Worst thing is, they trained at Dean Malenko's school and debuted in 1998 and held the NWA Tag titles prior to their NWA-TNA debut. They also beat the Road Warriors in Japan.
Reminds me of a phantom bump in a Trish Stratus match. I can't remember for the life of me who she was wrestling. But Trish went for a bulldog I think. Her opponent didn't go down. She just stood there. Then it finally dawned on her that she was supposed to take a bump and she dropped like she had gotten shot by a sniper.
well the thing about the Ding Dongs are that they can actaully do good wrestling as a not a tag team unfortunately i know that one of them is in Russia as Trainer of Russian Wrestling school St Petersburg and Moscow and helped to make 2002 russian Wrestling actually thewy have done something than being idiots in the ring thewir talent isnt just Tag Team Wrestling
Top 7 Worst Tag Teams: 1. The Young Bucks 2. Generation Me 3. Matt & Nick Jackson 4. Nick & Matt Jackson 5. Matt and Nick Jackson 6. Nick and Matt Jackson 7. The Puddin' Gang
The Hardy Boyz that one time Matt talked Chief Jay Strongbow into letting them be willow and ingus at a Superstars taping when they were jobbers, and the title card was Wildo and Dingus, and they wore fuzzy clothes with homemade masks.
Jeff was Willow in TNA Impact when EC3 and Rockstar Spud went on a "Roddy Piper Searches for The Mad Dog" style hunt for him. And Matt? He missed a chance to have a Heel Manager gimmick on The Indies and be Booked as Dr. Connell Ingus...😏😂🎤🤼♂️B.W.
What's sad about the Shane Twins was before being fired from wrestling school and even before TNA they were the NWA World Tag Team Champions. I am not kidding.
I listened without laughing until we get to the part with the ship bell in the corner. From there i cant stop crying! So many great stories and this is near the top!!
I’ve had a bit of vodka, and I just totally lost my shit listening to the very same story. “And I *HEARD* that...fuckin’...old...antiquated...piece’a possum shit, Jim Heard, from his own...fuckin’ thin little *CHICKEN LIPS* - *EXCITEDLY* describing...” 😂 It was like Rick James going off on the Murphy Brothers after they beat his ass for messing up Eddie’s couch.
@@iami3rian394 I used to backyard wrestle and that's things I saw untrained guys do which is understandable but they've been in the Business for near ten years
I would definitely switch out Ding Dongs into that number 1 spot. They made me stop watching ALL wrestling for two years. Can't get much worse than that.
I remember the exact moment I stopped being a fan. Stone Cold turned heel and shared a beer with Mr. McMahon. It killed the territory in an era with only one territory.
i would have wanted jim's opinion on writer dan madigan's pitch to have him debut as baron von bava, a cryogenically frozen nazi stormtrooper mangaged by of all people paul heyman, it is even more ridiculous than glenn gilberti's pitch of bill ding the evil architech.
@@anthonybradley1555 John is one of the nicest guys in the Business, John Hendenreich said he thought he should be a poet reading Babyface because there was lots of monster type heels during his run, which in reality he's an actual poet and has poems notorized in books, and felt he would of gotten over better than just a monster heel so basically WWE did the "best of both worlds" with his gimmick I agree with John he would of stood out and he would been over in the midcard scene because a big man like him being an actual poem would of worked especially in the ruthless aggression era
First good laugh I’ve had in weeks. The story about the twins had me rolling. Thank you gentlemen for still keeping fans listening daily, so we can fast forward through the shows. Mankind (no pun intended) owes you a debt we can never repay.
As a little kid when I read the phrase dark match in PWI I actually thought they wrestled in the dark. This was during the Kayfabe years where they protected the business. I was like 8 at the time LOL!
They did technically wrestle in the dark it was usually either before or after the show when the show lights would be dark until the show actually started
"When he (Jim Herd) actually had the idea for the Ding Dongs and went throught with it and had the i di ot s on TV on a national TV Show" - Jim Cornette
The Dynamic Dudes. They were supposed to be a hot baby face team. The people HATED them. There was an angle where Cornette was going to be neutral between Dynamic Dudes and Midnight Express. The Express were working heel and the Dudes were working baby. But the crowd were cheering the Midnight Express and BOOING the Dynamic Dudes! So when Bobby and Stan were double teaming Shane or Johnny the crowd was cheering. When the dude got the hot tag, the crowd was booing. At the end of the match Cornette snuck in and whacked Johnny Ace with the Tennis Racket and the entire Arena POPPED! It was the weirdest thing I ever saw.
Regarding the match Cornette talks about with the The Johnsons (Mike & Todd Shane), I trained alongside them in Tampa in late '96, so for the match in question, they had indeed been in the business about 8-9 years at that point. I always got along with them and they were cool dudes. I never really thought their work was THAT bad, but who am I to question Jim? LOL! The Johnsons gimmick was pretty stupid, though.
I met techno team 2000 in Coyotes bar in Louisville, they were awesome guys, drank with them and hung out all night , Travis even went to Deny’s with us after we closed down the bar lol
Skyscrapers would have been a good name. EXCEPT the WWF already had a team called the Twin Towers. Sorry, can't use Skyscrapers, tall building name is already in use.
The Shane Twins were champions in Peru, when Future Of Wrestling was touring through South America semi regularly. I am not going to check my books and see if it was before or after OVW.
Beverly Bros, Royal Family, Techno Team 2000, Magnum Force (preferred them as Ring Lords), Dynamic Dudes, Young Stallions and Ding Dongs. The Bucks are in the top ten somewhere.
As soon as I heard a list of the worst tag teams, my mind instantly went to "Tekno Team 2000" but I figured they wouldn't be on there. To my surprise..
