Personal note about Cersaro: I went to a CZW show when he and Hero held the CZW, Chikara, and ROH tag titles at the same time. They came down to the ring and the entire crawd started chanting "Tri-ple Crown! Tri-ple Crown!"
arn anderson could team up with a broom stick. by the end of their tag match, he'll have you saying, "Damn that broomstick has a bright future as a singles wrestler."
"Fans were out of time. I'm sick of wrestling in general. You won't see me back in this business for 14 years. So long slapdicks." - Tony Schiavone (Brian Zane), 2020
I think Chris Jericho deserves a mention: reigns with Jeri-show, Thrillseekers, Benoit, Rock, Edge and Christian, along with him being best friends with KO which obviously deserves a mention
@@brunodias1825 Kawada and Taue had a hard hitting tag team match with Misawa and Kobashi and it’s one of the best tag team matches in wrestling history
A lot of people forget about Barry Windham: four-time wcw/nwa world tag team champion, one-time NWA United States tight team champion, two-time WWF world tag team champion. He did this alongside the likes of Ron Garvin, Lex Luger and Mike Rotundo. Great job Brian! I really dig your ranking videos!
Also need to mention his run with Curt Hennig in WCWs attempt to reestablish the titles after the Rick Steiner with Buff Bagwell/Judy Bagwell/ Kenny Kaos debacle, too...
The inclusion of Bam Bam and Double A did it for me...but naming Eaton Number 1 can't be disputed. Bobby Eaton is the Kevin Bacon of southern wrestling.
@@bradcarver8127 Geez, like seriously, where'd all the Kevin Bacon supporters crawl out from all of a sudden? He's by no means terrible but c'mon, what great performances has he given?
Stan Lane definitely should’ve made the list. His team of The Fabulous Ones with Steve Keirn was arguably the most popular babyface team in all of wrestling in the early 80s; he and Eaton as the Midnight Express were just 24 karat platinum great; and he and Tom Prichard were terrific as the original Heavenly Bodies in the early 90s
I was so surprised to not see "The Devious One" MR. FUJI make the list. He held the title 5 times over the 70's and 80's, a time when they didn't hot potato the title, with two partners. According to Wikipedia, he still holds the record for the longest combined reign at 932 days.
I'd give Rob Van Dam an honourable mention just for the fact that he won Tag Titles with at least two of the guys featured in this video, Kane & Booker T.
Big Show. Has a total of a 11 tag team championship reigns with partners of the likes The Miz, Undertaker, Kane, Chris Jericho, Lex Luger, Scott Hall and Sting.
I would love, Mr. Zane-man, for you to put out "The Top 8 Things I Would Do If I Ran WWE For A Year" I am fascinated by your thought process and I'm curious how you'd do with a little hypothetical power.
Rick Martell is sad he didn't get a mention, beyond being Tony Garea's partner. He was 3 time WWF tag champ by my recollection at times when tag teams still mattered.
[Bobby Eaton wanders in carrying a pumpkin] “Where’s Dorothy, Myra and Jack? I was named best tag team wrestler by Brian Zane, I wanna go celebrate. Women...”
I highly agree that Matt Hardy should of been added to the list. I only seen Matt team with Jeff and Bray Wyatt. Anybody else he tagged with that I don't know about?
Great video. I think you may mixed up the haystacks. At 13:07 I think you used a picture of Giant Haystacks (Loch Ness in WCW) instead of Haystacks Calhoun ^_^
Soo glad to see Eaton at no. 1, he could literally work with anybody, from all accounts a hell of a nice person and one of the safest wrestlers around too (which probably helped with team chemistry).
I'm still disappointed that WWE never tried to remake the Kings of Wrestling. Although to be fair they've always underutilized both Cesaro and Chris Hero.
Cesaro's on tv regularly to be fair, I think they see things in him to show him on tv doing something weekly but don't wanna push him kinda like Booker T/RVD were for a while. Chris Hero I could see they just don't want on the main roster.
