10 Worst Tag Teams In WWE History

They may not always get their due in comparison to their singles star counterparts, but there have been plenty of dynamic duos throughout the course of WWE history who have had legendary, Hall of Fame-worthy careers. 

Then there are these guys. Whether it was due to an awful gimmick, a complete absence of chemistry or something else, these pathetic pairs proved that two isn’t always better than one. 

And just to be clear before we start, we’re strictly looking at established tag teams here, so no one-off partnerships or anything like that. 

These are the 10 Worst Tag Teams In WWE History. 

10. Men on a Mission

It’s no secret that Vince McMahon thought bigger was better, so when he saw Mabel and Mo wrestling as the Harlem Knights in the Memphis-based USWA in the early 1990s, he must have thought he was watching the best thing ever. 

He thought wrong. Renamed Men on a Mission and given Oscar as a mouthpiece, this rapping, dancing, superheavyweight tandem stunk up the joint for over two years with clumsy, barely mobile matches that bored fans to tears. 

Amazingly, this cringeworthy act were actually booked to win the WWE Tag Team Titles when they unexpectedly beat The Quebecers at a March 29th, 1994, house show in London, England. 

Mabel and Mo were so useless that rumours persisted for years that the title change was accidental due to a botched finish but, no, it was planned in advance.

They only held the belts for 48 hours before dropping them back to Pierre and Jacques on another house show, but the record books show that Men on a Mission – who were slightly better as menacing heels as opposed to fun-loving babyfaces – were one-time WWE Tag Team Champions. 

Their recklessness made them enemies of the locker room, while few fans fondly remember their rotten, hip-hopping novelty act.

9. The New Midnight Express

Bart Gunn and Bob Holly enjoyed success in tag teams, with Bart teaming up and winning gold with Billy Gunn as the Smokin’ Gunns and Bob teaming up and winning gold with 1-2-3 Kid, Crash Holly and Cody Rhodes.  

Bodacious Bart and Bombastic Bob also held gold with one another when they teamed up as The New Midnight Express in 1998. 

Holding the NWA World Tag Team Titles was no reflection on their quality as a team or interest in them or the go-nowhere NWA ‘invasion’ angle that led to them teaming up in the first place. 

If Holly and Gunn had formed a team organically and had a different gimmick, things might have gone better, since both were decent enough workers and knew their way around a tag match. 

The problem was they were following in the footsteps of one of the best tag teams ever and hadn’t done anything to earn the right to use that name.

It was obvious that they were thrown together because creative had nothing better to do with them and their lack of chemistry was evident on television, particularly when they went up against the original Midnight Express’ greatest rivals The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express at Unforgiven.

8. Well Dunn

Steve Doll and Rex King teamed up on the indies in the early 90s as the Southern Rockers before WWE signed them in 1993 and gave them the new monikers of Steven Dunn and Timothy Well. 

Well Dunn. 

As well as the craptastic pun name, Well Dunn had some of the worst ring outfits any WWE star has had the displeasure to wear as they matched bowties with singlets that had thongs over the top of them. 

After initially failing to find much success, Well Dunn enlisted the services of Harvey Wippleman as their manager, who steered them even further away from success. 

Their narcissistic heel act was basic, but fine, and it wasn’t like they were outright terrible workers but Well Dunn were very much a bottom-of-the-card act that just filled a spot and didn’t do much of note despite being on the WWE roster for two years. 

When your biggest highlight is a rivalry with The Bushwhackers you know you’re in trouble.

7. The Heart Throbs

After impressing in WWE feeder farm Ohio Valley Wrestling as The Heartbreakers, Antonio Thomas and Romeo Roselli were called up to the main roster in April of 2005 with a name change to avoid any confusion with Shawn Michaels. 

They were even granted a Madison Square Garden debut in a World Tag Team Title match, but the fact that they lost that match (to William Regal and Tajiri) in less than five minutes should have told them everything about their chances on Raw. 

The Heart Throbs were, essentially, an obnoxious entrance and little else and were primarily used to put other, better teams over. That even included Val Venis and Viscera.

They were so low on the pecking order that they were jobbed out in various two-on-one handicap matches, including a 28-second loss to Kane that served as one of their last appearances before being given their future endeavours. 

A corny gimmick and unexceptional between the ropes, nobody was heartbroken when The Heart Throbs hung up their feather boas.

6. The Harris Brothers

We're just going to lump in all of Ron and Don Harris’ guises into one ugly little package here, because regardless of what they were called or what their gimmick was, one fact remained: they absolutely sucked. 

Eli and Jacob Blu? They sucked. The Grimm Twins? Oh yeah, they sucked, too. 8-Ball and Skull of the Disciples of Apocalypse? You better believe they sucked. 

Ron and Don got opportunity after opportunity during their careers because they were big and had an intimidating look and presence, but that’s about all they had going for them.

