10 Best Wrestling Tournaments Ever

5. NWA Tag Team Title '92 (WCW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFKOPlOtN2g Why it€™s number 5: In €™92, WCW briefly added a second set of tag titles named the NWA tag team titles along with their current WCW Tag team titles (all you need to know was it was repetitive, convoluted and very WCW) but the benefit was one absolutely amazing tag team title bracket for these new belts. The tournament had a few unique elements to it like an international theme for the roster as well as seeding for individual teams in the tournament. The bracket was awesome with regular WCW tag teams such as the Steiner Brothers , Freebirds, Anderson/Eaton featured along with the bruising Japanese import team of Steve Williams/Terry Gordy and topped off with great makeshift teams like Rude/ Austin, Rhodes/Windham, Steamboat/Koloff and Pillman/Liger. Add in a host of other international teams from across the globe (featuring cameos from future superstars like Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit) and you had a totally original tournament. Best Match: Pillan/Liger vs. Steamboat/Koloff. The opening match to the second round of the tournament at The Great American Bash was a true fan favorite. Four babyfaces tearing into each other with great aerial assaults combined with some tremendously physical moves. Koloff and Steamboat finally edge the former rival team of Pillman/Liger but it was a beautiful opener to the pay-per-view and set the stage for fantastic night of matches to end this outstanding tournament. Winner and aftermath: WCW shocked almost everyone with their current champions, the Steiner Brothers, being eliminated by Gordy/Williams in the quarterfinals. After that, the tournament was absolutely wide open but Gordy/Williams ultimately took home the titles by besting Rhodes/Windham in the finals. Gordy/Williams would actually beat the Steiners again before the tournament finals for their WCW titles and unify the two tag championships while continuing to feud with Rick and Scott. The two would soon lose their championships to the tournament runner-up team of Windham/Rhodes and subsequently depart the company. Yet, their initial victory and this entire tournament was a reason WCW was such a great rival and alternative to the WWE for so many years.
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