The Allied Powers in WWF : Lex Luger & Davey Boy Smith 

I’ll always remember Jim Cornette quipping, “If these guys were the real ‘Allied Powers’, we’d all be speaking German!”

It's amazing how close Lex Luger came to winning every WWF title and not winning any

Their team jackets are still badass looking to this day.

I was a huge fan of the Allied Powers, & I've always hated that they were kept away from the tag titles & not really given any meaningful matches. Going back & watching their time together, again, I completely understand why Luger jumped ship to WCW. Thanks Wrestling Bios for covering this sadly forgotten tag team.

The British Bulldog heel turn after all this led us to the chinlocks we all know and love ❤️

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I remember liking this team a lot as a kid, I always felt Luger and Bulldog worked surprisingly well together. Though looking back now it kind of felt like they were running out of ideas for Luger after his failed singles pushes and this was one last thing thrown at the wall to see if it would stick.

I remember liking the Allied Powers and thought Davey and Luger were a good pairing. I thought for sure they were going to win the tag titles, but it wasn't meant to be.

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I remember seeing not just Lex but Bulldog when watching a copy of WMXI in middle school, probably my first exposure to both as well. They looked so cool, right outta a comic book and it just fit, USA and UK together

Still can't believe they didn't throw the belts on these guys. Seemed like a foregone conclusion at the time.

For a thrown together team, they had a top tier mashup entrance theme. Its so weird that they went all in with their presentation and really making them look like a legit team and then have them lose their one televised title shot and then depushed them despite being pretty over. IYH 2 was the first PPV my mom ever let me got, so it had Jeff Jarrett's best WWF match AND the best Allied Powers match. (also probably the best Roadie match lol underrated PPV) It was definitely a huge let down when Owen and Yoko won though,. That double back suplex on Yokozuna definitely was the high spot and seemed like it should have been the end but, NOPE.

I loved these guys as a team when I was a kid ..they looked like real life super heros

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The best thing about that team was turning bulldog heal & lex going to wcw😏

Allied Powers was so underwhelming that Luger literally just left in the middle of it lol

Luger as a heel in the late 80's jcp/wcw was brilliant.

This was by far and away my favorite tag team in the 90s. I remember sobbing when Bulldog turned

Allied Powers was actually a decent idea coulda seen a good Tag Title run with these two together having matches with the Gunns and MOM

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Diana hart said Davey gave credit to lex for showing him proper leg workouts, and it was the reason he wore short tights, instead of jis usual long ones, coz he was no longer embarassed by his undersized legs.

This is so crazy.. I was just asking a friend 15mins ago if he remembered the Allied Powers not even knowing the notification for this was on my phone 😳

Now this one is a blast from the past I had forgot about till now lol 😎🤟

RIP, Owen Hart, Davey Boy Smith, and Yokozuna. It's really sobering that they're all gone and Lex is still here.

Lex Luger’s last run in WWE before he jumped ship to WCW.

I Always Liked their Entrance Theme Music!!! RIP Davey Boy Smith🙏 Can't Believe You have Been Gone 20 years

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"The Allied Powers quest to destroy every jobber known to man..." That had me laughing out loud.

I was a big fan of The Allied Powers. They arguably had one of the coolest themes ever. They really should've worked as they looked great together. Their jackets were dope and both Bulldog and Luger looked amazing together.

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I so wanted to see them with those ol WWF tag titles

I'm freaking grateful as hell for all the time you've put into your channel, I watch Wrestling Bios at least half the time that I'm watching anything. 💪

Sadly, a mere half a decade or so later, both of these men had serious issues and they were pretty evident. I'm certainly not judging. It's just scary to see how things can progress/degress and unravel, in no time at all. God bless.

I really liked this team along with their ring gear looked really cool side by side. I remember Davey saying in an interview that it just didn’t work out despite the potential for being a pretty good tag team.

I'll never understand how, with the talent they had in the 1990's, WWF couldn't "find something to do" with guys like Luger or Smith. They really should've had Luger beat Yoko at SummerSlam and then set up WM10 around a fight between Bret and Lex, imo. And Davey should never have been away from the upper part of the card. How the hell do you go from Wembley in '92 to "nothing for you rigth now" ?!

