Wrestling Tag Team Tournament Round 1

Hi, I'm Phil Lamar, voice of Green Lantern in

Justice League, and you're listening to the Geekcast

Radio Network. Ladies and gentlemen, this is

your GCRN Awards Tag Team Wrestling Tournament,

with your host, Optimus Solo. Money isn't everything,

it's the only thing! And featuring, TV's Mr.

Neil. The whole wrestling world is gonna stand

up and take notice! And, from Simplistic Reviews,

DJ Valentine. Damn! Hello and welcome to our

latest GCRN wars episode. That's right, we're

bringing back the wars episodes. We're doing

a little fighting today and the topic for today

is going to be wrestling. tag teams. So this

is the beginning of our journey to decide what

is the best wrestling tag team of all time, or

at least out of the teams that I have assembled

here. I apologize if I left somebody off that

you really wanted to be on here, but I'm not

alone today helping make the case for one tag

team or the other. We have a Fatal four -way

we have four corners of people here going that

are going to try to influence your votes because

that is right The people will be voting and if

you haven't seen the wars episodes or listen

to them before we talk about the matchups But

you guys decide the winners so helping us Influence

the masses first off is TV's mr.. Neil hello,

Neil Hello, I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum

and I'm all out of bubblegum like it also joining

us today a Duo a tag team themselves from the

simplistic reviews. Mr. Matthew Stewart. Hello

You know what Kevin you just made the list And

his tag team partner DJ Valentine the immortal

words of Aristotle and Socrates and Plato choke

on that slap nuts. So Matt, the question that

we have to start off with is if you guys were

in fact a tag team, who would start in the ring?

Oh, Matthew has a lot of energy. So he's I'm

like the relief. He comes in there hot fire.

I'm clapping. I'm getting the crowd and doing

everything like that. I'm the one. Come on. Take

it! Come on! I feel like I start the match like

Hillbilly Jim, where he can start stomping his

feet and he's like, don't go mess with those

country boys. So, if anything, we would be -

I don't like the tag team anymore. I'm out. I'm

out. I would be Henry O 'Godwin. You would be

Phineas Godwin. We already have a tag team that

might not make it through the match without turning

on each other. Steal chair! Steal chair! He tags

me in and slaps my back. He stabbed him in the

back. double crossed him. So basically what has

happened here is behind the scenes I've tried

to come up with 32 tag teams that I thought might

have a chance to be crowned the best tag team

of all time. So obviously there's been way more

than 32 tag teams out there so I had to try to

find a way to narrow that down. What I decided

to do was Google and internet and see if they

would help me. And what I basically did is I

went to some other top 10s, top 50s, top 100s,

top 25 lists that are out there and took their

rankings. Then I also took title holders and

how long they held them and stuff like that and

tried to compile all that information to see

which tag teams came up the most. And if I thought

there was a glaring omission from that list I

added some of my own personal touch to it. So

we looked at Sports Illustrated, they did a list,

Den of Geek did a list, the site Ranker has a

list, Bleacher Report did a list, and New Arena

did a list. So those are the five lists that

I looked at. And then, like I said, I looked

at WWE slash WWF, WCW, ECW, Title Reigns, and

kind of put that all together. Maybe a little

bit of longevity, a little bit of memorabileness,

iconicness, and that's kind of... how we got

to the 32 nobody knows who those 32 teams are

except for me so it'll be new to all of these

guys as they kind of come down the pike and love

to see you because they're all ranked one through

32 so you guys might disagree with some of the

rankings but hey it'll make it fun DJ what are

you looking for in a tag team that that you make

you find that tag team superior over another

one chemistry and showmanship uh... i lean more

towards showmanship in terms of wrestling if

you can entertain me other ring uh... where you

know it's almost like the bruce wayne batman

thing if you could if you're just as good as

bruce wayne as you are as batman then i i'm with

you if you're more entertaining doing uh... promo

in the back as you are you know to a clothesline

uh... i'm i'm probably gonna guess will for you

right when we met you what take what taking traits

with a I like a combination of, I like the longevity,

but I also like good storytelling if they're

not just one dimensional, you know, tag team.

Like let's say we take somebody like the Ascension

and it's like, yeah, we're until Illuminati.

It's like, I don't care about that. It's cool,

but. I need something more. I need some meat.

I need I need some storytelling. I need some,

you know, maybe betrayal or like, no, they turn

on each other. They're best of friends and they

come back and and you also have to have good

you got to have some good matches as well. So

you can't just be some, you know, tag team is

just tearing through everything and there's not

really any, you know, suspension of you know,

I need I need to be invested. Give me something

that I can invest in. And those are the ones

that are the ones I'm going to want to get down

with. That's nice. Neil, do belts matter? Not

entirely, but to me it's more about, I like tag

teams that have contrasting styles and also compliment

each other. I like both guys having a sort of

personality on their own. They can stand on their

own while also being a very, very cohesive tag

team. So that's kind of what I look for in a

good tag team. Also, the costumes got a match.

That drives me nuts. In more recent wrestling,

they throw together two guys that are just kind

of like a mishmash. That's a little too much

contrast. I like guys that have the same tights.

Nice, nice, nice. All right, DJ, I'll give you

the choice. Do we start on the left side or the

right side of the bracket? I know that means

nothing to you, but... Well, I'm right -handed,

so let's go on the left side. Wait, what? All

right, we're going to start on the left side

of the bracket. Matt, I just like giving my guess

and my co -host choices. So are we going to start

at the top or the bottom of the left side? Do

I stay on the same side as my tag team partner,

or do I betray him and go the opposite way? Tag

me in! He's reaching for the tag! We're going

to start at the bottom. Alright, we're going

to start at the bottom left quadrant here and

we're going to work our way up towards the top

left and then the second half will be the right

side of the bracket. So if we're starting in

the bottom left that means we're starting with

our 5 seed against our 28 seed. So that's the

matchup that we have going. And as we go through

this, guys, I have data that I am going to be

giving the guys through Skype, etc., that they'll

be able to look at to kind of inform their opinions,

just in case there's tag teams that they're not

as familiar with. So our 28th seed is going to

be the tag team known as Doom. And our fifth

seed is the tag team known as the Heart Foundation.

So DJ, we'll start with you, because your name

starts alphabetically first. So what are your

thoughts on, you can talk about either team or

you can pin them against each other and talk

at them, contrasting with each other, but Doom

and the Heart Foundation, where do you start

with this one? Doom has, that's not Mr. Slick,

right? That's Teddy Long. That's Teddy Long.

Teddy Long, right? And it has Farouk. Yeah. And

then the other guy. Butch Reed. The other guy.

Butch Reed. Heart Foundation is a hard one to

pull first round, man. You're going against essentially

every criteria we just named in one. I said chemistry

off the mic. Matthew said storyline. Magic costumes?

Yeah, magic costumes going on here. Yeah, you're

pulling a but you pull it like I'm gonna say

costumes the entire time You have a matching

costume those costumes, but no man doom I I can't

say that I'm an expert in doom other than I think

fruit blew up later when he was part of the nation

and all that stuff and the damn all that stuff

so uh... i've got a car foundation and it's it's

it's almost unfair yet couple interesting tidbits

about these teams they both actually ended the

same time so they both were tag teams up until

nineteen ninety one when they kind of split off

and when they're singles way of different ways

so uh... interesting that the heart foundation

ranked on every single one of the rankings that

i looked at it was ranked and now we have on

fifth seed here it was ranked third seed for

sports illustrated third seed for raker four

seat for new arena seventy for denny geek and

thirteen seat first bleacher report in all their

various leech report what's wrong with you bleacher

report doom only landed on the SI list and the

bleacher report list interesting on the bleacher

report one of them was 13 and one of them was

15 so they're not too far off there obviously

more people probably know of Ron Simmons than

Butch Reed just as maybe more people know of

Bret Hart than Jim Neidhart, but that could be

a little closer. The late Jim Neidhart. Jim Neidhart

was essentially the wild man. He was the laughing,

he had the goatee. Matthew, what do you think

of these two teams and what gives the upper hand

to one or the other? Mean I can honestly say

I haven't really I never really saw doom breast

So I think this might have predated me a little

bit this means to me this to me was like kind

of in the early days at WCW So what would you

say about? Yeah, we're going to 89 to 91 something

like that. I mean, I like Teddy long get these

clown He's really funny and Farouk of course

Ron Simmons, you know and DJ you should like

Ron Simmons. He's an FSU alum It I like I'd like

Ron Simmons I mean he it's interesting that I

didn't even know he was in a tag team before

like the nation or when he was with Bradshaw

and everything like that as well the acolytes

But it's it's hard. I mean they're getting I

won't say the raw deal here, but they're definitely

getting you know They're gonna get out wrestled

out matched out classed out costumed out Out

laughed Everything by the heart. I mean, it's

hard to go. I mean like you were like, uh, man

What's my point here? I'm sorry. I'm trying to

find my point. I can't really get to it right

now Like Neil was saying about having a career

with a tag team and then also by yourself being

probably I would say top I mean, maybe I'm getting

ahead of myself, a top 10 wrestler of all time,

if not top five in Bret Hart. So, I mean, Doom,

it's Doom for Doom at this point. I'll take Legion

and Doom over Doom, you know? Let's see if they

throw a blade around in the time here. Neil,

what do you think? Is this a slam dunk for our

third seed? Oh, yeah. While I was describing

the Heart Foundation at the very top of the show,

I was trying very hard not to directly point

them out. He was like dancing around it. Yeah,

just kind of being very vague. But yeah, they

were the guys I was thinking of. But about Butch

Reed and Farouk, you know, both are... legendary,

semi -legendary guys in the business. I don't

know how many people actually know Butch Reed,

I recognize that name. But I also have to think

about it in terms of was this a good, was this

a legendary tag team? And the other one that

comes to mind in that is like the Blade Runners,

which was Sting and the Ultimate Warrior, who

are both legends in the business, but that's

not a legendary tag team, and I don't think Doom

is legendary either. So it's gotta be the heart

foundation. All right, so it looks like a unanimous

push there for the Heart Foundation, for the

voters out there. We're looking for the three

seed to move on and live up to the three seed

title, I guess. So that means we're gonna go

to the quadrant right above them, the matchup

that's happening in the same city there. And

that would be our 21 seed against our 12 seed.

