Jim Cornette on The Worst Tag Teams 

“Fuck it, he's your brother!” - Jim Cornette

I could listen to Jim talk about the Ding Dongs and Jim Herd all day 😂😆

Jim’s story with the Shane Twins and the “Phantom Bump” and their excuse for it had me in stitches.

The Hardy Boyz that one time Matt talked Chief Jay Strongbow into letting them be willow and ingus at a Superstars taping when they were jobbers, and the title card was Wildo and Dingus, and they wore fuzzy clothes with homemade masks.

If the ding dongs split up and one them then teamed up with mantar, that group would be called cowbell.

Rick steiner and buff bagwells mom

Creative Control were Russo's "enforcers" during his WCW run.

"That has to be a shit stain thing from TNA." 😂 Cornette is a national fucking treasure.

"And they're gonna be from Bell-view Illinois" - Jim Herd.

Young Bucks #1

Chad Fortune is a popular driver for the monster truck circuit. Also pinned Goldberg in a dark match, before Goldberg started his streak.

That bit at the end about Heidenrich was really interesting, don't think I've heard Jim speak about him before.

You haven’t been cursed unit corny calls you “a piece of shit” with his own unique blend of venom.

“Well nobodys lookin for him so leave him alone.” Hahahah one liners AllDay

Oh so that's why Spirit Squad Mitch barely ever wrestled. I wonder what the point of even having him under contract was to begin with.

The Ding Dongs got the most epic burial. They got squashed by the Skyscrapers, Sid and Danny then powerbombed them and unmasked both, Commentators Didn't Even Give A Single Fuck! The Skyscrapers absolutely destroyed them and the commentators were already talking about the next segment, like "okay they're dead moving on"

What's sad about the Shane Twins was before being fired from wrestling school and even before TNA they were the NWA World Tag Team Champions. I am not kidding.

I would definitely switch out Ding Dongs into that number 1 spot. They made me stop watching ALL wrestling for two years. Can't get much worse than that.

I listened without laughing until we get to the part with the ship bell in the corner. From there i cant stop crying! So many great stories and this is near the top!!

I can't imagine being so shite that you get fired from training.

As a little kid when I read the phrase dark match in PWI I actually thought they wrestled in the dark. This was during the Kayfabe years where they protected the business. I was like 8 at the time LOL!

The Conquistadors 🤣😂

7:29 Gailard Sartain, who played Officer Bimbeau in the cult classic The Hollywood Knights and The Big Bopper in The Buddy Holly Story.

#8 the Middle-Aged Bucks. Now the list went form 3 D themed team's to 4 😂

Not a single mention of the Fabulous Flying Mulkeys Brothers! An outrage.

Chad Fortune drove monster trucks up until about 2019 then retired but still owns a truck team

As soon as I heard a list of the worst tag teams, my mind instantly went to "Tekno Team 2000" but I figured they wouldn't be on there. To my surprise..

First good laugh I’ve had in weeks. The story about the twins had me rolling. Thank you gentlemen for still keeping fans listening daily, so we can fast forward through the shows. Mankind (no pun intended) owes you a debt we can never repay.

Creative Control was their WCW names. They remind me of The Coneheads from SNL after they shaved off the facial hair.

Well Dunn (Steve Doll and Rex King) West Hollywood Blondes (Lane and Lodi) The Dicks (Tank Toland and Chad Wicks) Tekno Team 2000 (Chad Fortune and Erik Watts) The Johnsons (Dick and Rod Johnson) Those are my choices for worst tag ever! 😂

I actually liked the spirit squad.. they were hilarious

1. Any makeshift they're tagging but they don't like each other team 2. Nasty Boys 3. Basham Bros/ any tag with 2 bald guys that only seem to be tagging cuz they're 2 bald guys

One of my favorite "fun wrestling facts" is that Chad Fortune of "Tekno Team 2000" was the real first person to defeat Goldberg (in a dark match before Goldberg had even been on TV yet!)

Jim - please stop sitting on the fence! 🤣

When he refers to Russo as shit stain so casually.. it gets me every time!

That ace impression. Lol

I think the conditions to set for "Worst Tag Teams" are that they were given air time and somewhat of a push. Ding Dongs are easily #1, but another team I thought were awful were Alex Wright and Disco Inferno.

