10 Totally Random WWE Tag Teams You Don't Remember

While the WWE tag team division today often receives attention, that hasn’t always been the case and certainly wasn’t when Vince McMahon was in charge of WWE creative. It’s hardly a surprise then that so many tag teams have failed to make an impression before disbanding and never being thought about again by Vince McMahon or any pro wrestling fan. 

These are 10 Totally Random WWE Tag Teams You Don’t Remember. 

10. Charlie Haas & Viscera

Charlie Haas had enjoyed plenty of tag team success with Shelton Benjamin and Rico early in his career, winning the WWE Tag Team Titles with both men. By 2006, however, Haas’ career was stuttering when he accidentally knocked Lilian Garcia off the ring apron prior to his match with Johnny Nitro on the June 5 episode of Raw.

WWE took this real-life mishap and weaved it into a storyline, with ‘The World’s Largest Love Machine’ Viscera standing up for Lilian’s honour as he attempted to win back the heart of the ring announcer whose proposal he rejected at Vengeance one year earlier.

What followed was a couple of short Raw matches, with the second one on July 10, 2006 ending in a no-contest after Garcia told Viscera and Haas she just wanted to be friends with both of them. This ultimately led to Haas poking Viscera in the eye and, while blind, Viscera flattened Garcia with a Samoan drop. 

The match was subsequently stopped so Garcia could receive medical attention, while Viscera and Haas revealed the future Big Daddy V meant to take out Lillian as they shared a laugh and left together, forming their tag team. 

The storyline leading up to their formation was infinitely more memorable than the actual team itself, however. Haas and Viscera only ever won one match together, their first outing in a squash match on Heat, and their main purpose was serving as fodder for D-Generation X in a series of gauntlet and handicap matches at WWE house shows and on Monday Night Raw. They did have one pay-per-view outing, losing a four-team Texas Tornado Match at Cyber Sunday. 

After several months together, the tag team dissolved in December 2006 as Charlie Haas reformed The World’s Greatest Tag Team with Shelton Benjamin. 

9. Christopher Nowinski & Rodney Mack

In between his stint as a referee and his most famous role as General Manager of SmackDown, Teddy Long enjoyed time as a manager on WWE TV, guiding Jazz to the WWE Women’s Title in 2003 and helping Mark Henry establish himself as a monster. Less-well-remembered clients of Long’s, though, were Rodney Mack and Christopher Nowinski as he looked to steer them to tag team glory. 

Nowinski and Mack initially teamed up on house shows from May 2003 before they officially aligned themselves with Long’s Thuggin’ and Buggin’ Enterprises. This led to a small push for the team as they feuded with The Dudley Boys, teaming with Long in a six-man loss at Insurrextion 2003, before securing their biggest win as a team against Bubba and D-Von at Bad Blood. 

Mack and Nowinski didn’t have great chemistry as a duo, however, and they last teamed together at a house show on July 12, 2003 in a win over Rosey and Tommy Dreamer. Nowinski was then forced into retirement due to debilitating symptoms from post-concussion syndrome.

He later founded the Concussion Legacy Foundation, with the Harvard graduate raising awareness about how repeated brain injuries can lead to CTE. 

8. Ron Simmons & D-Von

The first WWE Draft in 2002 was bad news for a couple of the company’s top-ranked tag teams, with both The APA and the Dudley Boys being split up and sent to different brands. Bubba Ray and Bradshaw were put on Raw, while Ron ‘Faarooq’ Simmons and D-Von ended up on SmackDown.

While D-Von got an initial push as Reverend D-Von – which was notable for introducing ‘Deacon’ Batista to the WWE main roster – it soon fizzled out once their union came to an end. WWE then opted to throw D-Von together with the also directionless Simmons, with the two men making their televised debut as a team in the tournament to crown the inaugural WWE Tag Team champions in October 2002. 

