10 Best WWE Tag Teams To Never Win Championship Gold
Braun Strowman and a ten-year-old may have held the tag belts, but these guys didn't.
From the moment professional wrestling diverged from its roots in catch wrestling to become an independent art form designed to maximise excitement for paying spectators, a whole world of possibilities opened up.
Perhaps the most beloved and enduring of these - tag-team wrestling - offered fans multi-man matches where they could behind their favourite stables and often proved a special attraction in the burgeoning sport.
The WWE has a long lineage of tag team wrestling, with Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler holding the honour as the first champions besting several teams in a tournament to win the then-WWWF World Tag Championship all the way back in 1971.
A total of 112 further teams would hold the original WWE titles before they were decommissioned in favour of what are now the WWE Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships.
You'd imagine that, with such an extensive history, all of the great teams to ply their trade in Vince McMahon's promotion would've gotten their stint with the belt - but that is not the case.
Several classic duos earned the adoration of the WWE Universe, but were never trusted with a run with tag team gold.
10. The Lucha Dragons
With the benefit of hindsight, Sin Cara's two-performer spell in WWE will always be viewed as a failure considering the hype prior to his arrival in 2011. However, one of the highlights of Sin Cara's tenure in the company came during his teaming with Kalisto as the Lucha Dragons.
The throwing together of the two directionless masked luchadors made it seem like the pair were doomed to jobberdom. But despite neither member of the Lucha Dragons being outstanding on the mic, they managed to get over with the WWE Universe with their highflying tandem offence, capturing the NXT Tag Team Championship in 2014 and ending The Ascension's milestone reign in the process.
However, as so many other prominent NXT teams went on to find out, life on the main roster wasn't quite as hospitable for the duo. After Sin Cara suffered an injury in late 2015, Kalisto moved into singles competition before the team split up without ever winning the tag belts prior to the 2016 WWE Draft.