10 WWE Tag Teams That Broke Up At The Best Time
3. The Rockers
A personal anecdote on this, seeing as every single aspect of the segment has been analysed to the point of saturation anyway.
Your writer was seven years old when The Rockers imploded on Brutus Beefcake's Barber Shop segment, watching with wide-eyed panic as a man was assaulted by his friend before having his head shoved through glass. The noise of the smash was enough to capture the attention of other family members in the room who viewed wrestling as little more than an extension of the Saturday cartoons. They were stunned into intrigued silence at the violemt theatrics. Beefcake's mate Hulk Hogan wasn't on hand to make the save, the villain tore up a magazine article until only he remained in the piece, and it exists in every interaction about wrestling I have with all of them to this day.
Industry standards and shorthands don't happen by accident. It takes a moment of significant, weighted magic to become the benchmark. That Shawn Michaels' brutal Barber Shop assault on Marty Jannetty helped spawn one of the greatest singles careers in company history only adds to the mythology.
'HBK' did okay out of it too.