10 "New" Tag Teams That Failed Miserably In WWE
10 tag team sequels that couldn't live up to the original...
There's an expression that says, "What's old is new again," and while that can apply to many things in WWE - especially lost arts or sports-entertainment tricks that haven't been used in a while - it almost never applies to tag teams. Tandems which try to take something "old" and make it "new again" are almost a categorical failure. Most of them are so bad it's funny.
Whether it's because the original team shined so bright it became impossible for any successor to duplicate them, or because the individuals chosen just didn't have what it took, numerous tag teams have followed in the footsteps of past legendary combinations and fell flat on their face. Some of these teams' members went on to make great careers for themselves under an entirely different gimmick whereas others faded into obscurity, while even more continued to toil in the mid-card
Regardless of what future awaited them, the individuals that competed in the following ten "new" tag teams all shared one thing in common - abysmal failure.
10. The New Dream Team
In the mid-80s, Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine became a formidable tag team known as The Dream Team, originally managed by Luscious Johnny V and Jimmy Hart.
The first version of the Dream Team was a very successful unit. They captured the WWF World Tag Team Championships in 1985 and played integral parts in the Federation's tag team division for the first three WrestleManias. The second iteration of the team, The New Dream Team, not so much.
At WrestleMania III, The Dream Team disbanded when Valentine abandoned Brutus, leaving the ring with Dino Bravo. Bravo became Valentine's new partner, forming the New Dream Team, and Beefcake quickly transitioned into his most famous gimmick ever, Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake. The New Dream Team didn't achieve half the success of the original Dream Team and soon went their separate ways.
Judging by the letdown that was the New Dream Team as a tag team redux, WWE would have been wise to cut their losses here. Instead, they'd continue to try and recreate classic tag teams over the next several years.