"Kona" Crush was a reference to Brian Adams's Hawaiian origin; that's why he ended nearly every sentence with "Brah." NOD Crush was a reference to his real-life criminal record for possession of a handgun and steroids, which was actually referenced on-screen to explain the gimmick change.
@dkres82
3 жыл бұрын
Yep. Think that’s how they 1st brought in Clarence Mason
@derekdash2179
3 жыл бұрын
I preferred him as Demolition Crush!
@LordBarros
3 жыл бұрын
Random but anyone ever notice Greg the Hammer Valentine always looked 40+ no matter how old he actually was at the time. :P
@silverzombie4477
3 жыл бұрын
I have never heard Simon so disrespected when Demolition cropped up. 😂
@Seth_-lq1rr
3 жыл бұрын
American alpha: chad gable- shorty G Jason Jordan-Kurt angles son
@0725038
3 жыл бұрын
I would also add Enzo and Cass. They were so big and then went downhill really quick after their split.
@thefilthycasual6402
3 жыл бұрын
@@0725038 at least Enzo kind of did something in 205 live winning the Cruiser Weight title while Big Cass did nothing of importance except compete in a Money in the Bank match.
@Csmallo
3 жыл бұрын
Many years ago, in the year before his death, John Tenta (Earthquake) was active on a wrestling message board. He was a great guy. He would interact with the posters in a polite manner. Giving insight to the wrestling history that he had lived. His stories made logging on to the computer that day worth it. A shame he died so young.
@Bman32x
3 жыл бұрын
GI Bro was actually one of Booker T’s indie names prior to WCW, just like their tag team was supposed to be the Houston Heat, but because southern rasslin fans of a certain skin complexion couldn’t comprehend Black people living in Texas. So, Harlem Heat it was
@walker1984
3 жыл бұрын
Even RD Reynolds failed to mention this fact
@jeremywilliams5141
3 жыл бұрын
The Headshrinkers. After they split, Fatu aka Rikishi had that "Make a Difference" gimmick.
@JeremyJamesPrutchick
3 жыл бұрын
The Full Blooded Italians (FBI). Vito, in particular. All I remember was that one day his character was a mean, gangster kind of guy, and then out of nowhere he was wearing a dress with no explanation.
@EssexAggiegrad2011
3 жыл бұрын
Apparently it was a reference to Vito on The Sopranos being revealed as homosexual
@SheriffOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
F.B.I. in ECW. That was just a riot how out of control they gotten with the act lol
@JeremyJamesPrutchick
3 жыл бұрын
@@SheriffOutlaw you're gonna have to refresh my memory. I think I stopped watching WWE at that time for a few years. What happened?
@SheriffOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyJamesPrutchick the o.g. F.B.I was out of control. Tracy Smothers, J.T. Smith, Tony Marmaluke,Tommy Rich, etc were not Italian and they were doing very offensive Italian stereotypes and etc with Little Guido and Big Guido being the only true Italians 😂
@tamzidmohsinkhan3333
3 жыл бұрын
This is why Vince always hate tag team wrestling
@Quartzquiz333
3 жыл бұрын
How on Earth did American Alpha get missed on this list?! Honorary Mention: The Powers of Pain when The Warlord and The Barbarian got goofy outfits.
@spearjs
3 жыл бұрын
"The Natural Disasters were the perfect 80s tag team". Who didn't form until the 90s 🤦🏻♂️
@CreateToInitiate
3 жыл бұрын
😂😭🤣🙈
@carlosdias8142
3 жыл бұрын
Good point... Earthquake didn’t join WWE till late 88.. were he took someone spot in Survivor series.. n he wrestled Hogan Summerslam 89 where he got counted out
@justin_your_cousin9273
3 жыл бұрын
Vince was nearly a decade behind in the mid 90s. He was forced to adapt to the times because of ECW and WCW
@brucelucasjr5856
3 жыл бұрын
Guess they were ahead of their time
@carlosdias8142
3 жыл бұрын
Actually i made a error without checking fscts but he actually debuted late 89 wrestled Hogan in 90 Summerslam.. So both Earthquake and Tugboat ( then became Typhoon ) late 89 almost early 90s
@subzippo
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for showing Jannetty a little kindness.
