I recently saw an episode of Taker's podcast where he claimed that the only reason he pitched Mabel as a member of The Ministry was so that he wouldn't have to wrestle him
Men on a Mission were bad in ring, but the gimmick was as over as it needed to be. Plus, it’s a rare example of Vince McMahon almost being timely with a babyface gimmick.
Rick Bogner got totally screwed. He was thrown in because he could do a good Razor impersonation vocally but the whole thing was terrible. He was a buddy and a good guy who passed too soon.
@@ericambrose7024 I just started watching the TNA PPVs on TNA+ and it seemed like he's a big deal. I remembered the name but I didn't watch wrestling back then so I don't know who he is or why he would have been pushed so highly. Thank you for clearing this up!
Fun fact, Chad Fortune would go on to drive monster trucks in Monster Jam for almost 20 years, most notably driving the Superman, Soldier of Fortune, and WCW Nitro Machine trucks
The Gymini were so bad that Jim Cornette kicked them out of OVW following them botching a simple finish to one of their matches. They had been wrestling for about 10 years by that point as well.
Not sure if Men on a Mission are on this list because of some weird personal vendetta against them that Pacitti has or just because he wasn't watching wrestling at that time, but they were generally quite over and reasonably successful at the time and had a pretty good run, there are a dozen other worse tag teams that could on this list.
You obviously don't understand the time period that Men on a Mission came out. The rap group, ironically called Tag Team, was huge. I kind of liked MOM. Their matches weren't that bad. It was all about capitalizing on what was cool at the time.
Fun fact Antonio of the Heartthrobs is a really talented, underrated indie veteran who is a tremendous technical wrestler and has an incredible physique even at his age
Bro they were wack. Just because you liked them when you were a small child and they remind you of the 90s doesn’t mean they weren’t utter dogshit 😂 You mfs need to stop attaching nostalgia to things and people and acting like that alone carries things 😂
The reason why they signed with WWE was so they would no longer have to work that style that had beaten them down physically for 20 years, and get their biggest payday to boot.
"Nerfed them" is such an embarrassing statement. Vince was the only promoter smart enough to turn them babyface, they were so likeable and so funny in real life that it was a brilliant decision to make them babyface. They were in their 40's, beat up and were sick of bleeding for little money in dying territories like Puerto Rico or Memphis, in WWF they were always booked as an attraction and fans fell in love with them instantly. Best run of their careers, they said it themselves several times.
For us Gen X'ers who grew up with them. They were NOT bad back in the day, and when they had Oscar their mic guy they were pretty dang over in the early days. It wasn't till a year in when wrestling was evolving so quickly that they became really lame, really fast. They just didn't evolve like everyone else. But a lot of wrestlers fell by the wayside like that.
For what it's worth, I was heart broken when the Heartthrobs were released. My brother and I loved how cheesy they were, and the one time we saw them live at a house show is one of our favorite memories from a wrestling show.
Remember that the Tekno Team 2000 was supposed to represent the future yet this is WWF in 1995, but you gotta admit that their entrance theme is amazing!, like a 21st century racing championship theme haha
Being someone who absolutely loved the Road Warriors ever since I was a little boy; seeing that damn bum Heidenrich dare try to replace Hawk made me start to hate wrestling for a while..
They already tried to make him a bootleg Sycho Sid...he got even worse when they tried to have him replace Hawk. Hawk wasn't a polished wrestler I'll admit..but Heidenreich was all around green and terrible in the ring and had zero charisma.
I love how the late 80’s tag teams had the most mediocre names: Men Who Wear Red Strong and Proud The Cool Cats Mose and Knuckle ..ok I made those up, but I’m not far from the truth.
This was a terrible list bad by even this channels standard. The only truly bad teams were the Gemini and DOA. The Dicks and Heart Throbs get an an asterisk, because I never saw them in OVW and heard good things.
10:23 = Now that you mentioned them, why the heck are the Bashams not on this list? They were just as bland, mediocre & forgettable as Gymini & the Harris Brothers.
when the bashams debuted, they reminded me of double dragon enemies. i guess the gymini reminded me too, but they weren't around long enough for me to remember.
@@DragonHeart613 Even worse than that, they were in main event angles as part of jbl's cabinet stable lol. They got battered of course but still they were in significant angles.
@@DragonHeart6132 runs. They had TWO runs with the belts. Because as I mentioned in another comment on this video, The ruthless aggression era was a wasteland for tag teams.
You're not wrong. But honestly they were doomed from the start with that stupid gimmick. The Rock and Steve Austin in their primes couldn't have gotten that shit over.
