10 Best Tag Team Finishing Moves Of All Time
The most iconic double-team manoeuvres in the business.
Tag team wrestling is currently experiencing something of a revival in World Wrestling Entertainment, after being in the deepest of doldrums for a decade or so.
Teams have begun to sprout up all over the place, and with The New Day, Gallows & Anderson, The Usos, The Vaudevillains, Enzo & Cass, The Dudleys and more, and the future looks rosy for the duos division.
If you were born in the 1980s or earlier, tag team wrestling was an integral part of your earliest wrestling education. Tag teams truly felt like tag teams, not just two singles guys thrown together. The two combatants would have matching gear and their entire offence was based around skilfully performed double team moves.
All of which would lead to one big finishing move, a shot that involved both wrestlers and was as visually impressive as it was clinical. When the move was hit the game was up, unless your partner managed to save you in time of course.
With tag team wrestling coming back into focus, this list could look very different in five or 10 years time. You could make a case for the respective finishers of American Alpha or The Revival slotting in here, but they just miss out for me.
Here are the 10 best tag team finishing moves in wrestling.
10. Power & Glory - PowerPlex
They might not be the most heralded tag team from the early 90s, but the team of Hercules and Paul Roma certainly had an important role to play in the division.
They were the low to midcard heel gatekeeper team, likely to pick up wins against the Rockers or the Bushwackers but also likely to come up short against teams moving in the opposite direction.
Their finishing move was a thing of true timing. Called the Powerplex, it involved Hercules giving some poor sucker a superplex from the top rope whilst Roma followed up immediately with a top rope splash.
It showcased power, and it showcased glory and, really, what more do you want?