The 1990s were a unique period for WWE tag teams. While lacking the number of units as in the 1980s, WWE still boasted some great pairings. The Legion of Doom, Money Inc, The Steiners, the Smoking Gunns, the New Age Outlaws, there were a lot of great teams. But, of course, there were also some pretty bad ones as the tag titles slumped a bit with some poor pairings getting belts. Still, some teams just had a worse track record than others.

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From the terrible gimmicks to the simple fact that the wrestlers just didn't work as partners, the 1990s were packed with some bad tag teams. A few had mild success, but others slumped badly in this particular year. With a lot of possibilities, here's the worst tag team for every year of the 1990s and showing WWE had a lot of poor pairings amid the great ones.

10 1990: Rhythm & Blues

Rhythm and Blues: the tag team of Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine

While past his fame as IC champion, the Honky Tonk Man still had some mild heat to him in 1990. WWE had him and Greg Valentine paired as Rhythm & Blues, a tag team based on being musicians. While Valentine was an excellent in-ring worker, he was ill-suited for this role, especially with ugly dyed black hair.

They simply didn't work right as a team, even with Jimmy Hart boasting on their "gold record." Honky Tonk left by the middle of the year with Valentine turning face as this wasn't even a one-hit-wonder of a team.

9 1991: The New Foundation

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After the Hart Foundation split, Jim Neidhart tried a singles career until a kayfabe injury against Ric Flair. The Anvil was then paired with a young Owen Hart in a New Foundation. The most notable part of the act was their baggy parachute pants.

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It had promise, but Neidhart was pretty bad physically and he and Owen couldn't quite click. As it happened, quite early in 1992, Neidhart was fired for personal issues to end the team before they could get much success. A few years later, they had better luck teaming when this New Foundation paled next to the old one.

8 1992: The Beverly Brothers

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Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom had been terrific in the AWA as the Destruction Crew. In the early 90s, they were repackaged in WWE as Beau and Blake, a pair of cape-wearing Beverly Hills playboys. With the Genius as manager, they had shots against the Legion of Doom and the Natural Disasters but kept coming up short.

Their losing streak grew, and by the end of 1992, they were jobbers to other teams in failed attempts to get them over. It was a shame an actually good pair was marred by a poor act to sink fast in WWE.

7 1993: Men on a Mission

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Most know Mabel by his terrible run as "King" and singles star in 1995. Before that, he and Mo were united as Men on a Mission and their first year was pretty rough. They got over with their dancing and rapping, but as an actual team, they were poor with Mabel's huge size slowing him down and Mo not that good a worker.

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They took part in a match at Survivor Series where they and the Bushwhackers dressed as Doinks and up short in other bouts. The following year had some mild success with a fluke tag title win, but 1993 wasn't a stellar one for the pair.

6 1994: Well Dunn

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As the Southern Rockers, Rex King and Steve Doll weren't too bad a team for the USWA. In WWE, they were renamed Well Dunn (as in Timothy Well and Steven Dunn) and given Harvey Whippleman as a manager.

Their biggest claim to fame was a feud against, of all people, the Bushwhackers that was more on Harvey Finkel attacking Whippleman. The pair came off losers in several battles, only around to fill out tag team battle royales or tournaments and while they were slightly better in 1995, they still didn't shine well in WWE.

5 1995: Tekno Team 2000

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There were a lot of bad tag teams in 1995, but this stands out. Amazingly, in 1995, WWE actually hired Bill Watts for a run in creative. It only lasted a few months before Watts left under a cloud. He tried to make son Erik a star by having him and Chad Fortune as Troy and Travis, two guys wearing "futuristic" outfits and trying to look cool.

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Intended as a heartthrob team, they failed to connect and were not helped by losing a lot of matches. As soon as Watts was gone, the team's stock faltered and they soon left WWE as yet another misfire of the mid-90s.

4 1996: The New Rockers

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WWE had an odd tendency in the mid-90s to try and repackage an old tag team for modern times. In this case, after a lousy singles run, Marty Jannetty was teamed with Lief Cassidy as a new version of the Rockers.

It was blatant that Cassidy was nowhere near Shawn Michaels' level and the pair lacked the energy and style the Rockers had. They split with Cassidy becoming better known as Al Snow. Amazingly, this was far from WWE's last attempt to pull a "new" team off…

3 1997: New Blackjacks

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Barry Windham never quite worked out in WWE despite all his great talent. His 1996 run as the Stalker was forgettable, so Windham tried to revive his father Blackjack Mulligan's old gimmick as some handlebar mustached cowboys.

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He was paired with Justin Bradshaw as the two Blackjacks attempted to make this 1970s gimmick work for a modern audience. It failed as they were simply too old-school for the time, so aside from bits like a four-way match at WrestleMania 13, the Blackjacks soon rolled snake eyes as a long-term gimmick.

2 1998: New Midnight Express

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Seriously, what was this obsession with "New" teams in the 1990s?! As part of a deal with the revived NWA, Bob Holly and Bart Gunn were put together in an attempt to revive the classic tag team name. Despite Jim Cornette as a mouthpiece, neither man was charismatic enough to make this work.

Despite a run as NWA Champions and some pushes, "Bombastic Bob" and "Bodacious Bart" failed to make an impact for yet another example of how the new teams never lived up to the old.

1 1999: Public Enemy

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Once, Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock were one of ECW's best teams. By 1999, they were exposed as really not being that good outside of table smashing and dancing. They managed to get a shot in WWE but were never truly accepted backstage.

Their matches were messy, losing to the APA and the promised pushes never happening. They lost to the Hardy Boyz on Shotgun Saturday Night and were soon cut in a few months. It was a sad fall for what had once been a hot team.