OK, after taking into account requests in the previous thread, I’ve subbed in a few popular choices and subbed out a few unpopular ones (mainly those with Paul Roma in them, oddly enough) and after a random seeding process, we now have a field of 64 teams.
So here’s how it’s going to work: I’ve organized the tournament into four divisions: The Jim Crockett Division, The Eddie Gilbert Division, The Lou Thesz Division and the Eddie Guerrero Division. Each division has eight first round matchups, and we will proceed through each division until there’s a winner of each one. Then it’s a four-team tournament to crown the ultimate tag team of all-time!
Seedings are entirely arbitrary and meaningless, so don’t get offended because Demolition and the Road Warriors ended up so close together, for instance.
I decided to go with three options: You can pick either team to win, or you can pick a draw if you’re playing armchair booker and think it would end up that way. You can use whatever criteria you want to choose your winner, whether it be the team that’s your favorite, the team you think would be booked to win, the team that would win a real fight, I don’t care.
The official pairings follow after the break, and then we’ll begin with the Jim Crockett Division tonight!
Jim Crockett Division:
Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo v. Warlord & Barbarian
The Filthy Animals v. The Steiner Brothers
Kevin Steen & El Generico v. The Smoking Gunns
Doom v. The Sheepherders
The Briscoe Brothers v. The Rockers
America’s Most Wanted v. The Rock N Sock Connection
Demolition v. The Rock N Roll Express
The APA v. The Road Warriors
Eddie Gilbert Division:
The Superpowers v. The Quebecers
Edge & Christian v. The Public Enemy
The Dream Team v. The Outsiders
Harlem Heat v. The New Age Outlaws
The Megapowers v. The Natural Disasters
Ivan & Nikita Koloff v. The Nasty Boys
The East-West Connection v. Miz & Morrison
Owen Hart & Yokozuna v. The Midnight Express
Lou Thesz Division:
Kane & Undertaker v. The Killer Bees
Beer Money v. Sheik & Volkoff
The Freebirds v. The Hollywood Blondes
Money Inc. v. The High Flyers
The Andersons v. The Heavenly Bodies
Owen Hart & British Bulldog v. The Headshrinkers
Badd Company v. The Hart Foundation
The Rougeau Brothers v. The Hardy Boyz
Eddie Guerrero Division:
The Young Stallions v. Eddie & Chavo Guerrero
The Can-Am Connection v. Strike Force
Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez v. The Fantastics
RVD & Sabu v. The Eliminators
Shawn & Diesel v. The Dudley Boyz
D-Generation X v. The British Bulldogs
Haas & Benjamin v. Sting & Luger
Gordy & Williams v. Blanchard & Anderson