10 Thrown Together WWE Tag Teams That Totally Saved Careers

2. The Miz & John Morrison

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The Miz may well be the least likely WrestleMania main event performer in the history of the show. Sure, King Kong Bundy and Sgt. Slaughter might look a little weirder to modern fans, but older fans can make a historical argument for either. The Miz? If all you knew of The Miz were his early days in WWE, headlining WrestleMania wasn't a possibility. He wasn't expected to last five minutes.

The fact that the former WWE and Intercontinental Champion is still one of the main performers on WWE TV is an incredible achievement in itself. Would The Miz be where he is today without his tenure as John Morrison's tag team partner? We'll never know the answer to that question, but I have my assumptions.

13 days before becoming Tag Team champs for the first time, The Miz and John Morrison were actually facing each other to decide a number one contender to CM Punk's ECW Championship. They were still rivals immediately after winning the belts. This looked for all the world like a short term partnership.

Instead, the team performed miracles when it came to the career of The Miz. Mike Mizanin was going to be the answer to a trivia question, a joke with no punchline. When Miz & Morrison went their separate ways Miz was expected to be the Jannetty, but the fact that he was in that position at all speaks volumes.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.