When looking at tag teams in professional wrestling, it’s easy to remember the great teams: The Road Warriors, Demolition, The Mulkeys. But it takes a true fan to remember the forgotten, so this time, Exploder takes a look at 5 Forgotten WCW Tag Teams. Because we can, that’s why.
5. Pretty Wonderful
Coming off his disastrous run as the worst 4 Horseman who didn’t stab Arn Anderson or play for the Chicago Bears, “Pretty” Paul Roma found a second wind in WCW teaming with “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff, forming the genius named team of Pretty Wonderful.
The duo de Pauls would actually find some success and win the WCW Tag Team Titles, but the team would be dissolved after Orndorff was forced to retire due to a neck injury. It didn’t stop him from beating up Vader while in sandals, but still.
4. Stars & Stripes
If you can find a more patriotic tag team, I’d like to see it. And no, a bald eagle carrying a rack of bacon and an AR-15 teaming with the ghost of Dwight Eisenhower doesn’t count. Comprised of The Patriot and a pre-Buff, waaaaay pre-gigilo Marcus Alexander Bagwell, Stars & Stripes was the team that replaced Bagwell’s previous partnership with 2 Cold Scorpio, which was ended after WCW discovered that Scorpio loved weed and hated Marcus Alexander Bagwell.
The Patriot is basically the American flag with a mask on and Marcus Bagwell was…there. seriously, this was Bagwell even before The American Males. He barely had calf implants then.
3. High Voltage
High Voltage (jokingly called High Dosage backstage, and lets just say they’re not talking about cough syrup here) was a stalwart jobber tag team in WCW from 1996 through 1998, making most their appearances on Saturday Night, but occasionally getting to the big time and jobbing on Monday Nitro. Progress. Anyway, the team of Rage and Kaos (with a K because it was the 90s) didn’t do a whole lot except look at the lights and manage to stay employed for way too long.
Surprisingly, Kaos would win the tag team titles with Rick Steiner in an angle that was confusing even by WCW standards, but I’ll get into that some other time. Rage went on to do nothing.
2. Men at Work
Before he was the skull-masked Mortis and long before he was asking “Who betta?”, Chris Kanyon was just another young guy trying to make his way up the card in WCW. As such, he got handed more than his share of Saturday Night Specials, gimmicks that would never leave the mothership, if you will.
One of those early gimmicks was Men at Work alongside territory regular Mark Starr. The gimmick was…they were men…who worked. And they owned hard hats. Think “the Man’s Man” with even less people giving a s@#%. That was Men at Work.
1. The Patriots
Todd Champion (left) and Firebreaker Chip (right) are indicative of early 90s WCW, over the top gimmicks given to guys who couldn’t make you interested in a match if they had it in your living room against your own child. There’s nothing particularly terrible about either man, but there’s nothing memorable either.
Not only that, but the gimmick amounted to a fire fighter and a GI Joe as real boy teaming up as The Patriots because….? Oh, and they hailed from WCW Special Forces, in case you were afraid of subtelty.
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