So a little bit less of a gap there. So 21 and

12, not quite as much of a gap there as we saw

there with 28 and three. 21 seed. We're going

with the classic team of money Oh You want to

talk about a laugh And just to give you guys

a little bit Information before we before we

introduce their opponent Let's try to do it that

way and see if that adds some some tension there

so money ink obviously made of Ted DiBiase and

Irwin our shyster Not a long tenure I mean mainly

active there in the early 90s 92 93 were kind

of their main years But they did have three title

reigns and held the title for over 400 days in

the WWF at the time they made four out of our

five lists that we used in composing these teams.

They did not make the Den of Geek list. And the

other list they were at 19, 25, 25, and 39. So

coming in 21 is around the same place that most

of those people had them. And they will be going

against the number 12 seed, which is an interesting

draw. That would be the team of... The New Age

Outlaws. Jesse James and Billy Gunn. Wait a minute

now. Wait, Neil. They don't have matching outfits.

I know. They had a couple different 10 years,

obviously, mainly from the 97 to 2000, then they

had mid -2000s, and then 2012 they came back

again. Six title reigns, over 500 days. Every

one of the five sources ranked them. The highest

was number eight, the lowest was number 20, so

anywhere in between there on the five different

sources. New Age Outlaws, Money, Inc. Neil, we'll

start with you. Oh boy, I was about, I was ready

to make a joke about who's going to be dribbling

the basketball, but I can't do that here. The

classic moment in time. Oh, that was wonderful.

Oh my God. These are both great teams. And about,

about the costumes. I was kind of joking at the

top, but you know, if I had to give it to one,

I'd have to give it to the new age outlaws on

that particular category. Cause at least they're

kind of coordinated. Well, it's coming out in

DX gear, it's fine. I'll allow it. I'll allow

it. Oh my god. You know, I'm such a classic guy,

though. I love Ted DiBiase. I love Mike Rotondo.

Oh man, this is hard. Yeah, it is hard. Were

they better as a team than they were solo? That's

going to be deciding for me. For the New Age

Outlaws, it was definitely the team. For the

other guys, I guess they were better as singles.

As as as good as DBS he was in a tag team. He

was so much better in a single It's a shame.

You never got a title run Yeah, I'm gonna have

to going against my gut instinct but I got to

give it to the New Age Outlaws. New Age Outlaws

a little bit longer of a run a little bit more

days as champion Matt does that matter? It's

a tough one because I mean these are two pretty

damn iconic tag teams I mean you had one that

was New Age Outlaws which was like the part of

the whole DX group which kind of Fortunately

kind of like for some people fortunately turned

like the whole WWF around I would say I mean

that and you know Stone Cold and Vincent man

and things like that that whole rivalry but DX

was the answer to NWL and kind of pulled them

out of the gutter and then you had you know the

time of the early the early 90s the late 80s

you had you know, the the occupational gimmick

people, you know, you had a tax you had a tax

clerk named Irwin R. Scheister. I mean you try

to explain it to people now and it's like you

can't do that anymore. It's like technically

we're reliving that right now. I wish I could

have been in the room when that name was pitched.

Like who came up with that exact name? It's like

hey how about a black guy from North Carolina

that is gonna be a Ugandan cannibal too. How

about that? It's like everything I mean this

was like the golden age of his weird gimmicks.

You've had Ted DiBiase, I mean, like Neil said,

never had a title run, but who cares? He made

his own belt, so screw everybody else. And you

had just Erwin Arshyster cutting his ridiculously

hilarious promos about not cheating on your taxes

or he's going to fine you and beat you up and

everything. I mean, I mean, he took away, like,

the undertakers like gravestone and things like

that to pay taxes, whatever ridiculousness he

was doing. Oh, good. So you have, you know, New

Age Outlaws, they had a lot of 10 years and they

had six runs more days. You know, you had three

runs and you had less days, but it's tough. I

mean, I feel like New Age Outlaws are more memorable

with their title runs. I couldn't really name

you like in Money Inc.'s title runs. Like, oh,

that was really memorable, who they fought or

anything like that. I feel like... It wasn't

maybe fantastic for tag team wrestling back when

money ink had the belt. So kind of went under

the radar So I mean I'm gonna go with new age

outlaws just because they probably had more high

quality matches than money ink had You know,

but you had Ted DiBiase stuff. I mean, but I'm

still going new age outlaws Alright, so to trying

to persuade the voters for new age outlaws DJ

when we're looking at how this is gonna go and

obviously the people the fans the visitors will

be voting on the winners, etc is time period

gonna play a role is there going to be a bias

for a certain time period to somebody have a

leg up if they're more current or not as old

or what do you think that's going to do i think

it's gonna i think it's gonna hurt the eighties

man and uh... instead when i look at this this

tag team uh... money eight nothing but a smile

comes on my face and i thought i don't think

that like that the young with the separate the

kids i call them has no i have any idea how amazing

that he'd be off he was how essentially He he

was the rock before the rock. He was Jeff Jarrett

before Jeff Jarrett. He was the man And then

the gimmick with him working with an IRS agent

as him being this Donald Trumpian character It's

just so brilliant. I don't think a lot of people

even know they exist. So yeah, it's gonna hurt

it's gonna hurt but I mean in terms of individuality

over tag team I have to go DX because our new

age outlaws because They essentially don't work

separately Ted DBI thing our iris work separately

and they kind of come together It's like oh,

yeah great great great for like a couple of you

know a little bit of a run But the new age outlaws

was like that was their thing that that they

were the more traditional WWE WWF tag team Alright,

so we'll have to wait and see what the people

think that's a tough one I think you know even

though it's a 21 of the 12 that could have been

like a eight nine matchup for me It could still

be upset city, you know Let's go to one matchup

above them, which would Maybe I don't know how

you do all the numbers, but I guess this I looked

online guys I looked online What is math? So

the one right above them in most brackets most

32 team brackets would be the 20 seed against

the 13 seed apparently that seems off but that's

how it goes so the 20 seed we're gonna go with

another older matchup and maybe the conversation

can continue as far as singles versus when you're

a tag team but the number 20 seed is gonna be

none other than the Rockers Shawn Michaels and

Marty Janetti from 85 until 92 never held a title

They did manage to get on all of the list except

for Den of Geek, and it was mainly 22, 23, 25,

and then Bleacher Report all the way down at

35. So not huge rankings there, but they did

make the list, so that's why they're on here

too, at number 20, and they'll be facing the

number 13 seed, and this is gonna... this could

expose something with the voters and that is

how hardcore of fans are they and will they recognize

any of the older teams and that's after we just

talked about somebody that was in the mid to

late 80s so they're going to be going against

a team known as the brain busters who was basically

going around that same time period but maybe

less people know about him i don't know if that's

true or not number 13 seed that's arn anderson

and tully blanchard they held a wwe title and

a wcw tag title they're also members of the wwe

hall of fame they got up all the way up to number

nine on the new arena list otherwise 12 14 15

and 23 brain busters against the rockers new

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because they had two different reigns in WCW

almost a year long, 323 days. Only 76 days as

champion in the WWE, but that's three more title

reigns than the Rockers. Oh, okay. Well, there

is the apocryphal title win for the Rockers that

was cut from a Saturday night's main event. The

rope broke is part of the explanation. Hmm, you

know, I have to give it to the brain busters

because it's the horsemen. I mean, come on and

the rockers This was way way before Shawn Michaels

hit it big. So No question, gotta be the Brainbusters.

I just hope that Mike and Steve and the guys

at GeekCastRadio are gonna put these pictures

up so people can look at Shawn Michaels in this

picture. Remember there, Shawn. Matthew, what

do you think Brainbusters and the Rockers? There

might be one that was maybe more fun and energizing,

but maybe one that was a little bit more no -holds

-barred tough. I don't know if you want to say

it that way, but what do you think? This goes

back to I always like the rockers theme song.

I like that I always love that I mean they were

fun. They were in that I mean they were fun high

fly I mean compared to like a lot of the tag

teams in that era. You didn't really have any

other kind of team kind of flying around like

the way they were, like high energy. It was almost

like if you had two Ultimate Warriors tag teaming

with each other, like bouncing off the ropes

and running down the aisle and everything like

that. Mean, I like guys that are just gonna beat

the living crap out of people which is kind of

what the what the brain busters did I mean aren't

Anderson I mean he he wasn't the enforcer for

no reason at all, you know, there was definitely

reason why they call him the enforcer and Just

the fact that the revival is almost a throwback

to the brain busters that The revival said like,

yeah, we're going to take it. We're going to

basically crib everything that the brain busters

did and bring it into the new era. Of course,

it hasn't really translated well because it's

kind of from a bygone era and everybody's got

to be safer than they were a long time ago. But

I mean, if you take Hall of Fame, title reigns

and I mean, if you're a hardcore and this is

going to go back to what you're talking about

with money, ink and everything is more recency

bias or more flashy costumes. play a bigger role

here and will, I mean, we can all safely say

out of the four people involved in these two

tag teams, Shawn Michaels is the biggest star

out of all of them. So will people just look

past like accolades say like, Oh, Shawn Michaels

was in the rockers. So automatically the rockers

going to be number one. So but if you're going

from a wrestling perspective, I'm going to go

with the brain busters because they just like

to beat the crap out of people. So I'm down for

that. DJ, you agree with those two or not? I

gotta go with Neil and Matt here for some effect

that, for me, the rockers are only relevant in

my memory because Shawn Michael betrayed Marty

Janetti. I was never really a huge rocker fan.