Lmao .. now that you made that Tony Shavonie promo skit in the beginning.. that’s who i keep see especially with the glasses hair a BEARD uou have at the moment.. lol
Nice list, Brian! Okay, so some that come to mind for me are: 1.) Matt Hardy (for The Hardy Boyz and his unconventional teaming with MVP) 2.) John Morrison (for MNM and Miz and Morrison) 3.) Paul London (for his teaming with Billy Kidman and London and Kendrick) 4.) William Regal (for his teaming with Eugene, Vito, Paul Burchill, Dave Taylor, etc.) 5.) Charlie Haas (mostly for Team Angle/World's Greatest Tag Team, but also his pairing with Rico) 6.) Cody Rhodes (for Priceless/Legacy, Rhode's Scholars, The Rhodes Brothers/Goldust and Stardust) 7.) Shelton Benjamin (Team Angle/World's Greatest Tag Team and Benjamin and Gable) 7.) Miz (Miz and Morrison, ShowMiz, Miz and Sandow, and, least we forget, Miz and the "best in the world" Shane McMahon) 8.) Dustin Rhodes/Goldust (for Goldust and Booker T, Rhodes Brothers, and The Golden Truth) 9.) Chris Jericho (for the unAmericans, Jericho and Christian, Jericho and Edge, Jerishow, Y2AJ) 10.) Big Show (for his teaming with Kane, Jericho, Miz, etc.)
I'm surprised to see no luchadors on here. I'm not steeped in lore and legend, so forgive the newness but few wrestlers have consistently wowed me like Pentagon Dark/Zero/Jr and Phoenix.
Loved the list Brian. I can think of a few though as well, although you may disagree on some of them (and I won't mention James Storm as he's been mentioned in the comments a lot already): Bobby/Robert Roode - 2 NWA World Tag titles with 'Showtime' Eric Young as part of TNA's "Team Canada", 6 TNA World Tag Team Championships (5 with the aforementioned James Storm as part of Beer Money and 1 with Austin Aries), and 2 Raw Tag Team Championships with Chad Gable and Dolph Ziggler respectively (even if the reigns weren't anything special. Matt Hardy - 15+ tag title reigns with his brother Jeff (6 WWE World Tag Team, 1 WCW World Tag Team, 2 TNA World Tag Team, 1 HOG Tag Team, 1 ROH World Tag Team, 1 Raw Tag Team, 1 Smackdown Tag Team and 1 OMEGA Tag Team Championships) and maybe more that I don't know about there, and 2 additional Raw Tag Team/Tag Team Championships with MVP and 'Woken' Bray Wyatt. Cody Rhodes - 2 OVW Tag Team Championships with Shawn Spears, 3 WWE World Tag Team Championships (1 with Hardcore Holly, 2 with Ted DiBiase Jr. as part of Money Inc.), 3 WWE Tag Team/Unified Tag Team Championships (1 with Drew McIntyre, 2 with Goldust as both Cody and Stardust...sorry for bringing that one up), and 1 ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship with "The Young Bucks". Kevin Nash/Diesel - 2 WWE World Tag Team Championships with Shawn Michaels, 8 WCW World Tag Team Championships (5 with Scott Hall as part of "The Outsiders", 1 with Wolfpac Sting, and 2 with DDP as part of "The Insiders"), and 1 TNA World Tag Team Championship with Scott Hall and Eric Young as part of "The Band". And The Big Show/The Giant - 3 WCW World Tag Team Championships (1 with Lex Luger, 1 with Sting, and 1 with Scott Hall), 5 World Tag Team Championships (2 with The Undertaker, 1 with The Big Show, and 1 with both Chris Jericho and The Miz separately during the Unified Tag Team Championships timeline), and 3 Unified Tag Team/Tag Team Championships (the first 2 being that Unified Tag Team part with Jericho and Miz in 2009 and 2010 respectively, and 1 with Kane). ......bloody hell, how the hell did I remember that...?
Honorable mention also: Stone Cold Steve Austin. Held the WWF tag titles with Shawn Michaels, Dude Love, Undertaker, and Triple H. In WCW, we all know he held the tag titles with Brian Pillman. Teamed up with The Rock a couple. Only time they lost was against The New Age Outlaws.
