10 WWE Tag-Teams that have been totally forgotten by fans

Tag-team wrestling is a part of professional wrestling that is often overlooked by WWE regardless of how much fans love the art. Over the years, WWE has seen some great tag-teams as well as some absolute duds.

A lot of tag-teams in WWE ended up being broken up early and forgotten, some because they just weren't good and others because WWE saw more potential in them as singles stars.

This week, we take a look at 10 tag-teams that have been forgotten by most fans today.

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#10 Rotunda Brothers

Bo Dallas’ WWE career started very promisingly and he won the coveted NXT Championship down in the black and gold brand. However, things didn’t go well for Dallas when he was pulled up to the main roster and after he couldn’t connect with the fans in the way management wanted, he was more or less designated to be an enhancementalent. Following this, Dallas was a part of The Social Outcasts and then the more successful B-Team.

Before his run with Axel, Bo Dallas was a part of a much more successful tag-team during his time in developmental in Florida Championship Wrestling. Down in FCW, Dallas teamed up with his real-life brother Bray Wyatt and the duo formed the Rotunda Brothers. They found success down in pre-NXT developmental, winning two FCW Tag-Team Championships during their run together.

Bray Wyatt on the other hand, catapulted himself to main event status with his gimmick change.

Check out this pretty awful promo from the duo down in FCW:

#9 Tekno Team 2000

Tekno Team 2000 was basically Vince McMahon giving us the idea of what people would dress like in the new Millennium, which was just 5 years off from the debut of this not-so-dynamic duo.

Debuting in 1995, Tekno Team 2000 got a slight push soon after making their bow in WWE but it was short lived. Not only was the gimmick silly, neither Troy nor Travis were actually any good in the ring after the bell rang. Even WWE once made a list called “boring WWE tag-teams” and had TT2000 on it. One interesting fact about TT2000, however, is that Troy was actually Erik Watts, son of controversial and legendary booker Cowboy Bill Watts.

Check out this video on Tekno Team 2000 from WWE’s official YouTube channel:

#8 The Pitbulls

DISCLAIMER: This is about the WWE Tag-team and not the Pit Bulls from the original ECW

To be quite honest, even I’d forgotten that The Pitbulls were once a thing when I started my research for this article. The team consisted of Cruiserweights Jamie Noble and Kid Kash and was formed after Noble’s return to WWE in 2005.

The gimmick was sort of a rip-off or tribute (depending on which way you look at it) of the tag-team of the same name down in the original ECW including the dog collars they wore down to the ring.

Both Noble and Kash were veterans of the cruiserweight division and hence the the team had a certain appeal to it. But just like most ad hoc teams that the WWE assembled, the Pit Bulls too fizzled out with Kash departing the company.

#7 Gymini

Sticking to the early 2000s and the Ruthless Aggression Era, we move onto the tag-team of Gymini who wrestled in developmental as The Shane Twins. The duo were renamed as Jesse and Jake Gymini and made their SmackDown debut in early 2006.

Gymini were brought in by fitness guru Simon Dean as his henchman. Unfortunately, Jake and Jesse looked lost inside the ring from day one and did not last long in the WWE. They were released from their WWE contracts in early 2007, just a little more than a year after their main roster debut.

They were making light work of their opponents on WWE's B shows but couldn't replicate the same on SmackDown.

#6 The Heart Throbs

We now move on to another quickly forgotten team from the Ruthless Aggression Era – The Heart Throbs. Debuting on RAW in 2005, their only characteristic was that they were popular with the ladies.

For the majority of their run in the WWE, Antonio Thomas and Romeo Roselli appeared on Sunday Night Heat. They got one shot at the WWE Tag-Team Championships before they were released from their WWE contracts in early 2006.

Check out this video of Kane taking on The Heart Throbs in a handicap match on RAW:

#5 Roman Reigns and Tyler Breeze

When you talk about two tag-team partners who went on to have totally different levels of success, one forgotten example is the short-lived tag-team between Roman Reigns and Tyler Breeze down in Florida Championship Wrestling.

While Reigns went on to become one of WWE’s top stars and a multiple-time world champion, Tyler Breeze recently went back down to NXT after an overall unsuccessful run on the main roster.

During their brief run as a tag-team, Reigns and Breeze won the FCW Tag-Team titles once before splitting up.

Breeze has since aligned himself with Fandango, adopting the team name 'Breezango'. The duo boast of a NXT tag team title win

#4 Matt Hardy and Tatanka

We move on to another short-lived partnership from the Ruthless Aggression Era. Now it’s the turn of a tag-team wrestling legend – Matt Hardy. Hardy’s least memorable tag-team was the one he formed with WWE legend Tatanka in 2006.

The duo won a non-title match against MNM at No Way Out 2006 but lost the title match they earned as a result. They lost the title match and split up soon after, with Tatanka getting released in early 2007.

It was a surprise to see Tatanka return to the WWE after over a decade. Even though he looked in good shape, the creative direction did not do much to aid him. Him and Hardy looked like a misfit team from the get go and neither was able to make the most of the setup.

#3 Kane and Al Snow

Speaking of unlikely and forgotten tag-teams, we now take a look at Kane and Al Snow’s unlikely partnership down in Smokey Mountain Wrestling. Together, the duo were dubbed as the fifth incarnation of The Dynamic Duos. Kane was wrestling under the moniker “Unabomb” at the time.

The duo found some success in SMW and won the Tag-Team titles once and had some memorable feuds with the Rock N’ Roll Express and The Thugs. The partnership between Al Snow and Unabomb ended after the latter joined WWE as Isaac Yankem DDS. Al Snow signed with WWE a month later.

Kane went on to become one of WWE's biggest ever stars while Al Snow was largely a mid-carder who catered to the requirements of a mannequin head.

#2 Stone Cold and Shawn Michaels

The year was 1997 and both Stone Cold Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels feuded with The Hart Foundation. The two WWE legends decided to join forces against the Hart Foundation for a brief period and won the tag-team titles on the 26th May, 1997 episode of WWE RAW.

However, they didn’t end up holding the title for too long and had to vacate the belts after Michaels was suspended following a backstage altercation with Bret Hart.

Stone Cold went on to team up with Dude Love to challenge for the titles and the duo ended up winning them.

#1 Ric Flair and Roddy Piper

Ric Flair and Roddy Piper briefly held the tag-team titles

Leading into Cyber Sunday 2006, two of the biggest icons in wrestling history – Ric Flair and ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper – joined forces to face Kenny and Mikey of the Spirit Squad for the Tag-Team titles.

Against all odds, Flair and Piper defeated their much younger opponents to walk out as the WWE Tag-Team Champions. The duo are still the oldest team to win the WWE Tag-Team Championships. This was also the last title Roddy Piper won in the WWE.

Pay-per-views like Cyber Sunday and Taboo tuesday gave the WWE universe an option to choose the participants and match stipulations. The fact that Flair and Piper were chosen to do the job just showed the adulation the WWE fans had for these legends.

Edited by Arvind Sriram