Did These WWE Tag Teams Win Tag Team Titles?
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Winning a championship in the WWE is considered the pinnacle of a wrestling career. Back when the WCW was at its height of popularity, you could almost make the case that winning a title in that promotion shared equal status with doing so in the WWE, but there's simply nothing comparable in today's world. Kids who aspire to be wrestlers when they're older do so while picturing themselves winning the WWE World - or Universal - Championship. If play wrestling with friends, they imagine themselves winning the WWE World Tag Team Championship. Winning those titles requires great charisma and in-ring chemistry. Duos need to work at becoming dominant tag teams worthy of a championship push. Those are the teams that win championships; OK, those and the odd teams comprised of miscast superstars who are seemingly going nowhere in their singles career (see Cesaro and Sheamus).
Since it introduced the Tag Team Titles, the WWE has had several different names for the belts. There was the WWE World Tag Team Championship, which was used from 1971 to 2010, and, with the brand division, there is now the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship and WWE Raw Tag Team Championship. For the purposes of this quiz, we're including all three of these different tag team titles.
Did Heath Slater and Rhyno win the Tag Team Championship?
Rhyno was once an incredibly over wrestler in the ECW who had decent success during WWE's Invasion storyline. The 41 year old former ECW World Heavyweight Champion made his WWE debut in 2001 and went on to win the WWE Hardcore Championship (x3) and WCW United States Championship while working for the WWE. He's currently on Raw, where he is teamed with Heath Slater, who he briefly feuded with upon returning to the company in 2016. The pair competed in the tournament to determine the first ever WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions.
Did The Rockers win the Tag Team Championship?
Arugably one of the most popular tag teams of their generation, The Rockers was comprised of a young Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty. The team won multiple tag team championships in other promotions such as the American Wrestling Association and the National Wrestling Alliance before debuting in the WWE in the late 1980s. Their 1992 split, in which Michaels superkicked Jannetty through a barbershop window during a segment hosted by Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, remains one of the most iconic moments in WWE history.
Did The Rock and Undertaker win the Tag Team Championship?
Quite often, the WWE likes to pair megastars together to push them toward competing in the tag team division when there's little for them to do at the moment in regard to major singles titles. It doesn't happen as often now, but during the Ruthless Aggression and Attitude eras there was some strange pairings, most notably the 2000 pairing of The Rock and The Undertaker, who had little in common other than the fact they both wanted to quiet Edge and Christian, who had won the titles over a month ago from Right to Censor.
Did American Alpha win the Tag Team Championship?
Before he was announced as (kayfabe) Kurt Angle's son on WWE Raw in July, Jason Jordan was part of the highly-successful tag team American Alpha. Jordan and current SmackDown Live superstar Chad Gable first formed American Alpha in July of 2015 in NXT. They were heels at the time, but within half a year had become babyfaces due to their resiliency and underdog status against more powerful opponents. They adopted the American Alpha moniker in January of 2016 and enjoyed a quick rise to prominence with an eventual recall to the WWE main roster.
Did Hulk Hogan and "Macho Man" Randy Savage win the Tag Team Championship?
The WWE was pairing megastars together long before The Rock and The Undertaker. In fact, in 1987, the company created The Mega Powers, which was comprised of arguably two of its biggest stars of all-time, Hulk Hogan and "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Prior to their joining forces, Hogan was the most over star in the company, while Savage was a heel on the verge of a face turn following an angle with The Honky Tonk Man. They teamed up for about a year and took the WWE by storm, defeating teams consisting of The Honky Tonk Man, Hart Foundation Members, and Ted DiBiase. They met Andre the Giant and DiBiase at SummerSlam 1988 and later feuded with the Twin Towers.
Did Cryme Tyme win the Tag Team Championship?
JTG/The Neighborhoodie and Shad Gaspard were first paired together back in 2006 with OVW, when they were The Gang Stars. They won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship in their first match together and later joined the WWE that same year and began feuding with Spirit Squad and The World's Greatest Tag Team. The characters conformed to many racial stereotypes, but the WWE tried to get out in front of the negative reaction by issuing a statement on its website prior to their debut: "In an effort to humor and entertain our fans the tag team known as Cryme Tyme will be parodying racial stereotypes... This attempt at Saturday Night Live like humor is bound to entertain audiences of all ethnic derivations."
Did Edge and Rey Mysterio win the Tag Team Championship?