@@chrischar9428 yes it is all me and probably a few other older wrestling fans that grew up with the product during the 80s I'm sorry for being older and only recognizing good wrestling with good wrestlers
2:08 Chad Fortune is an accomplished Monster Truck driver with FELD motorsports (the guys who run Monster Jam) where he drove the Superman and Captain America trucks but most recently he was driving the Soldier Fortune before COVID-19 canceled most shows
The Ding Dongs got the most epic burial. They got squashed by the Skyscrapers, Sid and Danny then powerbombed them and unmasked both, Commentators Didn't Even Give A Single Fuck! The Skyscrapers absolutely destroyed them and the commentators were already talking about the next segment, like "okay they're dead moving on"
it was incredible because the skyscrapers unmasked them and JR goes "The Ding Dongs, I still don't know who they are and they've been unmasked" hahaha.
High Voltage and Lenny and Lodi come to mind. The New Rockers with Marty Jannetty and Leif Cassidy aka Al Snow. I remember a team called The Humpbacks but I don't know if they even wrestled. The brilliant idea for them was they could not lose because they could never be pinned. Another brilliant Jim Herd idea.
Well to be fair, Ole Anderson shot that down with the classic 'ok Jim, we'll book the Hunchbacks, put me against em, soon as I get in, I'd slap a submission hold on one of em, make em give up, you just beat the unbeatable team'.
i remember even vince or shane buried him during a promo when they were in vinces office or whatever. they were like "were doing an 8 man tag match, oh sorry mitch looks like you're the odd man out, maybe next time". i couldnt figure out why he never really wrestled.
One of my favorite "fun wrestling facts" is that Chad Fortune of "Tekno Team 2000" was the real first person to defeat Goldberg (in a dark match before Goldberg had even been on TV yet!)
Chad Fortune came from an uneventful pro football career to pro wrestling (was a college football teammate of Watts). After leaving wrestling in 1999/2000, he went on to have a nearly 20 year career driving monster trucks until retiring in 2019.
1. Any makeshift they're tagging but they don't like each other team 2. Nasty Boys 3. Basham Bros/ any tag with 2 bald guys that only seem to be tagging cuz they're 2 bald guys
Corny has said before that Doug Basham was actually a top heel in OVW who used to have long dark hair before he was told to chop it by (I think) John Laurinaitis.
4. Any thrown together team with a gimmick name that’s a portmanteau of their nicknames. Ex: Pretty Wonderful, Rated RKO, and the absolute worst team name ever from WCW, Perfect Event.
Well Dunn (Steve Doll and Rex King) West Hollywood Blondes (Lane and Lodi) The Dicks (Tank Toland and Chad Wicks) Tekno Team 2000 (Chad Fortune and Erik Watts) The Johnsons (Dick and Rod Johnson) Those are my choices for worst tag ever! 😂
It was a shit stain thing from WCW. They were his muscle as well as Jeff Jarretts heaters, clean shaven in suits as a rib to Patterson and Briscoe. Vincent (Virgil) was renamed Shane.
I think the conditions to set for "Worst Tag Teams" are that they were given air time and somewhat of a push. Ding Dongs are easily #1, but another team I thought were awful were Alex Wright and Disco Inferno.
Chad was a monster truck driver retired in 2019, he has previously also played for the nfl ..dolphins,redskins,colts & other teams..hes living in roswell ga
I felt bad for Spirit Squad, because at first blush this seems like a good formula for a chickenshit heel tag team. Former pro athletes, pretty boys, still learning so you put them in a group to highlight strengths and mask weaknesses. They just went too heavy with the cheerleading thing. The uniforms were too much. Put them in college singlets, like they want to look like legit wrestlers, when we know they aren't. Jim Ross would have sold this beautifully, 'well fans, we know these guys are great athletically, they were athletes in college. Cheerleaders, but still." You could even use it to work in a face turn. Just point out how fucking dangerous cheerleading is. Have one of them have a sense of humor about the whole thing, "Yeah I did it. It was fun, and I got to toss the hottest girls in school around all day." Big Show was a high school cheerleader, have him join the team for a match or two as a 'special substitute'. Have him in the back sitting on a bench, they come in, "Hey man, Nick hurt his ankle. You're up." and Show is like "Finally! My big break!" and they go out and do their thing. Good palette cleanse match.
I don't think the gimmick would have been super horrible as a tag team, the real problem was that there were so many of them and they were mostly indistinguishable. It just made the whole thing bland and annoying.
@@thekidfromiowa the Kongs at least looked the part. They only had 3 moves, clothesline, splash in corner, big splash on mat. They looked like they could dominate, but they were green as hell when they got their push. But the Mulkeys really? I get this is subjective, but the Mulkeys could at least work and bump like hell. They got themselves over too.
The Posse were supposed to be bad. The whole team was a joke and treated as such. These teams on that list were supposed to draw money and taken seriously.
It took until the Monday Night Wars for WCW to fully recover from the damage Jim Herd had done. They were showing signs of improvement but then The Huckster arrived and ran roughshod. Starrcade 1993 was headlined by Vader vs Flair and the next year we were treated to a main event featuring Hogan and his BBF Brutus. Then you had the Dungeon of Doom mumbo jumbo....
You don't know what you're talking about. Hogan and the NWO is what propelled WCW into the stratosphere. Also, Herd wasn't near as bad as people think he was. They cherry pick a couple of bad decisions he made, even though they are things that Vince McMahon himself probably would have done, and that he actually *did* do in the case of the hunchbacks (look up the WWF's Terra and Tora characters from the early 90's). Vince also put Dusty Rhodes in polka dots. If Jim Herd was really as terrible as he is perceived to be, then Vince McMahon is equally as bad.
