Predicting The 16 Teams In The 2017 NXT Dusty Rhodes Tag Classic (And How Far They Will Go)

by John Bills

1. Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly

ReDRagon Fish O'Reilly
ROH

Whether they will go by their reDRagon name remains to be seen, but Fish & O’Reilly have to be considered the huge certs to win the 2017 Dusty Classic. Has there ever been bigger favourites? Many expected The Authors of Pain to pick up the win last year, but convincing arguments could also have been put forward for #DIY, TM-61, or Aries and Strong.

Fish & O’Reilly will not only win the 2017 Dusty Classic, but they will also be the tag team to beat in NXT for the next 12 months. The pair have dominated tag team wrestling for years, winning titles in Ring of Honor and NJPW, the latter of which saw them protected more than any junior heavyweight team in history.

That dominance is about to extend to NXT. Adam Cole may well be the next NXT Champion, and the faction of ROH alumni will all be carrying gold sooner rather than later. The 2017 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic is reDRagon’s to lose.

Prediction: Winners

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.