10 of the greatest wrestlers of the 1980s

#5 The Midnight Express

The most famous iteration of the Midnight Express, Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane

Tag team wrestling was so hot in the 1980s, that most promotions often had two separate tag championships, often a world and a regional title. Teams like the Fantastics, the Sheepherders, the Hart Foundation, and Demolition kept tag wrestling on the cultural map.

In this proliferation of talent, one team emerged as the clear-cut best - the Midnight Express. Maybe they couldn't draw as well as the Road Warriors, and they never wrestled for the WWE, but the duo of Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane wrestled all over the world facing the best tag teams of the age.

The pair had their most success in the NWA, where they were the first team to hold both the US tag titles and the World tag titles at the same time. Innovators of tandem offence, many of the moves they developed are now staples of tag team wrestling.

Here's the Midnight Express taking on frequent rivals the Rock and Roll Express.