He’s talking about 1993-95 Red and Yellow Hogan aka lol Hulk wins. A LOT of Jim Herd ideas never made it out of the booking room thanks to Ole Anderson and his usual curmudgeonly grumpy sarcasm.
I can't remember which, but one of the Harris Brothers ran with Macho Man Randy Savage in 2003 when he was promoting his rap album. I got to spend the morning with Macho Man and his crew on Halloween 2003; Macho Man was part of my bachelor party when I got married in New Orleans that morning. He plugged his album on the morning show I was a part of, then he commentated me getting a lap dance from three strippers from Bourbon Street live on air.
@@powderedtoastman1858 The Harris Brother was standing watch in the office (my now ex) wife was getting ready in. They mistakenly kept a radio on in that room where she could hear the broadcast. She got out, and was banging on the door of the sound proofed blacked out studio that we were in. So much, that big wigs called the hotline and told us to "wrap it up". Macho Man got in front of the door, spread his arms, and said to me, "Don't worry brother. She'd be better off digging a tunnel!" That segment ended, and we ended up getting married. Nothing too consequential happened during the lapdances, except for when my private area popped out of my boxers and we had to temporarily stop for me to adjust...Macho Man saw what happened, and in true King of One Liners said, "You Better put that Slim Jim away!" It was a morning I'll never forget, and he and his whole crew were very down to earth. His DJ and I even had beers together because he was celebrating his birthday that weekend.
@@JDutton13 wow thank you for sharing. Macho man saying "you better put that slim jim away" might be the greatest quote ive ever heard in my entire life😂
@@powderedtoastman1858 I had a cd of the audio from the show that day. Unfortunately, my ex took it when she left. Macho Man never broke character in the studio, but my oldest brother who was in the lobby with about 150 fans of the show saw Macho Man come in, and he told me when he walked by my family, he said, "Hey, how's it going?" to them in his natural voice.
Hey, Jim got to crap on Jim Herd, Johnny Ace AND Vince Russo in one segment! The Ding Dongs as a concept really makes no sense. You can understand in theory how Tekno Team 2000 could get over because there's a lot of popular sci-fi with people from the future. What is the theoretical appeal of the Ding Dongs? Maybe pre-schoolers might like it? And it isn't like Jim Herd came up with this idea to amuse himself like both Vinces will. The Spirit Squad is an especially bad tag team because, like a lot of terrible post-WCW WWE ideas, I suspect the entire incentive was to bully and humiliate desperate wrestlers with no leverage to tell them "no".
The Gladiators, The Cruel Connection, The Mulkey Brothers. Another one that was somewhat successful but stupid was the Beverly Brothers. They were tough guys in the AWA. Then they turned them into almost gay aristocrats or something. Worst tag team to have moderate success.
Never understood what The WWF at the time did to undersell The former Destruction Crew of AWA fame with the entire sickening Beverly Brothers routine. However, Ole Anderson played a part himself in WCW's Booking misuse of Wayne Bloom and the dangerously surnamed Mike Enis by putting dark blue masks over them and renaming them "The New Minnesota Wrecking Crew" for some seemingly apparent reason.🤔😔🤦♂️🎤🤼♂️B.W.
Honorable mention: from TNA ..Seratonin. Three decent workers: Devine, Kazarian, and Bentley being the poor mans Ravens Flock and jobbing nearly all their matches.😡
Facts about Chad Fortune/Troy: he was Erik Watt’s teammate at University of Louisville. Spent several years in the NFL. Also was the first person to defeat Bill Goldberg, in a dark match.
"Unless your name is Alex having an imaginary friend doesn't work." Tell that to R-Truth and Little Jimmy. They were over. It worked. Little Jimmy is the man. I mean boy. I mean kid..... Whatever.
As did Rick Steiner to the bemusement of Kevin Sullivan and the growing annoyance of Mike Rotunda when all three were part of "The Varsity Club."😏😂🎤🤼♂️B.W.
@ShadowAngel They weren't any worse than a lot of other mid card teams. And no, they are not neo nazis. They got those tattoos for their biker gimmick, because biker gangs used them a lot to piss people off. No one who has ever worked with them has ever said they were anything but great guys. They currently run a lucha promotion, one of them has a bi-racial family and an adopted Filipino daughter. They have also had the tats covered since they retired. TLDR, you're a f***ing mark.
The Bashams were great in OVW as Jim has mentioned, but they went to the WWE, that's when everything went to hell in a handbasket, because when Doug went to the WWE, he was asked by creative to shave his head.
@@DjTractus They were never their names anywhere except on the joke tape by ICP where they overdubbed the Japanese match footage which included other greats like Luminamanubi and Dangerous Fred..
I can't believe you said Mortimer Plumtree. Ghat guy was a manager in some indy promotion in the 90s in Minnesota. I can't remember the promotion, but I believe he managed Lenny Lane. Funny stuff.
Jim’s story with the Shane Twins and the “Phantom Bump” and their excuse for it had me in stitches.
Worst thing is, they trained at Dean Malenko's school and debuted in 1998 and held the NWA Tag titles prior to their NWA-TNA debut. They also beat the Road Warriors in Japan.
They weren't even that bad from what I've watched of them, definitely not number one.
I wonder what they are up to now?
Reminds me of a phantom bump in a Trish Stratus match. I can't remember for the life of me who she was wrestling. But Trish went for a bulldog I think. Her opponent didn't go down. She just stood there. Then it finally dawned on her that she was supposed to take a bump and she dropped like she had gotten shot by a sniper.
@@AWX_Wrestling Jackie gayda
“Fuck it, he's your brother!” - Jim Cornette
Was Corny a great booker or what?
