10 Wrestling Tag Teams That Were Never Going To Work

7. The Spirit Squad

The Spirit Squad lasted 11 months in WWE, which to their credit, is probably 10 months and three weeks longer than you would have expected them to.

There was no way this was going to work as a longterm act, because the gimmick was so obviously terrible. We were years passed The Attitude Era when they debuted, yet it was like we were in 1987 or 1995 in the WWF. When your entire gimmick can be summed up in two words - “male cheerleaders” - you should probably try a little harder. That was enough, though, to land five young men on Raw and enough to gain them the tag team titles.

The team defeated Kane and The Big Show, which in 2006 were boring people on a weekly basis. Some things never change. But after a feud with DX where the Squad was manhandled in 5-on-2 matches, they were basically done.

Vince McMahon got some laughs in with the squad, and the rest of us just wondered what the hell he was thinking. It's a wonder Dolph Ziggler's career ever rebounded.