9 Most Unremarkable WWE Tag Teams Of The Past Decade
Duos doomed from the start.
It would be great if every team were of the caliber of the Hart Foundation, Horsemen, or Demolition, but that simply isn't the case. With the good comes the bad and thanks to a poor combination of factors - originality, chemistry, and varied skill sets - WWE often failed to hit it out of the park when they slotted certain people together.
Perhaps periods where card-topping duos were front and center never ruled the day in WWE, but since teams like Edge and Christian, the Hardys and the Dudleys made tag team wrestling cool again, tandem offense and powerful pairings once more have the potential to be the most exciting part of any sports entertainment card.
If you span over the last ten years of the WWE's tag team division, you’ll find some incredibly talented teams. The New Day, The Bar, and The Usos are just the tip of the iceberg for many of today's WWE fans. These teams are regular show stealers, ready and willing to outdo their singles counterparts.
That said, it's a shame so many teams couldn't live up to those lofty standards. Some were blatantly bad despite WWE's best efforts and many were unremarkable - even if it wasn't their fault.
9. Jesse And Festus (2007 And 2008)
Fans who have followed the career of Luke Gallows know his history as part of CM Punk's Straight Edge Society or as one of the founders of The Bullet Club — he's underappreciated in that regard. What they might not recall are his days as a mentally challenged farm-boy named Festus.
Festus was the brother of Jesse and the two hillbillies wrestled in WWE from 2007 to 2009. If not for Festus' strange reaction to a ring bell, this team wouldn't have won a single match. Festus was nearly unresponsive in most circumstances but when the bell would ring to start a match he'd go berserk and tear through his opponents. When it rang again to signify the end of a contest, he would once again become a docile bystander. Meanwhile, Jesse was little more than an often unsuccessful handler.
The team made sporadic appearances in WWE until broken up in the supplemental draft. Festus went to Raw only to vanish and return as if his prior character never existed. Meanwhile, Jesse went on to try getting over a white rapper character named Slam Master J. Both were completely different personas. One worked, one didn't.