100 Greatest WWE WrestleMania Moments

35. Real Life Friends Win Tag Gold (WrestleMania 39)

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Sometimes, there's nothing better than a right good tag-team battle. WWE come and go with their own doubles divisions, but full spotlight was beamed on The Usos vs. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn at 'Mania 39. People were calling the match one of the best tags ever before it had even happened - that was all because WWE announced that it'd main event the first of two nights in California.

Zayn was fresh off exiting The Bloodline and then losing to Roman Reigns at Elimination Chamber, so he arguably needed something like this to sink his teeth into. Getting the band back together with on/off friend Owens was the tonic he required as a character, and The Usos were a quite brilliant heel counterpoint for the beloved babyface duo. Once the bell sounded, you'd have needed Drew McIntyre's claymore to cut the tension.

Both teams came through with a real winner. A traditionalist like Triple H knew it'd get a positive reaction if he put emphasis on tag-team wrestling (with two natural teams; KO and Sami were "thrown together", but they'd shared kinship here or there for years) and then ended the opening night with a babyface win for the history books. So, that's precisely what 'The Game' did.

One could sense how much this meant to Owens and Zayn personally. They'd travelled up and down roads together earning a pittance but literally spilling blood for their love of wrestling. Now, here they were hugging after representing tag action with aplomb and winning the main event of WrestleMania.

Scenes, people. Scenes.

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