Jiren
Patti Mayonnaise
Hearts Bayformers
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Post by Jiren on Jan 3, 2013 22:02:34 GMT -5
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siredger
ALF
Can now proudly say he held the AWA World Heavyweight Championship in his hands.
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Post by siredger on Jan 4, 2013 0:59:46 GMT -5
Why couldn't they have had a tag title run? Their heat was TREMENDOUS! I remember they almost won the title at the Montreal Forum in a house show in 1987 against the Hart Foundation (don't remember if it was before or after Wrestlemania III). As I recall it, Raymond pinned Jim Neidhart to win the straps but the decision was later reversed claiming that Neidhart wasn't the legal man in the ring at the time. That's about the closest the Rougeaus have been to the WWF Tag Team Championship.
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Post by saneiac on Jan 4, 2013 2:28:56 GMT -5
I wasn't a fan of theirs at all when I was young. It wasn't until years later, while watching the Royal Rumble and Summerslam anthologies, that I realized that The Rougeaus had a habit of putting on the best match of the show for pretty much every card they were on.
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Scott
Dennis Stamp
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Post by Scott on Jan 4, 2013 3:27:01 GMT -5
Most entertaining tag team ever for me.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 4, 2013 9:56:34 GMT -5
Great team. Awesome theme
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Jan 4, 2013 10:03:15 GMT -5
Did the fact that they didn't have a gimmick kill their career? They were just 'brothers' billed by their real names, with no trademark look or cool-sounding team name (i.e. Killer Bees, British Bulldogs, Hart Foundation).
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Post by Vanilla Gorilla on Jan 4, 2013 10:15:54 GMT -5
I beg to differ. They had a trademark look and gimmick: the fluer-de-lis wearing, Quebec pride, obnoxious French Canadiens.
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Jan 4, 2013 12:27:30 GMT -5
I beg to differ. They had a trademark look and gimmick: the fluer-de-lis wearing, Quebec pride, obnoxious French Canadiens. They were the poster boys for the desperate heel turn. It just happens that they got over better as heels than they did as faces. Plus, they played the heels SOOOO well!
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 5, 2013 4:21:36 GMT -5
I miss those days when tag team wrestling had incredible depth of talent. They were proper teams back then. Not just two singles wrestlers with the word "TEAM (something)" as their name.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Jan 5, 2013 5:37:43 GMT -5
We don't like Heavy Metal, we don't like Rock 'n' Roll All we like to listen to is Barry Mannilow! Best line in a wrestling theme ever. I preferred the Quebecers theme for the aggressively sang French halfway through.
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mrjl
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by mrjl on Jan 5, 2013 7:52:45 GMT -5
I miss those days when tag team wrestling had incredible depth of talent. They were proper teams back then. Not just two singles wrestlers with the word "TEAM (something)" as their name. not as true as you might think. Strike Force, The Killer Bees, Demolition, tons of the guys in WWF's tag team scene came in and were just paired up. Even the Hart Foundation, despite being family, were created in WWF. WWF didn't sign a lot of teams as they were and debut them
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 6, 2013 9:55:20 GMT -5
I miss those days when tag team wrestling had incredible depth of talent. They were proper teams back then. Not just two singles wrestlers with the word "TEAM (something)" as their name. not as true as you might think. Strike Force, The Killer Bees, Demolition, tons of the guys in WWF's tag team scene came in and were just paired up. Even the Hart Foundation, despite being family, were created in WWF. WWF didn't sign a lot of teams as they were and debut themThat's not what I mean. I meant that their teams looked like actual teams. They weren't "Jeri-Shows" or "Team Hell No....Team Rhodes Scholars....etc." They had a joint identity, rather than being two guys with their own gimmicks who just happened to be teaming up.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2013 10:08:34 GMT -5
The similar identity was taking two guys that looked somewhat alike and just seeing if things worked out. (Hearkens back to the "old days" when a guy just starting out would be teamed with a "name" wrestler and billed as the "name wrestler" Brothers. Bruiser and Crusher started out that way - as the Lisowski Brothers, as did Fred Blassie, Buddy Roberts and a host of other guys. The guy who didn't actually have the name would get the rub from the success as that team, then break away and become "himself" in another territory.)
Young Stallions (Paul Roma & Jim Powers) looked like they could be brothers. The Killer Bees and the Can-Am Connection, also. None of them were signed as a team (B. Brian Blair was in teams with other jobbers before they even signed Brunzell), but the "WWF Machine" took a look at them and paired them together to see what works.
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Mozenrath
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Foppery and Whim
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 17, 2013 0:44:51 GMT -5
not as true as you might think. Strike Force, The Killer Bees, Demolition, tons of the guys in WWF's tag team scene came in and were just paired up. Even the Hart Foundation, despite being family, were created in WWF. WWF didn't sign a lot of teams as they were and debut themThat's not what I mean. I meant that their teams looked like actual teams. They weren't "Jeri-Shows" or "Team Hell No....Team Rhodes Scholars....etc." They had a joint identity, rather than being two guys with their own gimmicks who just happened to be teaming up. I don't blame WWE for being hesitant to debut tag teams as single entities, since, what do you do when the team runs its course? Unfortunately, there are many, many more Neidharts than Bret Harts in dedicated Tag Teams. the team is their gimmick and heat, and they flounder without it.
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Post by Clawley Race on Jan 17, 2013 3:13:34 GMT -5
The team doesn't run its course if you have a good tag division
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Post by Angus Mcloud on Jan 17, 2013 9:35:10 GMT -5
The best pinned topic ever
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