8 Mind-Blowing Early Versions Of Famous Wrestling Tag Teams

8. The Bushwhackers

Unlike many of the teams on this list, The Bushwhackers will never be considered wrestling legends. They had a hokey gimmick that centered around a couple of imbecile cousins, Butch and Luke, who licked each other and walked funny. That was pretty much it. They were a mid-card comedy act, albeit an immensely enjoyable one from time to time.

The Bushwhackers' place in the Hall of Fame still seems questionable, at best, although anyone familiar with their pre-WWE work knows these two gave plenty of blood, sweat, and tears to the business.

Before they put on the camouflage pants and started marching like doofuses, the duo routinely wrestled in barbed-wire cage matches against their foes, The Fantastics. Those old pictures you always see of Mick Foley and Terry Funk bloodied beyond recognition? That was Butch and Luke after most of their matches in the mid-80s.

Luke, especially, has been vocal about their role in pioneering hardcore wrestling, claiming he and Butch were "hardcore before they called it hardcore" and, judging from this photo and others like it, that's no lie.