10 Thrown-Together Tag Teams that Really Worked

#6 Owen Hart and Yokozuna, Owen Hart and The British Bulldog, Owen Hart and Jeff Jarrett

Owen's first random tag team to make it to the top.

Owen Hart was the King of Harts, a two-time Slammy Award winner, and the greatest at turning storyline garbage into pro wrestling gold.

Each of his three highest-profile tag teams shared two things in common: they seemed thrown together out of a lack of other options and they led Hart to tag team gold.

Entering WrestleMania XI, Owen had challenged Billy and Bart Gunn, a.k.a. The Smokin' Gunns, a very traditional team in WWF terms, to a tag team championship match. Hart promised he would have a mystery partner, who turned out to be the man who wrestled twice on the previous year's show, and both times for the WWF Championship, Yokozuna. Following a casket match loss to The Undertaker at 1994's Survivor Series, Yoko took a company-prescribed break to try to control his massive weight, and his WrestleMania match was the big man's first WWF sighting in months.

Owen and Yoko steamrolled the Gunns, holding the belts until September, before going their separate ways with a Yokozuna babyface turn and subsequent feud with former manager Jim Cornette (still aligned with Hart).

Owen wins another with another seemingly-random partner (albeit the one that makes the most sense out of all three of his championship partners).

Cornette brought Hart's brother-in-law Davey Boy Smith into his heel camp in late 1995, managing The British Bulldog to consecutive pay-per-view main even title shots against Shawn Michaels in May and June of 1996; the latter match had Owen Hart on commentary, whose blatant partisanship for his family (by marriage and by manager) led to an onscreen pairing which captured the WWF Tag Team Championships from, once again, The Smokin' Gunns in September of that year.

Holding the belts into May of 1997, at one point the in-laws controlled both of the midcard men's titles as well, bringing both the European and Intercontinental Championships to the Hart Foundation before entering singles runs (though still part of their anti-American faction) over the summer.

Unfortunately, this was the last of Owen's legendary list of titles.

Hart ended his career (and, unfortunately, his life) teaming with Jeff Jarrett; starting in 1998, the duo were originally to have coalesced over an Owen-Debra affair which was nixed by the Slammy Award-winner. Jarrett and Hart's friendship on and offscreen led to Hart's final tag team title reign, holding the belts from January of 1999 until just after WrestleMania that year.

Jarrett's time with Owen was short-lived, but led to a deep offscreen connection and making Jarrett one of the most visibly shaken superstars on the Monday Night Raw paying tribute to Owen's life in May of 1999.