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Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Road Warriors or Steiner Brothers ??
honorable mentions:
4 Horseman (although a 4 man roster/tag team of Arn/Tully were awesome)
Rock n Roll Xpress
Midnight Xpress
Fabulous Freebirds
Harlem Heat
Dudley Boyz
Hardy Boyz
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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I would say Spiller-Davis
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Thunder & Lightning!! Great combo, best Clemson combo for sure
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Road Warriors!***
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Re: Road Warriors!***
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This!!
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Cecil Glenn and Steve Gibson***
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The Boogie Woogie Man Jimmy Valiant and anydamnbody***
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Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood***
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Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson (Sp)***
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Re: Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson (Sp)***
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Old school! Great photo
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Re: Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson (Sp)***
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Old school! Great photo
Johnny Weaver abd George Becker
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Re: Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson (Sp)***
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Torres brothers (Enrique and Ramon-Good guys) or the Vachon brothers (Mad Dog and Butcher- bad guy Russians). Showing my age. They rassled in the ‘60’s.
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I remember when Rip Hawk and Rick Flair were a tag team
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Had some great bouts with Wahoo and Paul Jones.
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What?? Flair and Hawk were a team
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When was this, I cannot remember that
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Re: Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood***
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Ricky Steamboat was an all-time great, cannot remember him being in tag team events. His matches with Flair are special, back in the day when a time limit of 1 hour was set for 1 match and sometimes with best out of 3 falls.
I do not watch wrestling today, but those 3 fall matches were awesome. Usually gave each team at least 1 fall to keep the crown engaged
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I went to some wrestling events at the old Greenville
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Auditorium in the 80s and saw Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood together a couple of times in a tag team match. Maybe they didn't do it much.
Rick Flair and Ricky Steamboat had some great battles in the late 80s, while Rick Flair and Wahoo McDaniel had some epic matches in the late 70s/early 80s. Didn't know until later that Wahoo McDaniel was of Choctaw/Chickasaw heritage.
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Beautiful Bobby and loverboy Dennis.***
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Gene and Ole Anderson.
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Sep 29, 2023, 3:10 PM
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Predating Arn by just a little bit.
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Re: Gene and Ole Anderson.
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I remember Ole Anderson, he was a bad hombre for sure.
He brought the old school to the 4 Horseman when he was in it to start. Eventually softened all the way up by adding Lex, just not a horseman at all. Loved Lex, just not a horseman
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All good early teenage memories for me. It wasnt until
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years later that I learned that Gene was the only actual Anderson in the whole group (Gene, Lars, Ole, Arn)
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Re: Gene and Ole Anderson.
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I think they called themselves “The Minnesota Wrecking Crew”.
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Re: Gene and Ole Anderson.
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The Minnesota Wrecking Crew!!
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Re: Gene and Ole Anderson.
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Correct, the Minnesota Wrecking Crew!
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LOD.....***
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Historically speaking...
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The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Ole and Gene Anderson) was, at least in my opinion, the best tag team of all time. A close second would be the Legion of Doom (The Road Warriors) followed by the Heart Foundation, the Rock & Roll Express, and the Steiner brothers.
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Tully and Arn, best ever
Midnight’s and the Rock and Roll’s tied for 2nd
Best Modern team is FTR (The Revival)
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The Assassins.
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Don't forget them.
And, if you want to go WAAAAYY back, Bruno Samartino and Argentina Apollo.
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Mr. Wrestling I and II***
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Re: The Assassins.
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You did go into the wayback machine. Great team, no doubt!!!
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Now you are getting into the era of Gorgeous George.
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I should be able to think of one or two more of those guys, but I can't. I remember watching rasslin in the late 50s, but Gorgeous George had already retired by then. I think I just saw old films of him.
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Tony Garea and Dean Ho
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The Russians with Ivan and Nikita***
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Nm
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Re: The Russians with Ivan and Nikita***
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Good ones 👍
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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I loved the Rock N Roll Express and absolutely nobody cooler than the Road Warriors...I hated the 4 Horsemen then and still hate them now. I respect them for their greatness but if they wrestled today I would still pull against them.
On your list, its the Road Warriors for me.
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Agreed, the 4 Horseman were either loved or loathed, no in between. At least you understand their place among the greatest alliances ever to exist in wrestling.
I also think Road Warriors were the best overall. The excitement, the "pop" when they invented as they would get the crowd crazy with Hawk screaming: OHHHHHH WHHHHHAAAATTTT AAAAAA RRRRRRRUUUUUUSSSSSSHHHHH
But I do concede to the fact that the Steiner Brothers were much better "wrestlers" in the traditional sense.
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Mulkey Brothers!
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FTW!
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Re: Mulkey Brothers!
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That is a great video. Thanks for posting
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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It’s a Trick Question because the Usos are actually the greatest.
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Road Warriors...snack on danger and dine on death!
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Rock & Roll vs Midnights best overall tag team fued spanned multiple territories
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DX. For leaving them off I only have two words for you
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Suck it
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DX, what an omission
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My bad for sure! DX all time great
Road Dog Jesse James & BadAss Billy Gunn
You caught me slipping HLRT
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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DOUBLE A AND TULLY...hands down!!!
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Rockers and Hart Foundation were my favs growing up.
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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The worst?
Sgt. Slaughter and Private Jim Nelson. Found so many ways to lose.
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Sergeant Slaughter and Private Nelson
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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I lean towards the Road Warriors, although, you have some great ones listed.
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The Kentuckians; Big Boy Brown and Tiny Anderson.***
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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I was unsure if I vould use the 4 horseman,that's my pick,second is definitely road warriors
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rock n roll express***
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Bronco Lubich and Aldo Bogni along with their manager, General Homer O’Dell!
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Haystacks Calhoun & Jerry Brisco
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Oh, yeahhhhhhhhhh
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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The Skyscrapers/ ### Spivey and Sid Vicious.
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Blackjack Mulligan and Rufus R. Freight train Jones.
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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The Hollywood Blondes - Flyin' Brian Pillman and Stunning Steve Austin
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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I haven’t read most of the other posts, but I can tell you without a doubt, NO ONE, and I mean NOBODY, would have a chance against the Steiners in a true match.
Hawk and Animal (both R.I.P.) were good for entertainment purposes when Hawk wasn’t on drugs and alcohol but were never actually wrestlers.
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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RIP Hawk and Suede Hanson
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Road Warriors.
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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The Anderson Brothers
Gene and Ole
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Scully/Mulder
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Ivan and Nikita Koloff..LOL
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Go tigers!
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There is no debate
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The best tag team of all time was the Minnesota Wrecking Crew -- Ole and Gene Anderson
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Re: Friday debate : Who was better tag team
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Arn and Ole
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Lawrence & Etienne!***
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