10 Underrated Wrestling Partnerships

5. The Beautiful People

The Beautiful People TNA
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Some of TNA's best ideas include the six-sided ring, a renewed emphasis on Cruiserweight style with the X Division and the Main Event Mafia. All of those pale in comparison to their real gift to modern-day pro wrestling: a women's division that featured actual wrestling and characters who weren't mere eye candy.

Velvet Sky and Angelina Love, collectively known as The Beautiful People, were an exception that stood out because of it.

In a time when Gail Kim was working stunners with Awesome Kong, Roxxi Laveaux was painting herself as hardcore and the Knockouts division was the talk of the industry, TBP bemoaned ugliness and promised to rid TNA of it completely. In short, they trolled everyone by being akin to the Diva Search airheads WWE had promoted for years.

Although adding 'Cute Kip' (Billy Gunn), Madison Rayne and Lacey Von Erich watered the concept down badly, Sky and Love had been tearing it up before then. They were such colossal b*tches that their backstage promos stood out from everything else, and they set the blueprint for every female heel combo to come.

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