I could listen to Jim talk about the Ding Dongs and Jim Herd all day 😂😆
You love hearing about ding dongs huh?
I agree with Jim Cornette here. Jim Herd was absolutely terrible as a booker in wrestling and the Ding Dongs tag team was his worst idea ever.
@@johnnymason2460 I remember their debut their only pop was when their bell fell on the ground.
If the ding dongs split up and one them then teamed up with mantar, that group would be called cowbell.
Missed opportunity could have said ManDong
@@fartdonkey8290 ManTard Dong
well the thing about the Ding Dongs are that they can actaully do good wrestling as a not a tag team unfortunately i know that one of them is in Russia as Trainer of Russian Wrestling school St Petersburg and Moscow and helped to make 2002 russian Wrestling actually thewy have done something than being idiots in the ring thewir talent isnt just Tag Team Wrestling
We need more cowbell.
Top 7 Worst Tag Teams:
1. The Young Bucks
2. Generation Me
3. Matt & Nick Jackson
4. Nick & Matt Jackson
5. Matt and Nick Jackson
6. Nick and Matt Jackson
7. The Puddin' Gang
You forgot Nicholas and Matthew Jackson
@mrpink99 good call, might need to move everyone down 2 rank and slot them at 1 😭
Chad Fortune is a popular driver for the monster truck circuit. Also pinned Goldberg in a dark match, before Goldberg started his streak.
Wow. Never knew about that dark match thing. Thought the streak started from the get go.
I saw him beat Goldberg in Jackson tennesse before a Saturday night taping
Goldberg actually lost a few dark matches before he got his monster push. Even lost to Piper once
@Yankees Yankees No it's not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Fortune
he actually retired in 2019
“Well nobodys lookin for him so leave him alone.” Hahahah one liners AllDay
The Hardy Boyz that one time Matt talked Chief Jay Strongbow into letting them be willow and ingus at a Superstars taping when they were jobbers, and the title card was Wildo and Dingus, and they wore fuzzy clothes with homemade masks.
Yo I hated them when they wore those costumes but they were still entertaining
Jeff was Willow in TNA Impact when EC3 and Rockstar Spud went on a "Roddy Piper Searches for The Mad Dog" style hunt for him. And Matt? He missed a chance to have a Heel Manager gimmick on The Indies and be Booked as Dr. Connell Ingus...😏😂🎤🤼♂️B.W.
"And they're gonna be from Bell-view Illinois" - Jim Herd.
Belleville
Maybe "from Bel-Air" would help them get over
From Bellevue, the well known mental hospital.
Creative Control were Russo's "enforcers" during his WCW run.
I thought their names were Patrick and Gerald tho and I'm for sure now because they're making fun of Patterson and Brisco
I didn't realise that til I typed it just now
Ah yes. Another insider joke of Vinnie Ru that went over the heads of 95 percent of the audience at the time.
The only good thing to come from that was Miss Hancock/Stacy Keibler.
@@angelus4282 Can't argue that point.
What's sad about the Shane Twins was before being fired from wrestling school and even before TNA they were the NWA World Tag Team Champions. I am not kidding.
I read somewhere they beat the road warriors in Japan, and won tag belts there as well.
Words cannot describe....
To this day, I find it absurd that these goobers not only were tag team champions but also, defeated the bloody Road Warriors of all teams.
Wowww!!?? I totally didn't know that
You haven’t been cursed unit corny calls you “a piece of shit” with his own unique blend of venom.
I am watching this on my TV and literally opened this video on my laptop JUST TO SEE SOMEONE ELSE POINT THAT OUT. I even rewinded it.. 8:05 🤣
@@boldcitymike "... they linger on forever!" lmao only Cornette
I listened without laughing until we get to the part with the ship bell in the corner. From there i cant stop crying! So many great stories and this is near the top!!
I’ve had a bit of vodka, and I just totally lost my shit listening to the very same story.
“And I *HEARD* that...fuckin’...old...antiquated...piece’a possum shit, Jim Heard, from his own...fuckin’ thin little *CHICKEN LIPS* - *EXCITEDLY* describing...”
😂 It was like Rick James going off on the Murphy Brothers after they beat his ass for messing up Eddie’s couch.
I can't imagine being so shite that you get fired from training.
They weren't lying though, and had actually been in the business for years before that. That's the saddest part.
@@iami3rian394 I used to backyard wrestle and that's things I saw untrained guys do which is understandable but they've been in the Business for near ten years
Rick steiner and buff bagwells mom
Good one
Judy Bagwell on a pole
@@joeljohnson8214 what is Judy doing now? lol google... shes on twitter lol twitter.com/jbagwellonapole?lang=en
Strowman and Nicholas
@@mikeking4349 that was thankfully just one night, judy and rick went on for a min
7:29 Gailard Sartain, who played Officer Bimbeau in the cult classic The Hollywood Knights and The Big Bopper in The Buddy Holly Story.
Not a single mention of the Fabulous Flying Mulkeys Brothers! An outrage.
Yes....But Randy and Bill could really actually WORK GREAT in the ring!! MulkeyMania....the Pride of Anderson, South Carolina!!! ❤❤❤
Young Bucks #1
The young marks.
When he said a TNA team I instantly thought of Generation Me, I hated these little guys ever since I first saw them
They were better losing to MCMG every week.
You had me at young🤣
They’re horrible but somehow there’s probably worse tag teams. Harris Brothers in TNA come to mind first
I would definitely switch out Ding Dongs into that number 1 spot. They made me stop watching ALL wrestling for two years. Can't get much worse than that.
We're the ding dongs even around that long? It just seems to me that a team should have at least some longevity to make the list
I'm not sure you truly understand how awful Gymini truly were.
