20 Obscure WWE Tag Teams You Totally Don't Remember

20. Curt Hawkins & Tyler Reks

Long before he was strutting through the halls of SmackDown forcing opponents to "face the facts," Curt Hawkins had carved-out a middling career as a low-level tag team worker. He and Zack Ryder started life as ECW's "Major Brothers" in 2007, but reverted to their current monikers shortly afterwards. Their greatest successes came after aligning with Edge, and the duo enjoyed a brief WWE Tag Team Championship run in 2008.

That's about as good as it got for Hawkins' tag work, and his next team, the ill-conceived Gatecrashers, lasted just a few months in 2010. Hawkins' last tag run came alongside the oft-forgotten Tyler Reks, who'd found himself equally directionless following the 2011 Supplemental Draft. The duo connected on Superstars before eventually moving to NXT, where they became the show's resident troublemakers, and a regular thorn in host Matt Striker's side.

Reks and Hawkins drifted between brands for the rest of their run, but they never made much progress up the card. August 2012 saw them embark on a considerable losing streak before adopting a ridiculous stripper gimmick, but Reks retired from wrestling just four days after debuting the new characters, and Hawkins was released the following Spring.