Odd Tag Teams ?
 

I was thinking today about a tag team that has one member as a heel and the other as a face ..couldn't come up with a legit one?

Extending the scope of that thought, what are the queer (not gay but odd) teams that stick out to you?

Sting and Luger did the face/heel team thing

Traditionally you wouldn’t get too many teams where someone is clearly a face or a heel when their partner wasn’t. The closest you probably get are teams like Luger & Sting and random teams thrown together to split up or to turn someone coming out of it.

CM Punk and Fan's unwavering fandom of him, quite the odd pairing

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Strong words. Wanna talk about it?

Naw, you can just go rep my wall some more, that will show me :rofl:

Sting (Wolfpac) and The Giant(NWO) in 1998 as WCW tag champs even though it didn't last long...that is the closest thing I can think of for a heel/face team

On topic, The Miz and John Cena were tag team champions!

They’ve used that trope where guys in a feud end up winning the titles together a few times. Surely that yielded a heel/face combo. Or are you talking specifically long term teams?

Michaels and Austin
Dude Love and Austin

Undertaker and Austin

Rock and Jericho

Yeah I suppose I could keep going with a few examples from XL's idea

Yeah, there are plenty of examples of the tired “reluctant partners” trope. I assumed we were talking about legit willing partners who had different dispositions ala Sting and Luger.

Random example: Droz and Animal

The New Day.

Fabulous Freebirds.

The Jersey Triad.

When discussing “odd tag teams,” I just want to take it down the path of completely batshit teams that were just strange pairings.

Charlie Haas & Viscera, for example.

That's a great od example actually. I also found Animal and Heidenreich a very odd team and random fave turn for Heidenreich. I also want to note that the Sting/Giant team was a different situation than reluctant partners because they were willing partners at first and them splitting up when Giant turned heel was different because it had nothing to do with a feud between the two of them. They just happened to join feuding factions which is what caused them to split up. It was quite a unique scenario actually

Yeah Charlie Haas taken the cake for random pairings with strange bedfellows. Viscera, Rico, etc.

Mizdow is the only legit one I can remember.

Eddie guerrero and batista... I think?

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Devastator and Innovator back in CHW is the first team that comes to my mind. The two were unstoppable and extremely entertaining as part of Team FTW, or Fuck The World (have to make it clear because team for the win sounds fucking retarded as you can get).
Yet despite being such a close tag team and an integral part to the tag scene in CHW and yard wrestling in general of all feds, Innovator and Devastator would constantly feud with each other and have Innovator vs Devastator matches which were really good.
Weird tag team, I cant think of another tag team in wrestling that was a cornerstone of a tag division and at the same time constantly had matches against each other.
The Video is the first Innovator/Devastator match before team FTW was even born.

CHW. The good ol days.

Pretty sure Team Hell No started off as a heel/face thing didn't it? Think Bryan was the heel going into it.

Golga and Kurgan. They were an odd team.

Mikey Whipwreck and Cactus Jack

I forgot The Godfather and Mark Henry in late 1999 after Henry turned heel on The Godfather and they just randomly started tagging again a few times without explanation

Head Cheese

Steve Blackman and grandmaster sexay were also an "odd" team

Santino and Kozlov?

Jimmy Wang Yang and Shannon Moore

Rico & Rikishi

Glacier and Earnest Miller

I think that would probably qualify as reluctant partners that were fueding if you're referring to when they were tag champs against Billy and Chuck who Rico was managing. But I can't remember if they were tag partners again another time

That’s the time I’m thinking of. I don’t remember much about the reign other than Rico was secretly happy to be the champion, lol.

Remember when Albert & Scotty 2 Hotty were a tag team?

The Hip Hop Hippo

The story of Albert’s career, in kayfabe, was that he was a monster with potential that just wanted to have some fun. Scotty 2 Hotty, Brodus Clay.

Yeah Albert was always just thrown in random teams/factions just to so something with him in WWE

Always one of my favourites. He had a lot of hott movez.

I like that bicycle kick lol

Looooooove the Baldo Bomb

Imagine telling someone in 2000 that in 20 years they would be able to train for the WWE under Scotty 2 Hotty and Albert would head up the entire thing.

He had a nice Missile Dropkick as well.

Animal and Heidenreich.

Gonna throw Jeri-Show out there, as Edge was supposed to have competed with Jericho for the tag titles at NoC ’09, but was injured and replaced by Big Show.

Owenbrown and Roman Reigns

Gertner and DAMN iNATOR now that's a hell of a pairing!

You have to get him to tell you the story of how he messaged me (while I was at a bible camp no less) one time trying to buy weed off me lol. I've never touched the stuff.

X-Pac and Kane

Lol yup

The best combination since peanut butter and jelly!

Lmao this sounds intriguing...I I want to know the whole back story to it because I know you don't live anywhere near each other for one thing

It's DAMN iNATOR Gertner time! Could be a catchphrase

He lives in Windsor and I live in lower Michigan. I don't remember exactly where he was but I was at a bible camp in a little blink of a town in northern Michigan and I guess he was maybe kinda sorta nearby or something and just randomly messaged me asking. I was just like nah bro I don't fuck with drugs.

Haha I was in Traverse City

And I fuck with drugs

Next time I’m in Windsor I say we go to the nearest bible camp and find some drugs. This goal has gone unfulfilled way too long.

The only drug Damn needs is Jesus Juice.

Too soon man, R.I.P. Daffney