10 Best Tag Teams In Wrestling Right Now
7. The Hardy Boyz
The Hardy Boyz must be bulletproof.
Jeff Hardy has survived a profoundly challenging war with drug dependency to carve out a career of unthinkable longevity. Matt, meanwhile, has fought a battle of his own: with irrelevance. Matt, perceived as a token ex-WWE guy, was thrust into the "Best In The World" environment and jeered by ROH crowds in 2013. Jeff was always the more popular, marketable and talented of the two. Matt, however, was always the more enduring; he compensated for a less natural ability by evolving his character constantly, from Version 1 to Angelic Diablo to Anti-Bullying Campaigner to Brilliantly BROKEN. Decades of smashing into ladders from lunatic heights in awesome stunt wars is nothing to men with skin as hardened as theirs.
What makes their recent reunion and revival so heartening, so authentic, is that their relationship isn't symbiotic, like so many tag teams before them. They seem to savour teaming together. This transmits to audiences. They are bulletproof to the temporary rush of one-note nostalgia.
Their act, while not quite as snappy nor dynamic as its 2000 vintage, has withstood even WWE's curiously dumb booking epidemic of 2017. Some of their matches with Sheamus and Cesaro were let down by the logic-free layouts, but you'd be hard pressed to find a more electric few minutes anywhere in wrestling than the finish to their capper at Great Balls Of Fire.