Justin Credible and Lance Storm were two of the up and coming heels in ECW whose talents were hard to ignore. It seemed unnatural that two egomaniacs could co-exist, much less thrive as a tag team. However, their personal connection of Strom training Credible at the Hart Bros Wrestling School made them a dangerous pair. Less than a year after forming the Impact Players, Storm and Credible won their first of two tag team titles at Guilty as Charged 2000 when they defeated Tommy Dreamer and Raven. While they lost the titles a little over a month later, they quickly regained the titles at Living Dangerously 2000 when they won a 3-Way Dance over Mike Awesome & Raven and Tommy Dreamer & Masato Tanaka. One of the teams most memorable matches took place at the ECW Arena on 3/17/00 against the Japanese team representing FMW, Gedo & Jado. They had a lot of hype coming in, but for some reason they were having bad matches with everyone they worked with. Credible and Storm changed that by delivering a great match with them and gained an untouchable reputation in the locker room for being elite workers. The Impact Players run as champions, and as a team, came to a screeching halt at Cyberslam 2000. Right after Tommy Dreamer won the ECW world title, Justin Credible hit the ring and goaded Dreamer into an immediate title shot. He did this while throwing the tag title belt to the ground while proclaiming This isnt good enough for me anymore. Credible won the title, thus forfeiting the tag belts in the process. Weeks later, Credible would defeat Storm, sending him off to WCW.
Atlee Greene is a freelance writer for various sites, including ForcesOfGeek.com, Gerweck.net, CamelClutchBlog.com, and WhatCulture.com. He is also a former independent professional wrestler and promotes shows in the Massachusetts area.
