by This is brought to you by – https://keeonsports.com/sponsors/
Right now, the WWE is going through the worst Tag Team stretch in company history. There are simply next to no teams left to root for, or against. It has gotten to the point that they made the Viking Raiders a heel team, with the hopes they can draw any reaction. The Uso’s appear to be the only thing working in the division right now. It goes to show, as it just wasn’t a combination of two guys thrown together like a Riddle & Orton but an actual team that draws the crowd.
Now, with that being said, everyone always wants to harken back to the glory days of the late 80’s and early 90’s with The Legion of Doom, Steiner Bro’s, Demolition, Hart Foundation, The Rockers, Nasty Boys, Harlem Heat and many more as the greatest tag era of all time, and for the most part, they are right. However, there is a little nugget of time between 1999 – 2000 that the WWF hit it big with an overload of great teams.
It was fresh off of a rough stretch for the WWF where they tried mashing makeshift teams together like Austin & The Undertaker, Kane & Mankind, Owen & Jarrett and several other throw togethers that didn’t have long term longevity. Come June of 1999, all of that changed for the better.
Here are just a few from the summer of 1999 though the summer of 2000 that made that 12 month calendar great. It was the very beginning of the Puka era, and one of the best 12 month stretches of all time in Tag Wrestling History. The belts switched hands over a dozen times during that stretch, because their was just so much talent to go around and get the belts on.
APA
The Hardy Boyz
The Dudley Boyz
Too Cool
Edge & Christian
The New Age Outlaws
Kane & XPAC
Rock & Sock Connection
The Big Show & The Undertaker
The Holly Cousins
Big Bossman and Bull Buchanon
Test & Albert
Mankind & Al Snow
The Headbangers
D’Lo Brown & The Godfather
And again, that was just a one year stretch. It stayed must watch throughout the bulk of the Puka Era as teams like Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas, along with Los Guerrero’s showed up shortly after. I would do just about anything to have those days back!
