8 Best tag team matches in WWE history

#6 Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin & Triple H (Raw 2001)

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You would have seen the image of a limping Triple H and being carried from the ring on numerous vignettes over the years, but what you might have forgotten is the tag team classic that proceeded The Game’s career-threatening quadricep tear.

As the short-lived Two-Man Power Trip, HHH and Stone Cold Steve Austin – in a rare highlight during his heel run - had been running riot over WWE, seemingly under the orders of Vince McMahon. The only Superstars to challenge this elite monopoly were young upstarts Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit, and it all came to a head in this underrated tag team outing.

Playing the role of plucky underdogs, the two put their uneasy alliance aside and showed surprising chemistry in a match where they spent the majority of the bout trying to foil the underhanded tactics of Trips and The Rattlesnake. It’s fourteen minutes of four of WWE’s hottest commodities of the time, made all the more impressive given how injured Triple H was for half of the match.