10 Attitude Era WWE Tag Teams You Totally Don't Remember
1. The New Blackjacks
The original Blackjacks tag team comprised of the imaginatively named Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza, and came together in the 1970s. They scored title reigns across multiple territories, with their most notable accomplishment coming in August 1975, when, managed by Lou Albano, they became WWWF Tag Team Champions.
The team eventually split, but WWE reprised the gimmick with Mulligan's son, Barry Windham, and Lanza's nephew, the future John Bradshaw Layfield, in 1997. It was one of the company's many attempts at recreating a classic tag team in a modern setting, but the duo couldn't come close to matching their predecessors' success.
The New Blackjacks' biggest highlights came through a losing effort at WrestleMania 13 and a brief feud with the Godwinns, but it didn't work out. Like the New Midnight Express, they came off like a lame tribute act, despite the family ties. This inability to grain traction saw them split when Windham turned on Bradshaw in 1998, allowing the latter to form the infinitely more successful Acolytes with Faarooq, before transitioned to his JBL persona. Windham, meanwhile, deserves to be mentioned among the most underrated performers of his generation, but left WWE soon after the split.