Honorable mention: from TNA ..Seratonin. Three decent workers: Devine, Kazarian, and Bentley being the poor mans Ravens Flock and jobbing nearly all their matches.😡

The Dynamic Dudes. They were supposed to be a hot baby face team. The people HATED them. There was an angle where Cornette was going to be neutral between Dynamic Dudes and Midnight Express. The Express were working heel and the Dudes were working baby. But the crowd were cheering the Midnight Express and BOOING the Dynamic Dudes! So when Bobby and Stan were double teaming Shane or Johnny the crowd was cheering. When the dude got the hot tag, the crowd was booing. At the end of the match Cornette snuck in and whacked Johnny Ace with the Tennis Racket and the entire Arena POPPED! It was the weirdest thing I ever saw.

The "New" Rock N Roll Express. Robert brought in his nephew while Ricky was in Memphis doing "heel" mode.

I felt bad for Spirit Squad, because at first blush this seems like a good formula for a chickenshit heel tag team. Former pro athletes, pretty boys, still learning so you put them in a group to highlight strengths and mask weaknesses. They just went too heavy with the cheerleading thing. The uniforms were too much. Put them in college singlets, like they want to look like legit wrestlers, when we know they aren't. Jim Ross would have sold this beautifully, 'well fans, we know these guys are great athletically, they were athletes in college. Cheerleaders, but still." You could even use it to work in a face turn. Just point out how fucking dangerous cheerleading is. Have one of them have a sense of humor about the whole thing, "Yeah I did it. It was fun, and I got to toss the hottest girls in school around all day." Big Show was a high school cheerleader, have him join the team for a match or two as a 'special substitute'. Have him in the back sitting on a bench, they come in, "Hey man, Nick hurt his ankle. You're up." and Show is like "Finally! My big break!" and they go out and do their thing. Good palette cleanse match.

I was waiting for Jim to mention the Skyscrapers.

I can't remember which, but one of the Harris Brothers ran with Macho Man Randy Savage in 2003 when he was promoting his rap album. I got to spend the morning with Macho Man and his crew on Halloween 2003; Macho Man was part of my bachelor party when I got married in New Orleans that morning. He plugged his album on the morning show I was a part of, then he commentated me getting a lap dance from three strippers from Bourbon Street live on air.

Also: The New Rockers. The New Blackjacks. The New Hart Foundation. Basically, any "new" version of a a previous team.

The Shane Twins were champions in Peru, when Future Of Wrestling was touring through South America semi regularly. I am not going to check my books and see if it was before or after OVW.

Chad Fortune came from an uneventful pro football career to pro wrestling (was a college football teammate of Watts). After leaving wrestling in 1999/2000, he went on to have a nearly 20 year career driving monster trucks until retiring in 2019.

Yes!!!! I was thinking of the Ding Dongs first thing seconds before Corny too! Hahahaha!

Regarding the match Cornette talks about with the The Johnsons (Mike & Todd Shane), I trained alongside them in Tampa in late '96, so for the match in question, they had indeed been in the business about 8-9 years at that point. I always got along with them and they were cool dudes. I never really thought their work was THAT bad, but who am I to question Jim? LOL! The Johnsons gimmick was pretty stupid, though.

I met techno team 2000 in Coyotes bar in Louisville, they were awesome guys, drank with them and hung out all night , Travis even went to Deny’s with us after we closed down the bar lol

And lest we forget, the best worst tag team ever were Bill and Randy Mulkey.

The Shane Twins did so bad that they got signed to the main roster.......didn’t know it was that easy to get signed

it's funny to hear jim say Gailard Sartain, i remembering him guest starring on the simpsons spin off showcase as Charles "Big" Daddy on the segment chief wiggum p.i lol

Brush that Shane twins firing story is gold 🤣🤣 you already know in today’s world they would get multiple chances

"The dicks were a terrible tag team" Cue the people who are going to say " Why does he bring up Russo and Ferrara all the time !!! " Lol

I watched the Ding Dongs debut, it was so bad after the match JR said that ugh was bad. There was nothing redeeming about them.

Rocky King and George South...also, Randy Barber and thunderfoot... lol

"When he (Jim Herd) actually had the idea for the Ding Dongs and went throught with it and had the i di ot s on TV on a national TV Show" - Jim Cornette

The dupp's didn't make the list?

The Thunderfoots were worse than DING DONGS

Chad fortune became a monster jam monster truck driver.

