10 Thrown-Together Tag Teams that Really Worked

There seemed to be no reason for Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre to team up, but now there seems to be no reason for them to fail.

#9 Breezango

This photo comes from a Rolling Stone feature proclaiming that Breezango were making wrestling fun again, a level of cool that might outweigh a lack of championship success. — This photo comes from a Rolling Stone feature proclaiming that Breezango were making wrestling fun again, a level of cool that might outweigh a lack of championship success

Breezango are unique on this list, as they are one of the only teams not to have won a championship once their slapdash gimmick got over.

Tyler Breeze was an NXT standout, but always seemed to be the guy to make other guys (much like Tye Dillinger, another man destined for a thrown-together team any day now). Breeze's losses to Finn Balor, Hideo Itami, and Jushin "Thunder" Liger were impressive in-ring showings where Breeze was little more than a pretty backdrop for his opponent's offense.

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Fandango debuted in 2013 to massive fanfare, winning his WrestleMania debut in a shocking upset over Chris Jericho and quickly becoming his own wrestling meme, with his catchy theme song being the go-to chant for bored "smart" crowds.

Upon his main roster promotion during a confusing Lana-Rusev-Ziggler-Summer Rae love quadrangle, Breeze began to falter almost immediately after the story ended; he formed a sarcastic alliance with R-Truth in Truth's feud with former ally Goldust, and turned on Truth to join Goldust's partner, Fandango, in a heel pairing that lost to Golden Truth in the Money in the Bank pre-show blowoff (where Breeze and Fandango competed suffering from tanning bed-induced burns).

Breeze and Fandango began experimenting with a Fashion Police gimmick, writing tickets to "uggo" superstars and calling out fashion faux pas up and down the roster (while also being comedic punching bags for John Cena and Nikki Bella in the leadup to the "it" couple's WrestleMania mixed tag match).

Between WrestleMania 33 and its SmackDown followup show, Backlash, Breezango got both the freedom to improvise with their gimmick and some experienced sketch comedy writers to produce their backstage vignettes, leading to some of the most inspired comedy in pro wrestling history (being funny for being funny, without being unnecessarily cruel). Fashion Files buoyed Breezango to a tag team championship opportunity against the newly-heel Usos at Backlash, and made for one of the most entertaining matches on the show, coming up short despite numerous disguises and the use of janitorial equipment to slapstick ends.

Breezango are still comic relief on the main roster, but it's a comfortable spot for the duo and their highest-profile success to date, disproving Jim Cornette's mantra that "funny don't make money".

Edited by Nishant Jayaram