@@mrcold8966
Sometimes a tag team only needs to be in the ring once to prove they had no business in the business.
I remember the exact moment I stopped being a fan. Stone Cold turned heel and shared a beer with Mr. McMahon.
It killed the territory in an era with only one territory.
That bit at the end about Heidenrich was really interesting, don't think I've heard Jim speak about him before.
i would have wanted jim's opinion on writer dan madigan's pitch to have him debut as baron von bava, a cryogenically frozen nazi stormtrooper mangaged by of all people paul heyman, it is even more ridiculous than glenn gilberti's pitch of bill ding the evil architech.
@@anthonybradley1555 John is one of the nicest guys in the Business, John Hendenreich said he thought he should be a poet reading Babyface because there was lots of monster type heels during his run, which in reality he's an actual poet and has poems notorized in books, and felt he would of gotten over better than just a monster heel so basically WWE did the "best of both worlds" with his gimmick
I agree with John he would of stood out and he would been over in the midcard scene because a big man like him being an actual poem would of worked especially in the ruthless aggression era
Cornette has gone on and on about Heidenreich many times. You must've missed it
First good laugh I’ve had in weeks. The story about the twins had me rolling. Thank you gentlemen for still keeping fans listening daily, so we can fast forward through the shows. Mankind (no pun intended) owes you a debt we can never repay.
As a little kid when I read the phrase dark match in PWI I actually thought they wrestled in the dark. This was during the Kayfabe years where they protected the business. I was like 8 at the time LOL!
They did technically wrestle in the dark it was usually either before or after the show when the show lights would be dark until the show actually started
@@wayneking9997 yeah no
It's called a dark match because it's not on air hence the lights are off
@@wayneking9997 the lights are on the cameras are off
@@chrischar9428 camera off not live on air anymore
"When he (Jim Herd) actually had the idea for the Ding Dongs and went throught with it and had the i di ot s on TV on a national TV Show" - Jim Cornette
#8 the Middle-Aged Bucks. Now the list went form 3 D themed team's to 4 😂
The Dynamic Dudes. They were supposed to be a hot baby face team. The people HATED them. There was an angle where Cornette was going to be neutral between Dynamic Dudes and Midnight Express. The Express were working heel and the Dudes were working baby. But the crowd were cheering the Midnight Express and BOOING the Dynamic Dudes! So when Bobby and Stan were double teaming Shane or Johnny the crowd was cheering. When the dude got the hot tag, the crowd was booing. At the end of the match Cornette snuck in and whacked Johnny Ace with the Tennis Racket and the entire Arena POPPED! It was the weirdest thing I ever saw.
Chad Fortune drove monster trucks up until about 2019 then retired but still owns a truck team
After wrestling monster truck is my other guilty pleasure. Awesome sport.
Creative Control was their WCW names. They remind me of The Coneheads from SNL after they shaved off the facial hair.
He was right about it being a shit stain idea, just in the wrong company.
their names were spoofs on Patterson and Briscoe
When he refers to Russo as shit stain so casually.. it gets me every time!
I live for that moment 😂
Regarding the match Cornette talks about with the The Johnsons (Mike & Todd Shane), I trained alongside them in Tampa in late '96, so for the match in question, they had indeed been in the business about 8-9 years at that point. I always got along with them and they were cool dudes. I never really thought their work was THAT bad, but who am I to question Jim? LOL! The Johnsons gimmick was pretty stupid, though.
I met techno team 2000 in Coyotes bar in Louisville, they were awesome guys, drank with them and hung out all night , Travis even went to Deny’s with us after we closed down the bar lol
I was waiting for Jim to mention the Skyscrapers.
They were over
@@chrischar9428 I know but Jim shits on them every time he gets a chance.
@ rightfully so
😂😂
Skyscrapers would have been a good name. EXCEPT the WWF already had a team called the Twin Towers. Sorry, can't use Skyscrapers, tall building name is already in use.
I had to google The Ding Dongs, The Johnson's and The Dicks. Lord Jesus above...
The Shane Twins were champions in Peru, when Future Of Wrestling was touring through South America semi regularly. I am not going to check my books and see if it was before or after OVW.
Beverly Bros, Royal Family, Techno Team 2000, Magnum Force (preferred them as Ring Lords), Dynamic Dudes, Young Stallions and Ding Dongs. The Bucks are in the top ten somewhere.
Whoa whoa whoa the Shaker Heights Spike was an awesome move and the Beverly Bro's were an awesome team.
As soon as I heard a list of the worst tag teams, my mind instantly went to "Tekno Team 2000" but I figured they wouldn't be on there. To my surprise..
That's probably because know one has even heard of them to be honest I've never heard of them until reading your comment
@@wayneking9997 that's all you
@@chrischar9428 yes it is all me and probably a few other older wrestling fans that grew up with the product during the 80s I'm sorry for being older and only recognizing good wrestling with good wrestlers
@@wayneking9997 sorry dickwad all the TV tapings I went to all the lights were always on
@@wayneking9997 Are you Joe's brother?
2:08 Chad Fortune is an accomplished Monster Truck driver with FELD motorsports (the guys who run Monster Jam) where he drove the Superman and Captain America trucks but most recently he was driving the Soldier Fortune before COVID-19 canceled most shows
The Ding Dongs got the most epic burial. They got squashed by the Skyscrapers, Sid and Danny then powerbombed them and unmasked both, Commentators Didn't Even Give A Single Fuck! The Skyscrapers absolutely destroyed them and the commentators were already talking about the next segment, like "okay they're dead moving on"
They were already dead before the gimmick got off the ground. LOL
it was incredible because the skyscrapers unmasked them and JR goes
"The Ding Dongs, I still don't know who they are and they've been unmasked" hahaha.