I mean, the colors, the crayon colored outfits,

I just remember Shawn Michael's turning and that

essentially launched his career into being such

a a legend so but as a tag team I was like all

right yeah I mean I more turn to it I'm a heel

guy so the Rockers aren't really they were never

really bad in my recollection but the Horseman

man, the brainbusters anything with Ari Anderson

who looks like he just took a crap on your lawn

and waited for you to come out to see him taking

a crap on it all the time. So what? What do you

want? What do you want to know about it? He looks

like the type of guy that never lost a staring

contest in his life. But he for some reason he

looks this mean but I guarantee you he has like

a tea cozy in his house Does the second iteration

of the Rockers that did not include Shawn Michaels

hurt them or do they even count? Doesn't even

count. Okay. I find that to be even more kind

of like disposable than the original rock. Yes,

definitely. All right, so that leads us to the

worst of the otherwise fans. We're trying to

persuade you to vote for the Brainbusters. Regardless

of Shawn Michaels presence there. That leads

us to the last matchup on the bottom quadrant

here. So the four games in the bottom half of

this side, I guess you want to call it. And that

would go to our number 29 seed. Remember, there's

only 32, so this is almost one of the lowest

seeds possible. The number 29 seed, but... I

just had to find a way to get these guys in there

so we'll bring them to you here and that is none

other than... Fatou and Samu the head shrinkers.

They were around from 1988 until 1996 and I know

a lot of people will know Fatou under a different

name, but they did have one WWE slash WWF title

reign they held the title for 124 days that did

not help them get ranked though because Ranker

was the only one that had them and they had them

at number 43 not on any of the other lists But

hey, I wanted to get the head shrinkers in here.

So we got the head shrinkers here in at number

29 and that means they're facing a pretty high

seed that's going to be the four seed and this

is a WCW mainly tag team and that would be none

other than the Rock and Roll Express with Robert

Gibson and Ricky Morton 1983 to 1998. four wcw

title reigns 400 days as champions in the wwe

hall of fame left off of the bleacher report

otherwise in the top 10 of all other of the list

10 6 4 and a three seed That's a lot of love

from these lists. Is that deserving for the Rock

and Roll Express, Matthew? Rock and Roll Express

or Head Trickers? This is interesting because

looking at the rankings, it's interesting to

see how Denik Geek is ranking things. You would

think Bleacher Report would probably include

the Rock and Roll Express and Denik Geek is putting

them in their top 10. It's funny seeing how these

things are being ranked as well too. In all fairness,

I know the Rock and Roll Express though, I'm

thinking more of the Midnight Express than the

Rock and Roll Express. So I know how big they

were. I remember watching the Hedge Trinkers

a lot more as a kid and kind of being a little

scared of them because they looked like these

Polynesian cannibals. Of course, another fantastic

- Another cannibal! Another stereotype that we

could all go with and everything. But I always

remember like - Fatu like being really out of

and they were like high flyers and you think

of like like, you know what it called now the

Jimmy and the USOs, you know, they're pretty

much mom who says modeled their entire career

after them just like, you know What do you call

it? Everybody else like the revivals were modeled

themselves off the a brain buster So from a nostalgic

standpoint standpoint, I like the hedge drinkers

because to me in my mind They're far more memorable

with what they did than the Rock and Roll Express

despite the accolades that the Rock and Roll

Express had. So for me, I'm going to pick the

Head Trinkers. An upset pick from Matthew. My

one most memory of the Head Trinkers is a Survivor

series. Remember watching it as a kid and I believe

like whole chicken like chickens and turkey like

stuff was like in Yeah, and they were eating

and on top of wrestling so they were like stepping

on their food and then eating it I don't know

what was going on, but I would say that the head

shrinkers are by far the more intimidating I

don't wanna get in a ring with those two guys.

No, I don't. So they're scarier, but obviously

the rock and roll express had the more accolades

and the longer tenure and that type of thing.

DJ, what do you think? Well, as you wanna talk

about scary, chest hair is really intimidating

to me. And the rock -and -roll it's too but I

mean when you're a pleat with a Robin Williams

carpet of chest hair and forearm hair No, no,

I mean I got to lean with my my compatriot here

I think I remember the head shrinkers more because

they're just leaning toward entertaining as much

as They are as wrestlers they I could watch them

behind doing some crazy chicken -eating thing

out in the crowd or behind on the ramp or whatever.

This is more of against gimmick versus talent.

I'm sure the Rock and Roll Express is probably

more talented as wrestlers and maybe the Bonafides,

but I think in terms of memory and lasting and

staying power, in my mind, I'm gonna go with

the Hedge Ringers do. All right, Neil, does the

WCW factor hurt the Rock and Roll Express here?

Not enough people are watching WCW in the mid

-80s. Yeah, it's got to be the the JCP thing

the Jim Crockett Was not I was not watching that

wrestling at that time. So I'm not terribly familiar

with the Rock and Roll Express I do know them

from their Smoky Mountain tag team title reign

that they brought into the WWF for some reason

and Feuded very shortly with another great tag

team that I hope is on this list somewhere Yeah,

that's all I really know them from Of course

I do know the head shrinkers and also known as

the Samoan swap team. A way better name by the

way. Yeah, that's a pull. Although many don't

get to come to the ring with little shrunken

heads and stuff. Yeah. That's not to mention

your manager too. Yes. He was like a Samoan Lou

Albano. I think Lou Albano did. It wasn't it

wasn't Lou Albano at the time but like later

in WWF like He got toward the end. I think he

got involved. Yeah. Yeah, I got to give it to

the head shrinkers Oh, they're more well known.

They got a better gimmick Rock and roll Express.

You just kind of look at them though. You look

at it and be like, yeah, this is like a Georgia

tag team Not really all that interesting almost

like Nick Cage. The other looks like Sneelopper?

Sneelopper, I like it, I like it. Either him,

or it looks like David Tennant a little bit.

Oh, it does look like David Tennant. David Tennant

-y. And Dr. Who's over here. Yeah. Says they're

from Memphis. Of course they are. I think they

also kind of have the rocker problem a little

bit, too. They kind of remind me of rockers a

lot. Where I'm like, eh, you know, whatever.

Interesting, it might be a foreshadowing of how

you guys are going to look at some of these other

teams that are coming down the pike, but a lot

of Rikishi love there for the head shrinkers.

I think I saw him as Rikishi like a lot before

I realized that that's who that was and that

they were one and the same person. That's my

bad. Alright, let's go up to the top half of

the left side of the bracket. That means we're

going to go to a 25 against an 8 matchup. So

a 25 is also going to bring an interesting thing

to the table because, well, sometimes tag teams

have more than two people. So our number 25 seed

is going to be the first example of that and

that is an older team, so maybe that won't bode

well for them, but this is the Valiant Brothers.

They had Jimmy, Johnny, and Jerry. 1974 to 1980,

two WWE title reigns held the titles for 600

days. The Goldbergs of tag team. WWE Hall of

Famers. Got on the Sports Illustrated list all

the way up to number 13 Bleacher Report 44. No

other list did they appear on? They do have a

similar look going so at least the two pictured

in the picture we have Those are the Valiant

brothers at 25 and they have a steep matchup

because they're fighting an eight seed and the

eight seed is someone a team that I know you

guys are going to be familiar with and That would

be a team that's commonly went by The Outsiders.

Scott Holland, Kevin Nash. Six WCW titles. 475

days. Not ranked on Bleacher Report. 11 on Ranker.

Top 10 on all the other ones. The Outsiders against

the Valiant Brothers, DJ. Ayo. Are you effing

kidding me, man? You got these two guys. I don't

want to crap on their legacy, even though they

have Bane bodies, but the outsiders, man. Are

you? This is like pulling the Golden State Warriors.

I don't believe they're so... Why are they so

low? This should be top three. They're awesome.

Again, I'm a heel guy. And Kevin Nash and Scott

Hall, man. Aren't they still doing stuff? Yeah,

I mean there's not much commentary for me other

than come on Oh my god. You know what? It's survey

time. Are you here for the valent? Or are you

here for the outsiders? I forgot about this.

I rest my case. Another one. Yeah. Oh my god.

I mean, both these guys, the outsiders were big

names before they tagged up and they came together

and they were they were amazing. They they they

stole the titles from Harlem Heat. They destroyed

the Steiner's on multiple occasions. They were,

oh my god, these guys are awesome. They killed

Goldberg? Didn't they kill Goldberg? Yeah, and

then they killed WCW. They got some blood on

their hands. Yeah, a little bit. No question,

the outsiders. So no love for 600 days as champions

for the Valiant Brothers? That's a little before

my time. That's a joke. All right, so the we're

we're telling you guys if you vote for the Valley

brothers Please don't participate in the rest

of our tournament the outsider should be moving

on on this one and They'll be facing the matchup

the winner of the matchup between the 24 seed

and the 9 seed so almost an exact Same matchup

here 25 and 8 now 24 and 9 We'll see if there's

any love for these old guys the 24 seed sees

a tag team from days gone by And that would be

the tag team of Mr. Fuji and Professor Tanaka.

From 1972 to 1978, they held the WWE titles three

times, 569 days. 22nd on the Sports Illustrated

list, 24, 25, 40 on three of the other lists,

not on one of the lists. That's Mr. Fuji as an

actual wrestler before he was a coach. with Mr.

Freddie Blassie there, I believe, as their manager.

Oh, that is Freddie Blassie. Yeah, and Professor

Tanaka. So that is an old school, almost two

whole years as champions. But they'll be going

against the number nine seed. And just like the

Valley brothers had more than two members, eventually

these guys had more than two members. And that

would be the team of demolition. Oh my gosh.

East, you're Polish. you've got to pull some

hard cards that uh... later crash nineteen eighty

seven nineteen ninety three three title reigns

six hundred ninety eight days most combined days

as champions and wb history uh... as at least

when i looked at this i don't think it was ever

was close and i don't think i had to worry about

that under actually the second ranked team on

raker everybody else had them seven through twenty

three so mixed bag of rankings to our our sources

there demolition against fujian snack and you

know what do you think Ah, you're dipping into

the 70s. Somewhere out there, there's like an

80 -year -old woman who watched wrestling back

in the day and really loved these guys, but I

didn't, I have no memory of Tanaka and Fuji wrestling

together. And this is the same Fuji who also

managed the demolition. Yeah. Oh yeah. And demolition.

