Moments when tag teams reunite after brutal breakup

[agent817]

I'm not sure how to phrase this better, but here is what I mean.

We have seen tag teams split, and a lot of the time, it's because one of them betrays the other. Some of them also escalate into blood feuds. However, after a while, the two members team up again, sometimes as if nothing happened.

My go-to example of this is Shawn Michaels and Triple H. From 2002 to 2004, the two were at each other's throats and trying to kill each other. Fast forward to 2006 when they reform DX, as if all of that hostility and carnage from two years prior didn't happen.

I could imagine if something like this were to happen with Cora Jade and Roxanne Perez. Yes, I am aware they are close in real life, but when looking at how Cora turned on Roxanne, if one of them turns face or heel, and they were to team up again, I could imagine if they pretend their 2022 feud didn't happen.

What are some other examples?

[ChitownKnight]

I think Ambrose/Rollins and KO/Sami did a good job with this. Both teams had unresolved issues that were addressed on screen and the moments they reunited were huge

[WoodStoner1]

How did the Rock 'n' Roll Express reunion in SMW play out?

[DiBiase is Good]

The New Age Outlaws did this a couple of times in 1999-2000. In spring 99, Billy turned heel and attacked his partner which lead to a match and Billy feuded with Road Dogg and X-Pac over who owned the dX trademark.
Fast-forward six months or so and after an infamous failed push for Gunn, the Outlaws reunite and dX is also reformed. A few months after that Billy needs surgery on his (I think) shoulder. In early 2000 The Outlaws lose to The Dudleys and Road Dogg blames Billy for the loss and attacks him.
Near the end of 2000, Billy comes back as “The One”. Road Dogg had been feuding with X-Pac over the summer and would move into another team with K-Kwik and turn back face again. Both Outlaws would be on the same Survivor Series team against The Radicalz (and would be the last two left on their team).

[Citizen Snips]

The Outsiders did a speedrun version of this trope between breaking up in spring 1998 and reuniting at Starrcade.

[tafkaga]

There was a ton of hype around Starrcade '94, where Savage would confront Hogan with promise that he would either shake his hand or slap his face! It was practically hyped as a bigger deal than the main event match itself. I liked it because they acknowledged the history between the two and squeezed some more drama out of it.

[Celexa Bliss]

In 2009, Matt Hardy revealed he had been behind Jeff's recent "accidents", and even sort of admitted to causing the fire that killed Jeff's dog! They had some brutal matches at WrestleMania and Backlash, then Matt gets drafted to Raw and stays a heel. Over the summer, Matt gets traded back to Smackdown and reunites with Jeff against CM Punk. Yeah, they had this major storyline and Matt did some awful shit to Jeff, but they had to squeeze out one last Hardys reunion before Jeff left after SummerSlam.

[Mozenrath]

Jan 4, 2024 20:40:46 GMT -5 Celexa Bliss said:

In 2009, Matt Hardy revealed he had been behind Jeff's recent "accidents", and even sort of admitted to causing the fire that killed Jeff's dog! They had some brutal matches at WrestleMania and Backlash, then Matt gets drafted to Raw and stays a heel. Over the summer, Matt gets traded back to Smackdown and reunites with Jeff against CM Punk. Yeah, they had this major storyline and Matt did some awful shit to Jeff, but they had to squeeze out one last Hardys reunion before Jeff left after SummerSlam.

I forget if it was this reunion or another one where they acknowledged it with basically, "We're brothers, we just talked it out off-camera." Paraphrasing, of course.

[theghostofalwilson]

Not a regular tag team, but Bret and Owen reuniting on RAW in 1997 when Bret was forming the Hart Foundation is one of my favorite moments. Owen in particular did great.

Regarding Shawn and Hunter, was the plan to have them reunite something that went back further than Wrestlemania 22, or did the idea come about when both made the crotch chop at that event and were met with big pops?

[DichEvans]

Jan 4, 2024 12:28:26 GMT -5 DiBiase is Good said:

The New Age Outlaws did this a couple of times in 1999-2000. In spring 99, Billy turned heel and attacked his partner which lead to a match and Billy feuded with Road Dogg and X-Pac over who owned the dX trademark.
Fast-forward six months or so and after an infamous failed push for Gunn, the Outlaws reunite and dX is also reformed. A few months after that Billy needs surgery on his (I think) shoulder. In early 2000 The Outlaws lose to The Dudleys and Road Dogg blames Billy for the loss and attacks him.
Near the end of 2000, Billy comes back as “The One”. Road Dogg had been feuding with X-Pac over the summer and would move into another team with K-Kwik and turn back face again. Both Outlaws would be on the same Survivor Series team against The Radicalz (and would be the last two left on their team).

I was like 7 and found this stupid. How did none of the original members of DX end up with the trademark?

[theghostofalwilson]

I might have misunderstood the original post with my Bret and Owen mention earlier.

But with Shawn and Hunter it's not like they randomly just paired up again or the previous years were forgotten about, it was at least a 3-4 weeks long build where there were trust issues before they actually reunited.