TSC Tag Teams/Stables Evaluation #6: The Rockers

[mrken12]

In the last evaluation, Main Event Mafia got a score of 7.45.

TSC Tag Teams/Stables Evaluation #5: Main Event Mafia

nWo Wolfpac: 7.69 TSC Tag Teams/Stables Evaluation #1: nWo Wolfpac
The Shield: 7.64 TSC Tag Teams/Stables Evaluation #3: The Shield
Young Bucks: 6.88 TSC Tag Teams/Stables Evaluation #2: Young Bucks
Meng & The Barbarian/The Faces of Fear: 6.38 TSC Tag Teams/Stables Evaluation #4: Meng & The Barbarian/The Faces of Fear


If people have any requests for future tag teams/stables you want to see evaluated, let me know. I'll have one evaluated for each week every Thursday. The leaderboard is updated every 5 threads so it's never too late to vote for previous threads.

For Thread #7, it will be The Nation of Domination.

Pending Requests: Dudley Boyz, The Flock/Raven's Nest, Steiner Brothers, The Outsiders, APA, Edge & Christian, Evolution, Filthy Animals, Mean Street Posse, Kronik, Dangerous Alliance, Original nWo, Miz and Morrison, New Age Outlaws, Too Cool, Hart Foundation (tag), Hart Foundation (stable), Midnight Express (Lane & Eaton), Four Horsemen, The Natural Born Thrillers, Doom, Road Warriors, The Usos, America's Most Wanted, Beer Money, Motor City Machine Guns, Bullet Club (AJ Styles-led version), Kaz and Daniels, Hardy Boyz, Dungeon of Doom, Christian's Coalition, Angle Alliance, The Nexus, British Bulldogs, Demolition, The Triple Threat

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Major Accomplishments

National Wrestling Alliance
NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship (2x)

American Wrestling Association
AWA World Tag Team Championship (2x)

Central States Wrestling
NWA Central States Tag Team Championship (1x)

Continental Wrestling Association
AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (2x)

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Ranked #33 of the top 100 tag teams of the "PWI Years" in 2003

Pro Wrestling This Week
Wrestler of the Week (February 8–14, 1987)

World Wrestling Federation
WWF Tag Team Championship (1x)*
*Win not acknowledged in WWE History due to reversal of decision by President Jack Tunney

Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
Tag Team of the Year (1989)



How would you rate The Rockers as a tag team using a scale of 1-10 based on these criteria:

-Chemistry
-Impact
-Did the team enhance the profiles of the members and prove beneficial for their career paths?
-Promo Work
-In-Ring Skills

 

[Mr. Negative]

5.

Honestly, if it wasn't for Shawn and Janetty's post wrestling life, would anyone be discussing them as a team?

Hell, every name on the Pending Request list is more memorable. Well, maybe not the last three names.

But imagine if those last three names were like.... The Rock n Roll Express, The Killer Bees and The Samoan Swat Team.

 

[John Reena]

Da GOAT high flying, double team moves tag teams.

10!!!!

 

[The Rainmaker]

Not enough superkicks. 5.

 

[OmegaK2099]

I hittem wit a dropkick! marty jannety!

 

[Tommy Fits]

10/10

Revolutionized tag team wrestling, goat double team moves, classics with the Hart's and brainBuster's, most memorable tag team break up ever.

 

[BrehWyatt]

8. Slightly generous.

Good tag team that inspired the likes of the Hardyz/Young Bucks and was quite over, but accomplished basically nothing in the federation where it mattered most during a time period where the tag division was DEEP. The most memorable thing they ever did was breakup.

 

[Francis White]

10 of course. HBGOAT carried Marty to a near hall of fame career. The Bucks of Youth owe everything to HBGOAT.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

-Chemistry: 10.

-Impact: 10. They helped revolutionize tag team wrestling and were an obvious inspiration for tag teams up to today.

-Promo Work: I don't recall them ever having to cut long promos, just the usual quick backstage stuff in front of a blue screen. 7.

-In-Ring Skills: 10.

They are a 10 overall for me. They are in my top 3 for tag teams.

 

[mrken12]

-Chemistry: 10.

-Impact: 10. They helped revolutionize tag team wrestling and were an obvious inspiration for tag teams up to today.

-Promo Work: I don't recall them ever having to cut long promos, just the usual quick backstage stuff in front of a blue screen. 7.

-In-Ring Skills: 10.

They are a 10 overall for me. They are in my top 3 for tag teams.

Top 3?

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Top 3?

I was such a stan back in the day

1. The Hart Foundation
2. The Rockers
3. The Steiner Brothers

 

[OmegaK2099]

I feel bad for marty jannety tho, he could go in the ring too, wound up a jobber in wcw after they broke up

 

[mrken12]

I feel bad for marty jannety tho, he could go in the ring too, wound up a jobber in wcw after they broke up

It also doesn't help that he had a drug problem and his former partner was trying to sabotage his career even after the team disbanded.

 

[Golayitdown]

Good team but not anywhere near my all time greats. They stood out for their high flying but were pretty meh outside of the ring in an era where your character and personality was more important than your skills between the ropes.

It's telling that their unanimous best moment was their breakup. They finally got interesting when they moved away from each other.

They'll probably get high marks solely due to Michaels' success in his solo career but in a tag team bubble they were just good wrestlers to me. Their style definitely influenced some modern teams but they weren't the only ones doing it at the time.

They don't come close to cracking my top 20 of true tag teams (e.g. Steiners, Harlem Heat, LOD, etc.) and when you factor in short lived teams and frequently matched up guys (like Rock and Sock Connection) I may struggle to put them in my top 40/50.

I'll give them a 6.

 

[mrken12]

Good team but not anywhere near my all time greats. They stood out for their high flying but were pretty meh outside of the ring in an era where your character and personality was more important than your skills between the ropes.

It's telling that their unanimous best moment was their breakup. They finally got interesting when they moved away from each other.

They'll probably get high marks solely due to Michaels' success in his solo career but in a tag team bubble they were just good wrestlers to me. Their style definitely influenced some modern teams but they weren't the only ones doing it at the time.

They don't come close to cracking my top 20 of true tag teams (e.g. Steiners, Harlem Heat, LOD, etc.) and when you factor in short lived teams and frequently matched up guys (like Rock and Sock Connection) I may struggle to put them in my top 40/50.

I'll give them a 6.

I feel the same. I was surprised when people were ranking them ahead of the Dudley Boyz, Road Warriors, and other more decorated teams.