Smoking Guns=MNM

[Super Nintenjoe KBD]

I came to this conclusion while watching the 94 Royal Rumble the other day as the Guns were entering and thinking about the similarities between both teams in relation to my personal experience watching wrestling. Both teams came in during a hiatus from me watching, first in the early 90s and then in the mid 2000s. Both were just reforming both times I started watching again. Both had at some point a female valet in Sunny and Melina, both multiple time tag champions throughout down years in the middle of their decades and they both had a break out star who would go on to form an even more successful tag team with a degenerate partner and despite great athletic ability would eventually fail at breaking the main event while the other would fade into obscurity. Heel face alignment and other stuff isnt too similar but I just like thinking about this kind of thing.

[CMWaters]

So would that make Big Show the Butterbean to Joey Mercury's Bart Gunn?

[Super Nintenjoe KBD]

Exactly.

[chazraps]

Also, they both had their prime years at a time when the tag roster was at its absolute weakest, making their legacy as a truly great team seldom spoken of.

[The Ichi]

But one team were cowboys and the other were papparazi guys (or whatever they were supposed to be).

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There's a lot of other similarities specific to the females of each time. Melina and Sunny were ultimately the most popular people of their groups, accidentally or intentionally. On the other hand, Melina became a multiple-time champion and Sunny did not. And both had controversial relationships that were spoken of by fans during their respective runs, although for one of them didn't actually do anything they were accused of.

Also worth pointing out, both of the "athletic" guys (Billy and John) would get womaniser characters for their singles runs.

[Super Nintenjoe KBD]

Jan 18, 2013 23:45:30 GMT -5 The Ichi said:

But one team were cowboys and the other were papparazi guys (or whatever they were supposed to be).

I know, look I was very high when I came up with and wrote this but the similarities are still there to me, I did say it wasnt exact in each area. Anyone else think of two guys or teams from different eras like this?

[Lt. Palumbo]

I always thought of Billy as the Shawn of both major teams he was in and Nitro/Morrison had that argument with Miz that time. He maybe should have been the Shawn....although it's looking more likely that he's the Janetty

anyway, good thread!

[Citizen Snips]

Both also had pretty snazzy double-team finishers

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Jan 19, 2013 20:17:29 GMT -5 Citizen Snips said:

Both also had pretty snazzy double-team finishers

And cool entrance themes.