8 Times WWE Tag Team Partners Fought Each Other

8. Rob Van Dam Vs. Kane

The unlikely duo of Rob Van Dam and Kane were, along with the even unlikelier duo of Booker T and Goldust, one of the highlights of Raw in the early 2000s. From late 2002 to mid-2003, Kane and Rob Van Dam went out there and entertained whether it was against Chris Jericho and Christian, Scott Steiner and Test or a greener than Kermit the Frog's a** La Resistance.

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Their kooky dynamic worked and they established themselves as one of Raw's best teams. However, when WWE decided to reboot Kane as a monster heel, RVD had to go. Furthermore, he had to be sacrificed to The Big Red Machine as a way of getting him over.

In the wake of his unmasking at the hands of Triple H on the June 23 2003 episode, Kane went a little bit crazy and attacked his tag team partner - although, let's face it, he got off light when you consider what happened to Eric Bischoff, Linda McMahon and Jim Ross - chokeslammed off the stage, Tombstoned on the stage and set on fire, respectively.

Defending his honour, dude, RVD squared off against Kane in a No DQ match at SummerSlam. Regrettably, the overly-long contest was a bit of a stinker and the two men displayed a fraction of the chemistry they had as a tag team as opponents. Kane won the match following a Tombstone piledriver on the steel stairs.

The two men continued to face off in the weeks and months that followed, notably clashing in a cage match on Raw and main eventing several Raw brand house shows, as the memory of their once-fun alliance dimmed.

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