@tommythompson9681
3 жыл бұрын
I still don't understand the shockmaster begin from a sci fi villain gimmick to a clumsy electrician.
@Bman32x
3 жыл бұрын
It was a mistake. The hype was immediately killed because he tripped
@BronzeAgeBryon
3 жыл бұрын
With an Ole Anderson VO to boot.
@dwightdinero4489
3 жыл бұрын
The SharkMasters.
@jeffjackson9679
3 жыл бұрын
"I'm not a Shock, I'm a man!"
@glennwelsh9784
3 жыл бұрын
Simon's love for Repo Man forever endures. 😄
@rdtbrik1161
3 жыл бұрын
Makes no sense, because he never actually repossessed anything. He just stole it.
@tmirkin
3 жыл бұрын
Cody, "Look, dad. That's Uncle Fred!"
@gravitykat714
3 жыл бұрын
“Brutus the barber was ok” Bruh did you not hear the pops he would get when he walked out? It was over as hell
@jeffbayard4368
3 жыл бұрын
The Heavenly Bodies are also worth mentioning. Dr. Tom Pritchard cut that amazing head of hair off, bleached what he had left and became Body Donna Zip. Gigolo Jimmy Del Rey also got a haircut, stopped dancing, started dressing like he was a Nasty Boys reject and became a jobber known as Jimmy Graffiti. We can even throw Jim Cornette and Sweet Stan Lane in this as well, since Corny went onto lead that NWA faction that gave birth to The New Midnight Express, and Lane went onto become the color commentator for Ted Dibiase’s short lived abysmal promotion known as WXO.
@petervanbuskirk500
3 жыл бұрын
I hated Bradshaw's gimmick after APA.
@wolvie667
3 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who later discovered that The Disciple was actually Brutus Beefcake??
@derekdash2179
3 жыл бұрын
I think Brutus also did a short lived gimmick where he would attack Earthquake after his matches...
@mikeattard3543
3 жыл бұрын
@@derekdash2179 I remember that, too. He wore a mask but I don't think they ever acknowledged it was Brutus under the mask.
@BenCinco
3 жыл бұрын
One of the most entertaining videos I've seen, thank you for bringing this to us 😁
@jonbourgoin182
3 жыл бұрын
3:19 blue blazer *glimmick* lol
@scottdehaan5864
3 жыл бұрын
Shockmaster and Shark were in WCW at different times. Years apart lol
@stevegallo8483
3 жыл бұрын
John Tenta (Earthquake and the Shark) was in WCW as Avalanche before they turned him into the Shark in that idiotic Dungeon of Doom storyline.
@stoneman472
3 жыл бұрын
I swear to god, few tag teams made me crack up more than Disco and Alex.
@ZealKingdom
3 жыл бұрын
6:56 *THAT'S THE WALL, BROTHER!*
@alwaysxnever
3 жыл бұрын
"Good" to know that even in the 80's WWE split up tag teams without any decent reason. I keep forgetting that The Disciple was Beefcake.
@leonpennings7596
3 жыл бұрын
"The Natural Disasters looked terrifying..." I will never forget their big smiles when they came out at SummerSlam '92. They must have felt great with a gigantic pop that day!
@McMahonHater
3 жыл бұрын
You know, Bart Gun looks a lot likes Randy Orton
@daveincredible2482
3 жыл бұрын
How about Strike Force. Loved The Model but El Matador......seriously
@jaketheauroran
3 жыл бұрын
The Natural Disasters were one of my favorite teams as a kid. I had a wrestling game for SNES and all I would play is Legion of Doom vs The Natural Disasters.
@barryfields2964
3 жыл бұрын
From what I understand the idea for the Shark was John’s idea. And when management wanted to change it he insisted they didn’t.
