8 Wrestling Tag Teams With Contrasting Singles Careers

We've all had our tag team partners throw us through a barbershop window at some time or another, but it really sticks in the craw when they then go on to enjoy a long and successful career as a singles competitor while you have to make do with the occasional cameo appearance.

Business is ruthless, though, and while many of the greats may start out as part of a team, their natural place at centre stage means they eventually break out as a star in their own right. Sort of like Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five.

As for Tito and Jermaine, they're perfectly good performers and nobody can deny they helped Michael get a foot on the ladder in the early goings. But their solo ventures just didn't work out - at least not to the same degree as their brother.

Wrestling is much the same (only less weird) and after separating, many tag team partners once on equal footing have ended up on wildly divergent paths in the singles game - some to such a degree that you wonder why they were ever paired up. Here are eight such examples.

3-Minute Warning, made up of burly Samoans Rosey and Jamal (and later, for some reason, Rico), were introduced by Eric Bischoff, ironically, to punish anyone who might be a threat to Monday Night Raw's television ratings.

They didn't last very long, the highlight of their run being a tables match loss against the Dudleys and Jeff Hardy at Survivor Series 2002, and a brutal 1-on-2 beating at the hands of Goldberg the following year.

Jamal was released and Rosey found precarious employment as the pudgy protégé of The Hurricane, which went exactly as well as you'd expect. Even Stevens then, until a streamlined Jamal returned to WWE a couple of years later, repackaged as Samoan Submission Machine Umaga, who was one of the company's best big men in years.