I’ve never felt personally inspired by The Bushwhackers before… and yet, here we are.
While recently rating the cousins Luke and Butch as a unit, I mentioned how I would theoretically dig them if they were an act today. And I confessed how great I thought their finishing move, The Battering Ram, was.
Inspiration was struck, and I was determined to make a list counting down some of the best tag team finishing moves in wrestling history! If I were to make such a list, would The Battering Ram place?
Tag Team wrestling… is what it is in the current environment. AEW showcases it. NJPW loves multi-man matches, to the point where strict two-on-two encounters get overshadowed a bit. And WWE just kind of begrudgingly still has tag teams because some universal law insists that they must. People don’t like to admit it, but WWE is actually doing BETTER with tag teams now than they were, say, a decade ago, when most of their tag “teams” were two randomly chucked together guys who w
We spent a good portion of 2020 honoring the great tag teams of years past. It was one of the few things I enjoyed doing that year, and it seemed like everybody else got some enjoyment out of it too. However, the things we did in 2020 didn’t really seem to work! It ended up being the WORST YEAR WE EVER LIVED IN, to steal a line from one of the 2010s best tag teams.
So, let’s switch it up a little bit. Instead of looking at the seven most magnificent tag teams of all time, let’s look at the least magnificent!