8 WWE Tag Team Stars Who Couldn't Cut It As Singles

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Road Dogg, like his New Age Outlaws partner Billy Gunn, was definitely built to be a tag team wrestler. Completely unremarkable when left on his own, he was able to highlight his positives and hide his weaknesses when paired up with someone that complimented his style.

A member of the legendary Armstrong wrestling family, Road Dogg began his WWE career as 'The Roadie', assistant to would-be country singer Jeff Jarrett. The two rarely teamed, however, with Roadie reduced to accompanying his man and interfering in his matches.

When Jarrett left for WCW, Roadie was left with nothing to do and formed a last-gasp tandem with Billy Gunn. This really was WWE just throwing them together and seeing if they could sink or swim. Thankfully, for them, they were enormously successful and this period is undoubtedly the high point of their careers.

The cornerstones of the Attitude Era went their separate ways, though, and Dogg began teaming with DX stablemate X-Pac. Theirs was a short-lived union, and Road Dogg soon formed another team with newcomer K-Kwick (R-Truth) in late 2000.

Personal problems resulted in RD getting released from his contract and he later resurfaced in TNA. He was no singles star there, either, usually teaming with either Konnan or former partners Truth and Gunn. He never really got a bite of the singles cherry but when he did (such as the spring and summer of 1999 when he went after the IC and Hardcore Titles), it never really went anywhere and management soon lost interest.