D-Von and Ron Simmons defeated Billy and Chuck in the first round but ultimately fell to Edge and Rey Mysterio on the October 17, 2002 episode of SmackDown. Simmons and the former reverend remained together after the loss, defeating Chuck (now with a Palumbo surname) and Val Venis at the UK-exclusive Rebellion pay-per-view. Shortly after, the writing was on the wall as Simmons and D-Von lost to Chuck (Palumbo-less again) and Funaki on Velocity on November 5, 2002.

Two weeks later and the tag team was all over as D-Von moved to Raw and reformed the Dudley Boys with Bubba Ray and Spike. 

7. Hardcore Holly & Billy Gunn

2004 began strongly for Hardcore Holly and Billy Gunn. Holly was feuding with WWE Champion Brock Lesnar into the Royal Rumble as he sought revenge for the broken neck that Lesnar had given him one year earlier. Billy Gunn, meanwhile, made his own return in the Royal Rumble match after weeks of vignettes hyping his comeback on SmackDown. 

Just a few months later, however, and the two grizzled veterans found themselves without any major plans so WWE threw them together as a tag team beginning with the post-WrestleMania XX tour of the United Kingdom. The pair enjoyed early success, winning three matches on Velocity which led to a WWE Tag Team Title match against Charlie Haas and Rico at Judgment Day in May. 

Holly and Gunn failed to win the gold, however, and they were stuck on Velocity for the rest of the summer until they put over the Dudley Boys on the August 31 taping of SmackDown in their final match as a team, with Gunn being released by WWE a couple of months later. 

There were reports while they were teaming that both men were disgruntled with their position in the pecking order and, while WWE did put them together, it was never going to be anything more than a mid-card stopgap.

6. 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan & Super Crazy

Over a decade after his last full-time run with the company, ‘Hacksaw’ Jim Duggan found himself enjoying a second spell with WWE in 2006, teaming with Eugene as they feuded with the Spirit Squad over the World Tag Team Titles. By November 2006, though, Duggan and Eugene had been forced to split up, with Eugene even pinning the inaugural Royal Rumble winner on Raw. 

Super Crazy, meanwhile, had finished up his time in the Mexicools and was simply floating in the Raw mid-card after moving to the brand in 2006. This led to Duggan and Super Crazy being thrown together as they teamed with each other in a Tag Team Turmoil Match at New Year’s Revolution 2007. Duggan and Super Crazy then went their separate ways, only to reunite later in 2007 after Duggan’s team with The Sandman came to an abrupt end when the ECW legend was released. 

From October of that year, Duggan and Super Crazy were used as enhancement talents on Heat, spending much of their time losing to The Highlanders. On Raw, Duggan and Crazy scored an upset win over The World’s Greatest Tag Team and they later teamed up with Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly to defeat The Highlanders, Lance Cade, and Trevor Murdoch. 

Duggan and Crazy remained an on-off team until May 2008 when the former Cruiserweight Champion was moved to ECW in the 2008 WWE Draft. 

5. Mr. Perfect & The Big Boss Man

2002 was the last hurrah for a couple of Golden Era favourites, as Mr. Perfect and the Big Boss Man returned to WWE television attempting to capture their former glories. 

Ray Traylor had been brought back from helping in the company’s developmental system to work with The Rock and Steve Austin, while the positive reception to Curt Hennig’s Royal Rumble appearance led to a full-time run for the former Intercontinental Champion. 

After initially mixing it up near the top, however, both men soon slid down the card and were primarily being used to put other guys over and work with younger talent on live events when they were thrown together. 

They tangled with makeshift teams like Crash Holly & Randy Orton and Albert & Scotty 2 Hotty on house shows and then battled the APA on Jakked and The Hardy Boyz on Raw. 

While some enjoyed the team, Mr. Perfect and Big Boss Man looked out of place in the new Ruthless Aggression era and their team ended in April 2002, with both men off TV soon after.  One month later and Hennig had been fired by WWE over a physical confrontation with Brock Lesnar on the infamous Plane Ride from Hell. 

4. Steve Blackman & Grandmaster Sexay

Too Cool - the faction of Rikishi, Grandmaster Sexay, and Scotty 2 Hotty - were one of the hottest acts during the Attitude era and they were a valuable asset to have on any card.

