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.
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.

#4 Team Hell No

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Team Hell No had a similar start as The Bar, with an odd couple pairing growing out of an intense rivalry involving AJ Lee, jealousy, championship frustrations, and, worst of all, early 20-teens Charlie Sheen.

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Daniel Bryan and Kane's mutual frustrations at their failure to recapture world championships landed the pair in anger management, where an overzealous Dr. Shelby forced the two into an awkward tag team pairing that captured the tag titles in late 2012.

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As ridiculous as their origin story sounds, Kane is and always has been the consummate company man, and put a great deal of effort into making the angle succeed. Bryan, meanwhile, committed wholeheartedly to the angle's comedic elements (much like the "vegan" story that netted the leader of the Yes! Movement his eventual wife).

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Team Hell No quickly coalesced not just in their desire to succeed, but in their mutual hatred of Dr. Shelby, who seemed to be modeled after Metallica's far-too-involved group therapist from the documentary Some Kind of Monster.

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Team Hell No went from strange beginnings to a 245-day tag title reign, which spanned a classic TLC clash against The Shield, as well as another memorable Shield match where Team Hell No aligned themselves with The Undertaker, and for which Bryan had diagrams!

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Edited by Nishant Jayaram
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