@c0pyimitati0n
3 жыл бұрын
6:02 Crush was cool as hell when I was a kid 🤷♂️ my brother's and I always picked him on that old Sega Wrestling game.
@TheOnemanmoshpit
3 жыл бұрын
Am I only the one that really liked The New Foundation, High Energy and Kona Crush? Asking for a friend! 😂
@kentucky_ken
3 жыл бұрын
I hope the Iiconics will not be like these tag teams after the split.
@yash_kirnapure4528
3 жыл бұрын
I think Peyton will achieve something.. As of Billie Kay.. I don't know what are they going to do with her
@edro51188
3 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking about Billie and Peyton myself. They are BOTH talented and they don't deserve to be burdened with awful gimmicks.
@joshhale9355
3 жыл бұрын
I love the long running joke(?) that Simon will not take ANY Repo Man slander 😂
@stevegallo8483
3 жыл бұрын
One of the things the announcers called Disco Inferno when he became Disqo was "Dim Shady" the hip hop inferno.
@peterreid6096
3 жыл бұрын
Marty Jennette jumped out that window to get away from Shawn Michaels. The coward Jennette was!😂😂
@tibbs3165
3 жыл бұрын
Whirlwind and Giant Flood. Lmao! Brilliant!
@keyontedollison8547
3 жыл бұрын
WWF WCW had the best tag teams and the 80s 90s 00s.
@emeraldaly7646
3 жыл бұрын
Bubba/Bully Ray's run as TNA world champ just serves to underscore the fact that Devon was the only one of the six from the legendary TLC tag rivalry that didn't hold a world title in either WWE, TNA, or both. I think he might have had it in him but I guess it never had much of a chance.
@margegarland7635
3 жыл бұрын
You should do the same kind of list for stables where you can discuss groups like nexus, whose members had terrible gimmicks after the break up
@TheLoserface45
3 жыл бұрын
Simon: never put “new” in front of an old successful tag team. Me: I don’t hear anything from The Day tag team! They must be scrubs
@SheriffOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
The horrors over the thought of The Brand New Day! 🤣 Titus O'Neil, Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods 😂
@jopiaspieder1184
3 жыл бұрын
2 Cold Scorpio was pretty damn good in ECW but his WCW and WWF runs not so much in my opinion
@andrewburgess-linden9612
3 жыл бұрын
Cryme Tyme were huge before getting Split. They went from hanging with Cena to Jobbing for Santino Marella.
@TheCanadianBroski
3 жыл бұрын
Surprised that American Alpha isn't on the list solely due to the fact that WWE turned Chad Gable into Shorty G.
@freddiejohnson6137
3 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget after Bart Gunn was basically a generic cowboy for a while he got stuck in the awful new midnight express which was left out and probably worse he started off the brawl 4 all against his own partner Bob Holly effectively breaking the team up for the sake of Vince Russo's wanting to see Bradshaw get beat up. Also to this day I never really put the whole Berlyn Wall thing together even watching WCW at the time. I shook my head in shame of not getting it and how bad it is.
@jopiaspieder1184
3 жыл бұрын
Earthquake was actually Avalanche in WCW but was later named the Shark because the WWF threatened to sue saying that the Avalanche gimmick was too much like the Earthquake gimmick which they had rights to at the time
@HansJoachimMaier
3 жыл бұрын
I actually liked Berlyn :)
@KingOfKingz819
3 жыл бұрын
Left out the bit from Harlem Heat 2000 where Big T and Booker T fought over the rights to the letter T in their name
@damonscutz372
3 жыл бұрын
The Eliminators. Perry Saturn went from being a badass to hanging around with Moppy.
@tayflyfree497
3 жыл бұрын
Those high energy outfits were so hard to look at
@bengoddard7914
3 жыл бұрын
Ah the "blue blazer glimmick" Bit of a tongue twister.
@emeraldaly7646
3 жыл бұрын
Vince Russo wasn't entirely to blame for GI Bro. It was a character Booker had used on the indies.