Yeah. On two different occasions even. Oh my

god. It's it's gotta be demolition. Although

I gotta I gotta throw a caveat on there in there

that having crush kind of kind of hurts them

and Might weigh against them in the future. They

were better as two than they were as three. Yeah

Is it one of the best tag team? costumes ever

Oh yeah. What if Kiss was a wrestler? What if

you liked to wrestle and you loved S &M? Well,

I guess that's a true question. Of course you

do. I'm gonna blow right past Kiss and just give

you Manowar. That's what they look like. So DJ

Matt, I'm assuming that you guys concur with

Neil that this is demolition all the way? I'm

going I remember is that Fuji was sub -zero and

running man wasn't it? Yes, so you had a movie

star here yeah classy Freddie Blassie who I guess

classy Freddie Blassie say in an interview once

he bit the nose like a guy's nose off Freddie

Blassie was a nutcase Yeah, that's probably true.

Alright, so we're pushing for the demolition

to move past Fuji and Osaka. We're pushing for

Rebo Man. That's who we're pushing for. Oh my

god. Excellent reference there. I like it. See

if he makes the top 100 list. All right, that

means we're gonna go to a much closer matchup

this time so enough of this 24 versus 8 stuff

Let's go with a 17 versus a 16. Oh Interesting

because it's pitting two teams from similar eras

so we're not gonna have any recency bias I don't

think with this one. So our 17 seed here see

if anybody remembers these guys That would be

the team of the Minnesota Wrecking Crew. Gene,

Lars, Oll, and Arne Anderson. The whole Anderson

gang. There's four of them. They wrestled in

the 60s. They wrestled in the 80s. Seven WCW

title reigns. 992 days as champion in WCW. Left

off of two of the sources on the other three,

the Minnesota Wrecking Crew. Also interesting

because obviously this is the second time we've

seen Arne Anderson show up as part of a tag team.

So see how that goes. few other people that show

up multiple times. And they're gonna go against

the 16 seed. And the 16 seed is a team that also

had more than two members. They would be known

as the Russians. That's Nikita Koloff, Crusher

Khrushchev, Ivan Koloff, and Don Pernodal. 1984

to 1988, three WCW reigns, 324 days as champion,

17th ranked on the Denim Geek, 19th on Bleacher

Report, 20th on Sports Illustrated, the Russians,

and the Minnesota Wrecking Crew. DJ, what do

you think? Because the Minnesota Reagan group

has the better name and they look like the Russians

I'm sorry Vladimir, but no And aren't Anderson

and the rest of these guys look like straight

-up b2k killers, man Let's Google the Minnesota

Record Crew. They look like they have bodies

in the basement and don't care if you look for

them. I'm going to Minnesota Record Crew, man.

They don't give a damn. One guy's name is Oll.

992 days as champion does that we know we said

belts didn't matter a ton as far as Maybe but

they gotta matter a little bit right Matthew

who fought them That's the issue with a lot of

these older tag teams because back in a day they

never change champions ever Ever like you look

at people like the fabulous mula I know we're

talking about tag teams, but she was like champion

for like What? 5 ,000 days? Nobody ever lost

in the 60s and 70s. I felt like people were just

champions. I wish we could get to a happy medium.

Like maybe not that long, but not like the every

other month thing that happens nowadays. Yeah.

I mean, it's even worse now. And you could say,

I mean, seven title runs, 992 days. I mean, that's

a good average about 120 days or something per

average on a run, which is nice. But I mean,

I have to rush and sell. and they got like they're

rocking like big like like big chains around

their neck and i'm not talking about gold chains

i'm talking about like locks and chains i think

it's like they they put chains on on their uh

russian boarding house or something like that

i don't know what you're doing out there you

know but yeah what don kernoodle Don Kurnoodle

to me doesn't really sound like a Russian. He

seems like an undercover like I don't know what

he's doing in that group. Yeah, what's your name?

Comma that Minnesota wrecking cruel they kicked

me out. So I have nowhere else to go. It's got

muscles coming out of muscles in that team. Yeah,

I mean, he looks like they like like baby ride

backs basis basically. It's all baby right. All

baby ride backs. So if I'm going to go by accolades,

I mean, I'll go with another tag team with art

Anderson in it So I'll go and the Minnesota wrecking

cool crew reminds me of the like the world -class

wrecking crew So I don't know the name at least

so you're trying to get it so that the that aren't

Anderson will face off against himself Oh my

god a mirror match I want a mirror match Neither

one of these teams was ranked by everybody that

we looked at so they're both left off of lists

Are they both worthy of being in this competition

Neil? I think so. All I keep thinking about is

that if you grab Tully, this would be a great

Survivor Series match. You know what? This is

another case of Jim Crockett promotions cropping

up, and I'm not terribly familiar with either

of these teams, but I am familiar with the Andersons

somewhat, so by sheer bias, I got to go with

them. So that's where they're going for whatever

you interested to see where this one goes on

the polls This one's a little bit more even than

some of the ones we've had so far. So Alright,

there's only one matchup left on this side of

the bracket That's our number 32 seed against

our number one seed. Oh boy number 32 seed They

were not ranked by anybody They've had some title

reigns and I felt like we got to squeeze them

in here even if it is as a 32 seed and Hey, we

just talked about Russians and people from Minnesota.

Let's talk about some people from Canada They

had the title reigns three times, 216 days, not

good enough to be ranked by anybody we looked

at. Not ranked, not ranked, not ranked, not ranked.

But the Colbeckers coming in at the 32 seed.

They have the envious challenge of going against

our number one seed overall. Why are they the

number one seed? Because they were ranked number

one by Sports Illustrated, ranked number one

by Den of Geek, ranked number one by Bleacher

Report. Ranked number one by new arena ranked

number four on ranker So four out of the five

people I looked at all had this team as the number

one two WWE title reigns 213 days as champs one

WCW title tag title reign 155 days as champs

members of the WWE Hall of Fame and Demolition

may have had a cool outfit, but it's not as cool

as this one. We're talking about The Road Warriors

or Legion of Doom, however you'd like to call

it. Hawk and Animal. DJ, any surprise about the

unanimous ranking it seems like? Except for Ranker,

everybody else had this team as number one. I

can understand. I mean, the Road Warriors. Yeah,

I'm not super surprised. I think I wouldn't have

had number one. They're definitely top three.

I mean, the football pads with the spikes, the

spider. I mean, they're awesome. They're awesome.

I think. We're not talking about their later

90s runs either we're talking right, right. We're

not talking about with puke on puke on the thing.

Yeah, we're not talking about when they expanded

and had alcohol. Or a hawker animals going through

drug withdrawal or some. We're just kind of not

the greatest storyline. Vince Russo era. Yeah,

we're not talking about Vince Russo involvement.

We're talking about Bruce Prichard and Vince

McMahon back in the day. Do the Quebecers get

a chance? No. Let's just get this out of the

way. No. Unless a whole bunch of people from

Canada like steal this thing. I don't even then

they were like, no, I like a little German in

your Quebec. I'm sorry. Who's here? I'm sorry,

man. Oh, man. So anybody want to make a case

for the Quebecers or can we crown the World Warriors

and save our talk for them for later round? Would

just like to say that I would love to see this

match because it would be like five seconds Device

and over I gotta give a group. I gotta give the

cool Becker's credit on one thing. They are there

are a fantastic comedy tag game comedy heels

That's all it gets and then they were fantastic

comedy single the Mountie and a pirate Single

and they were single wrestlers, you know, John

Pierre Lafitte of the Mountie and then the Mountie

got Emily Emily Hamilton jail, but Sorry, I'm

dipping deep into a jail mat He made the bounty

go to an American prison Oh my god the very very

politically incorrect skit So just to recap that

side of the bracket we had heart foundation against

doom The panel was saying heart foundation should

move on we had new age outlaws against money,

Inc I believe you guys are in favor of new age

outlaws on that one. Even though it was a tough

call We had the brain busters. We suggested a

win over the Rockers The head -shrinkers, everybody's

pulling for an upset against the rock and roll

express from the head -shrinkers. We had the

outsiders dominating the Valley of Brothers.

Demolition dominating Fuji and Tanaka. We had

an interesting matchup between the Russians and

the Minnesota Wrecking Crew. More patriotism

on that one there, I guess, was pulling the boat.

And then the Road Warriors destroying the Quebecers.

That's how we think you guys should vote, but

you guys have the choice. So you're going to

have to head over to the website and vote on

those matchups. Let's take a look at the other

side of the bracket. So we had a one seed that

we already talked about, an eight and nine with

outsiders and demolition. We had a five seed

from the Hart Foundation. lot of good tag teams

out there you're talking about why shouldn't

the outsiders be all the way down to number eight

let's see if there's some guys that you might

have been forgetting about that show up on the

other side of the bracket let's start at the

bottom that's a 27 against a six i love i love

that it worked out this way though um when you

see the two teams so 27 let's go with a team

commonly referred to as The nasty boys Almost

had an 11 year run 86 to about 97 one WWE title

reign for 155 days three WCW title reigns 259

days That's only good enough to get them 30th

ranked on rancor and off of all of the other

lists So not a lot of love for the nasty boys

out there, but they will come in at the 27 seed

and let's just throw them against the sixth seed

Which just so happens to be another set of boys

This time the Hardy boys Matt Hardy and Jeff

Hardy 93 2000s all the way up till recently seven

WWE title reigns 214 days one WCW title reign

for 15 days I guess if you want to count that

Ranker eight sports illustrated seven all the

other people had them ranked five So the nasty

boys against the hearty boys. Neither one of

them spells boys correctly, I don't think. Matthew,

where do we start with this one? Oh, man. This

is this is like another one of the era I like

the nasty boys when they came out because why

don't like the theme music a lot the theme music

was like this weird like I'm a big I'm a big

like theme music guy. I mean good themes. I'm

in you and we call brian notch had a really great

laugh as well too and jerry sags had this really

big gap in his teeth that I remember a lot of

so they're like and they had good mullets and

everything and they were just like grimy tag

team they didn't really have a lot of skill per

se but they had good free persona and you know

they had matching outfits which is big you know

and they went titles across to promotions you

know and they had good chemistry and even though

they got jobbed out later on when you know nwo

came around and everything had happened but um

you can't argue with like the hardy boys kind

of brought like crazy extreme they've had some

of the craziest matches I mean you think of like

any of the TLC matches that they had with you

know Dudley boys who also don't spell their name

correctly or you know edgy Christian and anything

else I mean what was what was the the TLC meant

TLC to I don't know if it was the Survivor series

or whatever it was like it's crazy crazy stuff

happening left and right but I mean For a nostalgia

purpose I would like the nasty boys, but just

from Overall, and I think they brought the Hardy

boys back because people were feeling nostalgic

So you win right there because they were like

there's no good tag teams right now. We have

to bring these guys back So like if tag teams

lived in the sitcom world that the nasty boys

would have lived the Roseanne Connor I Don't

know where the art hold his next -door neighbors.