Neither Edge nor Rey Mysterio are best remembered as teaming with the other, but the duo formed a fairly successful tag team in 2002 after Edge ended a feud with Eddie Guerrero. In fact, the short-lived tag team fought - and lost to - Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit for the WWE Tag Team Championship at No Mercy that year, in a performance that was deemed Match of the Year by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Edge later teamed with Benoit, while both he and Mysterio eventually had World Championship pushes.
Did The World's Greatest Tag Team win the Tag Team Championship?
Team Angle (and later The World's Greatest Tag Team) consisted of Shelton Benjamin, who enjoyed a decent singles career, and Charlie Haas, who was limited to success on the tag team circuit. The pair debuted in December of 2002 as the heel tag team Team Angle introduced by Paul Heyman to help Angle retain his title against Brock Lesnar and Chris Benoit. In 2004, the team was separated as Benjamin was drafted to Raw to move forward as a singles wrestler, while Haas was teamed with Rico. They reunited briefly in 2006.
Did The Twin Towers win the Tag Team Championship?
The Big Bossman had an extensive career with the WWE which involved a few different stints and slight changes to his in-ring attire. He was a four-time WWE Hardcore Champion who primarily worked on the mid-card later in his career, but he was part of a promising tag team early in his career alongside Akeem. Aptly titled the Twin Towers - Akeem was 6-foot-9, while the Bossman was 6-foot-6 - the duo was a fixture in the tag team division in the late 1980s and defeated The Rockers at WrestleMania V.
Did Los Guerreros win the Tag Team Championship?
Different members of the famed Guerrero family wrestled as Los Guerreros, but the most recent team consisted of WWE legend Eddie Guerrero and his nephew Chavo. Eddie was teaming with Chris Benoit in 2002, but upon Benoit turning face, he was teamed up with Chavo and the pair participated in the SmackDown tournament for the Tag Team Championship, but was defeated by the team of Benoit and Angle. After Eddie tragically passed away, his widow Vickie Guerrero served as Chavo's valet.
Did Power and Glory win the Tag Team Championship?
Managed by the first African-American manager in WWE history, Slick, Power and Glory was a rising tag team during 1990 and 1991. The team consisted of Hercules (later Hercules Hernandez), who represented Power, and Paul Roma, who represented Glory due to his supposed good looks. As a heel tag team, Power and Glory feuded with The Hart Foundation and The Rockers, but their demise as a team was foreshadowed at WrestleMania VII when they lost to The Legion of Doom in less than a minute.
Did 3MB win the Tag Team Championship?
Even the biggest wrestling fan couldn't have predicted that Jinder Mahal of 3MB would one day become WWE World Champion. Back in 2012, Mahal was one-third of 3MB (Three Man Band), which also consisted of Heath Slater and Drew McIntyre and had several other names including Slater Group, Encore, and The Trio. Drew and Jinder primarily competed as a tag team, while Heath competed for singles titles, but they were often interchangeable as tag team duos. Drew and Jinder were released in early 2014.
Did The Dudley Boyz win the Tag Team Championship?
After rising to prominence in the ECW as a brash, obscene tag team consisting of (kayfabe) half-brothers Bubba Ray and D-Von, The Dudley Boyz carried that momentum into the WWE upon debuting for the company in 1999. The eight-time ECW World Tag Team Champions were best known for their hardcore matches and willingness to involve tables; in fact, their most memorable match is the first tables, ladders, chairs match against Edge and Christian and The Hardy Boyz. They joined TNA in 2005 and spent nine years in the now-disbanded promotion.
Did The Orient Express win the Tag Team Championship?
Managed by Mr. Fuji, who earlier split up The Powers of Pain, The Orient Express was comprised of Akio Sato and Pat Tanaka, both of whom enjoyed unmemorable singles runs in the WWE throughout the mid-90s. Earlier in the decade, however, the team was a force within the tag team division, as was any team or wrestler managed by Mr. Fuji back then. They feuded with the likes of Demolition and The Legion of Doom, both of which had lengthy runs as Tag Team Champions. Sato returned to Japan for a brief period in 1990 and was replaced by the masked Paul Diamond, who wrestled as Kato.
Did ShoMiz win the Tag Team Championship?
The Miz is one of the best heels in the WWE today, as evidenced by the hate he receives from crowds as the Intercontinental Champion. He has enjoyed quite the run as a singles competitor recently, especially with Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel as his Miztourage, but it wasn't too long ago that he was part of a successful tag team himself. In 2010, while The Miz was the United States Champion, he joined forces with The Big Show to compete in a match for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship. The team lasted only five months before The Big Show completed a face turn by attacking The Miz.
Did Shawn Michaels and Triple H (D-X) win the Tag Team Championship?