I think you missed a couple that really deserve a mention, if anything. Mike Rotundo- formed three iconic tag teams with Rotundo and Windham in the WWF, The varsity Club with sullivan, Steiner and Williams, and lastly Money Incorporated. Also one of the few people to beat the Road Warriors twice for belts. Barry Darsow- teamed with Nikolai volkoff as crusher Darsow-, joined Ivan and Nikita koloff as Krusher Krushnev with the Russians in the NWA, and later became half of Demolition as Smash. Ole Anderson - teamed with Gene Anderson, thunderbolt Patterson, Ronnie Garvin, Ernie Ladd, Jerry briscoe, Stan Hansen, Ivan koloff, Ox Baker, Arn and Lars Anderson, along with the four horsemen (!) for multiple tag titles.
How about rocky romero he teamed up with multiple guys like alex kozlov, trent beretta and davey richards. Also he has the most reigns of being IWGP junior tag team champ.
Neither can compare to Kane and Show. Champs with each other while also Mankind, X Pac, Hurricane and Daniel Bryan were champs with Kane and Show was champs with Miz and Jericho and I feel like I'm forgetting someone
@@editnosmirc4489 Kane teamed up with RVD and they won the tag team titles until they lost to La Resistance and Kane’s unmasking and subsequent burst of psychotic rage. Big Show also happened to be tag team champs with The Undertaker in 1999 until they got beaten by the Rock and Sock Connection
@@michaelbandada9887 thank you! I knew I was forgetting at least one other partner for each of them lol besides when they were tag champs together Kane and Show fought against each other for the tag titles quite a few times
@@editnosmirc4489 Kane and X Pac fought Big Show and Undertaker at Summerslam 1999 for the tag team titles and the Unholy Alliance (Big Show/Undertaker) won the match and the belts
Honorable mention to Charlie Haas too! His level in every style of wrestling is marvelous and tag team especially. He didn't won many titles but when given the chance he could deliver.
Nice nod to the Freebirds. As a kid, when we only got to see WWF wrestling in the Northeast, magazines brought me the world of wrestling each month. I followed this and other feuds religiously. Thanks for helping me remember those carefree days of childhood.
Great list, but it’s missing Steve Austin. Hollywood Blondes in WCW, then tag team championships with Shawn Michaels, Dude Love, Undertaker and Triple H in the WWF.
Yeah Hart Foundation not being on the list was a bit weird considering they were one of the best tag teams in the 80s (WWF's best... NWA had a couple that rivaled them). Their matches with the British Bulldogs were epic.
It’s always a good day to watch WWW. I’m ecstatic to see Bobby Eaton here. I remember watching his match with Arn Anderson and being enamored with how effortless he made his wrestling look, while still being practical and believable. His time with Midnight Express is still one of my favorite points in Wrestling history, be it him with Dennis or with Sweet Stan Lane.
Good video. I have to agree with the choice of Eaton as Number 1 and Anderson as number 2. One difficult thing about this list is that tag team wrestling in the 21st century was a different thing, with a lot more makeshift teams. I'm not as impressed with guys who won tag titles in this era with different partners. I probably would put Tony Garea on the actual list, as his tag team accomplishments are more impressive than some of these newer guys because of the era it was in. I also might put Mr. Fuji and Chief Jay Strongbow on the list. Perhaps Jim Brunzell.
@@tonydub98 Undertaker and Big Show just teamed up because they had nothing to do in mid-1999. As for Kane, they just got teamed up together because they didn’t manage to be voted as the third man in the WWE Championship match also featuring John Cena and Kurt Angle. As for The Miz, he is a suitable replacement for Chris Jericho
Personally I'd put Arn on top followed by Bobby, but I can't complain at all about the names you chose to include. This is a fantastic list of tag team talent.
One thing that can never be taken from Arn/Tully is that they were the first team to hold the WWF AND NWA tag team titles. And what is amazing is that Vince McMahon pretty much let them do their thing without trying to rebrand them like he did so many other NWA talents.
Ted DiBiase was a great tag team wrestler that sometimes gets overlooked because of how skilled he was as a singles competitor. It's a shame he never got an NWA World title run in the early 80's. That said everywhere he was at he would have a tag team title run, almost always with a different partner.