Yeah, they came over I don't know where the Hardy

boys would have came from, but that's what I

get. Oh, Jesus. They were selling magazines.

I don't know. They were the ones that were kind

of like, you know, in their room, you know, listening

to a lot of AFI, you know. Yeah, they came out

of the CW or the whatever, the UPN. The UPN.

DJ, do the Hardy boys or the Nasty boys? Which

are the better boys? Well, thank you for asking

me which are the better boys. Who is your boy?

Who's my boy? The thing about the Hardy boys

with me, okay They are pretty one -dimensional.

They're my skills for me garbage always If you

put if you played a clip of Jeff Hardy speaking

right now, I wouldn't know it was him I don't

know you've got there but the one dimension they

are good at they are so good at it kind of Transcends

that I mean the nasty boys kind of had like a

good package of their they're good on the mic

They're good gimmick the matching outfits, but

the Hardy boys They are just good at killing

themselves essentially and everyone around them

and that's essentially it when it comes to gimmicks

or storylines and stuff They're not good at that.

Even now, with Jeff Hardy with Randy Orton, it

was like, I don't care. Just kill yourself, Jeff

Hardy. Jump off the top of a building, please.

Here's the thing. If you were playing out the

scenario, and they're both actually going to

the ring, and the Hardys pull out their tables

and ladders and chairs and whatnot, and the Nasty

Boys pull out a bunch of alcohol and drugs, I

think the Nasty Boys can get drunk and still

function, and we know the Hardys can't. The other

thing I like about the Nasty Boys is they make

me feel like I could be a wrestler because they

do not have any physique whatsoever. Neil, what

do you think? Who's going to win in this one?

Oh, you know, much like the Quebecers, the Nasty

Boys are comedy heels. I mean, they were handed

the tag team titles specifically so that Legion

of Doom could destroy them. That's the only reason

they had them. And that was a great match. But

yeah, the Hardy boys are kind of one dimensional,

but they've got a longer legacy and they've done

a lot more things than the nasty boys ever did.

Got to give a little bit of respect to V1 Matt

Hardy, just for the mat packs and everything.

That was some great stuff. Yeah, so it got to

be the Hardy Boys. Alright, so we're talking

the Hardy Boys being the team of boys that move

on and that one against the Nasty Boys. Let's

go up one matchup. to the 22 seed against the

11 seed. So interesting here. I'm going to be

interested to see your guys' reaction to what

one of these teams is ranked. But the 22 seed,

similar to some teams we saw on the other side,

might not have a lot of people that know about

them, but they definitely had a legacy as a tag

team that was worthy of some attention. And that

would be none other than Ricky the Dragon Steamboat

and Jay Youngblood. who had five WCW title reigns,

347 days. We're talking about the late 70s, early

80s, number 27 ranked on the Sports Illustrated.

I don't think it's gonna matter too much if people

know who these guys are. I mean, obviously everybody

knows who Ricky the Dragon is, but they might

not be familiar with his time as a tag team,

but I don't think it's gonna matter too much

because they're going against the 11 seed here,

and let's just say I have a feeling that a couple

of you guys think that these guys might, maybe

should be ranked higher, but. They haven't met

the 11 seed. That would be none other than the

Steiner brothers Rick and Scott Steiner 1989

to 1998 again for a brief stint in the mid -2000s

two WWE title reigns for 88 days only seven WCW

title reigns for 520 days First tag team ever

to win both the WCW, WWF, and IWGP tag titles.

Ranked on every list as high up as number six

for Bleacher Report and Denim Geek, ranker 12th,

new arena 15th, Sports Illustrated, all the way

down at number 29. So not a lot of love from

the people that were ranking them. Not many people

had them, you know, top 10 worthy. So Steiner

Brothers, Steamboat and Youngblood, should Steiner's

be higher ranked, and is this even a matchup,

Matt? Ah, hmm, I mean... The issue with this

is that the Stoner Brothers were tailor -made

to be a tag team. They were the Stoner Brothers.

I mean, you had, this was pre -Big Papa Pump.

You know, this was when, so they had cool unitards

too. I mean, their outfits, they never really

matched, but they had like cool onesies and everything

like that. They look like, you know, collegiate,

you know, collegiate wrestling brothers. And

they had that. Pretty cool. You know, I know

they came out initially to what the University

of Michigan theme song or the fight song. And

then they had that other one was like, da da

da da da. So I don't know. Once again, I like

the theme song. What can I say? But I mean, they

they wrecked people. They were they were I mean,

they had such great they were they were suplex

city before suplex city was a thing. So screw

you, Brock Lesnar. Brock my client Brock Lesnar.

Founded Suplex City in 2015 But I mean and it

was they were they were good different styles

I mean you had you know Scott that was more of

the actual like, you know Suplex machine and

then you had I mean, I would say Rick was definitely

more the brawler, you know I don't think he had

the same kind of technique that Scott did but

I mean I love Ricky Dragon steeple steamboat.

Sorry. What is a seed boat? But I mean Jay Youngblood

cool, I mean He's got a very kind of like, you

know, stereotypical Indian headdress, you know,

because everybody should like where Indian headdresses

like the Tonka does now would be awesome. But

I mean, I don't know. I mean, I love Ricky the

Dragon as a solo act, but as a tag team act.

No, I mean, it's kind of like little oil and

water there. So it's going to be Steiner, Steiner

Brothers for me. Neil, agree or disagree? Well,

I just did some Steiner math math on the chances

for young blood and steamboat and I it's not

looking good for them Yeah, the Steiner brothers,

oh my god long legacy great tag team The only

thing that ever did them in was the NWL. Yeah

again. Yeah So yeah, I could go all day on the

Steiner's I'm gonna cut it short though and just

say it no contest gotta be the Steiner's DJ agree

with your co -host and guest here big pop a pump

is your hookup. So yeah Freaks out there. Are

you freaks out there? No, I'm talking about a

guy who went from one thing to the complete opposite.

Oh boy. But no, you know what's funny about the

signer brothers? I was never a sky signer fan

until he turned the big problem. I was always

Rick. Cause you're a heel guy. I'm a heel guy,

yeah. But I think Rick signer had the cool, he

had the head gear. The head gear was like dog

face gremlin. Dog face gremlin, man. Yeah, yeah.

So yeah, signer brothers, easy. Is being a heel

guy, is that like being an ass man? I'm an ass

man! He's an ass man! I think The Rock was the

best when he was a heel, and you know, Jeff Jarrett

is the greatest. So yes, heels. Heels are more

interesting. All right, let's move up one matchup

to one that's a little bit closer here. We're

getting to 19 against 14. So the number 19th

ranked team is one that we'll all be familiar

with, and that is none other than the team known

as The natural disaster. Oh, Jesus. I remember

that. Oh, here we go. Here we go. I can't see.

I can't wait to see what they're going to get.

Earthquake and Typhoon 91 to 93. One WWE tag

title. 85 days. That was enough. One title at

85 days was enough to get ranked by everybody

except for Bleacher Report. So that is the natural

disasters. They'll be going up against the 14

seed. And this is the inventor, the originator,

the break the mold and allow more than two people

on your tag team we call it the free bird rule

now and that is because of these guys the fabulous

And that is Michael Hayes, Buddy Roberts, Terry

Gordy, and Jimmy Garvin, or any two of them at

any given time. 1979 to 1994, two WCW title runs,

134 days, number nine ranked for SI, 11 for Den

of Geek and New Arena, 20s for Ranker and Bleacher

reports. We got the fabulous free birds against

the natural disasters. Neil, let's start with

you. Oh, I may have to flip a coin on this one.

My heart is with the natural disasters, but something's

telling me that the free birds are way, way more

iconic. And I think they are. I'm going to go

with the free birds, but I got to give some real

props to the natural disasters. They were really

fun in the early 90s. And I love how they formed

by Typhoon turning on the Bushwhackers. He turned

heel and then turned right back face a couple

of months later. It was fantastic. Just like

the Proto Big Show. I just thought I would have

wanted to be the like the ring engineer when

it's like wait a second where to put both of

them on the ring at the same time against another

tag team. We're doing what? What do you want

us to do? It's a lot of weight guys. It's a lot

of weight on that ring. I'm an engineer not a

magician. Put you in for me. DJ what do we think?

Is the free bird rule going to help these guys

defeat the natural disasters? I mean the natural

disasters are just they're all gimmick and their

gimmick is so good. This is what you talk about

good men were like like wrestlers were like real

bodied people and they've got natural disaster

huge but they don't they look they look like

just just Guys, you see at the baseball game

at two o 'clock in the afternoon. Just suck it

on a beer It looks like like regular big guys

and their gimmick was so also I But I mean the

legacy of the fabulous free birds, I guess it's

gonna trump out But if I'm gonna watch a match,

okay, you want to watch this fabulous free bird

match. I'm like, all right You watch the natural

disaster match. I'm like, yes Yes, yes. Amazing

matches they had, it was great. And Matt said

it, they are essentially Big Show before Big

Show. Even though Big Show is way bigger, but

I mean. World's largest athlete. What do you

think, Matt? The thing I always remember about

Earthquake, or The Shark, or John Tantor, whatever

you want to call him, is that he killed Damian

by sitting on him. Yes! He killed a man's pet

snake. I mean, this is before natural disasters.

