10 Wrestling Duos Who Shared The Most Bizarre Chemistry
9. The Hollywood Blondes
No, not Kevin Dunn's favoured search on PornHub, but the superb and influential WCW tag team that elevated the profile of wrestling's last true megastar.
Austin began life as a powerful, raw-boned Texan wrecker - a prodigious mechanic lacking in pizzazz. He credits the doomed, revolutionary Brian Pillman with bringing his personality to the surface. Austin in turn complemented Pillman, already revered as a super-working light heavyweight, as a performer capable of mixing it up with elite, main event-level talent.
On the subject of which, the Blondes wrestled Ric Flair and Arn Anderson in a great Two out of Three Falls match at WCW Clash of the Champions XXIII, during which Austin, drenched in confidence, sidled up to the Enforcer with an old man gait before gesturing, with real heel audacity, that he was a fat man with a protruding gut. To promote this, Austin and Pillman devised the seminal 'Flare For The Old' segment, in which the two cosplaying brats buried their opponents as coffin-dodgers.
Their chemistry was such that this experiment later became scientific method to getting obnoxious heel acts over in an Attitude Era that would not exist without their vast influence.