As singles wrestlers, Shawn Michaels and Triple H are among the most successful in WWE history. Together, the duo was wildly popular as D-Generation X, a group that ultimately helped the WWE win the Monday Night Wars against the WCW and pushed the envelope each and every Monday Night Raw in the late 1990s and early 2000s. A more viewer-friendly version of the crotch-chopping group reemerged in 2006 as Michaels and Triple H reformed DX as a tag team and competed against the likes of Rated-RKO, The Legacy, and John Morrison and The Miz.
Did The Colons win the Tag Team Championship?
As a singles wrestler, Carlito was a former United States and Intercontinental Champion, but he was losing steam heading into 2008, which was his fifth year with the company. He was paired with his real-life brother Eddie "Primo" Colon, who debuted that year on SmackDown. The duo won their first tag team match in a non-title bout against then-Champions Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder and went on to team together for the better part of a year before briefly getting back together in 2010 until Carlito was released due to violating the WWE wellness program and replaced by Epico.
Did Zig/Swag (Dolph Ziggler/Jack Swagger) win the Tag Team Championship?
The tag team of Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger was short-lived, but it was wildly popular among fans. Ziggler is a five-time Intercontinental Champion and two-time World Heavyweight Champion, but before becoming The Natural, he won Tag Team gold as a member of the Spirit Squad back in 2006. Swagger, meanwhile, is a one-time World Heavyweight Champion who was Mr. Money in the Bank in 2010. Swagger is now on the independent circuit, while Ziggler is hardly being used on SmackDown.
Did Edge and Christian win the Tag Team Championship?
There might not have been a more entertaining tag team in WWE history than Edge and Christian. Their outlandish costumes and catchphrases ("reeking of awesome, "five second pose," etc.) made them popular as both a heel and face tag team and propelled both wrestlers into dominant singles wrestlers - Edge is a seven-time World Heavyweight Champion, while Christian won the title twice. They originally formed a team in 1997 on the Canadian independent circuit and debuted in WWE as members of Gangrel's Brood.
Did 3-Minute Warning win the Tag Team Championship?
Jamal and Rosey were a threat to the entire WWE mid-card roster when they debuted in 2002 as 3-Minute Warning, a pair of hired goons for Eric Bischoff, who ordered them to attack wrestlers in matches he deemed too boring. For weeks, the pair would come out and interrupt matches and segments before ever appearing in a match themselves. They crashed the commitment ceremony for Billy and Chuck and eventually feuded with The Dudley Boyz before Jamal was released from the WWE for his involvement in a bar fight. Rosey was subsequently teamed with The Hurricane.
Did Too Cool win the Tag Team Championship?
Too Cool consisted of Scotty 2 Hotty and Grandmaster Sexay and was originally a light heavyweight tag team that feuded with teams like Funaki and Taka Michinoku, but the team later rose to prominence with the help of Rikishi, who donned a pair of sunglasses and would dance in the ring with the team following victories. The tag team enjoyed success in 2000, while Rikishi won the Intercontinental Championship. However, they disbanded in 2001 after Scotty 2 Hotty was released for being caught at the Canada-United States border with illegal drugs.
Did The Rock n' Sock Connection win the Tag Team Championship?
If The Rock and The Undertaker was an odd pairing, then The Rock and Mankind was out-of-this-world bizarre. Yet, because of their individual differences and commitment to their characters, they worked great as a tag team and are responsible for some of the greatest in-ring segments in WWE history. The odd couple tag team has long been a popular trope in the WWE, but no other team pulled it off quite like The Rock n' Sock Connection. Prior to forming a team, the pair were bitter rivals and headlined multiple PPV events, including the I Quit Match at Royal Rumble 99, when The Rock actually knocked Mankind unconscious with multiple chair shots to the head.
Did The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers win the Tag Team Championship?
Jacques Rougeau was an immensely successful heel tag team wrestler in the WWE as part of The Quebecers and later enjoyed a singles push as The Mountie. But back in the late 1980s, he and his brother Raymond joined the WWE as babyfaces and squared off against heel teams such as Demolition and The Dream Team. After a year of limited success as faces, the team completed a heel turn during a match against The Killer Bees in which they cheated their way to victory. They later employed Jimmy Hart as their manager and began feuding with The Hart Foundation, which had turned babyface.
Did The Allied Powers win the Tag Team Championship?
Upon Hulk Hogan leaving WWE for WCW, Vince McMahon sought to find his replacement. He thought he had done so by bringing in Lex Luger, who was a muscular, All-American strongman. Luger was immediately pushed as a main event wrestler, but he wasn't quite over with the fans and his singles run was short-lived. When he began losing steam, he was put together with "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith to form the Allied Powers in reference to the United States and the United Kingdom's relationship during WWII.