He wasn't part of the time. Yeah, but I mean,

once again, theme song. Well, Typhoon was like

a well, he was tugboat before and his thing was

like a do do. I mean, and then what was it like?

Yeah. And earthquakes theme song was what like

the ground shaking? I don't really know. So for

me. It's one and only one rain for 85 days. These

are guys you would think you would never be able

to beat I guess I'm until you Knocked them over

on their back and they can't get up and then

they get pinned automatically or something like

that I don't know who beat them for the tag team

championship. So I don't remember money. It was

was it money ain't cooking. Yeah Everybody has

like here. I'll give you money and you will give

me your tag team champion. That match is a long

story, maybe we can save it for another time.

What about Typhoon's run as the shockmaster?

Let's not forget that. Oh yeah, the epic shockmaster.

The shockmaster. You beat gimmicks. They had

a so enjoyable match. I know. It's like, I'm

almost tempted to just go with the natural disasters

because they wore so many different hats, literally.

I mean Typhoon wore at least one different hat.

I mean the freebirds are iconic by name But I

wouldn't really be able off the top of my head

say like oh this was the definitive Freebirds

match or something like that plus Michael PS

Hayes He wore like a cape sometimes with a Confederate

flag on it. So I'm out done. I'm switching my

boat I mean that was okay a long time ago, but

come on I think you wore that to the gimmick

battle royal Yeah, he did. He came out to a dead

street. That was awesome. Yeah. All right. So

we have one more matchup on this half of the

right side here. So we're finishing up the bottom

quadrant here. We've had tag teams from the WWF,

WWE, WCW, NWO, I guess, if you will. But have

we had one from the ECW? we have one now and

that is our 30th ranked team which will be going

up against our third ranked team so our 30th

ranked team is none other than a team that went

by the title public enemy johnny grunge and rocko

rock the 30th seed here 93 to 2002 hey they were

around a long time you smell that i smell a blowout

coming let's go keep going wcw they had one wcw

title reign it was for a week And they had four

ECW title reigns, which was for 369 days. So

a little over a year there for the ECW, if I

remember how many days are in a year. And then

they're going against a number three seed. I

love how this worked out. I didn't plan this,

but guess what? They too were an ECW tag team.

Also WWE at a time though, and that would be

our third group of boys. Yes Dudley's and Devon

nine WWE title reigns 302 days one WCW tag title

reign for 26 days eight ECW title reigns for

291 days WWE Hall of Fame members 9th ranked

on the bleacher report 5th on sports illustrated

4th on Ranker 3rd by Geek and Marina where spike

Spike was on there. It was a member, wasn't he?

That's true. He did have Spike for a little while.

So DJ, the Dudleys against the Public Enemy in

an ECW matchup. Come on. It's the Dudley Dutch.

That was one of the most devastating finishing

moves of all time. I put it up there against

the damn Legion of Doomsday. Yeah, man. Doomsday.

Come on. Tell me something about Public Enemy.

I dare you. I double dog dare you. Pretty cool

finisher too. They got the matching outfits.

Okay, Matthew They got the mic skills. They got

the wrestling acumen They've been since some

of the greatest tag team matches of all time

with the Hardy boys and edgy Christian Come on.

It's not even close. Did the public enemy have

a decent entrance music? I can't remember what

it was. It was like hip -hop and they made every

day like wave your hands in the air like Right

is do we have the rankings right three and thirty?

Yes I just have to point out that there's a picture

of the Dudley boys out there where they're holding

the WWF, WCW, ECW, IWGP, and the NWA titles all

at the same time. Obviously not a combined reign,

but they had all the belts on them at one time,

and it's a great picture. I'll try to find it.

But, I mean, come on, they have to be easily

one of the best tag teams of all time versus

public enemy. I cheered for their destruction

every time I saw them on TV. I think Farouk and

Bradshaw actually beat them up pretty badly.

Yeah, they pretty much said, I think there was

a story where they were big mouths backstage

and they pretty much sicked. lights on instead

of like, you're gonna beat the living crap out

of these guys and they're never coming back.

And that's pretty much what happened. That's

all I gotta say. On the left side of the bracket

we had a match up between a 29 and a 4 that you

guys wanted to upset. You as the head -trinkers

against the Rock and Roll Express. 29 seed against

a 4 seed. I'm interested to see if you guys are

gonna go the same way over here with a 26 seed

against a 7 seed. We will see the 26 seed...

is going to be a team that I know everybody is

going to know. Whether you're a current fan,

an old fan, a new fan, you're gonna know these

guys. The 26 seed, they can go by the name, and

it also represents another country that we hadn't...

heard from before let's go down to the down under

for the Bushwhackers 1964 guys 64 to 96 is how

long they stay together as a team not all obviously

in the WWF but in various promotions around the

world members of the WWE Hall of Fame and never

held a tag title in any of the promotions that

we've been talking about did not get ranked by

Den of Geek Bleacher Report or New Arena, 50th

by Sports Illustrated, 8th by Ranker somehow.

The Bushwhackers... coming in at number twenty

six and they will be fighting a team that we

actually some mistakenly mentioned earlier uh...

not the rock and roll express we're talking about

the midnight express that would be dennis connery

and bobby eaten nineteen eighty three to nineteen

eighty seven to w c w tag tolerance for two hundred

forty four days with jim cornet as their manager

of going there not on the beach report they were

top ten on everybody else's list including all

the way up to number two on den of geek the midnight

express and the bushwhackers. Matthew, what do

you think? See, the only reason I remember the

Midnight Express is because Jim Cornett was their

manager. I mean, other than that, he's just another

kind of two blonde light guys that are wrestling

around and everything like that, you know? I

mean, Jim Cornett is, I mean, and this is something

I think that gets lost sometimes when we think

about tag teams. How good is your manager? If

you have a great manager, I mean, you could be

outshined. And I think in this it's like the

manager was to was bigger than the tag team Of

the of the midnight Express, even though I like

the midnight Express. I think I like Jim Cornett

That's it. Maybe it's the bias that I'd love

Jim Cornett. So I think yeah I mean and the Bushwhackers

were another because they were the crowd. They

were licking people in the crowd You can't you

can't do that anymore. I mean, you should be

able to bring that back. It'd be hilarious. I

think of the lawsuits, of course, but I mean

it's I was I was flabbergasted when he said 1964

so one One they've never won a championship in

30 years. So that's kind of depressing. So you

have that But they were like a pair of goofball

guys and they had good music It was like like

a chugga chugga chugga the music again got me

But they were they were fun. They were fun job.

They were they were pretty much a job or tag

team they were never gonna win anything of substance,

but memorability I'll always remember the bushwhackers

no matter what and Like the hedge drinkers and

they had like a big turkey dinner and they made

a big mess and that's awesome and I'm going bushwhackers

TJ are we gonna go again for an upset on this

side of the bracket with the bushwhackers or

did the Minet Express hold on? I think that nails

is on the head man. I remember cornet and I remember

the bushwhackers. I know the name Minet Express

But again, man bushwhackers were great I didn't

care if they won or lost I just wanted the Bushwackers

to come out with a bush if you're watching a

WWF event at the time and their music hits the

bush you know you're in for some fun and I express

sure they have a legacy but I mean I gotta go

Bushwackers man in terms of my job I know wrestling

purists have been not expressed you know yeah

I know I know but sometimes you just want to

be entertained and the Bushwackers are essentially

just bottled australian zealand whatever the

hell they're from entertainment from apparently

they're highlanders because they started wrestling

in the forties or whatever the hell you just

said. My biggest memory of the bushwhackers is

the royal rumble appearance where he did his

arm motion down to the ring, into the ring, out

the other side of the ring in like four seconds.

I think it was a record for a long time. I don't

know if it eventually... I think I got beaten.

Neil, do we have a couple of dark horses and

the head shrinkers on one side of the bracket

and the bushwhackers? on this one? Oh, man. Well,

I got to say this. One of these teams has Jim

Cornette, and the other one has Jameson. This

is hard to call, because I'm not terribly familiar

with the Midnight Express, but I am with the

Bushwhackers. And it seems like the Midnight

Express should have it. But I just don't remember

the Midnight Express at all. So I guess it's

got to be the Bushwhackers on a technicality.

All right, interesting. I thought you guys might

do that. All right, let's go to the matchup above

them, which is going to see the 23 seed against

the 10 seed. Those seeds might seem like they're

far away apart, but I think these are going to

be closer than you think as well. This one brings

up another interesting case where you have some

people are known as a tag team mostly, and then

maybe later split off and try to do some singles.

Here's a case where we had singles that eventually

teamed up. Our number 23 seed. Do we give them

love as a tag team? I don't know, we'll see.

It only makes sense that they tag together. They

are brothers, by the way. And that would be the

Brothers of Destruction. Undertaker and Kane.

they were together for the late 90 run early

or mid 2000s again in the 2012 -17 range two

ww titles 41 days one wcw title 49 days simultaneously

unified the wwe and the wcw tag team titles for

a time seventh ranked on rancor otherwise it

was the upper 20s 30s and 40s not ranked on denim

geek brothers of destruction number 23 and they

will be facing our 10 seed Which is... The British

Bulldogs. Davey Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid. 1983

-1990, they held the WWE title for 294 days.

18th on Bleacher Report, 14th on Sports Illustrated,

13th on Den of Geek, 11th on Ranker, 10th on

New Arena. So that's a lot of love across the

board. The British Bulldogs are the Brothers

of Destruction, Neil. Um... Hmm. British Bulldogs

are right before my time. I Must have started

watching right after right after dynamite kid

had his uh, he's in ring. Yeah injury So I don't

remember him too much, but I know a lot of the

a lot of the old timers out there They really

have a thing for the dynamite kid. I hear all

sorts of things about him comparing him to other

wrestlers One I don't care to name at the moment.

