5 Dumbest WWE tag team names
When you give teams and stables bad names, of course, the fans aren’t going to give a damn.
Just like a singles wrestler, a tag team needs a good name to help them stand-out from the others. It’s much harder for tag teams to convince the audience to tune into them because you have more people involved in the matches. In a straight singles feud, the wrestlers only need to worry about their chemistry with one another. With tag teams, you then have to add the element of your partner into the mix, complicating matters much further.
To that end, a lot of elements have to go together to make a tag team successful, and it starts with them having a good name. When most wrestling fans look back at wrestling’s illustrious history, some of the best acts of all time were tag teams or factions. These units had collective names that identified them that way and had some kind of underlying meaning about them.
Some of the best names include the Hart Foundation, The Road Warriors/Legion of Doom, Demolition, The Shield, Evolution, the Fabulous Freebirds, the British Bulldogs, the Brothers of Destruction, just to name a few.
But WWE and WCW weren’t the only ones to come up with great tag team names. Other great names used around the world include the Kings of Wrestling (Cesaro & Chris Hero), the Miracle Violence Connection (Terry Gordy & Steve Williams), Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels & Kazarian) and the Holy Demon Army (Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue).
What do all of these names have in common? They’re extensions of the personalities of the wrestlers that compose the teams, and as names, they help convince the audience that they’re good at what they do.
Then you have the opposite end of the spectrum. Just like with giving singles wrestlers bad ring names, sometimes promotions give tag teams awful names. WWE has been a prime example of this, having given atrocious names to many of its tag teams. Here, we’ll look at the five worst of the worst.
#5 The League of Nations
Two of these men were champions, but that didn’t stop Roman Reigns from crushing them without breaking a sweat.
Maybe I’m just biased about this one because I studied International Relations at university, but boy was this ever a dumb name for a team.
As a stable, the League of Nations (LoN) didn’t accomplish much of anything. In fact, its sole reason to exist was to help Roman Reigns get over with the audience, which failed miserably.
The reason for this failure was that the LoN wasn’t booked solidly from the beginning. No real explanation for their joining was ever given, and they weren’t booked to look strong against anyone. So how could it have been a big deal for Reigns to defeat them when they themselves didn’t amount to much of a challenge for him in the first place.
I get that WWE was going for a team of ‘international superstars’ to highlight the fact that they have wrestlers from all over the world. But naming them after the spineless precursor to the modern United Nations wasn’t the best way of doing that.
Unless, of course, they knew the original LoN was a failure and thus chose this name intentionally. If so, then WWE deserves at least some mild praise for making a great tongue-in-cheek joke about international relations.