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Tag teams have been a major part of wrestling history, and WWE is no different. Wrestling as a singles competitor is tough alone, but wrestling with a partner is just as challenging. Great tag teams need to have great chemistry, the perfect timing, and good in-ring psychology to be successful.
Every tag team in wrestling has had one goal, and that is to win tag team gold. Some of the greatest tag teams in wrestling and WWE history have also had some of the best tag team championship reigns. Teams like The Hardy Boyz, The Dudley Boyz, and Edge and Christian have all had some of the most memorable WWE Tag Team Championship reigns wrestling fans can remember.
But with teams that have won tag team gold, there are teams that have not. We will be looking at the ten best tag teams that were never able to capture gold in WWE.
10. Enzo and Cass never won a Tag Team Championship in WWE
Love them or hate them, Enzo and Cass were on top of the tag team world in 2016. A great clash of styles with Enzo being a loudmouth that couldn't wrestle all that well and a silent but very intimidating big man to clean up his messes. Big feuds against The Dudley Boyz, The Vaudevillains, and The New Day were all for naught as the team never won the big won in WWE.
After the team broke up (and were eventually released), Enzo and Cass have popped up in certain promotions every now and again but have yet to win tag team championships. Despite winning Tag Team of the Year at the 2015 NXT End of Year Awards, we never got to see what an Enzo and Cass title reign could be.
9. The Thrillseekers never won a Tag Team Championship in WWE
Lance Storm and Chris Jericho separately are two of the best in-ring competitors of all time. Jericho's resume speaks for itself, and Storm's may not be as well-known to the casual fan, but he was a technical magician in the ring. Storm and Jericho started wrestling as a tag team in Smokey Mountain Wrestling, and even though the tag team only lasted three years, they displayed how great they were.
Jericho and Storm won tag team gold in WWE, but not with each other. Lance Storm won tag team championships with Chief Morley, William Regal, and Christian. Jericho has been a part of some of the best tag teams in the 2000s, teaming with Big Show, Christian, The Rock, and Edge.
8. Heavy Machinery never won a Tag Team Championship in WWE
Heavy Machinery was a tag team for a little under a year on WWE's main roster. Before that, Otis (Dozovik) and Tucker (Knight) tagged together for three years in NXT. The tag team began gaining some traction in NXT and were called up for the Greatest Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia.
Despite getting over with the fans and being placed into big tag team feuds on SmackDown, Heavy Machinery only got two title shots.
One was a SmackDown Tag Team Championship match against Daniel Bryan and Rowan, and the other was a RAW Tag Team Championship match against Bobby Roode and Dolph Ziggler via the wild card rule.
Now that the team has broken up, we may never see Heavy Machinery get a tag team title run unless they reunite.
7. Bret Hart and Owen Hart never won a Tag Team Championship in WWE
Bret Hart and Owen Hart only teamed together for a short amount of time in WWE and could've been a tag team powerhouse had they been together longer. As rivals, they were absolutely fantastic, as evidenced from their match at WrestleMania X, which is considered one of the best opening bouts in 'Mania history.
Owen Hart himself is a four-time WWE Tag Team Champion, having won the titles with Yokozuna, Jeff Jerrett, and The British Bulldog.
Bret won the titles twice, both with his real-life brother-in-law Jim Neidhart. Owen was obviously a fantastic singles competitor, and due to his untimely death, we unfortunately never got to see if WWE would have given the brothers a title run.
6. The Powers of Pain never won a Tag Team Championship in WWE
Back in the 1980s, due to the huge popularity of Demolition and The Road Warriors, many promotions, including WWE, began experimenting with their own face-painted tag team, big men. One of those tag teams that never got the chance to hold tag team gold is The Barbarian and The Warlord, The Powers of Pain.
