10 Wrestling Tag Teams That Got The WORST Gimmicks After Splitting

5. Demolition

Repo Man Crush
WWE

Admittedly, this is cheating a wee tiny bit.

Demolition fans might consider it sacrilege to leave Bill 'Ax' Eadie out of the conversation here, but Crush became Smash's full-time partner once Eadie left the WWF in 1990. The second-rate re-run tanked though, and both men went their separate ways by venturing into various levels of gimmick hell.

'Kona' Crush was a bold attempt to get a newcomer over a top babyface, and yet it didn't pan out. He was eventually brought back and given a 'Jailbird' persona (as well as a run in The Nation Of Domination) to capitalise on some very-real prison time a few years earlier. That didn't really work either.

Smash became Simon Miller's beloved Repo Man after Demolition dissolved. The cartoony character does have a cult following, but nobody took him seriously as anything more than an undercard nuisance. It was definitely better than playing a golfer (Mr. Hole In One) and a traditional thug (Blacktop Bully) in WCW, to be fair.

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