20 Worst WWE Tag Team Champions Ever

8. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin And The Undertaker

The Undertaker and Steve Austin's tag title reign in July 1998 served little more purpose than to add intrigue to their impending SummerSlam clash over the WWE Championship. As part of Vince Russo's wacky "tag team partners who hate each other" style of booking, the tensions between the two created doubts not only about their ability to win the titles, but to retain them. At the Fully Loaded pay-per-view, they captured the gold, defeating Kane and Mankind in the night's main event. But it was clear that the distrust and dislike between the new champions was intensifying and after just 15 days as champions, the team lost the titles back to the devious masked duo. With just over two weeks to hold the titles, defending them maybe once, the team hardly had any opportunity to develop into worthy champions. And they were never intended to. Instead, the titles were used as a prop in a live action drama between two of the most celebrated performers in the industry. Surely WWE Creative, at the time consisting of Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara, with Vince McMahon overseeing them, could have come up with a better way to book their story without involving the titles and directly leading to the devaluation of the gold. At a time when the New Age Outlaws were an act as hot as any other in the business, why the writers would opt to take the gold off of them and involve it in a story that did not need that element to captivate fans, remains a mystery.