Actually surprised Matt Hardy didn't appear on the list. Not only was he great with his brother but also MVP, and even Bray Wyatt winning tag team titles with both. Oh, and who could forget his tag team with best friend Shannon Moore. While nowhere near the singles draw like his brother, Matt was one of those guys that could be paired with anyone and it would work. Another one is Kenny Omega. While he might be better known for his singles stuff, Kenny was an accomplished tag team wrestler before he found his singles success.
Lance Storm and Christian are for me really underrated as workers. They didn't ever top the card, but they were often able to really elevate anyone they were working with - great psychology, and able to work with almost any style. It's not a surprise that Storm became a brilliant trainer
@@jamesf791 Being allowed to top the B shows isn't the same as getting to headline a major PPV. He wasn't given extended title runs or got anywhere near a Mania main event. His world title reigns totalled 30 days, so I think it's fair to say he was never a top guy, just a transition holder. TNA is a second tier promotion, they had to push who they had. Someone like Christian deserved it, but at that point it wasn't exactly prestigious.
I would say mention could be made of Rey Mysterio here. He didn't have MANY tag title runs, but the variety of partners he's had solid runs with is fairly impressive. Billy Kidman, Edge, RVD, Eddie Guerrero, Batista, that partnership with Sin Cara was the closest Sin Cara got to being decent in WWE, brief tag run with Big Show in 2013 and his most recent stint teaming with his son just led to a 5th tag title reign. Might not have the sheer numbers of some others on the list proper, but I think he deserves at least a brief honorable mention
Owen Hart definitely has to be considered among the top. His career erased, but his runs with Yokozuna, Bulldog and Jarrett all produced a lot of great weekly matches. Title win at Mania 11 started a solid run as a tag team specialist.
Gotta shout out one of my favorites, Matt Hardy. A 14 time Tag Team Champion. 6 (WWF) World Tag Team Championships, 3 WWE (Raw) Tag Team Championships, 1 WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship, 1 ROH World Tag Team Championship, 1 WCW Tag Team Championship and 2 TNA World Tag Team Championships. Obviously in a legendary tag team with Jeff as the Hardy Boyz but also a fantastic feud driven team with MVP and a great character based team with Bray Wyatt. He was a member of Immortal and had a group with Spud and Clay in TNA, an honorary member of The Elite for a couple months and managing and teaming with Private Party as The Hardy Party in AEW. He's held every incarnation of World Tag Titles in every company he's been in(sans AEW)with multiple partners and has to hold some kind of record.
Great list but here some you may have overlooked: Stan Lane - Fabulous Ones, Midnight Express, Heavenly Bodies, etc. Roderick Strong - Tag w/ Jack Evans, Austin Aries, Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards, Kyle O’Reilly, etc. Winning titles in ROH, PWG, NXT, etc. Alex Shelly - Motor City Machine Guns & Time Splitters. Two tag teams with a lot of title reigns
HBK deserved a mention. From innovating in the Rockers to winning the WWF Tag Titles with Diesel, Stone Cold, Cena, & Triple H, he was a defining tag team wrestler for the company.
I just started the video but on my personal list I think I'd have to put Rocky Romero, KUSHIDA, and Alex Shelley. The things that those three guys pulled off during almost every single one of their IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team title matches, were absolutely amazing. Smooth as butter tag team tandem moves, entertaining as all Hell, and truly, still to this day, some of the best tag team matches I have ever seen.
I would put either one of the Road Warriors here as well. Maybe Big Show worthy of an honorable mention? He’s partnered with both of the Brothers of Destruction, had an underrated run with Jericho as Jeri-Show, partnered with Miz, Rikishi and evening Billy Gunn!
I'm quite surprised Booker T didn't make the top 8 but I do suppose he's had a great singles success. Great list, Z-Man. If you ever do Worst Chanpions again, I propose CM Punk's First vs Daniel Bryan's First WHC. I see them as very similar pitstops in both men's careers that I'd love to hear your opinion on.
You forgot eddie guerrero, a pretty solid tag team wrestler. He didnt have a long tag team history but had a bunch of classics. Title reigns with Chavo, Tajiri, Rey mysterio, and his friend who doed from aaa