Unpopular opinion, but as a white kid growing up in the suburbs of 🇨🇦 I thought Men On a Mission's raps were pretty "fly" in the parlance of the time 😂
How about "every tag team from 93-97 with the exception of the one's Owen Hart and British Bulldog were involved in and Michaels and Diesel". Seriously that whole time was just bad tag team after bad tag team. Those 4 were the only ones saving the division (with the help sometimes of Yokozuna and Luger, and yes i know a lot of people don't like the Allied Powers but I thought it was a decent enough tag team considering how bad everything around them were).
With stuff like this, it makes me think that all of Vince's brain power ever came to how he can sexually harass someone in his own demented way instead of focusing on his show. Which, given what we hear about him, is actually a huge possibility.
As is previously commented on, though not quite clarified, putting "New" in front of the name of a previously existing tag team is a guaranteed death knell for the new team. Not only does it immediately compare a new team to one who gained popularity after years of working together, putting the new team at a major disadvantage from the outset, it is also as good an indicator you could need that creative has no real plans for you. The sad thing is creative are aware of this, and try to get around it by trying names like LOD 2000, etc. So if you're a budding tag team hoping for your big break and this is the best the company can offer you, run for the hills.
I met Antonio from the heartthrobs at an indie show after his release. He was such a sweet soft spoken and very obviously gay. I will always consider him a unsung LGBT wrestling icon.
I think the Harris twins was WWF version of what they had in mind when they signed Bruiser Brody & Nord ( The Berzker ) who in was Nord The Barbarian in AWA and tagged there and they worked the same but before they showed up in WWF Brody was murdered but if they had made it they wouldve been great
I thought Techno Team 2000 had travelled back in time from the year 2000 Attitude Era. Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle had arrived in the WWE and the contrast in talent was so incredible, it drove them back in time. They were flushed into a giant time toilet to a time when Viscera was considered a main eventer and the laziest wrestler in history held the title. It was the companies most woeful period. Maybe.... just maybe they could make it there, in a place and time when talent and hard work didn't matter.
Nothing makes a tag team bad than having ‘new’ in front of their tag team name. New rockers, new blackjacks, new rock and role express etc etc
New days?
@@damn_jaz9895New New Day
New Age Outlaws? 😂
New Nexus
@@NealCamerlengo dam. You got me on that one.
Fun fact: If you type "WWE The Dicks", "WWE the Gymini" and "WWE Tekno Team 2000" you will find a video posted by WWE themselves as "boring tag teams"
I doubt if it can get any worse than that.
I think they did the thing for the Beverly Brothers
They all list Furnas and Lafon, who are a great team.
WWE The DicksWWE the GyminiWWE Tekno Team 2000
They also list Furnas & Lafon and The Basham Brothers who I think were both good
I recently saw an episode of Taker's podcast where he claimed that the only reason he pitched Mabel as a member of The Ministry was so that he wouldn't have to wrestle him
Lol
The man injured him in 95...I can't blame him.
Makes total sense. Haha
Men on a Mission were bad in ring, but the gimmick was as over as it needed to be. Plus, it’s a rare example of Vince McMahon almost being timely with a babyface gimmick.
Yeah I thought they were really great.
Men from a mission
Throw ya hands in the air...my childhood 😂😂😂
@@conradhauser17yes, that's what the Brain said, men who live in a mission. Like downtown
And the locker room only hated them because they were black and over with the kids
imagine being so bad that your title reign is believed to be a botch!
😂😂 I actually enjoined men on mission tag team
At least Billy Gunn managed to redeem the lips-on-wrestling-gear look later in the '90s.
The Harris Brothers also have SS tattoos prominent on their arms so screw 'em.
Well that explains why markyd123 refers to them as the Nazi brothers
i knew i wasn’t trippin, smh
Funny how they just keep getting chances over and over and over again, huh?
I bet Men On A Mission were their best friends. :)
Meh.
I actually liked Men on a Mission. There, I said it.
Hahahahahahahahahaha. Well, that is the first step to recovery.
I did too
Because we were kids and they were baby faces. Kids in the 80s and 90s liked all baby faces.
Rick Bogner got totally screwed. He was thrown in because he could do a good Razor impersonation vocally but the whole thing was terrible. He was a buddy and a good guy who passed too soon.
I honestly felt bad for Well Dunn because they had found so much success everywhere else they wrestled.
You can say that about a lot of the territory guys that came into the WWF in the mid-90s
In Puerto Rico they were big stars.
What was their gimmick supposed to be anyway?....male strippers?...dancers?...it was never clear.
As bad as Tekno Team 2000 was, you have to admit they had some sweet entrance music
To this day, one of the most insane things in wrestling to me is Erik Watts getting such a big push in TNA.
