10 Best Wrestling Tag Team Matches Ever
10. Hangman Page & Kenny Omega vs. The Young Bucks (AEW Revolution)
It's not the greatest tag team match of all time, Page and Omega vs. The Young Bucks, but it belongs in the conversation. This was the AEW house style perfected. The division's old cocaine-fuelled spotfests were rendered irrelevant by a story-driven bout richer in psychology and character than flips and tricks, melding classicism and modernity with surgical precision.
Yes, big bombs were dropped, but they far enough apart to breathe and each served the story. This was all about the growing fracture between Page and the rest of The Elite. Increasingly estranged from the group and becoming his own, hard-drinking man, Hangman tossed all notions of a sporting clash in the face by redecorating Matt Jackson's face with spittle, rendering Omega's man-in-the-middle position untenable. Page's hair-trigger pulled, the Bucks entered full-on PWG d*ckhead heel mode, turning a pro-Hangman crowd even further against them to an extent that shouldn't have been possible in their home promotion, but that's how effective the work was. Each member of the quartet was operating at career-best levels.
Balancing this A+ in-ring story with their kind of bout may have been the wrestlers' greatest success and with his performance, Omega placed himself alongside Kenta Kobashi and Mitsuharu Misawa as a proven master of singles and tag wrestling. Page, too, entered the best outing of his career so far.
Rather than helping it, the bout's recency hinders it here. Most of the matches above it changed something. Some of them were legitimately transformational. We won't be able to measure Page/Omega vs. The Young Bucks' impact until it's had enough time to resonate, hence number 10.