10 Best WWE Tag Teams To Never Win Championship Gold
8. The Can-Am Connection
Such a simple name, I'm surprised it hasn't been ripped off a bit more in the modern age. Well, there was that one team I guess, but I'll get to them shortly. The Can-Am Connection was the duo of Rick Martel and Tom Zenk, and they teamed together in the World Wrestling Federation in 1986 and 1987.
Zenk and Martel had the sort of chemistry one would expect from a team that was close in their personal lives, as Zenk was the boyfriend of Martel's sister-in-law, and the two had been working together in the AWA for a number of years prior. They feuded with then-champions the Dream Team (Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake) as well as The Islanders, before Zenk left the company in 1987.
The tag team division was about to become stacked once more, but when the Can-Am was at their strongest in the company the division amounted to Valentine & Beefcake, the fairly inexperienced Hart Foundation, a British Bulldogs that were in and out of the company and a couple of others. Zenk & Martel seemed like a decent option for a tag run at some point.
Alas it never happened, and Rick Martel forged himself a good career in the WWF as 'first Royal Rumble record holder'.