10 Best Wrestling Hot Tags Ever
Who was the best at coming in like a house on fire?
Tag team wrestling always used to a follow a fairly solid formula.
Two teams would square off, one a babyface team and the other favouring the less noble route. After starting off hot, the heels would generally isolate one member of the babyface opposition. A slow, methodical beatdown would follow, as things seem to go from bad to worse for our beloved good guys.
There would be moments where it seemed like salvation was at hand, as the noble warrior crawled towards his partner in the hope of getting a breather and bringing fresh legs into the ring. Time and time again they would get cut off, and the beating would continue. The man on the outside would have to wait just that little longer.
The light at the tunnel would get closer and closer though, and finally the moment to tag out would present itself. The heels would despairingly try to cut the fallen wrestler off, but a heroic dive would be put in and the tag would be made.
This is known as the 'hot tag', and generally led to the partner coming into the ring like a 'house on fire' and building the crowd into a frenzy with some intense offence.
Some guys did it better than others. These 10 wrestlers did - and do it - better than most.
10. Big Cass
Maybe it's because of the doldrums that tag team wrestling found itself in for a while in the 2000s, but the revival of the art has seen a new generation of hot taggers come into the fore, a number of whom make their way onto this list.
Big Cass is one such name, and being in a team alongside a guy with the offensive ability of Enzo Amore makes a good hot tag inevitable.
Enzo is pretty good at taking a beating, but Big Colin Cassady is fast becoming an expert at coming in and cleaning house. Being seven feet tall certainly helps - you can't teach that after all - but Cass has made the role his own.
Monday Night RAW this week showed this perfectly, as Cass came in off the tag to clear the ring of the Dudleyz and Vaudevillains with a succession of perfectly timed boots and Stinger splashes.
Big Cass is as good a big man hot tag as we've seen in years.