Thread: The most elite of all real tag teams
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Old 04-22-2007, 11:22 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyCool
I don't agree completely. Rock and Sock is arguable. By your defination APA couldn't be considered becaues Ron Simmons had already been champion, and his singles career has winded down.

I would argue that Taker and Kane being "brothers" implies they were moron than just two singles starts thrown together.

Also, it confuses me when your bring up Eddie and Rey, Eddy was a world champion, Rey was not.
I was bringing Eddie and Rey up as an example of a team that wouldn't be a "real tag team". I was using them as an example of a team that had 2 established stars teaming up. I also was using them as an example of a team that had one world champion prior to tagging, and then a champion afterwards.
Another example is Austin and Michaels in 97.

I agree, APA was a real tag team. It's in a lot of ways an exception to the rule, since Ron Simmons was not really known for being a world champion and was completely fresh and low card in a whole new promotion.

But I still feel that Rock and Sock and Brothers of Destruction were not "real" tag teams in the conventional sense. They were superstar pairings along the exact same lines as other teams like Edge and Benoit or Austin and Triple H.

What makes Rock and Sock or Brothers of Destruction different? If it's because they had a name to go with them then Rated RKO would count as a real tag team, to which I'd disagree.


Another thing is, just because both members of a tag team weren't world champions yet doesn't mean it can't still be the superstar pairing type deal.
Austin and Dude Love are an example of this. They were both stars and over, despite not being world champions. So regardless it comes off as a team up and not a tag team unit.
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