10 TNA/Impact Wrestling Tag Teams That Made No Sense
Ava Bailey TNA aka Impact Wrestling has officially been around for over two decades now. Few wrestling promotions have ever existed this long with general relevance for most of it. Any promotion around that much is bound to experiment with tag team wrestling on a few occasions. TNA always tried to have a solid tag team division by filtering in new teams.
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Projects like Beer Money, the Motor City Machine Guns and America’s Most Wanted all showed how things would work out. However, there were certain duos that just lacked the logic of being together. Each story ranges from a lack of chemistry to poor booking, to just utter confusion. The following TNA tag teams did not make much sense looking back.
10 3 Live Kru
The 3 Live Kru became one of the first TNA created acts in the early years on the weekly PPVs. Konnan, Road Dogg and R-Truth formed the trio based on their characters’ mutual love of rap music from past promotions.
R-Truth was often placed in the singles title picture making Road Dogg and Konnan a primary tag team. The duo lacked chemistry and nothing beyond rapping bonded them together. All three wrestlers benefited from 3 Live Kru ending.
9 Chavo Guerrero & Hernandez
TNA treated the signing of Chavo Guerrero as a bigger deal than what fans felt. Chavo was a solid talent, but it was more about having the legendary Guerrero family represented in TNA. The big story for Guerrero’s debut saw him forming a tag team with Hernandez.
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TNA did nothing to make fans understand why the duo were a team beyond both having Latino backgrounds. Hernandez having multiple tag teams in the past just made this feel even lazier when placed in yet another with someone he didn’t have chemistry with.
8 The Naturals
The Naturals were treated as one of the first noteworthy teams of TNA’s tag division. Other earlier teams like America’s Most Wanted, Triple X and LAX all thrived more than The Naturals did with more television time to start.
TNA ran a storyline of The Naturals trying to find the right manager when working with bigger names Shane Douglas and Jimmy Hart. The bigger problem was the minimal character development of the team. Most fans viewed The Naturals as the worst part of their act with the managers having more value.
7 Prince Justice Brotherhood
TNA decided to form a comedic trio based on superheroes when coming up with the Prince Justice Brotherhood. Super Eric (Eric Young), Curry Man (Christopher Daniels) and “Stone Cold” Shark Boy (Shark Boy doing a parody of Steve Austin) all spent time together in various tag matches.
The performers involved all did their best, but there was little behind any of the characters. Fans just knew they all wore masks and had outlandish characters. TNA even booked the absurd Fish Market Street Fight against Team 3D to show how little logic was in the Prince Justice Brotherhood.
6 Taylor Wilde & Hamada
The Knockouts tag team division allowed the female talents of TNA to have their own tag titles. Duos like The Beautiful People, Tara & Brooke Tessmacher, and Gail Kim & Madison Rayne showed how effective the division could be.
However, TNA decided to go a lazy route of just placing random singles wrestlers together to make up the rest of the division. Unlikely Knockouts Tag Team Champions Taylor Wilde and Hamada had no story or character explanation for being a team beyond both being face characters without other partners.
5 The Nasty Boys
TNA signing the Nasty Boys may have been the most ridiculous addition from the Hulk Hogan era. Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags received roster spots to feud with Team 3D due to being close friends of Hogan, who was ready to flex his power.
The Nasty Boys had peaked almost two decades before they joined TNA with plans for one more run. Both wrestlers looked ridiculous trying to fit into the current product and were fired when getting too rowdy at a party with Spike TV executives present.
4 James Storm & Gunner
TNA found success forming tag teams with two established singles wrestlers. James Storm even succeeded twice in such a role having tremendous tag team runs with Bobby Roode in Beer Money and Chris Harris in America’s Most Wanted.
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Management was somehow high on Gunner aka Jaxson Ryker when placed into a tag team with Storm. The move made no sense other than TNA trying to overpush someone by teaming with a more over name. Storm and Gunner lacked chemistry as a team, and they had a weak feud when Storm turned on him.
3 Matt Morgan & Abyss
Another odd makeshift team of two singles talents TNA believed in becoming a duo featured Matt Morgan and Abyss. Neither man fit into the TNA main event picture at the time, so they were placed in an unlikely tag team.
The idea of two big men teaming together has worked in the past, but this felt rather pointless. Abyss lost a lot of momentum during this time and failed to form chemistry with Morgan. TNA keeping them together as long as they did would harm each of their momentum.
2 The Rock n Rave Infection
TNA came up with the idea of pair Lance Hoyt, Jimmy Rave and Christy Hemme playing intentionally bad musicians. The Rock n Rave Infection was the foolish name given to them, but they weren’t able to become an over act.
All three performers had talent that could contribute to the product, but the gimmick was a dead-end idea. Rave and Hoyt each were out of TNA not too fast after the tag run ended. Hemme found more success on her own as a ring announcer and backstage writer.
1 Team Pacman
No tag team made wrestling fans question what the hell TNA was doing more than Team Pacman. TNA signed Adam “Pacman” Jones when he was suspended from the NFL, but he was unable to take part in any physical action due to his NFL contract clause.
R-Truth teamed with Pacman as they attempted to have matches with Pacman standing on the ring apron and pinning the opponents. It grew even more confusing when Xavier Woods aka Consequences Creed replaced Pacman with an Apollo Creed gimmick.