10 Thrown Together WWE Tag Teams That Didn't Really Work
For every New Age Outlaws there is a Rhyno and Tajiri...
Tag team wrestling in 2016 is in good health. The New Day have been atop of the WWE division for a while now, but the sharks that circle their cage are more than credible, teams like Enzo & Cass, The Usos, The Dudleyz and The Vaudevillains making for the strongest WWE tag division in decades.
Outside WWE there is a plethora of teams making their name as just that, teams, with The Young Bucks and reDRagon at the top of that pile.
It hasn't always been this way however, and many times in the past the division has been full of teams that don't deserve to be referred to as such. The mid 2000s were particularly grim, as one genuine team seemed to face off against a conveyer belt of thrown-together teams that lasted as long as their title challenge.
On a number of occasions, throwing two floundering singles guys together to form a team has saved the careers of both men. The New Age Outlaws came together as the last chance for Billy Gunn and Jesse James, the Acolytes resurrected Ron Simmons and salvaged Justin Bradshaw respectively, and John Morrison and The Miz only came to the fore once they became a duo.
It doesn't always work however. In fact, these examples are the exceptions, as more often than not throwing two guys together leads to a whole lot of nothing.
Here are 10 thrown together teams that didn't really work...
10. Rhyno & Tajiri
Maybe not the most popular duo to start off with, as both men are exceptional as individuals. By 2004 Rhyno and Tajiri were both spinning their wheels however, so the two were thrown together as a team for no reason other than 'welp, we aren't doing anything else'. They came together, immediately challenged La Résistance for the World Tag Team Championships, lost thanks to a flag and quietly disbanded.
That was it for the ECW Alumni. Rhyno went back to singles, and Tajiri had better success in the tag ranks with former employer William Regal, with whom he defeated La Résistance for the belts soon after.
It is a sign of how weak the division was that Rhyno and Tajiri, as credible as they were as singles guys, were able to simply walk into a tag title shot.