@@mox19380 lmao ok brb going to go find this
Jim - please stop sitting on the fence! 🤣
High Voltage and Lenny and Lodi come to mind. The New Rockers with Marty Jannetty and Leif Cassidy aka Al Snow. I remember a team called The Humpbacks but I don't know if they even wrestled. The brilliant idea for them was they could not lose because they could never be pinned. Another brilliant Jim Herd idea.
Well to be fair, Ole Anderson shot that down with the classic 'ok Jim, we'll book the Hunchbacks, put me against em, soon as I get in, I'd slap a submission hold on one of em, make em give up, you just beat the unbeatable team'.
@@connordripps1480 The only thing missing from your scenario is The Black Scorpion voice.
@@foleynj86 oh God. The dreaded black scorpion
What i dont get is, whats the point of having an unbeatable team? Are you just going to keep the belts on them till they retire?
Alex Wright and Disco Inferno. Not hating on Alex Wright but anything involving Disco was absolute shit
How about the old Moondogs? They were pretty bad when I was a kid.
Oh so that's why Spirit Squad Mitch barely ever wrestled.
I wonder what the point of even having him under contract was to begin with.
i remember even vince or shane buried him during a promo when they were in vinces office or whatever. they were like "were doing an 8 man tag match, oh sorry mitch looks like you're the odd man out, maybe next time". i couldnt figure out why he never really wrestled.
Patterson liked his bum
The "New" Rock N Roll Express. Robert brought in his nephew while Ricky was in Memphis doing "heel" mode.
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Robert Gibson & Bob Holly were the Rock N Roll Express in the NWF Buck Robley out of Louisiana
I thought Ricky teamed with Todd Morton as new rock n roll express
The dupp's didn't make the list?
The Dupp Cup made me laugh.
One of my favorite "fun wrestling facts" is that Chad Fortune of "Tekno Team 2000" was the real first person to defeat Goldberg (in a dark match before Goldberg had even been on TV yet!)
That ace impression. Lol
Talking with that “old man that did 2 packs a day, everyday” voice😂
"The dicks were a terrible tag team"
Cue the people who are going to say " Why does he bring up Russo and Ferrara all the time !!! " Lol
@KaneMagus thanks!
@Fencepost Turtle Que ball !
That's what I get for writing in a hurry.
Because like me he hates them for destroying wrestling or making fun of people with a disability that can't help hence Jim Ross!
Chad Fortune came from an uneventful pro football career to pro wrestling (was a college football teammate of Watts). After leaving wrestling in 1999/2000, he went on to have a nearly 20 year career driving monster trucks until retiring in 2019.
Was he in Monster Jam?
@@ReflectionOfPerfection Yes
@@chubbycatfish4573 both played college football at Louisville
Corny is right - The Harris Brothers do *NOT* belong on this list
1. Any makeshift they're tagging but they don't like each other team
2. Nasty Boys
3. Basham Bros/ any tag with 2 bald guys that only seem to be tagging cuz they're 2 bald guys
Corny has said before that Doug Basham was actually a top heel in OVW who used to have long dark hair before he was told to chop it by (I think) John Laurinaitis.
4. Any thrown together team with a gimmick name that’s a portmanteau of their nicknames. Ex: Pretty Wonderful, Rated RKO, and the absolute worst team name ever from WCW, Perfect Event.
Well Dunn (Steve Doll and Rex King)
West Hollywood Blondes (Lane and Lodi)
The Dicks (Tank Toland and Chad Wicks)
Tekno Team 2000 (Chad Fortune and Erik Watts)
The Johnsons (Dick and Rod Johnson)
Those are my choices for worst tag ever! 😂
Well Dunn was an okay tag team. Here in Memphis, they were pretty good. The Johnsons and the Dicks should never ever exist again.
The Conquistadors 🤣😂
They did well in the Survivor Series....
Conquistadors could work, though!
Uh, Si senor
Horrible tag team
Si Senor.
The Shane Twins did so bad that they got signed to the main roster.......didn’t know it was that easy to get signed
"That has to be a shit stain thing from TNA." 😂 Cornette is a national fucking treasure.
It was a shit stain thing from WCW. They were his muscle as well as Jeff Jarretts heaters, clean shaven in suits as a rib to Patterson and Briscoe. Vincent (Virgil) was renamed Shane.
The Thunderfoots 1 and 2, The Gladiators,
I think the conditions to set for "Worst Tag Teams" are that they were given air time and somewhat of a push. Ding Dongs are easily #1, but another team I thought were awful were Alex Wright and Disco Inferno.
Rock N Rebels were great the Ding Dongs no
Disco and Alex had chemistry, and were over individually. Neither ding nor dong had a singles run. And were never over. Together or separate.
Dynamic dudes
Yes!!!! I was thinking of the Ding Dongs first thing seconds before Corny too! Hahahaha!
Mulkeys are both the best and worst tag teams ever
Absolutely dying. 😂😂 Jim talking about the Ding Dongs
Chad Fortune went on to be a great monster jam driver
Chad was a monster truck driver retired in 2019, he has previously also played for the nfl ..dolphins,redskins,colts & other teams..hes living in roswell ga
I felt bad for Spirit Squad, because at first blush this seems like a good formula for a chickenshit heel tag team. Former pro athletes, pretty boys, still learning so you put them in a group to highlight strengths and mask weaknesses. They just went too heavy with the cheerleading thing. The uniforms were too much. Put them in college singlets, like they want to look like legit wrestlers, when we know they aren't. Jim Ross would have sold this beautifully, 'well fans, we know these guys are great athletically, they were athletes in college. Cheerleaders, but still."
