8 Wrestling Tag Teams With Contrasting Singles Careers

8. 3-Minute Warning

3-Minute Warning, made up of burly Samoans Rosey and Jamal (and later, for some reason, Rico), were introduced by Eric Bischoff, ironically, to punish anyone who might be a threat to Monday Night Raw's television ratings.

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They didn't last very long, the highlight of their run being a tables match loss against the Dudleys and Jeff Hardy at Survivor Series 2002, and a brutal 1-on-2 beating at the hands of Goldberg the following year.

Jamal was released and Rosey found precarious employment as the pudgy protégé of The Hurricane, which went exactly as well as you'd expect. Even Stevens then, until a streamlined Jamal returned to WWE a couple of years later, repackaged as Samoan Submission Machine Umaga, who was one of the company's best big men in years.

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