Chad Fortune went on to be a great monster jam driver

High Voltage and Lenny and Lodi come to mind. The New Rockers with Marty Jannetty and Leif Cassidy aka Al Snow. I remember a team called The Humpbacks but I don't know if they even wrestled. The brilliant idea for them was they could not lose because they could never be pinned. Another brilliant Jim Herd idea.

Chad was a monster truck driver retired in 2019, he has previously also played for the nfl ..dolphins,redskins,colts & other teams..hes living in roswell ga

I still remember watching tna debut with excitement and hope. The Johnsons quickly quelled all of that (this after realizing jarretts were in charge)

It took until the Monday Night Wars for WCW to fully recover from the damage Jim Herd had done. They were showing signs of improvement but then The Huckster arrived and ran roughshod. Starrcade 1993 was headlined by Vader vs Flair and the next year we were treated to a main event featuring Hogan and his BBF Brutus. Then you had the Dungeon of Doom mumbo jumbo....

From the drawing, I thought that the Gladiators would be up there.

2:08 Chad Fortune is an accomplished Monster Truck driver with FELD motorsports (the guys who run Monster Jam) where he drove the Superman and Captain America trucks but most recently he was driving the Soldier Fortune before COVID-19 canceled most shows

I have that Pay Per View of the Ding Dongs debut on VHS. Poor J. R. and Bob Caudle? They tried to commentary them into stardom. 😂 They screwed up the first move and it was a over. That's when they started looking at their watches and talking about them ringing that DAMN bell. LMAO!!!

"Unless your name is Alex having an imaginary friend doesn't work." Tell that to R-Truth and Little Jimmy. They were over. It worked. Little Jimmy is the man. I mean boy. I mean kid..... Whatever.

List from my era. Cole Twins, Ding Dongs, Techno Team 2000, Magnum Force, Young Stallions.

Bob Holly was also in a version of Rock and Roll Express with Robert Gibson. I think it was Awf

16:52 aht aht aht Corny.....dare I say, R. Truth and little Jimmy?! 😂

The young bucks are one of the worst tag teams ever.

The Thunderfoots 1 and 2, The Gladiators,

Met the Harris brothers at a Halloween havoc in Vegas the nicest and just down to earth guys giving big hugs and taking time for everyone

Vicki Victory and Cheyenne Cher in GLOW. In singles, CC was an Indian princess, in the tag team she was a cheerleader.

How can The Harris Twins and The New Midnight Express be on the list and not The Heart Throbs lol

Evans & Sartain Sounds Like a Group that Would've Done a "In the Year 2525" Type of Song

Chad Fortune was in the monster truck business and has since retired.

I think the Shane twins are from Galesburg Illinois and went to school with my sister. I think they played on the tennis team in high school.

Chad Fortune went on to be a Monster Truck driver for close to 20 years.

Jelly and sonny should have been on this list

Facts about Chad Fortune/Troy: he was Erik Watt’s teammate at University of Louisville. Spent several years in the NFL. Also was the first person to defeat Bill Goldberg, in a dark match.

Early 90s WCW had some terrible teams, Master Blasters, Renegade Warriors, Patriots, Cole Twins.

Are does clouds in the background or.. 😂

The American Males and The Dynamic Dudes should've been on this list.

Marko Stunt and Dorkasaurus belong on a worst tag teams list.

Crow bar and David Flair

I believe when the Harris brothers were part of creative control I believe that was in WCW and yes very likely a Vince Russo idea

Little Jimmy was a great imaginary friend

Man. My boy Jim outlived the entire camp cornette. One of my favorite stables

Could anyone imagine the Johnson's vs. The Dicks? MONEY FEUD!!!

Harris Bros WTF, they were pretty decent, big guys who were pretty athletic for their size. H Bomb was a cool finisher.

The Conquistadors were fugging awesome...they just lost all the time

Thanks Jim . For The Kansas City shout-out

Taking a look Pat and Gerald form Creative Control was actually a WCW shot at Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco.

The toughest tag team of all time was the Mulky's. They took some brutal beatings back in the day.

The Dynamic Dudes should of been high on this list.

The Gladiators, The Cruel Connection, The Mulkey Brothers. Another one that was somewhat successful but stupid was the Beverly Brothers. They were tough guys in the AWA. Then they turned them into almost gay aristocrats or something. Worst tag team to have moderate success.

The bucks are the worst! Bunch of teen looking backyard acrobats! Epitome of smark tag team!