They never had a decent match in a WWE ring thanks to their rudimentary moveset and lack of charisma, yet they were a regular presence on television and pay-per-view for years. 

If you like generic-looking dudes lumbering around the ring and punching and kicking and clubbing and punching and kicking and clubbing some more then the Harris brothers might be the team for you.

Not for us, though. They could have been an entertaining hoss unit, if only they had the talent, but their in-ring legacy remains horribly sketchy. 

5. Road Warrior Animal & Heidenreich

After attempting to kill The Undertaker and ‘romance’ Michael Cole, the unhinged Heidenreich became a goosestepping, child-hugging babyface. 

When Heidenreich was targeted and beaten down by WWE Tag Team Champions MNM, none other than Road Warrior Hawk came to his rescue.

How strange that Animal would come back, team with some random weirdo and win the tag straps right around the time a DVD on the life and times of the original Road Warriors was being released…

Obviously, this was all done to promote the DVD, but slapping some shoulder pads and face paint on Heidenreich was hardly a fitting tribute to one of the most awesome forces in professional wrestling history. 

Animal was also far from the performer he had been in his prime and not even adding Christy Hemme to the act could distract from the fact that this rebooted Legion of Doom were the absolute worst. 

After dropping the titles back to Mercury and Nitro, the team of Animal and Heidenreich fizzled out and were relegated from SmackDown to Velocity and house shows before their union came to end when Heidenreich was released.

4. Fake Diesel & Fake Razor Ramon

When Scott Hall and Kevin Nash left WWE for WCW in the Spring of 1996, Vince McMahon was a tiny bit upset. So he gave the gimmicks of Razor Ramon and Diesel to Rick Bognar and Glenn Jacobs who, to their credit, did their best to get into the roles. 

But neither man was ready and the gimmick was an insult to them, not to mention the fans, who rightly responded to it with apathy. Fake Razor and Fake Diesel didn’t possess one-tenth of the timing, presence or charisma that the originals had and the whole damn idea was cursed from the get-go. 

That didn’t stop WWE from giving them something of a push, mind, which included a tag title match at the In Your House: It’s Time pay-per-view.

The experiment came to a merciful end after they were eliminated from the 1997 Royal Rumble. 

3. The Dicks

So you decide to get into the wrestling business. You put in the hours in the gym and gain enough experience, to the point that WWE sees your potential and offers you a developmental deal. Then, against all the odds, you are one of the few that are actually called up to the main roster. 

And what happens? They make you a ‘Dick’. 

After wrestling as The Blond Bombers in OVW, Tank Toland and Chad Wicks were brought to SmackDown as James and Chad Dick. The Dicks. 

Greased up to high heaven and rocking suspenders and breakaway pants, The Dicks were essentially the blue brand’s equivalent of The Heart Throbs who, as we have already discussed, were pretty bad themselves.

If we’re being honest, Chad and James were basically just there for the commentators to crack knob jokes and they didn’t do much in the ring. They didn’t have a hope of climbing up the card anyway, since they were about as tall as they were wide and we all know how hard it was to overcome a lack of height in Vince McMahon’s WWE.

They might have been rock-hard and cocky, but that didn’t prevent their flaccid run from coming to a limp end. 

2. The Gymini

Honestly, we’re convinced at this point that WWE were actively attempting to kill tag team wrestling by flooding their doubles division with awful teams in the mid-2000s. 

The Heart Throbs might have been lame, The new Legion of Doom a pale imitation of the original thing and The Dicks – well, they were just a couple of dicks, weren’t they? 

Those teams were woeful, yes, but at least they had something interesting about them. The same cannot be said of The Gymini. 

The Shane Twins had been floating around here and there for years, notably having a banner run in TNA as The Johnsons before being signed by WWE. 

The creative team’s big idea was having them act as the protein-powered henchmen of fitness freak Simon Dean.

Jake and Jesse went on a ‘tear’ – winning some dull matches -  before Todd Shane suffered an injury and the team were taken off television, never to return.  

That was no big loss, as these beefed-up Basham Brothers had nothing going for them besides the fact they looked exactly the same.

1. Tekno Team 2000

After failing to reap the benefits of nepotism in WCW, Erik Watts joined WWE during his father’s short-lived stay as a booker there in 1995. 

Thankfully, this time he wouldn’t be pushed as a hot, up-and-coming solo star who was clearly out of his depth. Not so thankfully, he would be pushed as one half of a hot, up-and-coming tag team out of their depth. 

Ladies and gentleman, we present Troy and Travis – Tekno Team 2000. 

Their look was a shambles, their ring work was the pits (it wasn’t like inexperienced former American football player Chad Fortune was going to carry things) and their gimmick was confusing. 

Were they supposed to be from the future or representing what wrestling in the future would be?

On the plus side, Tekno Team only lasted a handful of televised outings before joining The Red Rooster, Battle Kat and Bastion Booger in the depths of gimmick hell.