10 WWE Tag Teams That Never Feuded

10. APA

Ron Simmons and John Layfield had rattled around WWE’s lower card for a while before finally coming together as The Acolytes, and as soon as their real-life friendship was transitioned to TV, it was gold from the off. As Farooq and Bradshaw, their chemistry was built on the simplest of premises: they were two burly southern boys who loved fighting and drinking and would do both in equal measure on a weekly basis.

They had reasonable success as The Acolytes and later the hugely fun Acolytes Protection Agency, but tag gold wasn’t the point. They were muscle for hire, working first for The Undertaker’s ministry and later for anyone who’d pay them, and relished the chance to storm to the ring and dish out a kicking to whoever had it coming.

Indeed WWE used the pair as something of a proving ground, sending new teams their way to see if they could take their lumps. Sometimes it worked (The Dudleyz sucked it up and prevailed); sometimes it got pretty ugly, like their infamous battering of Public Enemy on a 1999 episode of Heat.

The two did lock horns once, but it was simply to find out which was toughest. After a wild brawl, the match was thrown out, and they went back to the business of drinking beer, smoking cigars, and stomping on folk.