It just popped in my head. I'm like, oh, wait.

On the other side, you have The Undertaker and

Kane, which are much more recent, much more,

in fact, they're still around. Didn't they come

back recently together? Australia versus the

Triple H. Just this last weekend, yeah. Yeah.

The thing here, though, you've got to think about

that. Can you trust them to always be together

or will they turn on each other? And for those

trying to pit a dream matchup in the finals,

this would be your chance to try to promote the

British Bulldogs to face the Heart Foundation

in the finals. I don't know. But keep going,

Neil. Yeah, that's a good point that these two

guys, the Undertaker and Kane, were constantly

stabbing each other in the back. Not a really

cohesive tag team, so maybe not them. Although,

I hear they got a pretty good dental plan. Yeah,

I'll have to go with the British Bulldogs. I

like that one. That's a good pull there. Matt,

what do you think about this matchup? I mean,

you have two iconic when I have a mayor. And

of course, Samir Chattanooga now, or Knoxville.

Sorry. All right, go Tennessee. The rest was

just mayors now. That's awesome. But you have

Kane and Dr. Isaac Gangham or, you know, fake

diesel, you know, even too. So depends on who

you want to go with. Oh, yeah, he has some gimmicks.

You think Typhoon has some gimmicks. Oh, boy.

Oh, the Christmas tree. Oh, my God. They added

everything. Wow. Me, Mark Calloway and the Christmas

creature. So, yeah, I mean, to Neil's point,

you had a. a storyline that worked them as I

forgot why they joined forces together I guess

they were maybe pissed off in this man or something

that were the brothers of destruction out so

i mean they were cool cuz you put two pretty

iconic you know characters together and you know

they were running through pretty much everything

at that point i think they were trying to why

was this also when they started when undertaker

still biker undertaker to my really sure because

i think so i'd have been biker undertaker so

i think that's okay yeah american badass undertaker

sucks i'm i don't care what undertaker was the

worst he's the worst It was during the invasion.

So yeah, definitely it was the biker. Oh god,

it's so awful. So Just from like a ring ring

prowess and everything I mean the British Bulldogs

were before my time as well, too I mean, but

from what I've seen What died of my kid doesn't

to Neil's point again like he was apparently

amazing and very much like another wrestler that

will be won't mention even though I think we

know who we're talking about especially with

the flying head, but The thing the British Bulldogs

had going for them is they had a good mixture

of, it's not like the Rockers where they're a

high flying team but they're also really tiny.

They were a high flying team with a lot of athleticism

that was also really strong. The British Bulldog

was a beast when it came to strength. They had

the best of both worlds I think. They had speed,

agility, power, everything. They complemented

each other so well. Whereas like Brothers Destruction,

like two lumbering old guys who were like, I'll

do a choke slam if you help me do it. I'm old,

help me. I can't have the Sarah tattoo on my

neck anymore. So I'm going with the British Bulldogs

just because I like that. I like Undertaker and

Kane as separate entities, but not as this contrived

amalgamation they tried to create to get rid

of Biker Undertaker and stuff like that, so I'm

going British Bulldogs. DJ, final word on this

matchup? I think the Brothers of Destruction,

or I like to call them Blue Moon Tag teams, where

it's like, you want to... establish that, oh,

okay, they're a tag team for a couple minutes

and then they go on their separate ways. But

because they're the tag team for that couple

minutes, no matter what happens in their separate

range, you never know when they're gonna tag

up again or interrupt or help the other person.

So when Kane and Undertaker got together and

they separated, I was like, okay. And this just

happened recently, Kane shows up like, oh, yeah,

I remember, they're the president of the structure,

yeah. They work like that, but as they... full

-fledged tag team with a run on it so the British

Bulldogs I think more fit the bill than the brothers

section they are more of like a rock and sock

or you know blue moon every blue moon oh if mankind

is being getting jumped rock might show up if

Undertaker's getting jump might show up but that's

that's all essentially their tag team careers

are good for I think All right, let's get to

our closest ranking of this side of the bracket,

our 18 against our 15. Every time I even just

hear these guys' name or looking at their pictures,

their entrance music just instantly starts playing

in my head. The 18th seed is going to be none

other than the famous WCW Tag Team 10 title reigns.

We're talking about Harlem Heat. Oh, boy. Anyways,

TV Ray, 1989 to 2000, over a decade, 470 days

as champions, ranked on everybody's list, but...

went from anywhere from 12 all the way up to

37. Harlem Heat is our 18th seed and they will

be going against a team that has a similar connection

to somebody on the other side of the bracket.

We had the head shrinkers Samu and Fatu on the

other side. How about the Wild Samoans? Afa and

Sika on this side. 1970s all the way up until

1984. Three WWF title raids for 431 days. Hall

of Fame members ranked 12th, 16, 16, 19, and

20 across the board. So we have the Wild Samoans

and Harlem Heat. DJ? Harlem Heat. I mean, it's

easy for me, man. Booker T and Stevie Ray, that's

essentially when I started getting into WCW,

because that was WWF for my entire life, essentially.

And then, oh, wow, let me check out whatever.

And I was like, oh, Booker T is... This one Booker

T was essentially like a cruiserweight. He was

like flying all over the damn place So yeah,

yeah, I'm going home. I mean again it comes to

the the wild Samoans and the head shrinkers they

are, you know really cool gimmicks and And everything

but I mean harm. He had a really cool gimmick

and they were really capable wrestlers, and their

mic skills, Booker T dropping an in -bomb. Withstanding.

They were very, I mean to this day. Booker T

essentially is one of the most iconic wrestlers

of all time, and this is kind of where he kind

of got it started. Stevie Ray doesn't get a lot

of props for that, but I really like Harlem Heat.

Yeah, I think they were one of the main reasons

to care about the tag team division and WCW for

sure for a long time. They were involved with

all kinds of feuds. So Matt, you agree Harlem

Heat upset over Wiles Samoans? I'd have to say,

I mean, this is a really close one. It can go

either way. One, this will come down to who I

watched, which was the Harlem Heat. Wiles Samoans

didn't really watch them, except maybe after

the fact on WWE Network and things like that.

But I mean, yeah, you had I mean it plus effect.

I mean, can you really name like another like

african -american tag team? I can't do day new.

Okay new day. Yeah, okay, but other than New

Day and maybe okay Titus Worldwide or some whatever

the crap they do. Man on a mission. Man on a

mission. That's a different type of tag team

right there. Yes. They almost made the list.

They almost made the list. Oh god that's some

missed opportunity. They didn't make the list.

No they're not the number two seed guys sorry.

But I love Harlem meat. I mean Booker T's like

when he was like doing those scissor kicks and

doing spinner Rooney's and Going off the top

rope and this was like the perfect dynamic yet

Stevie raised like the brawler and then he had

Booker T who was like 900 feet tall, but he was

moving around like a like a cruiserweight and

everything like that too. So Andy had sensational

cherry. I mean, come on. He had a really good

manager. He had awesome theme music. He had matching

outfits. He had pyrotechnics. He had durags.

Can you do that sucker? Yeah, sucker. I mean,

yeah. And while Samoans never talk, they just

kind of like eat raw fish, I think, in the ring

or something like that. Maybe I don't even know

if they did. I don't know. I mean, but Alpha

is the one who became, what, later on the Hedge

Trinkers manager. So you have that connection

there. But still, Heartland Heat, I mean, that's

iconic, man. I mean, they were the reason to

watch the tag team division in WCW. And you wouldn't

have had King Booker without Heartland Heat,

too. King Booker! We got two people pushing for

Harlem heat over the wild smolens. Are you a

third or are you gonna go against him? Suckasgastineau

But Stevie Stevie Ray does deserve a bit more

love that he's gotten I mean these these guys

have already talked about Booker T I got to give

Stevie Ray some props to a very funny guy. He

was color commentary color commentator for a

while and uh i believe he was the dubbed voice

for laparca for a few episodes of thunder very

very funny man and i wish he stayed in wrestling

a lot longer so gotta be gotta be uh harlem eat

all right that means there's only two teams that

have not been revealed that's our number two

seed and our number 31 seed um number 31 seed

was not ranked by anybody either but i put them

in there why because they had the titles three

different times in the WWF, held the titles for

331 days. I thought that was good enough for

a 31 seed. We've already seen one of these gentlemen,

but not as part of this team, because this time

we're going to go with the smoking guns version

of Billy Gunn. It's Billy Gunn and Bart Gunn

with smoking guns. Like I said, three title reigns,

331 days, but they're a 31 seed, so it's just

fun, right guys? Alright, they're facing the

number two seed. Anybody have a guess who our

number two seat is? The ding -dongs. What team

have we not talked about? The headbangers. Heavenly

bodies. The APA. I love where you guys are going,

skipping, zipping. Body jobs. No, we're gonna

go with the team that had seven title reigns

in the WWE, and that would be the team of Edge

and Christian. Number ten on the Bleacher Report,

four on Den of Geek, number two by everybody

else. Edge and Christian, seven title reigns,

207 days. That was good enough to get them a

two ranking. Edge and Christian are the smoking

guns, Neil. Well, for the benefit of those of

you with cameras. Flash photography. Yes. Five

second pose. Edge and Christian was also a comedy

heel tag team, but they were awesome. Yeah, they

were faces for the longest time, and then they

turned heel and they became great. Smoking guns,

I do remember them, but not very fondly. There

was a pretty funny spot where they won the tag

team titles from from Owen Hart and Yokozuna,

where Yokozuna did a leg drop on his own tag

team partner. That was pretty funny. Other than

that, not a lot of good memories of the Smoking

Guns. The best memory of the Smoking Guns was

the brawl for all, where Bart Gunn kicked everybody's

ass. He got knocked up by Butterbean. He was

amazing. Bart Gunn ruined somebody's career.

