10 WWE Tag Teams You Forgot Were Champions

7. 1-2-3 Kid & Marty Jannetty

Just going to take a quick break from the Ruthless Aggression Era because I was starting to feel bugs crawl over my skin.

Off we go to the New Generation Era, another of WWE’s favourite times. And hey you know what, say what you will about the New-Gen but for most of the time the tag straps were held by actual tag teams, The Steiners, Two Dudes with Attitudes, Smoking Gunns, Quebecers, 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty, wait what was that last one?

Yup on the January 10 episode of Raw in 1994, the random pairing of Kid and Janetty A.K.A. the “we made our costumes ourselves twins beat The Quebecers!” Why? Because it was Raw’s one-year anniversary show and sod it, it’s the tag belts.

Nice little celebration pop to kick off the show, then the lads would drop the belts literally the next week. 1-2-3 Kid would make a habit of weird pairing, one year later winning the belts with Bob Holly at the 1995 Royal Rumble, only to drop the to the Smoking Gunns the next night on Raw.

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6. Drew McIntyre & Cody Rhodes

Well, this team would probably be more of a big deal if it happened today, huh.

Cody Rhodes has a fun relationship with Tag Team Championships, once managing to win the straps from himself at Night of Champions 2008, turning up with Bob Holly as champs, turning on Holly, allying with Ted DiBiase and switching teams before the bell.

Two years later, also at Night of Champions, WWE would hold a Tag Team Turmoil Match which shone an UNFORGIVING light on their total lack of tag teams, as the match featured the Usos, and the Hart Dynasty, but also Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov, random pairing Evan Bourne and Mark Henry, and random pairing Cody and Drew.

Quite a division. I mean you might as well switch the belts, the Raw before the pay-per-view saw Chris Jericho beat then-champions The Hart Dynasty in a 2-on-1 Cage Match. Nothing matters.

Cody and Drew held the belts for a month before dropping them to…

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5. John Cena & David Otunga – Bragging Rights 2010

WWE bloody love whacking the Tag Team Titles on singles star John Cena and [insert person that John Cena is feuding with here] because nothing gives Vince more a downstairs chuckle than an established tag team with established tag team chemistry not being able to beat two random singles stars who actively don’t want to work together.

Literally, John Cena has only ever held Tag Championship gold with people that he was feuding with. They did it with Cena and Shawn Michaels beating Rated RKO before WrestleMania 23, with Cena and Batista beating Legacy before SummerSlam 2008, with The Miz beating The Corre before WrestleMania XXVII and at Bragging Rights 2010.

John Cena, who was forced to be the nexus’s indentured servant, won them with David Otunga OF ALL PEOPLE, before, of course, losing them in an all Nexus Fingerpoke of Doom the next night on Raw.

Why does WWE hate the Tag Team Championships?

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4. William Regal & Eugene

Urrrghgh. William Regal is the best, Eugene was the worst. Back to 2004, we go then, good year that.

At Survivor Series 2004, Randy Orton, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho and Maven each got to run Raw for a week.

Because Maven is the worst of the four, he created a three-way tag team elimination match for the gold, Rhyno and Tajiri vs. champions and actual tag team La Resistance vs. Eugene and Regal.

Eugene got the pin with the People’s Elbow and oh the sight of William Regal jumping for joy, smiling next to Eugene, it’s not right please hurry up and win King of the Ring Willy Reegs.

Running around in a circle with actual children, like it’s just… it’s… oh never mind, WWE you are so weird.

The team actually held the belts for two months before losing them back to La Resistance at a Canadian house show. At a house show! Why not?!

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