@Clarkarias
3 жыл бұрын
This video turned up to 11 as soon as I saw the Repo Man.
@elliyahugenesove9777
3 жыл бұрын
Smoking Gunns started their career (Florida I believe) as a cowboy tag team
@TheQueenCityPsycho
3 жыл бұрын
Simon to the Repo Man is me to The Shockmaster. It's the greatest gimmick of All Time. Still waiting on a WWE-Disney-GLOW crossover starring a very large sparkly stormtrooper trying to make it in indie wrestling.
@Spetia
3 жыл бұрын
Too Cold Scorpio and Bagwell hated each other
@greenlight5921
3 жыл бұрын
I love the Repo Man! It's a silly, fun gimmick. It's the epitome of sports entertainment.
@JM1993951
3 жыл бұрын
The Harlem Heat break-up made sense for Booker T. Stevie Ray floundered completely.
@davidepling724
3 жыл бұрын
There was Doom. Ron Simmons became world champion and Butch Reed became a jobber. The APA. Bradshaw transformed to JBL to become world champ. Farooq aka Ron Simmons became a one word catch phrase. DAMN!
@hjalmarjohnson5846
3 жыл бұрын
I might be alone on this one, but I didn't entirely hate Reverend D-von. It wasn't a good idea to split up the Dudleys, but I think D-von did pretty good at selling the gimmick. He always had that sort of energy anyways.
@nicktaylor2657
3 жыл бұрын
Brutus Beefcake was The Booty Man not Boogy Man That was Jimmy Valiant Beside that was Ed Leslie's best WCW persona especially since Kimberly Page was Booty Girl and his finisher was the high knee
@MrTaz081
3 жыл бұрын
2 cold Scorpio, had a good run in ECW
@wolfdragonmonsterden74
3 жыл бұрын
Always thought they should have added Avalanche to the Natural Disasters for a big 3 man team..
@Mondragora99
3 жыл бұрын
I got one: NO LIMIT. Tetsuya Naito becomes the Stardust generic Genius and Yujiro was and still is the Tokyo Pimp.
@matthewdavis6741
3 жыл бұрын
That would encompass WhatCulture actually recognizing NJPW more than once a year
@Theonecn693
3 жыл бұрын
Batista was put with Devon because he was still green and they wanted him to learn from Devon. They literally explain this in the Evolution episode of the Ruthless Aggression documentary.
@wolvie667
3 жыл бұрын
I really liked the Natural Disasters.. one of my fav tagteams ever
@bobbydelacroix1515
3 жыл бұрын
I knew Darren Young in Miami in 2016 right before the Bob Backlund thing. According to him, he was supposed to get the IC Title with that run
@Krendall2
3 жыл бұрын
Kona Crush was some "happy Caribbean guy"? Uh, wrong ocean.
@zackschilling4376
3 жыл бұрын
More like Rhythm and Snooze
@matthewheffernan1298
3 жыл бұрын
A promo that has stuck with me for years. Jimmy 'mouth of the south's Harts 'it seems to me that it seems to be the Natural Disasters will crush the L.O.D.
@peterdbaker
3 жыл бұрын
I actually enjoyed 2 Cold and Bagwell a lot
@leepackard5895
3 жыл бұрын
The Sharkmasters. That's money right there
@BronzeAgeBryon
3 жыл бұрын
You know it. Too bad they weren't in WCW at the same time.
@patrickhein6986
3 жыл бұрын
Alex Wright as Berlyn was a real good Gimmick but (as so many times happened) was poorly excecuted by the WCW.
@marvelghost
3 жыл бұрын
You should do a list of tag teams that never got split up.
@hogbong1651
3 жыл бұрын
The Shark master
@youngboss87
3 жыл бұрын
The shark and the shock master I like it I like it a lot!