@@ericambrose7024 I just started watching the TNA PPVs on TNA+ and it seemed like he's a big deal. I remembered the name but I didn't watch wrestling back then so I don't know who he is or why he would have been pushed so highly. Thank you for clearing this up!
Saw them perform at Madison Square Garden. I believe it was their debut and they did alright.
@@dontommy54Bill Watts Son
I disagree with Men On A Mission, I thought they were a good tag team
an other tag team really boring the heavenly bodies
Fun fact, Chad Fortune would go on to drive monster trucks in Monster Jam for almost 20 years, most notably driving the Superman, Soldier of Fortune, and WCW Nitro Machine trucks
Madusa did as well.
The Gymini were so bad that Jim Cornette kicked them out of OVW following them botching a simple finish to one of their matches. They had been wrestling for about 10 years by that point as well.
Not sure if Men on a Mission are on this list because of some weird personal vendetta against them that Pacitti has or just because he wasn't watching wrestling at that time, but they were generally quite over and reasonably successful at the time and had a pretty good run, there are a dozen other worse tag teams that could on this list.
They not up on the culture
Techno team 2000 was not a bad gimmick, but Erik Watts always sucked.
And his suck unfortunately rubbed off on Chad Fortune.
Well Dunn was a huge Mis-
STEAK!
nice try punk
you trying to be funny huh boy
well knock it off because its not working
So the Harris Twins have always been awful
I see what you did there.....cheeky😂😂😂😂
@@ShanthoshRajThirumoorthy Thanks!!!!
Thank god they didn't discuss their WCW run...oh lord.
@@monarcheddude that run was awful cuz as Russos heavys it was doomed from the start
@@aztecwrrior1997 yep
Man, what ever happened to Tajiri? He was one of my favorites as a kid. Always loved the buzzsaw kick as a finish.
Happy that Deuce and Domino didnt make the list. Great theme song.
Mentioning the Harris twins without mentioning the SS tattoos is malpractice.
What's hilarious is that they don't talk that dumb stuff when they are around black wrestlers....
And then Chad Fortune found success in the world of monster trucks.
he is the first man to beat Bill Goldberg though it was a dark match and didnt count
@@michaelmarriott1177 WHAT
@@AlanNadeauIII yeah it was Goldberg's fifth dark match
@@michaelmarriott1177 Oh wow
5:09 note the prominent "SS" tattoo... wild that the WWE was under fire for the Godfather gimmick while they featured legit Nazis on their show.
You obviously don't understand the time period that Men on a Mission came out. The rap group, ironically called Tag Team, was huge. I kind of liked MOM. Their matches weren't that bad. It was all about capitalizing on what was cool at the time.
I agree, MOM actually got the crowd up with Oscar if you go back to 1994, there matches sucked but as an act they weren’t the worst
These guys ain’t cultured
We were wearing our clothes backwards ffs. 😅
Fun fact
Antonio of the Heartthrobs is a really talented, underrated indie veteran who is a tremendous technical wrestler and has an incredible physique even at his age
This Mo slander will not stand.
This MFer really started with MEN ON A MISSION 😑
Bro they were wack. Just because you liked them when you were a small child and they remind you of the 90s doesn’t mean they weren’t utter dogshit 😂
You mfs need to stop attaching nostalgia to things and people and acting like that alone carries things 😂
You can buy old Xmas decor from Mo's storage for like $85 USD.
Men on a mission was not that bad. I liked them as a tag team
Nothing beats a wrestling video then someone bashing nelson fraizer jr
Poor Mabel has NEVER caught a break in the videos regarding the worst
@therealsethscarlet7084Mabel was a guy😂
Might have something to do with being the worst?
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte he wasn't THAT bad
The Harris bros also had Nazi tattoos
As I recall, Ludwig Borga did as well.
@@Dan97LHS he was a Nazi irl basically, neo Nazi
@@Dan97LHSBorga was a literal neo nazi
don't badmouth the Bushwhackers, as the Sheepherders. they were badass brawlers it was Mcmahon who nerfed them
Shepherders vs moondogs
The reason why they signed with WWE was so they would no longer have to work that style that had beaten them down physically for 20 years, and get their biggest payday to boot.
They got beat up by Carl Winslow and Steve Urkel 😂
They were happy with it though. Easy money, no more hardcore matches etc
"Nerfed them" is such an embarrassing statement. Vince was the only promoter smart enough to turn them babyface, they were so likeable and so funny in real life that it was a brilliant decision to make them babyface. They were in their 40's, beat up and were sick of bleeding for little money in dying territories like Puerto Rico or Memphis, in WWF they were always booked as an attraction and fans fell in love with them instantly. Best run of their careers, they said it themselves several times.
