10 Most Over WCW Tag-Teams Ever
10. Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko
Even though they only held the WCW Tag-Team Titles once, Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko were very much over with fans. At the Uncensored 1999 pay-per-view, they defeated Curt Hennig and Barry Windham in quite the bout to become the new champions, and fans greeted the decision favourably. It didn't hurt that the match itself was high on quality.
As part of the revamped Four Horsemen faction in the late-90's, Benoit and Malenko always worked well together as a tandem. Individually, they were regularly received well by audiences, but there was something cool about seeing them together as a team. Indeed, Benoit and Malenko came across as a modern-day version of Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, a great unit from the halcyon days of the NWA.
Both were excellent in-ring technicians, and Benoit brought an intensity to proceedings with moves like his diving headbutt from the top rope. Malenko and Benoit would be gone by the turn of the new millennium, which shows how badly WCW dropped the ball with them. They really could have had more success as a tag-team, fans reaction wouldn't have been an obstacle.