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| The best tag guy WWE has had in the last 20 year? Maybe not, but he was my favorite. Photo Credit: WWE.cmo |
1. Billy Gunn
Hey, speaking of Billy Gunn, who's the guy who was part of three iconic WWF/E tag teams and is probably one of the most underrated dudes in the company's history? Yep, it's Gunn. I always dug him, even if his singles runs never got started the way I would've liked them too. Did you know I used to write fantasy booking where I made Gunn the top heel? No? What do you mean I'm a huge dork and you're not reading anymore? COME BACK! Anyway, Gunn always had a great handle on how tags went, even if the best partner he ever had was the Armstrong kid who had white-boy dreads and rose to fame as Jeff Jarrett's roadie.
2. Cody Rhodes
I think everyone's waiting for the moment when Rhodes breaks out and wins the World or WWE Championship, but in the meantime, the dude has become a hell of a tag team guy in his career to date. As he's shown with Bob Holly, Ted DiBiase, Jr., Drew McIntyre and now, Damien Sandow, he has impeccable double team timing and a great sense of how to make it look like he's part of a team and not a dude standing on the apron ready to go all virtuoso up in this joint.
3. Owen Hart
It seemed like everyone who graduated the Hart Dungeon got at least a minor in teamwork, but the youngest Hart always was the best at it. He had the most varied array of partners too, from goofy babyface Koko B. Ware to his hulking brother-in-law Davey Boy Smith to agile fat dude Yokozuna. Hart gets the most credit for being able to coexist in teams outside of the ring the best. I always got a kick out of his segments with Yokozuna, where Hart would ham it up and Yoko would just stand behind him, widen his eyes and snort like a bull. I miss Owen.
4. Bob Holly
He really should have been the spiritual successor to Arn Anderson. Short, tough, ornery... he's the perfect enforcer. Too bad he came up in a time and company that really didn't know how to utilize the stable. Thus is life. However, he was great in the tag with his "cousin" Crash. They had some of the funniest segments ever. Plus, he had that bruiser credibility that made him a great second for Crash as well as Rhodes.
5. Evan Bourne
He has the least experience of the bunch as a tag guy, and he also may have had the fewest partners. That being said, his longest tenured team with Kofi Kingston may have been his worst. He had very short tag runs with Rey Mysterio and Mark Henry that could have been great for polar opposite different reasons. Bourne's the kind of guy who you stay up late thinking of teams he COULD be awesome in, and when they do happen, they oftentimes do end up satisfying.
6. Christian
Ah, Christian, the old standby, the faithful, reliable tag guy. He's the one guy you can point to to argue that the early '00s tag boom in WWE was predicated not on guys killing themselves but on the personalities making you scared that they might kill themselves. I would also argue that Christian is the reason why Edge was able to get so big. Edge had the size, but Christian was able to provide so much material for him to work off. Edge wasn't bad. Christian was just better. Plus, that run he had with Chris Jericho was pretty sweet too.