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I saw this epic team at a house show. Totally made up for the Undertaker entrance happening in broad daylight and he and Kama going through their casket match move for move before the PPV. Also had Tatanka there. A drunk guy kept shouting "D-cup!" at his man boobs.

Before my first sabbatical I was still watching in 95, not really enjoying much but wrestling is familiar, that's a thing we all like about it. You could see back then there were lulls in it anyway, but the Allied Powers, though cheesy, at least felt like a gimmick that could go somewhere.

I always liked Davey and this definitely feels like a big miss for a tag division which needed more excitement.

As soon as I saw the thumbnail I was just waiting for Daveyboy's heel turn. For some reason that's what I remember most - probably because I was a fan of the Bulldog (and Bret) no matter what and I was glad when he turned on Diesel. Totally agreed that this tag team had a lot of potential though!

My most vivid memory of this duo was their entrance theme. When Hail Britannia kicked in...

In My opinion they both deserve a wwf Tiltle Run atleast once like Sid

It's annoying how often people in the business (Bruce Pritchard) try to act like Luger was not justified in leaving the WWF in 1995. The man was never used correctly and it was the best decision he could have made

I swear, the Brooklyn brawler had better make the 2023 hall of fame inductee list. Absolute legend that guy.

The A&E documentary was surprisingly powerful.

Despite not being a huge fan of either guy individually, I really liked the idea of the Allied Powers as a team. Many thrown-together teams look just that - no reason to be together other than 'and then they teamed up.' Lex and Davey, with their similar physiques, patriotic gimmicks and complementary ring-gear, and a banger of a mash-up theme with glorious pyro, made total sense as soon as you saw them together. And the cross-Atlantic Babyface potential was huge! They really shoulda been tag champs. I love Owen Hart, but he and Yoko were the very image of a thrown-together team. Really their run as champs shoulda been short term, to build to an Allied Powers win. Owen shoulda been put in the Intercontinental picture, had him be the guy to feud with Shawn over the IC belt instead of Shane Douglas (and been allowed to have a proper run with the strap, unlike Douglas.)

I was at that MSG show when Bulldog told them to stop the USA chants and walked away from Luger

Aside from reliving the war, I always loved your bio episodes about a wrestler or certain team

Imagine these two as a force at the time there wasn’t the ongoing steroid scandal/drug testing in the company….

Davey Boy 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️ another chin lock please

I think if anything, the tag team had a great look. The double red, white and blue, the physiques and early support from the crowds. It was the best team that almost was. Perhaps a few years earlier it might have been a success.

I liked the Allied Powers because I thought two top guys would be champs easily and never lose. Still I was wondering even then why they weren't both used as singles wrestlers. I'll always remember the spot where Davey did an electric chair drop to Mabel.

That was a good episode I liked the allied powers as a kid I remember the night Davey turned heal like it was yesterday keep up the great work and thanks

10 year old me loved this tag team

Even as a kid I couldn’t understand why the Allied Powers didn’t get used more, I was never a big fan of Luger but I thought him and Davey were a great pair. I don’t know if it was the WWF backing off of pushing “body guys” after the steroid trial or just Vince’s general lack of interest in tag teams, but just like everything else about Lex’s time in Stamford it felt like a majorly missed opportunity.

Huh I hadn't thought of this tag team in about thirty years. I definitely remember them teaming but it never went anywhere. This should be an interesting watch.

Nobody had any idea at the time, but I saw Lex's last ever WWF match live at a house show in Saint John, NB, Canada. He wasn't even originally scheduled to take part. He replaced Diesel in the main event, teaming up with HBK vs. Owen and Yoko. They won by count-out or DQ and of course did that silly thing where they celebrate with the belts afterwards to send the fans home happy (There was no favortism towards the Canadian Owen vs. the Americans at this point). Luger would know as well as anyone that's not how title changes work 🤦‍♂️.

In the thumbnail Davey looks like a middle aged housewife from the 1980's regretting every moment in her life, while at the same time hiding it under her fake smile, that led up to that picture being taken. 🤷😬✌️

Can’t wait to watch this after work. Presumably it’s 20 minutes all about how awesome their music was.

