Owen's Best Tag Team Partner

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

Owen Hart was a great in-ring competitor, no doubt, and an amazing talent in one-on-one matches. He was also an accomplished Tag Team wrestler, winning multiple Tag Team championships with multiple partners in more than one promotion.

So, who was your favorite of his partners? I'm at a toss-up, personally; after giving it a lot of thought, I marked most for the New Foundation, probably because I was still a kid and thought that "The Anvil" was awesome (and admittedly, the Hart Foundation was probably my favorite tag team growing up, and I always wondered why Bret did so well after the split while Niedhart floundered in the lower midcard) and also for his team with Davey Boy Smith - to me, it was like a new British Bulldogs with Owen playing the role of the Dynamite Kid to a certain extent. Of course, I liked all of the teams in this poll, and I, for one, thought that had they teamed Owen and Pillman together regularly during the Hart Foundation '97 angle, they could have been huge. (I thought the same about Niedhart/Smith, too, leaving Bret as a single, obviously.)

So go ahead and vote, and if you feel so inclined give an explanation.

EDIT: I would have loved to see where the Owen/Morton team was headed in WCW, but Owen didn't stick around long enough to make much difference; I included it in the voting anyway.

[Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action]

Koko!

[Tim]

Gotta go with Davey Boy.

[Mister Pigwell]

Koko gets an honorable mention based off of their pants and theme song but I preferred his work with Jarrett actually. Possibly the only time I ever really dug Jarrett come to think of it.

[J is Justice]

Bulldog

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

agentdeadpool said:

Koko!

OMG!! How could I forget Koko?!

Well, I guess that's what I had the "Other" option for.

And here's a "Tidbit of Information Nobody Will Care About^(c)": I always thought that, at some point, Bret Hart should have had a Survivor Series team featuring Bret, Bulldog, and High Energy against whomever they were feuding against at the time. Granted, Koko would have probably been the "designated jobber," but I always thought it would be cool.

A premonition of things to come with the extended Hart Foundation?

(I really can't believe I forgot about Koko B. Ware; I must be a bigger Owen fan than I thought, because I did mark for all of these teams, High Energy included - the only time since I was a little kid that I marked for Koko, BTW.)

[Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action]

I only voted for Koko because he wasn't on the list.

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

valens said:

Koko gets an honorable mention based off of their pants and theme song but I preferred his work with Jarrett actually. Possibly the only time I ever really dug Jarrett come to think of it.

And that's why I specifically remembered Jarrett for this poll: I've always been "meh" toward him otherwise (as in, he's good enough to carry a shlub to a passable match, but he's as charismatic as a toaster, IMO) but when he was teaming with Owen - even if they hadn't had Debra - I thought he was pretty good.

I guess that just goes to show that if you work with the right person, they can bring out amazing things in you.

[Schemer]

OMFG!!!! How could you have forgotten his time with Koko as High Energy. As a little kid, I thought they were cool, and they did have some great tandem offense. Just never got the push, and looked goofy in those MC Hammer pants.

[Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action]

cactusmatt said:

valens said:

Koko gets an honorable mention based off of their pants and theme song but I preferred his work with Jarrett actually. Possibly the only time I ever really dug Jarrett come to think of it.

And that's why I specifically remembered Jarrett for this poll: I've always been "meh" toward him otherwise (as in, he's good enough to carry a shlub to a passable match, but he's as charismatic as a toaster, IMO) but when he was teaming with Owen - even if they hadn't had Debra - I thought he was pretty good.

I guess that just goes to show that if you work with the right person, they can bring out amazing things in you.

I agree, to me Jarrett is the perfect mid-carder. He's a good enough worker that he can help make a show solid, but he's not at the level where he can carry a show.

[strykerdarksilence]

Got to be Davey, great team ;D

[Next Level was WRONG]

Either Bret or Pillman.

[Beav]

I thought he and Yoko were a good big man/little man team...

[Adam Pacman Khan (akkilla)]

the rock

[Cyborg Franky]

Its have to be Yoko, since their tag team was one of the great heel tag teams that I remember back in the day.

[HRH The KING]

Davey Boy Smith.


Although I give an honourable mention to High Energy, because I've always been a Koko B. Ware fan.

He was a superb wrestler and I loved his gimmick.

Had a Cruiserweight division been around back then, Koko would have been a cool champion.

[thesam07]

Yokozuna.

[Vincent Whiney]

I really liked his team with Yokozuna.

[skiller]

Jarrett.

Only because when I think back on Owen (apart from Bret) Jarrett comes to mind.

[Crappler El 0 M]

Warning: Long post

Some questions really don't need to be asked. The obvious answer if Davey. Owen and Davey had such a great chemistry together. Sure, Owen and Yoko worked, but they didn’t feel like a team in the same way that Davey and Owen did when they came together. Here’s a break down of his major tag team partners (some of the options included are laughable):

Owen and Anvil never really worked. The outfits were bad. They should have let Anvil keep his familiar wrestling attire and fashion something for Owen similar to the outfit he wore as a singles wrestler later on. The team might have worked had the WWF presented them differently, but with Anvil's impending hiatus from WWF, it just didn’t seem meant to be. The duo also had the daunting task of living up to Bret and Anvil, which was just one of those great pairings in tag wrestling.

I actually think Owen and Koko (not included in the poll) had better chemistry than Owen and Anvil. They seemed to click a little better and weren’t that bad of a team. Their aerial maneuvers gave them a bit of a connection as well.

I think Owen and Yoko worked partially because there was such a contrast. Owen was the small and very much vocal wrestler, while Yoko was the large, silent striker. However, they just didn’t feel like an actual team in the same manner that the Hart Foundation, the British Bulldogs, or the Road Warriors feel like teams. They just felt like a pairing.

Owen and Jarrett were not bad either. They were good workers who weren’t going anywhere in the company. The pairing did get Jarrett and Owen doing something in the company again, so it worked out for both of them in that regard. To me, Jarrett and Debra were the main focus of that group, but it suited Owen better than being with the Nation of Domination. The thing was, Owen just didn’t seem to fit in the WWF as well once Bret, Davey, and Anvil left for WCW. It was almost like Owen was never the same. Almost like he lost his smile. WWF’s use of him didn’t help much either.

Owen and Davey felt like a real team. They worked so well together. They looked like they genuinely enjoyed working together too. When they came down the aisle they looked like they were having a great time together. I can still vividly remember seeing them hug and high-five each other (or actually, high-ten) before matches and it looked so genuine, because it was. WWF had established their family connection back in 1992. Owen had already done the angle with Bret and the immediate Hart family. Davey had done an angle with his wife Diana and Bret. Stu and Helen had often been featured in the crowd over the years and were invoked in storylines and the audience felt a connection to the entire family. We the audience knew that Owen and Davey were brothers-in-law. Knowing this, we accepted them as being a close unit. Teams work best when the audience perceives a close connection between partners. The two were two really good workers and they just really clicked. Davey was Owen's best partner.