12 Duos That Helped Changed Tag Team Wrestling Forver

10. The Valiant Brothers (Johnny & Jimmy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulaG6wq_oZQ Although not as successful or decorated as many other tag teams on this list, the Valiant Brothers, €˜Handsome€™ Jimmy and €˜Luscious€™ Johnny, set the standard for what it meant to be a tag team in terms of group identity and psychology for decades to come. Up until they became WWE Tag Team Champions in 1974, every team to hold those titles or to gain prominence in the tag team division was composed of two individuals who lacked a group identity. They were, more often than not, two individuals thrown together at random, and were defined not as a team, but as two unique individuals who happened to be competing as a tag team. The Valiant Brothers changed this approach. They both bleached their hair blonde, they wore identical wrestling attire, and behaved as though they were actual brothers with a single goal. This made them unique in the eyes of fans, as they were the first competitors for the WWE Tag Team Championships that looked like an actual family. This philosophy set in stone the mentality that would eventually become the €˜template€™ for how tag team wrestlers ought to behave or be portrayed. Countless teams that succeeded the Valiant Brothers followed the same philosophy: the Blackjacks, the Wild Samoans, the Hart Foundation, The Rockers, the Steiner Brothers, The Dudley Boyz, and many more. Indeed, the Valiant Brothers were the ones that started the whole concept of €˜team members looking and behaving alike€™ that became that division€™s defining characteristic.