Amazing work on the video.

I was a huge lex luger fan as a kid never really liked bulldog too much but this could have been a good solid team as they were so much better than what was around like the bushwhackers well dunn heavenly bodies etc

I wish Luger could have at least one a Championship like the Tag team titles. Honestly, Luger and Bulldog would had made a great Tag team. I don't know why Vince didn't take a chance with Bulldog and Luger to win the titles from Owen and Yokozuna. It was Rumor they would have rematch for Summer Slam but that never happened of course. But it's okay Luger went back to WCW and worked out we for him. And Bulldog ending up being a tag team this time with Owen hart and became a great Tag team.

This tag team was hilarious to me

Going back through this Era I liked the Bulldog/Owen pairing.

I think it's hilarious when a big guy has to be "small man" in a tag team 🤣🤣

I was a kid then so i remembered and like them. Hate how they ended.

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I loved this team when I was a kid and looking at them today, they have champions written all over them. They had the look, talent, charisma, fan appeal, for lack of a better word, they were the “total package.”

They killed his push completely when he "won" against Yokuzuna in in a count out for the WWF Championship. Should have pulled the trigger and seen what happened, because not doing that soured the fans on him and soured Lex on WWF.

Was a big fan when I started watching wrestling. Even saw them live in Hamburg in 1995.

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I loved that pairing back in the days! ...and their run was so short...

Not gonna lie, that theme music was a banger.

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The torture rack and the chinlock. They must have been unstoppable.

There’s so many missed opportunities in wrestling it’s crazy This could’ve been great

They would’ve gotten over if they had a dual finisher: the torture chin lock

I think they had the first ever mash-up entrance theme that WWE seems so popular on these days and these guys had it first. I'll be honest I was never a fan of Luger he had a great look and some of his matches were ok but thought he had such a bland personality and wasn't great on the mic saying that the Bulldog wasn't much different and if there was ever a team that needed a mouthpiece to help get them over I think it was this one.

The team's theme song was a BANGER!

The combined theme song was great

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I miss this era of WWF.

The Narcissist is Lex's best gimmick.

1:14 I remember them teaming up as the "Allied Powers."

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You know what Vince should have done with the storyline here, is they should have gotten them to feud and then team up with Nikolai Volkoff, Pierre Carl Oulette, and Ludvig Borga, and then they should have all eventually feuded with Brakkus, who teams up with Yokozuna and then they find an Italian guy

8:41 I had that bull dog shirt. Shout out to the English kid who was at the sky dome show in Toronto back in 95. I helped you hold up the Union Jack when bull dog came out

Yokozuna should’ve teamed up with a German to form the Axis Powers to counter them. It’s in such poor horrible taste that it would’ve even awesome.

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I love the Allied Powers. I love that theme. The wwf dropped the ball on them big time. They could've feuded with Owen Hart and Yokozuna for the tag titles for most of the year.

When are you doing the first EVER LADDER match in WWF? Bret vs shawn!

I didn't even realize these dudes were a tag team. What a fresh idea. I like Luger and Davey Boy a lot. They look great together. Two beefcakes like them should have run roughshod all over the WWF tag team division for a good year or 2. Thanks for bringing this topic up. Very informative.

I don’t remember this angle as I was not watching wrestling in 1995

I can confirm, Allied Powers made the WWF calendar when i was a kid - that is the only reason i knew they existed lol. Not a single Davey Chin Lock either..

Think you sell them short. There was so much they could have done here. Have them in video vignettes where they become obsessed with who can lift the most and who can do the best slams, looking up at each other and saying "THAT'S POWER" until it costs them a match. Push and shove then build to a ppv match between the two. So easy it's ridiculous.

one of the best tag teams of the 90's. Right up there with Techno Team 2000

One of my favorite entrance tracks for sure.

I don’t understand what it was about Lex. It was said Bret was more popular so they went with him as WWF champion, but Lex also didn’t beat Diesel for the IC championship or Yoko and Owen for tag team gold. Why didn’t WWF want to give Lex a run with any championship?

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