10 Tag Team Wrestlers Who Held Their Partners Back
2. David Flair
David Flair never wanted to be a wrestler, but he joined WCW in early 1999 to participate in an angle with his legendary father, Ric. The 19-year-old did his part, but that wasn't the end of it - he soon turned heel, and would receive far too much TV time for his level of experience.
After a feud with his father, an alliance with his father, and a nonsensical reign as U.S. Champion, Flair hadn't improved at all. At the end of 1999, he was thrown into a tag team with a mysterious gas station worker named Crowbar whom Flair and girlfriend Daffney had met on the road. The pair soon became WCW World Tag Team Champions.
Crowbar was actually Devon Storm, a longtime independent worker who was actually quite talented, but was forced to play a joke character alongside Flair. Despite holding the belts, the pair was repeatedly portrayed as out of their league, and they took beatings from their opponents. That was fine for Flair, who wasn't really a trained, experienced wrestler, but Crowbar was, and he ended up buried.
That was actually the high point of Storm's career, as he would later adopt a '70s guy gimmick to team with Mike Awesome, then receive his release from WCW prior to the company's sale to WWE.