7 Times New Versions Of Wrestling Tag Teams Sucked
Remember when John Heidenreich was a Road Warrior?!
It's understandable that wrestling promotions would like to repeat the success experienced by some of the biggest and best tag-teams they create. It's forgivable that creatives teams up and down the land would want to rekindle the magic of some of the best duos around - after all, slotting into a hot team could feasibly help a debuting star get over with fans. What's not cool however, is when teams are simply repackaged featuring different wrestlers, all without much thought. This is a nuance which rarely works out well, and can actually end up hurting the performers involved, making them less over than they were to begin with by being associated with a more watered-down version of something which was previously successful. It's Vince McMahon's WWF/WWE which has been the most guilty of this, and it is McMahon's company which this list focuses on. Every single entry came from the WWE brain trust, who quite clearly felt that putting 'new' before a well-known tag-team's name, and adding a new member or two, would pull the wool over the eyes of fans. Sadly, the end result is one of apathy from audiences - people see through the paper thin "creative" decision, and as a consequence don't respond anywhere near as well to this 'new' tandem as they had to the previous incarnation.