Wednesday, March 16, 2016

The 2016 TWB Tag Team Tournament Turmoil: 2000s Region Round One

This match contained three of the top four seeds in the '00s region
Photo Credit: WWE.com
Today's set of first round matches takes the voting public into the 2000s, a decade that marked a weird, wild time for tag team wrestling on the whole. Before I get into today's matches, however, you can see who won yesterday's bouts in the blockquote:
Steiners, Eliminators, Harlem Heat, New Age Outlaws, Road Warriors, Outsiders, Natural Disasters, Hollywood Blondes
With those winners out of the way, the time has arrived to get on the voting for today's top tag teams, which includes probably the top overall seed in the Dudley Boys.

No. 1 The Dudley Boys (Bubba Ray and D-Von)
Eight-time Extreme Championship Wrestling Tag Team Champions, nine-time WWE World Tag Team Champions, World Championship Wrestling (post-WWE) Tag Team Champions, two-time IWGP Tag Team Champions, National Wrestling Alliance Tag Team Champions, two-time TNA Tag Team Champions, nearly incited several indie arenas to attempt to kill them

vs. No. 16 MNM (Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro)
Three-time WWE Tag Team Champions, most distracting entrance by a valet or manager in wrestling history



No. 8 BJ Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs
Two-time Ring of Honor Tag Team Champions, Absolute Intense Wrestling Tag Team Champions, drove sales for Hot Topic through the middle of the last decade

vs. No. 9 Da Hit Squad (Dan Maff and Monsta Mack)
Six-time Jersey All Pro Wrestling Tag Team Champions, 2015 Beyond Wrestling Tournament for Tomorrow Winners, one of the few good things to ever come out of the State of New Jersey



No. 4 Edge and Christian
Seven-time WWE World Tag Team Champions, winners of all three three-way tag team ladder/TLC matches with Dudleys and Hardys, caused Mick Foley to sing "I burned my scrotum"

vs. No. 13 The Brothers of Destruction (Kane and Undertaker)
Two-time WWE World Tag Team Champions, WCW (post-WWE) Tag Team Champions, gettin' way too old for this shit



No. 5 Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin)
TNA Tag Team Champions, AAW Tag Team Champions, IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, 2010 TWB Bloggie Award Winners for Tag Team of the Year, currently the only entity able to resuscitate Detroit

vs. No. 12 LAX (Homicide and Hernandez)
Two-time TNA Tag Team Champions, JAPW Tag Team Champions, world record for most bandanas purchased between two individuals, beating out the Harris Twins



No. 2 Briscoe Bros. (Jay and Mark)
Eight-time ROH Tag Team Champions, two-time Combat Zone Wrestling Tag Team Champions, NWA Wildside Tag Team Champions, Full Impact Pro Tag Team Champions, GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, still need rides to most shows

vs. No. 15 SteenErico (Kevin Steen and El Generico)
Two-time Pro Wrestling Guerrilla Tag Team Champions, ROH Tag Team Champions, destined to do this forever



No. 7 Second City Saints (CM Punk and Colt Cabana)
Two-time ROH Tag Team Champions, Punk once said hi to Cabana on an episode of RAW, you may have watched it

vs. No. 10 Kurt Angle and [REDACTED]
WWE Tag Team Champions, were both once revered universally by wrestling fans and look how that turned out



No. 3 Hardy Boys (Matt and Jeff)
Six-time WWE World Tag Team Champions, TNA Tag Team Champions, WCW (post-WWE) Tag Team Champions, ones responsible for all those BRAND Twitter handles

vs. No. 14 Brian Kendrick and Paul London
WWE World Tag Team Champions, WWE Tag Team Champions, Insane Championship Wrestling Tag Team Champions, not the reason for the WWE Wellness Policy but two guys who'd be fucked by it if they were in WWE today



No. 6 Team Angle/The World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas)
Two-time WWE Tag Team Champions, two-time ROH Tag Team Champions, about to be lapped so hard by Chad Gable and Jason Jordan, guys

vs. No. 11 Los Guerreros (Eddie and Chavo)
Two-time WWE Tag Team Champions, most surprising uncle/nephew combo in wrestling history



It's votin' time!