We All had our Favourite Tag Team(s) and were very used to Watching
Them in Great Matches against Other 'Rival' Top Tag Teams!!
However just occasionally a Tag Match would come along when ONE Member
of your Favourite Team was Tagging TOGETHER with a Member of ANOTHER
RIVAL Tag Team-Something you really thought looked Disjointed,unexpected and
hard to believe as the Top Teams were long established Partners in Crime!
For instance-Poster coming soon- BOBBY BARNES-a HELL'S ANGEL Tagging
with STEVE LOGAN-of the MCMANUS/LOGAN Team!!-Fiercely RIVAL Teams!!
Did YOU ever see one of these 'Tagging with the Enemy' Bouts??
Perhaps it was BERT ROYAL Tagging with ADRIAN STREET?- or maybe
ERIC CUTLER Partnering VIC FAULKNER?-Should they have done it?
MAIN MASK
Blimey Hack, bit of a mismatch in size there, McManus and Barnes against the Wilson Bros!
I remember Mark Rocco & Marty Jones tagging as "The Rockets" at Liverpool Stadium.. An "in ring" ruck between them led to Marty being replaced by Eric "Tug" Wilson, a partner more in sync with Mark's style!
These oddities keep cropping up. Here's one I think would have worked on a permanent basis. It's Beautiful Bobby again. Seen once with the Iron Man, now with Niggly Mick. What a flirt.
Kendo Nagasaki had quite a few unexpected tag partners including, Big Daddy and Bert Royal!
There was the celebrated "Strange and Unholy Alliance" of Steve Viedor with Kendo Nagasaki. But this was not desperation matchmaking. This was a fine twist in a long-running storyline at the Fairfield Halls, defined nicely by George Gillette's quotation.
Can't say I can think of any examples off hand, but here's another from Main Mask; an odd combination.
They all had to do what the promoter said, Main Mask,, Or they would not get the work.
It could be that the promoter originally had a tag match in his thoughts with two teams lined up and then one wrestler dropped out for a reason, so the promoter got someone else at short notice.
I can't remember it happening, but they went the whole hog in WCW with the lethal lottery where sixteen wrestlers were 'randomly paired' together, it should w made for an interesting show, but then for some reason the winning 4teams became singles wrestlers and took part in a battle royal to the last man.