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[Karmafan]

btw... I disagree with Vinnie. Tag team wrestling is stale right now because he doesn't have any decent tag teams to work a program. There are few things more exciting in wrestling then when a face on the edge of the ring gets a hot tag from his partner after the heels been double teaming the partner for the last few minutes.

Many a time at house shows when the guy got the hot tag the roof blew off the building we were in because the crowd popped big time.

[SavageWolf]

Originally Posted by Karmafan

I would also go with The Road Warriors and the Steiners. First time I saw the FrankenSteiner I almost shit my pants.

I left out some rowdy teams because I "boycotted" wrestling from'92-'98 because I gave my old roommate tickets to a WWF event in Corpus, but he took someone else, instead of me for his graduation present. That other person did NOT get him anything, so I was pissed. I started watching, when I moved out on my own, my neighbors had cable and since they watched it, I stayed to watch it with them. I
I thought HHH was going to change WWE like Sting is doing with TNA. Sting is making the cowards re-think their devious moves.

You're right, Colin.

I just get frustrated when a champion constantly loses non title matches. I feel that champions need to be kept strong at all costs. When the champion loses a non title match or never defends the belt then it just feels like a prop to me, rather than an actual title.

A worked sport that I take too seriously sometimes.

as for my favourite tag team . It has to be the Steiner Brothers closely followed by the powers of pain, ha ha just kidding. Closely followed by the Rockers . I remember watching them on WWE shows and even though they lost most of the time, they always seemed to have a good match and they both pulled their weight.

[Karmafan]

Remember how many years Bruno (7) and Pedro (4) held the belts? Or Moolah held the ladies belt for like 30 years? These guys are 10 and 12 times champs but that don't mean anything if the dude wins and loses every other month.

[SavageWolf]

Originally Posted by Karmafan

Remember how many years Bruno (7) and Pedro (4) held the belts? Or Moolah held the ladies belt for like 30 years? These guys are 10 and 12 times champs but that don't mean anything if the dude wins and loses every other month.

That is my point that I was trying to make about Chyna's holding the belt once she became champion, yet
the guys prefer to be "Numerous" time champions. What is wrong with that logic? Rey held it for just a couple of hours one of the times that he had the belt, but the announcers sound thrilled when they call him the "2-time champion."
So0meone else told me that it is a title they once held, so it would be wrong to not introduce Ali as a worls Heavyweight champion.

[Colin_Work]

I was thinking about tag teams and forgot to include Chris Jericho and Christian to my list...they provided some pretty entertaining TV and I loved it when Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit were a tag team. Didn't matter who they faced, it was always an excellent match.

[burtog]

eagleeagle actually said the reason that I don't get too bothered by the fact that guys are getting so many title runs - the belt, to me, is just a prop. It's a way to elevate a guy to the main event or an excuse for two guys to feud, but it's not even the #1 story line at times now ... it's just not treated the same way that it used to be. And I think that I'm Ok with that.

In terms of the tag belts: I presume that they wanted to have Bourne & Kofi as champs until a certain time (as in they'll lose to a debuting team or to Miz/Truth once they stop feuding with Cena), but I can't figure why they didn't have the team lose the belts now, while Bourne is suspended, and then have Bourne & Kofi win them back when he's back again? Give Ziggler/Swagger a month-long run, or something, for now.

And my favorite tag team of all time: it's either the Road Warriors, the Hollywood Blondes (Austin/Pillman) or the Miracle Violence Connection (Gordy/Williams). My favorite WWF team would have been the British Bulldogs.

[Calibros]

Originally Posted by Karmafan

Remember how many years Bruno (7) and Pedro (4) held the belts? Or Moolah held the ladies belt for like 30 years? These guys are 10 and 12 times champs but that don't mean anything if the dude wins and loses every other month.

That was a different time too, back when wrestling had roots in legitimacy and the draw wasn't what it is now. The big names were allowed to hold the belts longer because with the known names came a guaranteed draw versus a relative unknown winning the belts every other week or so. That all changed with the so-called "rock and wrestling connection" where wrestling became much more mainstream and they could push the unknowns into names. I think the days of several year title reigns are over, instead you have a few months at a time until that run becomes stale then someone new is given a shot, or, in the case of the wwe, they just let Cena get beat, then re-win it and we sit through another agonizing 6 months of the champ is here.

[Calibros]

Oh, and fav tag team is the pre-WWE Road Warriors. Their early matches in the AWA, and then the NWA were what attracted me to wrestling. They had some great bouts with Baron Von Raschke and Larry Henig, the Steiner Brothers and so on. I also always liked Jimmy and Ron Garvin, the New Breed, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams and Mike Rotundo and of course the Minnesota Wrecking Crew.

[jwh4268]

Calibros and I think along the same lines. The AWA Road Warriors, Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell.....The Crusher and the Bruiser, all good teams.

Sitting 10 feet or so from the ring with no barriers was an eye opening experience, especially when the fight went outside the ring.