10 Thrown-Together Tag Teams that Really Worked

#7 The Bar

They don't just set the bar; they are Sheamus and Cesaro

The Bar are WWE's best current example of two men making the most of every single opportunity they are given; taking a slapdash tag team pairing (with the same old Odd Couple dynamic fans had seen countless times before) to its greatest potential, Cesaro and Sheamus went from rivals to partners to champions surprisingly quickly.

In the late summer and early fall of 2016, the Celtic Warrior and the Swiss Superman embarked on an epic best-of-seven series that featured more stiff hits and career-shortening dives than fans could have expected as the two men battled for a potential championship opportunity; a no contest finish in the seventh and final match made then-RAW Commissioner Mick Foley offer Sheamus and Cesaro their championship opportunity as a team, against defending Tag Team Champions The New Day.

The team's early dynamic was interesting, and confusing; Cesaro was firmly a babyface, and would get massive cheers from the crowd while Sheamus, ever a heel in his mohawked run, had his every move booed.

After an entertaining series of vignettes where the pair drank themselves into oblivion to mourn both their singles and tag team failures, before bonding over their hatred of their fellow patrons at the bar where they were drinking, Cesaro and Sheamus found the common ground necessary to dethrone New Day as champions and end the longest tag team title reign in WWE history to inaugurate the new RAW Tag Team titles.

This was the first of four championships for The Bar, whose entrance, gear, mannerisms, social media, and in-ring work have all evolved continuously over the past 18 months to mesh the two further together and create one of WWE's premier tag teams.