful.
09:02 It's Ipswich.
09:03 That'll do.
09:04 3.
09:05 The Rock and Sock Connection
09:09 Ah yes, one's cool, the other's Mick Foley.
09:13 It's a formula that just works, because jolly old St. Mick is one of the purest souls in
09:17 the wrestling business, all awkward earnestness and misguided affection.
09:20 He has a habit of bringing out the best in his partners, managing to produce an iconic
09:24 odd couple pairing with each of his three faces, Dude Love and Steve Austin, Cactus
09:27 Jack and Mikey Wipwreck in ECW, and of course, Mankind and The Rock.
09:32 The Rock and Sock Connection formed in 1999, when, tale as old as time, Rock wanted to
09:36 go it alone against Undertaker and Big Show for their tag titles and reluctantly accepted
09:40 Mankind's help, so of course they won the belts.
09:43 Despite The Rock performing chair-assisted brain surgery on him for much of the last
09:46 year, Mankind was desperate to be The Rock's friend.
09:49 We call that Rock-Home Syndrome.
09:51 Or Sock-Home Syndrome.
09:52 Either works.
09:53 And with Rock playing an intensely charismatic, permanently annoyed straight man, their chemistry
09:57 was off the charts.
09:58 They didn't last all that long, Rock was too big to tie down to a permanent tag team
10:02 after all, but what an iconic pairing they made.
10:04 Still memorable, 20 years later when they inspired Bayley and Sasha Banks to become
10:08 the Boss and Hug Connection.
10:10 Those two things don't rhyme, so that's far less satisfying.
10:13 Boss and Hug.
10:14 Boss and Hug.
10:15 Boss and Hug.
10:16 Boss Hug.
10:17 Boss Hug would have worked better.
10:21 Boss Hug would have worked better.
10:22 2.
10:23 Booker T and Goldust
10:24 F*** yeah, this team ruled.
10:26 He's cool and annoyed all the time, and he's bloody weird.
10:29 It's the quintessential wrestling tag team.
10:31 But there was just something about the duo of Booker T and Goldust that was, well, gold.
10:36 I said the thing.
10:38 They were so funny all the time.
10:40 Like the Rock and Sock Connection, Goldust was weird but sweet and genuinely wanted to
10:44 be Booker T's friend, and Booker T spent his life being very annoyed about that.
10:48 But unlike the Rock and Sock, WWE had now else for Book Dust to do, so they got to stick
10:52 together becoming one of the weekly highlights of ruthless aggression era Raw for about a
10:56 year.
10:57 And you could just tell that both men were having a blast in their backstage segments,
10:59 just farting around for kicks.
11:01 Booker T meeting Darth Goldust, Goldie cosplaying as The Rock at King of the Ring, reviewing
11:05 movies, endless wigs, their way too short tag title run.
11:09 Booker T and Goldust were brilliant together, and they never betrayed each other either.
11:14 Friends forever.
11:15 1.
11:16 Team Hell No
11:18 Opposites attract, so proclaims Paula Abdel.
11:21 And what's the opposite of a pyro demon?
11:22 That's right, a goat.
11:24 By all accounts Daniel Bryan and Kane teaming up really shouldn't have worked, but damn
11:28 it those anger management segments were gold.
11:30 After being endlessly humiliated for much of 2012, Daniel Bryan got sent to therapy
11:34 with the iconic Dr. Shelby, and because he wasn't doing anything after ruining Zack
11:37 Ryder's whole life, they shoved Kane in there too.
11:40 What followed should have been corny and poorly scripted, but ended up being deeply silly
11:44 with charmingly sincere skits of Bryan and Kane coming together under Shelby's tutelage.
11:48 And honestly, Shelby might just be the best NPC in wrestling history.
11:52 WWE took their time with the story so that when Kane and Daniel Bryan eventually hugged
11:55 it out, the fans erupted, spurring the men to a lengthy tag title run.
11:59 And of course the Bryan is the weak link storyline, fueling the rise of main event
12:02 to Daniel Bryan and the very Yes movement itself.
12:05 So it's important then.
12:07 And that's our list.
12:08 Who do you think is the best odd couple in all of wrestling history?
12:11 Let us know in the comments down below and click the video on screen now for more parts
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12:16 We'll catch you next time.
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