He ruined Dr. Death's Steve Williams career by

knocking him out. For those that are really pushing

for Billy Gunn, to face off against himself in

the finals, you have your work cut out for you.

Because Edge and Christian are a formidable opponent,

DJ, what do you think? This is an interesting

team for me, Edge and Christian, because I remember

them when they were running with Gangrel and

the Brood, and it was the worst stupid freaking,

oh, Blade came out, that's me and the Brood,

a gimmick ever. And from where they went to,

they are amazing tag team wrestlers, as we already

established. the mic skills on both characters.

Now we talk about a lot of wrestling tag teams,

but it's rare than you think when both members

of the tag team have awesome mic skills. Usually

there's a guy who does the talking, there's a

guy who's like the brawler, he has like the one

word. But Christian and Edge equally are awesome

in terms of these things and their chemistry

is undeniable. The wrestling skills are amazing.

It's just, and I did not like them. I hated the

brood, the vampire stupidness and all this other

techno crap, even though he still does the do

you think you know me crap, but whatever, it's

fine. Together, oh my God, so entertaining. They

would just, me and a ring, talking trash for,

forgot, what, five minutes? Better than any match

that's on the show that same night. The concertos,

it's just, they're awesome. They're awesome.

I love Edgar Christian. Matt, saving your Edge

and Christian talk for later or anything to say

to this one? Any party words for the smoking

guns? Everybody's kind of said everything they

need to say about those two guys and the fact

they were kind of in that era of the Dudley boys

and the Hardy boys and like Edge and Christian

and everything else. They kind of surrounded

them. I know people might give, you know, Edge...

crap about the whole Lita thing and sex in public.

I mean, whatever, sex in public's fine. I mean,

everybody does it. But I mean, the smoking gun,

another occupational gimmick, you know, it was

the Cowboys in the continent. I'm surprised we

didn't have Henry O 'Godwin and Phineas on here

where it's like the hog farmers versus the Cowboys

versus the workout boys versus the dumpster boys

versus the natural disaster boys and everything

else, you know, so. Yeah, a lot too many boys

but as in Christian just I mean and they work

fantastic by themselves and they work fantastic

together and to think they had to deal with all

the vampire gimmick crap to finally bust out

of that and you know become what they became

a Tag team that eventually got their own show

in the WWE Network. So good job guys. So call

for that's i'm a reading reading of awesomeness

reading of awesomeness the the who were pulling

for so far based on your guys' votes and give

you guys a chance afterwards now you've heard

all the tag teams to give us some projections

your odds on favorites your dark horses whatever

might be matchups that you want to see that type

of stuff so on the left side again we were going

for number one see the road warriors to advance

to face off against the minnesota wrecking crew

we had demolition going in this is if people

vote like we said which that might not have We

had demolition going against the outsiders We

had the head shrinkers upsetting the Rock and

Roll Express and moving on to fight the brain

busters And we had the New Age outlaws going

up against the Hart Foundation on the other half

of the bracket We had edge and Christian going

up against Harlem Heat We had the British Bulldogs

going up against the Bushwhackers with a Possibly

upset against the Midnight Express We had the

Dudley Boys going up against the fabulous Freebirds

or Natural Disasters, depending on which way

you went with that. And then we had the Steiner

Brothers against the Hardy Boys in a matchup

that seems too early to have happened. Neil,

just looking at the possible teams out there,

the left side of the bracket, the right side

of the bracket, what are your thoughts now? Oh,

the left side of the bracket is hell. I can't

believe that the... combinations we got there

i i don't even know who to pick up on any of

those they're way too close uh... uh... maybe

uh... maybe the signers over the uh... the hardy

boys is that what was that was on that goes out

of the matchup yet yeah i'd i'd maybe pick the

uh... the signers uh... carter i don't i don't

know uh... water really close matches as i want

to see them Matthew, any dark horses out there

that could upset the one or two seed? I mean,

it'll kind of... I see the one or two seed. I

don't really see that happening just because

like... their icons the icon icon class so as

in Christian and Legion of doom I could see maybe

Legion of doom being too gimmicky and maybe faltering

down the line as we get maybe into the semi -finals

or you know if they even didn't make it that

far I mean as much as I like The Legion of Doom,

they also, and Paul Ellering was awesome. They

had an awesome manager as well, too. But then

they had a stupid dummy who rode out and got

stolen. They had some weird stuff. It depends

how people go. Are people going to remember Legion

of Doom for Doomsday device and breaking a guy's

neck in the middle of the ring? Because that's

how I remember them. Or are you just going to,

yeah, how are you going to remember them? So

but I can see them maybe falling prey. I can

see the ones going down to somebody, but. I don't

see them. I see them kind of going straight unless,

you know, who knows how people are going to vote

too. I mean, there isn't a lot. to not like about

edge and christian so interesting i think some

tough the toughest second round matches that

we have that you might be thinking you would

see in like a quarterfinals or semi -finals interesting

matches we get demolition against outsiders that

seems to be a tough one to me new age outlaws

against the heart foundation is a tough one steiner

brothers and hearty boys are by far not a second

round matchup in my mind and unfortunate draw

for harlem heat going against edge and christian

next round dj you had mentioned outsiders at

number eight like how could they not be higher?

The higher ranked seeds than the outsiders would

have been the Road Warriors, Heart Foundation,

Rock and Roll Express, the Hardy Boys, Dud Dudley

Boys, the Midnight Express, and Edge and Christian.

There's a lot of good tag teams out there. What

do you think of all this? You know, going into

this episode, I was like, who is my number? Who

would I pick? And as we got to the end of this,

it kind of became clear to me that there's two

tag teams that I think for me the head and shoulders

about everybody else I mean and it's like the

Western Conference in basketball and they're

in the same rack side and I guess I'll reveal

it now to me I don't know it's between the Dudleys

and the edge of Christian for me mainly because

again guys I'm a heel guy I mean and the fact

that they accomplish everything I like about

wrestlers in terms of tags and this wrestlers

that's the again my skills gimmick able to wrestle

technical in the ring out of the ring they're

awesome heart foundations probably really is

third in the legion of doom is kind of rounding

out my top four but edgy Christian man I didn't

even when you sound like oh Of course, that's

a freaking Christian. If anybody's gonna take

out the delis, it'd be them because, again, I

take it back to just watch some of their promos.

They could be in the ring for five minutes, not

wrestling. And if you can't turn, you're completely

entertained. And there's only certain people

that can do that who aren't called Steel and

Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. So, I mean, so

I gotta give them props. Again, you're right

about the voting. Some people are probably gonna

go, you know, lineage and legacy and ability,

but I mean. The Dudley boys, as Neil points out,

I mean, I did not know they had almost both at

one time. That's freaking insane. Well, it wasn't

all at one time. Oh, but I mean, they won over

the course of their career. Or their career.

I mean, that's still, I mean, that's crazy. As

Michael Jordan holding the ring, putting his

hand with the rings. I mean, they've essentially

climbed every mountaintop at least once. So yeah,

man, it's going to be interesting to see how

they vote. But if you go by the terms of wrestling,

entertainment, encompassing all the facets, those

four people I named I think encompass all of

it. Right, so the fun part about this guys is

usually you listen to a podcast and you can shout

into the void, but they can't hear you. But this

time you get to listen to our podcast and then

you get to go tell us where we're wrong and right

and get to actually vote and decide what we're

going to talk about next time. So you need to

go to GeekCastRadio .com. It'll be right there

on the main page. There'll be links to it. There'll

be polls that you can vote on and we will see

who comes up in each one of these matchups. Also

always interesting to see which matchups are

the closest and which are the biggest blowouts,

that type of stuff. So you can go ahead over

to Geekcast Radio now and cast your vote You'll

have until the next episode comes out and we

will reveal the winners as of the moment we record

So you'll have right up until that moment to

cast your votes and I'll take one last look before

we start the record Also, if you have any hate

mail to send because your favorite tag team is

not included in the 32 team bracket Send that

to me, I'm the one responsible. That's at Optimus

Solo, so if you're like, where are the Von Erics

or where are, let's see, where are the Godwins,

the Bodied Donnas, the Headbangers, the Men on

a Mission, the Heavenly Bodies, the American

Males, the Faces of Fear, the Super Destroyers,

who else can I say, the Hollywood Blondes, if

you're wondering why. Billy and Chuck of the

APA. Hell no. Mama Luke's. Hell no. The Jersey

Triad, if you're chronic fans out there. Anyways,

if your favorite tag team didn't make it and

you want to yell at somebody, yell at me, at

Optimus. If you want to talk to any of these

guys about their reasoning or try to pay them

off to pull for somebody in the next round, you

can also tweet at them. DJ, what's your Twitter?

It doesn't matter what my Twitter is. That's

trying to be DJ V and then at simple twitters

is the show. Matt, how can people yell at you?

Yeah, like you said, at simple twitters. I guess

yell at me. We share the account, but mostly

I run it back. He'll be the one yelling back

at you. But you'll never really know who is yelling

at you. Neil, how can people tell you that you're

wrong or right? At Neil Sama on Twitter. And

then obviously, you can direct any general comments

to at GeekCastRadio. We'll see if Mike's back

next time to to spew his opinions on what we

got wrong in this episode and pine for a team

that's already been eliminated. We'll see if

that happens or not. But as this goes, guys,

we'll have a couple more episodes. The next episode

will have round two, then the semifinals and

then the final four. So that's kind of how this

will break down about five episodes total for

you guys to talk about tag teams and get your

tag team love in before we turn the page and

talk. all about the solo guys on their own as

we count down our top 100 wrestlers of all time.

That'll probably happen closer to Christmas,

November, December area, somewhere in that range

if everything goes according to plan. So that

does it for this episode of Geekcast Radio Network,

GCRN Wars. We'll be back next week with the second

round. Go vote, guys. Well, that's all for today,

wrestling fans. Stay tuned for our next grappling

episode. Tag, you're out. Or my fist in your

face. You just made the list!