Did Kane and X-Pac win the Tag Team Championship?
After debuting as a heel, Kane eventually became a fan favorite and, by 1999, started teaming with X-Pac, who had previously been in D-X and was without direction. WWE decided to push him and Kane as a tag team managed by Tori, who was Kane's on-screen girlfriend at the time in what was one of the stranger on-screen relationships. Regardless, the odd couple duo was popular among fans and competed against tag teams such as The Acolytes and X-Pac's old D-X buddies Billy Gunn and Road Dogg. They remained a team until an October 1999 edition of SmackDown when Tori and X-Pac turned on Kane during a match against the Dudley Boyz.
Did The New Rockers win the Tag Team Championship?
It's a great shame that The Rockers didn't win the Tag Team Championship during their time together in the late 1980s, but it was evident that Shawn Michaels was destined for superstardom, while Marty Jannetty was no more than a mid-card worker at best. The WWE tried to recapture the magic that made The Rockers so popular among fans back in 1996 when it brought back Jannetty and paired with him Al Snow, who wrestled as Leif Cassidy. They weren't as cool nor did they last as long. The team wrestled at a few PPVs throughout the year before disbanding in December of 1996 when Jannetty left the company.
Did The New Age Outlaws win the Tag Team Championship?
"Oh you didn't know ... Your ass better call somebody!" If the popular tagline of the New Age Outlaws didn't get you fired up, then chances are you weren't a true wrestling fan. D-X dominated the WWE during the Attitude Era and the faction surprisingly became even more popular following the departure of its leader, Shawn Michaels. Triple H brought in X-Pac, Road Dogg, and Billy Gunn, the latter two of which formed the New Age Outlaws. The team competed together from 1997 to 2000.
Did The Godwinns win the Tag Team Championship?
Mark Canterbury was directionless in the WWE as Henry O. Godwinn, a hog farmer from Arkansas, up until 1996, when he was paired with Dennis Knight, who wrestled as his brother, Phineas I. Godwinn. The team debuted in a tournament to crown new Tag Team Champions and reached the finals at WrestleMania XII, where they lost to the Bodydonnas. The team later feuded with The Bodydonnas for a period of a few months as Phineas was infatuated with Sunny, the Bodydonnas' busty valet at the time. They debuted as faces, but later enjoyed more success as a bitter Southern heel team.
Did The Bodydonnas win the Tag Team Championship?
The Bodydonnas were a competitive tag team comprised of Skip and Zip, but most might only know the team for its valet, Sunny, who was the most popular woman in the WWE at the time. Sunny's sexuality often caused opposing teams to be distracted, which would help lead Skip and Zip to victory. The team eventually lost Sunny as its manager as she wanted to manage whoever were champions at the time, but urged fans to apply for the position of their new manager. They eventually hired Cloudy, who was actually Chris Candido's (Skip) friend James Henry dressed as a woman. Yeah, that happened.
Did The Golden Truth win the Tag Team Championship?
R-Truth and Goldust have had lengthy, decorated careers in the industry. Truth is a former United States Champion, two-time Hardcore Champion, and won the Tag Team Championship with Kofi Kingston. Goldust, meanwhile, is a nine-time Hardcore Champion and three-time Intercontinental Champion. Together, they formed The Golden Truth in 2016 and teamed against the newly-formed Breezango, which consisted of Tyler Breeze and Fandango. They competed together on Raw for the better part of a year before Goldust turned on R-Truth and attacked him in the ring.
Did The Bushwhackers win the Tag Team Championship?
WWE Hall of Famers Luke Williams and Butch Miller spent 36 years together as a tag team under various names, but rose to prominence during the late 1980s and early 1990s as The Bushwhackers, a comedic team with exaggerated arm movements who enjoyed licking each other's heads. And while they were a joke outside of the ring, they worked well together in the squared circle and competed against teams such as The Natural Disasters, The Nasty Boys, and the Beverly Brothers. They won tag team championships together in 15 different promotions.
Did Men on a Mission win the Tag Team Championship?
Before he was Viscera or Big Daddy V, Nelson Frazier Jr. made his WWE debut in 1993 as one-third of Men on a Mission (M.O.M), which also include Mabel, and the pair's rapping manager Oscar. They wore bright, fluorescent clothing and spoke about how they wanted to improve conditions in the inner-city neighborhoods. They were primarily a comedy act (they once teamed up with The Bushwhackers and dressed as Doink the Clown in a Survivor Series match against Bam Bam Bigelow, Bastion Booger, and The Headshrinkers), but had moderate success later in 1994.
