10 Biggest Tag Team Specialists In Wrestling History
1. Arn Anderson
Arn Anderson is one of the all-time greats under any criteria. An excellent promo, master of psychology, and an outstanding brawler, his skillset was remarkably well-rounded, and the Four Horsemen wouldn’t have been half as successful without their Enforcer. Unfortunately, Anderson was never able to get over the final hill as a singles worker and he undoubtedly suffered from emerging in the same period as Ric Flair, but his tag work was always impeccable.
He and namesake Ole Anderson were a great “rough and tumble” tag team, but Arn’s career really took off when he connected with Tully Blanchard. They were the perfect blend of brute force, cunning, and technique, and a huge hit almost everywhere they went. Their WWE run didn’t quite pan-out like they;d planned, but Arn and Tully still left with a Tag Team Title reign to their name, adding to the two they’d collected in WCW.
Aside from his work with Tully, Anderson found tag gold with a number of other partners. He and Larry Zbyszko won WCW’s World Tag Team Championship tournament in 1991, and Arn notched two further reigns with Bobby Eaton and Paul Roma during his spells with WCW. Furthermore, he was a four-time NWA Southeastern Tag Team Champion earlier in his career, and regularly teamed with other allies in Flair, Bobby Eaton, Barry Windham, and Terry Funk.
Arn Anderson could have a great match with anybody, and his no-nonsense style always seemed to mesh well with whoever his partner was at the time. He is the patron saint of tag team wrestling, a savant, and the type of wrestler that only comes along once in a generation.