You could even use it to work in a face turn. Just point out how fucking dangerous cheerleading is. Have one of them have a sense of humor about the whole thing, "Yeah I did it. It was fun, and I got to toss the hottest girls in school around all day." Big Show was a high school cheerleader, have him join the team for a match or two as a 'special substitute'. Have him in the back sitting on a bench, they come in, "Hey man, Nick hurt his ankle. You're up." and Show is like "Finally! My big break!" and they go out and do their thing. Good palette cleanse match.
I don't think the gimmick would have been super horrible as a tag team, the real problem was that there were so many of them and they were mostly indistinguishable. It just made the whole thing bland and annoying.
I don't know, think the New Breed should be somewhere on this list
List from my era. Cole Twins, Ding Dongs, Techno Team 2000, Magnum Force, Young Stallions.
How about the Colossal Kongs? The Mulkeys?
@@thekidfromiowa Never saw them as a team
@@thekidfromiowa the Kongs at least looked the part. They only had 3 moves, clothesline, splash in corner, big splash on mat. They looked like they could dominate, but they were green as hell when they got their push. But the Mulkeys really? I get this is subjective, but the Mulkeys could at least work and bump like hell. They got themselves over too.
Young Stallions really weren't bad. Nowhere close to being one of the worst teams of all time.
Are the Shane Twins the team also known as Gemini
Yes.
Early 90s WCW had some terrible teams, Master Blasters, Renegade Warriors, Patriots, Cole Twins.
Brush that Shane twins firing story is gold 🤣🤣 you already know in today’s world they would get multiple chances
Al snow had a shoot interview with stone cold where he talks about the twins exactly how cornette says it happns lol
Before hearing number one where are the main street Posse on the list
Mean
Pete Gas was money
The Posse were supposed to be bad. The whole team was a joke and treated as such. These teams on that list were supposed to draw money and taken seriously.
It took until the Monday Night Wars for WCW to fully recover from the damage Jim Herd had done. They were showing signs of improvement but then The Huckster arrived and ran roughshod. Starrcade 1993 was headlined by Vader vs Flair and the next year we were treated to a main event featuring Hogan and his BBF Brutus. Then you had the Dungeon of Doom mumbo jumbo....
You don't know what you're talking about. Hogan and the NWO is what propelled WCW into the stratosphere. Also, Herd wasn't near as bad as people think he was. They cherry pick a couple of bad decisions he made, even though they are things that Vince McMahon himself probably would have done, and that he actually *did* do in the case of the hunchbacks (look up the WWF's Terra and Tora characters from the early 90's). Vince also put Dusty Rhodes in polka dots. If Jim Herd was really as terrible as he is perceived to be, then Vince McMahon is equally as bad.
He’s talking about 1993-95 Red and Yellow Hogan aka lol Hulk wins. A LOT of Jim Herd ideas never made it out of the booking room thanks to Ole Anderson and his usual curmudgeonly grumpy sarcasm.
I can't remember which, but one of the Harris Brothers ran with Macho Man Randy Savage in 2003 when he was promoting his rap album. I got to spend the morning with Macho Man and his crew on Halloween 2003; Macho Man was part of my bachelor party when I got married in New Orleans that morning. He plugged his album on the morning show I was a part of, then he commentated me getting a lap dance from three strippers from Bourbon Street live on air.
What happenned next. Was your wife mad?
@@powderedtoastman1858 The Harris Brother was standing watch in the office (my now ex) wife was getting ready in. They mistakenly kept a radio on in that room where she could hear the broadcast. She got out, and was banging on the door of the sound proofed blacked out studio that we were in. So much, that big wigs called the hotline and told us to "wrap it up".
Macho Man got in front of the door, spread his arms, and said to me, "Don't worry brother. She'd be better off digging a tunnel!"
That segment ended, and we ended up getting married. Nothing too consequential happened during the lapdances, except for when my private area popped out of my boxers and we had to temporarily stop for me to adjust...Macho Man saw what happened, and in true King of One Liners said, "You Better put that Slim Jim away!"
It was a morning I'll never forget, and he and his whole crew were very down to earth. His DJ and I even had beers together because he was celebrating his birthday that weekend.
@@JDutton13 wow thank you for sharing. Macho man saying "you better put that slim jim away" might be the greatest quote ive ever heard in my entire life😂
@@powderedtoastman1858 I had a cd of the audio from the show that day. Unfortunately, my ex took it when she left. Macho Man never broke character in the studio, but my oldest brother who was in the lobby with about 150 fans of the show saw Macho Man come in, and he told me when he walked by my family, he said, "Hey, how's it going?" to them in his natural voice.
@@JDutton13 haha. Rest in peace macho man. what an absolute legend this guy was😂🤘
What about Billy & Chuck?🤣
The Natural Disasters?😂
Yeah, that weren't bad at all
From the drawing, I thought that the Gladiators would be up there.
Johnson's in their flesh colored outfit
I watched the Ding Dongs debut, it was so bad after the match JR said that ugh was bad. There was nothing redeeming about them.
The bucks are the worst! Bunch of teen looking backyard acrobats! Epitome of smark tag team!
Also: The New Rockers. The New Blackjacks. The New Hart Foundation. Basically, any "new" version of a a previous team.
Not the MLW version of the Hart Foundation (Teddy Hart, Harry Smith, Brian Pillman Jr) they were pretty decent
@@deetwentyone4528 Were they actually called "The New Hart Foundation"?
Hey, Jim got to crap on Jim Herd, Johnny Ace AND Vince Russo in one segment! The Ding Dongs as a concept really makes no sense. You can understand in theory how Tekno Team 2000 could get over because there's a lot of popular sci-fi with people from the future. What is the theoretical appeal of the Ding Dongs? Maybe pre-schoolers might like it? And it isn't like Jim Herd came up with this idea to amuse himself like both Vinces will.
