8 Best tag team matches in WWE history

#1 Hart Foundation vs. Demolition 2 out 3 Falls Match (SummerSlam 1990)

What a moment!

For all the superlatives we’ve given the previous match, there’s something even more special when two traditional tag teams come together to produce magic inside that squared circle. Something, which The Hart Foundation and Demolition did at SummerSlam thirty years ago.

Contested under two out of three falls, each fall tells a different story in an era where there was clear definition of how to be a babyface and a heel.

The Harts are pitted as the white-meat babyface challengers going against the all-conquering heel trio of Demolition – a team who had already had a record-breaking title reign under the studded belts and face-paint.

Demolition take the first fall after wearing down the primed for stardom Bret Hart, then as Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart hits the hot tag, it forces Crush into preventing a pin-count, causing a DQ and tying the match at one fall a piece.

The final act is then played out like a scene from a Hollywood movie, with the heels seemingly fooling the way to victory thanks to a rotation of members, before the Harts find allies in Legion of Doom, who storm to the ring to even the odds and allow our heroes to taste triumph and take home the gold.

That’s how you tell a story, and that’s how you book a tag team match.