When Scotty 2 Hotty went down with a ruptured disc in his neck and had to take six weeks off in early 2001, WWE somehow landed on Steve Blackman as his replacement. By bringing together Sexay and the deadly serious ‘Lethal Weapon’, WWE created a classic odd-couple tag team that seemed to have potential.

Occasionally managed by Trish Stratus, Blackman and Sexay teamed together across Raw, SmackDown, Sunday Night Heat, and Jakked against the likes of The Radicalz, Right to Censor, and X-Factor. They were even given promo time and backstage segments to get their comedic dynamic across.

Only a couple of months into their time as a team, though, and Brian Christopher was fired in May 2001 following his arrest for possessing illegal drugs when he crossed the US-Canada border for a WWE tour. The charges against Christopher were dismissed but WWE still fired the son of Jerry Lawler.

3. Goldust & Yoshi Tatsu

It is a credit to the versatility of Dustin Rhodes that he has managed to find success with such a variety of different tag partners, from Barry Windham and Ricky Steamboat in WCW to Booker T and brother Cody in WWE/AEW. 

That doesn’t mean Goldust hasn’t suffered from some terrible tag teams, however, such as in the Autumn of 2009 when he was paired with Yoshi Tatsu, who had been called up from FCW to work on the ECW brand. 

Though Yoshi had been wrestling for around seven years by this point, he was paired with a far more experienced veteran who could help teach him the WWE style on the road. They experienced mixed fortunes depending on who their opposition was, with their most high-profile outing being a loss to then-WWE Tag Team Champions The Miz and Big Show on a February 2010 episode of ECW. 

Following this loss, the tag team was largely over as Goldust and Yoshi Tatsu only teamed together three more times on WWE Superstars before finally going their separate ways in August 2010. 

2. Snitsky & Tyson Tomko

During the Ruthless Aggression era, WWE seemed to have a particular type of athlete they liked to recruit, train and then put on television before they were close to being ready. 

Tall, muscular, scary-looking monsters like Nathan Jones, Matt Morgan and Luther Reigns were all pushed well before they should have been and, predictably, quickly flamed out. The same could also be said for Tyson Tomko and Gene Snitsky, who served a niche as Christian’s ‘Problem Solver’ and a wrestler with a foot fetish who kicked babies.

After those storylines came to an end, WWE threw Tomko and Snitsky together as a tag team in November 2005 and they quickly won two matches on Heat which led to back-to-back shots at The Big Show and Kane’s World Tag Team Titles on Raw. Tomko and Snitsky lost both matches - a straight tag and fatal 4-way with the Heart Throbs and Val Venis & Viscera, with both matches lasting under three minutes.

Following this, Snitsky and Tomko were relegated to Heat as they defeated The Heart Throbs before two losses to Viscera and Val Venis. They were finished as a team by March 2006. 

In April, Tomko quit when a promised push failed to materialise. He went on to enjoy tag team success in New Japan, holding the IWGP Tag Team Titles for 343 days with Giant Bernard (AKA A-Train, Albert), and TNA World Tag Team Titles with AJ Styles. Snitsky, meanwhile, did little of note until his WWE release in 2008.  

1. Matt Hardy & The Great Khali

After feuding and then reuniting with his brother Jeff Hardy in 2009, Matt Hardy found himself aimless following Jeff’s WWE exit and the older Hardy Boy was hardly on TV for the latter half of 2009. 

Matt was back from January 2010, however, forming an unlikely tag team with The Great Khali. The team was inexplicably formed for a four-way WWE Tag Team Title number one contender’s match on SmackDown that was won by CM Punk and Luke Gallows. 

Despite an unsuccessful first outing, Hardy and Khali kept teaming together and they picked up a handful of wins over the Hart Dynasty, during which Matt kicked off a romance angle with Maria. This led to a couple of intergender match losses to the Hart Dynasty on SmackDown and Superstars before Khali and Hardy stopped teaming together after just over a month.