10 Awesome 90s Wrestling Feuds You Totally Forgot About

9. The Rockers vs. Orient Express (1990-1991)

Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty are likely one of the least discussed great tag teams in WWE history. In an era where tag team wrestling was commonplace and a money draw, Shawn and Marty always found a way to push the envelope to keep things fresh and exciting for the crowd. When breaking into WWE in the late 1980s, 45 minute two-out-of-three fall spectaculars with the likes of the Rougeau Brothers put them on the map. However, in the less impressive tag team era of the early 1990s, the Rockers still continued their impressive tag run with matches against teams that people were actually quite amazed they were having a high level of match against. Akio Sato and Pat Tanaka had never teamed before, yet both were solid wrestlers in the Central States Territory and American Wrestling Association, respectively. In 1990, they debuted in WWE, likely in order to have athletic tag team matches with Michaels and Jannetty. They did so, and when Sato left America in 1990 and was replaced by Paul Diamond under a mask as Kato (as Diamond was not Asian), the match quality went through the roof. Diamond and Tanaka had previously been paired together as Badd Company in the AWA, and had wrestled Michaels and Jannetty (when they were the Midnight Rockers) in the AWA almost five years prior. If looking for entertaining in-ring confrontations, these are must-see matches.