10 Wrestling Tag Teams That Were Never Going To Work
10. Los Matadores
Primo and Epico have some talent. They are not hopeless by any means, but they have been either placed in pairings that are bland (Primo and Epico), ridiculous (The Shining Stars), or cartoonishly awful and dated: Los Matadores.
What does being a professional bullfighter have to do with professional wrestling? Nothing, really, but that didn’t stop Vince McMahon from looking at two Puerto Rican guys and thinking they’d be best utilized as bull fighters. And even if we were supposed to leave they fought bulls in their free time, then what did a short person in an bull outfit have to do with anything?
Their very first night in, the newly rebranded Diego and Fernando were given a lengthy, elaborate entrance. We saw it for the next few weeks and then it was basically done. The act wasn’t getting over, so it was cut out of the show. The best part of their act was gone and they just jobbed like there was no tomorrow.
Los Matadores were decades past having any chance of working, and that was obvious the moment their first vignette aired to anyone but their boss.