Thanks!
5:08 We just gonna ignore Ron and Don's poorly disguised SS tattoos?
I didn't think men on a mission where that bad
For us Gen X'ers who grew up with them. They were NOT bad back in the day, and when they had Oscar their mic guy they were pretty dang over in the early days. It wasn't till a year in when wrestling was evolving so quickly that they became really lame, really fast. They just didn't evolve like everyone else. But a lot of wrestlers fell by the wayside like that.
@@wtbeecher very true I didn't like Mabel as a main eventer
@@Gazowen-qz5xyNOBODY did. The fact that Mabel main evented the second or third biggest ppv of the year in 95 will always be a massive joke.
@@rayedmonds6108but he was thrown into a situation he should never of been in
For what it's worth, I was heart broken when the Heartthrobs were released. My brother and I loved how cheesy they were, and the one time we saw them live at a house show is one of our favorite memories from a wrestling show.
Remember that the Tekno Team 2000 was supposed to represent the future yet this is WWF in 1995, but you gotta admit that their entrance theme is amazing!, like a 21st century racing championship theme haha
Men On a Mission, Cool Name😎, Rubbish Tag Team😮💨🙁!
Saw it coming and yet still laughed like a 13 year old at "spunk!"
AKA: Vince McMahon can't book worth a damn, and never has.
Men on Mission also got a push because Hip hop was becoming the new Hip music among the Young Kids. MoM walked so AEW'S The Acclaimed could RUN.
I used to call them "Armdrag Team 2000" back in 1995. That's all I ever saw them do in their matches.
At least they arent the dingdongs
They were WCW
The Harris brothers should have been #1 for obvious reasons
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I started watching WWE (regularly) during the age of the Heart Throbs, the Gymini and the Dicks. I don't know how I kept watching.
Worst WWE tag team?
Vince McMahon and John Laryngitis.
Awh, I liked The Gymini. I was about eight years old, but still
I had to reread what this list was because I thought this was "10 Worst Tag Team NAMES in WWE History"
Being someone who absolutely loved the Road Warriors ever since I was a little boy; seeing that damn bum Heidenrich dare try to replace Hawk made me start to hate wrestling for a while..
They already tried to make him a bootleg Sycho Sid...he got even worse when they tried to have him replace Hawk. Hawk wasn't a polished wrestler I'll admit..but Heidenreich was all around green and terrible in the ring and had zero charisma.
Asuka's tailor must have also worked with Well Dunne
What is wrong with you guys? Don't ever disrespect the GOATs of tag team wrestling, Tekno Team 2000.
Wow, that was as bad as advertised. 😩
I love how the late 80’s tag teams had the most mediocre names:
Men Who Wear Red
Strong and Proud
The Cool Cats
Mose and Knuckle
..ok I made those up, but I’m not far from the truth.
Tekno Team 2000 were actually good in the ring - it’s the gimmick that was ridiculous…!!
Best thing about Tekno Team 2000 is their color scheme of lovely silver and maroon combination
This was a terrible list bad by even this channels standard. The only truly bad teams were the Gemini and DOA.
The Dicks and Heart Throbs get an an asterisk, because I never saw them in OVW and heard good things.
The Harris Brothers were awesome. I loved watching them punching and kicking and clubbing.
Always had in my head that gymini were the basham brothers pre cabinet
10:23 = Now that you mentioned them, why the heck are the Bashams not on this list? They were just as bland, mediocre & forgettable as Gymini & the Harris Brothers.
Worse. They had significant airtime
when the bashams debuted, they reminded me of double dragon enemies. i guess the gymini reminded me too, but they weren't around long enough for me to remember.
@@TheRealAhoy & even a run as Tag Team Champs for crying out loud & they totally sucked.
@@DragonHeart613 Even worse than that, they were in main event angles as part of jbl's cabinet stable lol. They got battered of course but still they were in significant angles.
@@DragonHeart6132 runs. They had TWO runs with the belts. Because as I mentioned in another comment on this video, The ruthless aggression era was a wasteland for tag teams.
I forgot about the heart throbs
So your basically saying , the new generation era and the ruthless aggression era were terrible for tag teams
What didn't help The Dicks case is they didn't get along and drew the ire of two certain Smackdown "leaders".
You're not wrong. But honestly they were doomed from the start with that stupid gimmick. The Rock and Steve Austin in their primes couldn't have gotten that shit over.
I absolutely loved the Bushwackers!!!! One of my favourite teams EVER!!!!
