10 Tag Teams That Should Never Have Worked (But Did)
Strange bedfellows & odd couples.
There's no surefire way to build a successful tag team.
Complimentary wrestling styles, a collaborative moveset, similar looks, a strong grasp of basic tag psychology: each is a key component, but these things usually take months (if not years) to develop. Chemistry is vital, too. Even if a tandem ticks several of the basic boxes, they'll still falter if the members can't click with each other - as proven by Lex Luger and the British Bulldog's Allied Powers run.
Hawk & Animal, Robert Gibson & Ricky Morton, Jimmy & Jey Uso: their unions never felt anything less than totally natural, to the point where it's hard to imagine one with out the other (though Animal tried with Heidenreich). Most of the sport's most celebrated teams come from a similar blueprint, but not all of them. In fact, some of tag wrestling's greatest triumphs came from unions that made zero sense on paper, with the participants surging when all signs pointed towards certain failure.
Disparities in pushes, aesthetics, and characters meant each of these pairings looked like a terrible idea at first, but they all defied convention to forge an unlikely success story in wrestling's most storied niche division.
10. Breezango
Tyler Breeze and Fandango were thrown together without any real purpose.
The former was never a pushed main roster commodity, while the latter was a novelty act whose five minutes of fame expired in April 2013, when 'Fandango-ing' became a brief worldwide trend. They united on a May 2016 episode of SmackDown, but lost to the equally lowly R-Truth and Goldust at Money in the Bank. This immediately established them as a lower-midcard enhancement duo, and it continued throughout the year, with Breezango primarily working on Main Event and Superstars.
They weren't intended to get over. Their job was to provide some light comic relief while jobbing to WWE's more popular teams, but Breezango caught fire this spring. Suddenly, WWE decided to do something with the talented duo, and their Fashion Files became SmackDown's most consistently enjoyable weekly segment. Their popularity soared, and while the duo have achieved little between the ropes, they have thrived in their new spotlight.
What's most surprising is that the 'Fashion Police' haven't really changed their act: they're still the same goofballs they were a year ago, but Breezango have surged with a gimmick designed to bury them.