The Spirit Squad is an especially bad tag team because, like a lot of terrible post-WCW WWE ideas, I suspect the entire incentive was to bully and humiliate desperate wrestlers with no leverage to tell them "no".
I think the Shane twins are from Galesburg Illinois and went to school with my sister. I think they played on the tennis team in high school.
The Gladiators, The Cruel Connection, The Mulkey Brothers. Another one that was somewhat successful but stupid was the Beverly Brothers. They were tough guys in the AWA. Then they turned them into almost gay aristocrats or something. Worst tag team to have moderate success.
Actually the Cruel Connection were pretty good for a jobber team. One of them was a masked George South, who was a criminally underrated worker
The Beverly Brothers were actually a cheap ripoff of The Midnight Express. Right down to their ring attire
Never understood what The WWF at the time did to undersell The former Destruction Crew of AWA fame with the entire sickening Beverly Brothers routine. However, Ole Anderson played a part himself in WCW's Booking misuse of Wayne Bloom and the dangerously surnamed Mike Enis by putting dark blue masks over them and renaming them "The New Minnesota Wrecking Crew" for some seemingly apparent reason.🤔😔🤦♂️🎤🤼♂️B.W.
The Thunderfoots were worse than DING DONGS
Honorable mention: from TNA ..Seratonin. Three decent workers: Devine, Kazarian, and Bentley being the poor mans Ravens Flock and jobbing nearly all their matches.😡
Serajabronin if you will
Dynamic Dudes !!!!! They will always be my number 1 WORST !
Little Jimmy was a great imaginary friend
I was fixing to say that but r truth wasn't no tag team when he did the little jimmy segments/promos.
Truth is the man
R Truth could make powdered milk and a bag of rusted nails work
Bob Holly was also in a version of Rock and Roll Express with Robert Gibson. I think it was Awf
Are does clouds in the background or.. 😂
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No, no, no, no.... does is not appropriate there. The world is dumb enough, do not encourage this shit too.
@@planexshifter hahaha agreed the world is dumb enough 😂 someone should tell that to the people who run aew 😂
It's the walls around the hot tub 😄
Facts about Chad Fortune/Troy: he was Erik Watt’s teammate at University of Louisville. Spent several years in the NFL. Also was the first person to defeat Bill Goldberg, in a dark match.
"Unless your name is Alex having an imaginary friend doesn't work."
Tell that to R-Truth and Little Jimmy. They were over. It worked.
Little Jimmy is the man. I mean boy. I mean kid..... Whatever.
When he went to that amusement park with Little Jimmy. Hilarity ensues.
Facts, Little Jimmy even put R Truth into the main event of a PPV lol.
As did Rick Steiner to the bemusement of Kevin Sullivan and the growing annoyance of Mike Rotunda when all three were part of "The Varsity Club."😏😂🎤🤼♂️B.W.
3:49 that was actually in WCW when Vince Russo was still writing for that company
Jelly and sonny should have been on this list
Marko Stunt and Dorkasaurus belong on a worst tag teams list.
The Conquistadors were fugging awesome...they just lost all the time
They could work!
Jose Luis Rivera was one of the ultimate jobbers, ranked up there with The Mulkies, Iron Mike Sharpe and Steve Lombardi
@@johnkolko5199 But he could work!
Man. My boy Jim outlived the entire camp cornette. One of my favorite stables
Harris Bros WTF, they were pretty decent, big guys who were pretty athletic for their size. H Bomb was a cool finisher.
@ShadowAngel They weren't any worse than a lot of other mid card teams. And no, they are not neo nazis. They got those tattoos for their biker gimmick, because biker gangs used them a lot to piss people off. No one who has ever worked with them has ever said they were anything but great guys. They currently run a lucha promotion, one of them has a bi-racial family and an adopted Filipino daughter. They have also had the tats covered since they retired.
TLDR, you're a f***ing mark.
I honestly liked the Shane Twins. They had a unique look and they took some insane bumps.
The American Males and The Dynamic Dudes should've been on this list.
Chad Fortune was in the monster truck business and has since retired.
Yeah Chad and Eric Watts both played college football at Louisville
How can The Harris Twins and The New Midnight Express be on the list and not The Heart Throbs lol
Maybe because they were such a blip on the radar that they must've forgot about them
The twins were those the guys that were in JBL cabinet
The Bashams were great in OVW as Jim has mentioned, but they went to the WWE, that's when everything went to hell in a handbasket, because when Doug went to the WWE, he was asked by creative to shave his head.
I believe when the Harris brothers were part of creative control I believe that was in WCW and yes very likely a Vince Russo idea
Creative Control was a Russo thing in WCW. They were formed when Turner starting putting the kibosh on his ideas
@@Vagajammer I thought Creative Control was a rib on Pat and Bruce from the WWE which was the inspiration for it.
@@krazieboi96 It's more a rib on Pat and Gerald as the stooges
I still remember watching tna debut with excitement and hope. The Johnsons quickly quelled all of that (this after realizing jarretts were in charge)
Jim’s own team The Headhunters
Sweden House and Ponderosa!
Those weren't his WWF assigned him to them
@@DjTractus They were never their names anywhere except on the joke tape by ICP where they overdubbed the Japanese match footage which included other greats like Luminamanubi and Dangerous Fred..
@@johnkolko5199 I meant about Jim Cornette being their manager
I can't believe you said Mortimer Plumtree. Ghat guy was a manager in some indy promotion in the 90s in Minnesota. I can't remember the promotion, but I believe he managed Lenny Lane. Funny stuff.