6 unlikely WWE teams which won Tag Team titles despite feuding

This week, on WWE Monday Night RAW, Universal Champion Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman captured the RAW Tag Team Championships from The OC. It was a huge win to say the least, partly because the Architect and the Monster Among Men are expected to face each other at the upcoming Clash of Champions, with Rollins' Universal title on the line.

Over the years, there have been plenty of sets of opponents who have won tag titles together, some by choice, and others by being forced together. These teams had different levels of success, but they will forever go down in the history books as champions.

Here are six teams of WWE Superstars who won Tag Team gold despite feuding between themselves.

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#6 The Miz and John Cena

The Miz and John Cena held the tag titles for less than one episode of RAW.

By 2011, John Cena had done it all in WWE, and was gearing up to once again be the star attraction at WrestleMania. Cena, at the time, was embroiled in a feud with then-WWE Champion, The Miz.

Cena and Miz were set to face one another in the main event of WrestleMania XXVII, but not before being teamed up to challenge Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel for their WWE Tag Team Championships on RAW. Despite hating each other at the time, Cena and Miz got on well enough to win the titles, making Miz a double champion.

A few moments after their championship victory, Slater and Gabriel immediately invoked their rematch clause and fought Cena and Miz in another match. Miz and Cena began disagreeing with each other, which ultimately led to Miz laying out Cena, allowing Slater and Gabriel to reclaim the titles on the very same night.

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#5 Daniel Bryan and Kane

Bryan and Kane were somehow able to co-exist as champions, despite hating each other.

Daniel Bryan and Kane first came to one another’s attention during 2012, when they were both involved in feuds with the then-WWE Champion, CM Punk. After both of them failed to capture the belt from Punk during a triple threat match at No Way Out, the two began feuding with each other, eventually colliding one-on-one at SummerSlam.

The two became increasingly violent towards one another and were eventually sent to 'anger management classes' by the then-RAW GM, AJ Lee.

After several weeks of classes, – which were honestly some of the funniest WWE skits in recent memory – Kane and Bryan were put together as a team to help them to learn to cooperate further.

Despite bickering and fighting with each other in almost every match they featured in, the duo somehow became number one contenders for the tag team championships at Night of Champions in 2012.

At the show, Bryan and Kane got into an argument during the match, which led to Bryan pushing Kane off the top rope and onto Kofi Kingston, which led to Kane pinning Kingston and winning the tag team titles for his team.

#4 The Rock and Mankind

The Rock didn't want anything to do with Mankind, but that didn't stop the team from becoming Champions.

Outside of Steve Austin (and perhaps Triple H), no one had a more memorable rivalry with The Rock in the Attitude Era than Mick Foley, who wrestled as Mankind at the time. From late 1998 to early 1999, the two legends engaged in an absolute war over the WWE Championship, trading the title back and forth between one another numerous times.

There were countless memorable moments between the two such as The Rock’s heel turn at Survivor Series 1998. On an episode of RAW in August 1999, The Rock extended a challenge to the World Tag Team Champions, The Undertaker and Big Show.

Taker and Show had been attacking Rock in recent weeks and The Great One had enough, which led him to challenge the duo to a handicap match later on in the show. The odds were firmly against The Rock, but help appeared in the least likely of forms, when his old enemy Mankind offered to help The Rock in his quest.

Whilst the duo's feud had come to an end some months before, they were still presented as enemies up to this point, and it was with reluctance that The Rock accepted Mick’s help. This decision paid off for The People’s Champion, as a double People’s Elbow later, The Rock and Mankind were champions as The Rock and Sock Connection was born

#3 Batista and John Cena

The Animal and Cena held the World tag team titles for eight days in 2008.

In the summer of 2008, Batista was drafted from SmackDown to Raw. Batista was a huge star and a bonafide main eventer, so his move to the red brand was definitely going to shake things up. He immediately squared off with another top Raw star, John Cena, and it was clear that a match between the two was going to happen at some point in the future.

Cena and Batista joined forces on the August 4th 2008 episode of Raw to battle the World Tag Team Champions, Ted DiBiase Jr. and Cody Rhodes, for the tag team titles. Rhodes and DiBiase were, of course, defeated by the two former world champions, giving Batista his fourth tag team title and Cena his second.

DiBiase and Rhodes were able to win the titles back just one week later, as the animosity between Cena and Batista proved too much for the champs to co-exist. Facing off at SummerSlam, it was Batista who got the victory, injuring Cena in the process, who wouldn't be seen again until November's Survivor Series.

#2 The Rock and Chris Jericho

Rock and Jericho put their differences aside for one night whilst feuding in 2001.

At SummerSlam 2001, The Rock defeated Booker T to become the WCW Champion and held the title for 63 days before losing the title to Chris Jericho, Y2J's very first World title in the company.

One night later, on Raw, both The Rock and Jericho teamed up to face The Dudley Boyz for the World Tag Team Championship, having supposedly put their differences aside. Both men were part of WWE against the invading forces of WCW and ECW and so decided to put their personal problems to one side to come together for the sake of their company.

The Rock and Jericho were successful in their quest, defeating The Dudleys to win the gold. However, this would be rather short-lived as, just eight days later, Rock and Jericho lost the belts to Booker T and Test on an episode of SmackDown, reigniting their hatred for one another.

This is a short, oft-forgotten reign, but part of much bigger storyline that eventually saw Chris Jericho become the first-ever Undisputed Champion at the end of 2001, beating The Rock and Steve Austin on the same night.

#1 The Undertaker and 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin

The Deadman and The Rattlesnake held the tag titles in 1998.

Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Undertaker were involved in a fairly complicated rivalry over the summer of 1998 that also featured Taker’s demonic half-brother, Kane, and everyone’s favourite lunatic, Mankind.

At King of the Ring, Austin lost his WWE Championship to Kane, following an accidental interference from The Undertaker, who was attempting to take out Kane. While Austin won the title back just one night later, there was still animosity between him and Taker, something Austin’s arch-rival, Vince McMahon, was quick to exploit.

McMahon put Taker and Austin together to battle Kane and Mankind for the latter’s World Tag Team Championships at Fully Loaded, in an attempt to drive a wedge even further between Austin and The Deadman.

However, Taker and Austin won the match and the titles, making Austin both the World Champion and Tag Team Champion while Undertaker clinched just the Tag Team Champion belt.

Over the course of their reign, it became clear that Austin and The Undertaker were not exactly best of friends, perhaps due to The Undertaker’s status as number one contender to Austin’s WWE Championship at the upcoming SummerSlam.

Austin and Taker’s reign came to an end after just 15 days, losing the titles back to Kane and Mankind on an episode of Raw, adding further interest to their SummerSlam title match.