@CharlesDLincoln
3 жыл бұрын
While we can definitely agree that splitting the Dudley Boyz up was a bad idea, if you listen to interviews with Bully Ray and Devon, Devon actually wanted to continue the Reverend Devon character and did not like being put back into a tag team, as he had always intended to be a singles star (even if he ended up never really being one).
@emeraldaly7646
3 жыл бұрын
They weren't much of a tag team, but Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko were one for a little while after their clearly-more-ready-for-singles-runs stablemates Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero left the Radicalz. Once the Radicalz disbanded entirely, Saturn began a love affair with a mop and Malenko was some kind of cheesy James Bond ripoff who didn't realize he was actually a dork.
@jocelynbutler1710
3 жыл бұрын
John Tenta was avalanche first but it was too close to earthquake for the lawyers
@srtallio
3 жыл бұрын
Koko loved those pants 😄
@c0pyimitati0n
3 жыл бұрын
0:18 No, it was because *Marty* was a _goober_ 😂
@Wildberryjamband
3 жыл бұрын
Greg Valentine had to dye his hair and join a tag team, because Hogan and Vince were jealous of Greg's hair....
@yvngxe4853
3 жыл бұрын
was there a team called " the day" cuase the new day????
@superkid12345
3 жыл бұрын
was there anything weirder/creepier than Alex Wright when he shaved his head?
@zackschilling4376
3 жыл бұрын
What about the frozen Ric Flair in the back of the shot during the Shockmaster promo? If you watch it, after Ric Flair leaves theres something still there. I dont know if it was a cardboard standee, or some kind of green screen effect that froze his image when he leaves out the patio door look exit in the back. Its very strange, check it out if you never noticed what Im talking about.
@VIGLounge
3 жыл бұрын
Sylvain Granier and Renee Dupree
@michaelmythology
3 жыл бұрын
World Greatest Tag Team - While Shelton had some mid card success, Haas went onto become one of the blandest wrestlers in WWE History. London and Kendrick - Kendrick went onto become THE Brian Kendrick and interim WWE Champion for 5 minutes, London was jobbed out and fired.
@ricstormwolf
2 жыл бұрын
The Repo Man gimmick was pretty bad. And Fred Ottman tripped over a board that was put in after the rehearsal. So they doomed him and ribbed him at the same time.
@BlindJedi
3 жыл бұрын
The brothers of destruction. I heard one of them became a mayor.
@PeteSanctions
3 жыл бұрын
1:54 - Maybe this is the Mandela Effect,but I don't remember the Titantron being off during in ring action
@thomashaberl2858
3 жыл бұрын
How about Dustbowl and Forrest-Fire as new names?
@heelturnsface
3 жыл бұрын
I don’t think it’s fair to call Christian a Jannetty. Jannetty was a lower mid card talent, Christian was a world champ. Also, Edge debuted by himself, so they didn’t start as a team.
@K0nstantlyTragic
3 жыл бұрын
No one is gonna mention Kurt Angles son and Shorty G?
@versansky75
3 жыл бұрын
I thought The Disciple character a fairly decent character that just didn't get the push he needed. Ed Leslie's career went nowhere after his parasailing accident. Crush wasn't Caribbean, he was Hawaiian. He got the pushes, just not the wins he deserved.
@oddishhonor
3 жыл бұрын
Glimmick
@joshhale9355
3 жыл бұрын
Pleasebesimonpleasebesimonpleasebesimon...YES!
@HBK367
3 жыл бұрын
I believe actually wwe announcers claimed that Valentine was a johnny cash impersonator.
@SheriffOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
I got one! Cody Rhodes to Stardust
@Koyasama
3 жыл бұрын
You could actually see what WWE was thinking when they came up with the Reverend D-Von gimmick--"Oh my brother, testify!" was his go-to line on the mic, and one of his signature in-ring poses had him making the sign of the cross over a fallen opponent. And given the cultural landscape at the time, it was never going to be anything but a heel. It all made sense. Unfortunately, it was clearly never going to be anything more than a *midcard* heel, and it was definitely not worth breaking up the Dudleys for it.
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