When I was young, I thought that the Tekno Team 2000 was the Hardy Boyz.
How dare you insult Tekno Team 2000.
Men on a Mission were not that bad, they could've done a lot more better to win more Tag Team Champions.
Do it for Tekno Team 2000. King Ross, "Why?"
I used to get a huge kick out of The Heartthrobs. They teamed with Victoria one time and came out dancing on her and she got all mad about it.
Unpopular opinion, but as a white kid growing up in the suburbs of 🇨🇦 I thought Men On a Mission's raps were pretty "fly" in the parlance of the time 😂
One of the Harris' Brother's having a lazily attempted cover up of Nat'zee SS bolts with tribal is my favorite.
They both had them.
I wasn't watching wrestling when The Gymini were a thing, but there's so much you can do with a pair of twins. Especially as singles wrestlers.
Vince wasnt mad,The Tag Team was JR idea
Losing their first match to William Regal and Tajiri… I honestly wouldn’t put that against them. Two of the best workers I can think of.
You missed the swat team. They stank.
Hey the heart throbs were great
At least Animal was one half of arguably the GOAT tag-team so that eclipses been lumbered with heidenriech.
How about "every tag team from 93-97 with the exception of the one's Owen Hart and British Bulldog were involved in and Michaels and Diesel". Seriously that whole time was just bad tag team after bad tag team. Those 4 were the only ones saving the division (with the help sometimes of Yokozuna and Luger, and yes i know a lot of people don't like the Allied Powers but I thought it was a decent enough tag team considering how bad everything around them were).
Bob Holly, the only person to be a member of the Midnight Express AND the Rock 'N' Roll Express.
Men on a Mission were cool. Yeah, I said it, Pacitti!
I’m surprised Jacket Time didn’t make the list
I liked the heart throbs a lot, perfectly annoying heels who you loved to see getting beat up, Animal and Hedenreich were very over in 2005
I was watching every week in 2005. I have zero recollection of Animal and Heidenreich being even remotely over.
One thing about Adam- he hated Visera 😭😭😭
With stuff like this, it makes me think that all of Vince's brain power ever came to how he can sexually harass someone in his own demented way instead of focusing on his show. Which, given what we hear about him, is actually a huge possibility.
So many knob related jokes in one entry. Way to go sir
At least Chad Fortune had a very stellar career as a Monster Jam driver
The 3 that come to mind immediately are the Gymini, Dicks, and Heartthrobs😂
No mention of The New Rockers? A sad reboot of the original ones deserves a place on this list.
The "New Midnight Express" was Vince Russo's idea to try and "stick it to Jim Cornette". Go to Jim's podcast if you want to listen more about it.
Wild that Men on a Mission won the tag titles but legendary teams like the Rockers and Allied Powers never did.
Not "wild", Rockers were always in a packed tag team division while M.O.M. was there when the division was at all time low in depth.
As is previously commented on, though not quite clarified, putting "New" in front of the name of a previously existing tag team is a guaranteed death knell for the new team. Not only does it immediately compare a new team to one who gained popularity after years of working together, putting the new team at a major disadvantage from the outset, it is also as good an indicator you could need that creative has no real plans for you. The sad thing is creative are aware of this, and try to get around it by trying names like LOD 2000, etc. So if you're a budding tag team hoping for your big break and this is the best the company can offer you, run for the hills.
I met Antonio from the heartthrobs at an indie show after his release. He was such a sweet soft spoken and very obviously gay. I will always consider him a unsung LGBT wrestling icon.
So well dunne video again 🎉
Lmfao bro I've been watching WWE for over 30 years and I absolutely do not remember "Well Done" at all 😂😂
Shout out to the New Rockers and New Blackjacks.
They were pretty crap too.
Well Dunn's attire is just hideous.
Enhancement talent??
I think the Harris twins was WWF version of what they had in mind when they signed Bruiser Brody & Nord ( The Berzker ) who in was Nord The Barbarian in AWA and tagged there and they worked the same but before they showed up in WWF Brody was murdered but if they had made it they wouldve been great
I thought Techno Team 2000 had travelled back in time from the year 2000 Attitude Era. Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle had arrived in the WWE and the contrast in talent was so incredible, it drove them back in time.
They were flushed into a giant time toilet to a time when Viscera was considered a main eventer and the laziest wrestler in history held the title. It was the companies most woeful period. Maybe.... just maybe they could make it there, in a place and time when talent and hard work didn't matter.
The Heart Throbs were MASSIVELY over in OVW. Sad they didn’t find at least some success in WWE
As a young black kid Men on a Mission was very much over.