Did The Headshrinkers win the Tag Team Championship?
Previously The New Wild Samoans in the National Wrestling Alliance, Fatu and Samu joined the WWE in 1992 and began wrestling as The Headshrinkers. They had essentially the same gimmick as a pair of Samoan wildmen who were managed by Samu's father, Afa. They made their debut on WWE TV by helping Money Inc. defeat the Natural Disasters to earn the WWE World Tag Team Titles, and later entered the tag team title picture themselves. They feuded with teams such as The Smokin' Gunns and Men on a Mission and later turned face in 1994 to compete against the Quebecers for the titles.
Did The Powers of Pain win the Tag Team Championship?
The Powers of Pain consisted of The Barbarian and The Warlord. They were a dominant tag team in the late 1980s with National Wrestling Alliance, but left to join the WWE, where they debuted in a house show match against the World Tag Team Champions Demolition. They feuded with Demolition on and off during their first year in the company and later turned heel after Mr. Fuji turned on Demolition and joined the Powers of Pain at Survivor Series 1988. They split in 1990 after Mr. Fuji sold Barbarian's contract to Bobby "The Brain" Heenan and Warlord's contract to Slick.
Did The Quebecers win the Tag Team Championship?
After failing to win tag team gold as a member of the Fabolous Rougeau Brothers, Jacques Rougeau was partnered with Pierre as The Quebecers from 1993 to 1994 and later again in 1998. They dressed in red and black uniforms that were similar to the one Jacques wore while he was The Mountie and were managed by Johnny Polo, who eventually found success in ECW and later WWE as Raven. They primarily feuded with teams such as the Steiner Brothers and Men on a Mission, who they challenged at WrestleMania 10 for the WWE Tag Team Championship.
Did Bret and Owen Hart win the Tag Team Championship?
The Hart Foundation tag team originally consisted of Jim Neidhart and Bret "The Hitman" Hart, who were brothers-in-law. They were managed by Jimmy Hart and were one of the company's best tag teams in the late 1980s. Several other renditions of the faction have since been formed, including most recently David Hart Smith and Tyson Kidd, who won the World Tag Team Championship. Bret and Owen Hart also competed frequently as a tag team during the mid-1990s and challenged for the Tag Team Championship numerous times. Owen turned on Bret at Royal Rumble 1994.
Did Demolition win the Tag Team Championship?
Originally comprised of Ax and Smash, Demolition later included Crush, who joined the team in 1990 following its heel turn after WrestleMania VI. Crush was actually added due to Bill Eadie (Ax) developing an allergy to Shellfish and becoming sick; Vince McMahon wanted to ensure the popular team would remain intact in case of an emergency, so he brought in Crush. The three-man team often used different combinations for tag team matches much like The New Day does, utilizing the Freebird rule. They disbanded in 1991.
Did The Beverly Brothers win the Tag Team Championship?
Wayne Bloom and Mike Enos first joined forces in the American Wrestling Association as The Destruction Crew and later teamed together in WCW and New Japan Pro Wrestling before arriving in the WWE back in 1991. There, the team was repackaged as Beau and Blake, the Beverly Brothers. Whereas they used to carry sledgehammers to the ring and seek to destroy their opponents, in the WWE they wore purple tights and had the gimmick of spoiled rich kids managed by The Genius. They feuded with the Steiner Brothers and the Natural Disasters before Bloom left the WWE in 1993.
Did The Usos win the Tag Team Championship?
The twin sons of former Intercontinental Champion Rikishi, Jimmy and Jey Uso have tremendous in-ring chemistry due to their upbringing, which involved training from an early age. They debuted for WWE's development brand Florida Championship Wrestling in 2009 and quickly became FCW Florida Tag Team Champions. Not surprisingly, they were promoted to the main roster in 2010 and have since had success as heels and faces. They are two-time Slammy Award winners for Tag Team of the Year, which they won in 2014 and 2015.
Did The Killer Bees win the Tag Team Championship?
The Killer Bees consisted of "Jumpin'" Jim Brunzell and B. Brian Blair. They debuted in the WWE in 1985 and remained a tag team until 1988, when Blair was released by the company. Brunzell, meanwhile, stayed with the company into the early 1990s as an enhancement talent, often winning matches at house shows but putting over up-and-coming talent on TV. They had long-running feuds with the Funks and the Hart Foundation and received numerous opportunities to compete for the WWE Tag Team Championship. Their last appearance together was at 1988's WrestleFest, in which they lost to the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers.