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#5 Demolition
In the 1980s, tag team wrestling grew very, very hot. Teams like the Rock N Roll Express, the Fantastics, and the Sheepherders were international stars.
But the biggest name of all in tag team wrestling was the Road Warriors. When Vince McMahon failed to get Hawk and Animal under contract, he took the next logical step; he created his own version of the Legion of Doom, Demolition.
Despite their being essentially a knock off of the Road Warriors, Demolition were quite successful in their own right. Both were veteran grapplers who could work the mike and wrestle with great aplomb.
They held the record for longest WWE tag team title reign until the New Day broke it recently. Demolition were a fixture of WWE's classic era and are well remembered by many fans and wrestlers--like Kyle O'Reilly, who named his Ax and Smash combo after the duo.
Why they deserve to be in the Hall of Fame: Demolition wrestled all of the best tag teams of the 1980s--names like the British Bulldogs, the Hart Foundation, and Strike Force--and left them laying in a heap. Their historic tag team title run is not to be discounted, and makes them worthy of the Hall of Fame all on its own.
