10 WWE Tag Team Champions You Definitely Forgot About
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Braun Strowman and Seth Rollins last month dropped the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship to Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler (RooDolph, if you want to follow the cool Twitter crowd). The former were booked as champs to further a bigger storyline, the latter team because, well, they weren't doing anything else.
It is not the first time we have endured a spell of random team booking, despite an abundance of talented pairings. The Revival, The Authors of Pain, The Viking Raiders (name at time of writing) and The O.C. are milling around waiting on another go as you read this. Roode and Ziggler hold the (sometimes) prestigious championships despite never having interacted as on-screen allies. Is it a thank you for two solid mid carding company men? Is there a long-term upside? Or is this just a placeholder run to give The Street Profits or another new act a decent moment?
None of this is new, of course. Fans often saw quality thrown together teams in the '80s and '90s. The difference was they were afforded featured runs and big PPV moments. It's why Money Inc. (Million Dollar Man and I.R.S.) or The Colossal Connection (André the Giant and Haku) remain etched in our memory. Now? If you've got jack all else happening, might as well team up with someone in the same boat. WWE's history is littered with puzzling tag-teams. They could at least try to get matching tights though.
10. Ric Flair And Roddy Piper
Nope, not in the ‘80s. Not even in WCW in the ‘90s. This happened in 2006. Yes, really. The two veterans (to put it politely) were given a World Tag Team Championship match at Cyber Sunday, with Piper voted in as Flair’s partner ahead of Dusty Rhodes and Sgt Slaughter.
Tackling jobbers-to-the-stars the Spirit Squad, the old-timers picked up a relatively quick win and enjoyed an eight-day nostalgia run. It was the only time Piper held tag team gold throughout his scattered WWF/E lifetime, serving minimal purpose but perhaps to pop the live crowd. Thank goodness it was a mercifully short reign. The title belts barely strapped round some serious guts.
Say what you want about the Spirit Squad, but they rubbed shoulders with the best and admittedly received a buzz from losing to a team with a combined age of 114.