Starting their partnership in Jim Crockett Promotions, The Powers of Pain made their WWE debut in 1988, serving as mercenaries for Rick Martel and Tito Santana. They feuded with teams such as The Bolsheviks, The Hart Foundation, and The Rockers. The Powers of Pain did win the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championships with Ivan Koloff and were WWWA Tag Team Champions on the indies as well. But the two never were able to bring home gold in WWE, nor WCW.
5. The Mega Powers never won a Tag Team Championship in WWE
When you look at the sheer star power that was involved in The Mega Powers, it is insane to think that they were never tag team champions. Two of the biggest stars in wrestling history (and true main eventers at the time), Hulk Hogan and 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, ended their feud and came together with the help of Miss Elizabeth.
After feuds with The Honky Tonk Man and The Hart Foundation, Andre the Giant and Ted DiBiase, and Akeem and Big Boss Man, the Mega Powers imploded. After Miss Elizabeth was hurt at ringside, Hogan attended to her, which cost him and Savage the match, which threw the Macho Man into a rage. A little over a year, and the Mega Powers were no more, having never held the tag team championships in WWE.
4. The Orient Express never won a Tag Team Championship in WWE
Although many WWE fans today may not remember The Orient Express, Akio Sato and Pat Tanaka with Mr. Fuji as their manager was one of the best tag teams in the early 1990s. The problem with The Orient Express was all timing. When they debuted, the roster was full of great tag teams like The Rockers, the Legion of Doom, Demolition, and The Hart Foundation.
Sato and Tanaka were apart of many high-profile feuds in the '90s and were booked relatively strong in their feuds but just couldn't get over the other teams in the promotion. Sato left the company in the late 90s, and WWE tried to keep the team alive, this time with Kato (Paul Diamond), but Tanaka left in 1992. As a result, The Orient Express couldn't get a tag team championship run in WWE.
3. The Fabulous Rougeaus never won a Tag Team Championship in WWE
Jacques and Raymond Rougeau began teaming in Montreal in the 70s, but it was in 1986 that the brothers signed a deal with WWE. Over a year after their debut, The Rougeaus actually won the WWF Tag Team Championships from The Hart Foundation, but the decision was reversed due to an interference. Still to this day, the WWE doesn't recognize their reign.
A year after their title win was overturned, the Rougeaus turned heel due to them never really being able to gain any momentum with the fans. After they turned heel, the two became two of the biggest villains in WWE, even going as far as bringing small American flags to the ring and trying to get the crowd to chant "U-S-A" just to annoy them. The Rougeaus were trolls way before the term was even coined.
2. Cryme Tyme never won a Tag Team Championship in WWE
Cryme Tyme was a tag team that was somewhat doomed from the start due to the heavy stereotypical gimmicks they were given by the WWE creative. However, Shad Gaspard (Rest in Peace) and JTG took the gimmick and ran with it, getting over with the fans due to the great vignettes and their in-ring work. At first, their ability in the ring wasn't all that great, but over time, they got better, and the fans saw it.
Cryme Tyme was even paired up with one of the biggest acts in wrestling history, John Cena, and formed a short-term trio. However, when WWE made the switch to a more PG product, Cryme Tyme got somewhat lost in the shuffle due to creative not having much for them in this new era. Cryme Tyme was huge at a time when WWE didn't have many big-time tag teams. However, they never were able to capture tag team gold.
1. The Rockers never won a Tag Team Championship in WWE
When one thinks about the greatest tag teams in wrestling history, Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty are bound to be brought up in conversation. Teams like The Hardy Boyz and The Young Bucks wouldn't be around today if it weren't for The Rockers. But the simple fact is The Rockers never (officially) won tag team gold in the WWE.
In 1990, The Rockers defeated The Hart Foundation for the titles, but due to the top rope snapping, WWE decided not to air The Rockers tag team title win, wiping their victory clean from the record books. In 1991, Michaels and Janetty gave us one of the best tag team split angles of all time when Michaels superkicked Janetty through the window of Brutus Beefcake's Barbershop. The Rockers would team up once in a while over the years but were never able to capture gold.
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