23. The Rockers
What other tag team is this good bell to bell — and yet still most famous for breaking up?
The Midnight Rockers — Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels — started teaming in 1985, working the AWA and other territories before arriving in the World Wrestling Federation in 1988. Now simply The Rockers, these young heartthrobs captured the imaginations of fans with their fast-paced offense and beautiful flowing mullets. They had standout matches with The Twin Towers and the Brain Busters among others, though were never able to capture the WWF World Tag Team Championships (their one actual title win was erased from canon when the title match was deemed un-airable due to a ring malfunction).
Things would end for this electric team in 1991 when the cowardly Jannetty dove through a barbershop window (hey, that’s what Bobby Heenan told me!). Famously, Michaels would flourish while Jannetty would flounder. It’s become parlance among wrestling fans to call the less successful member of a disbanded tag team “the Jannetty” (but that’s completely unfair). Were it not for his demons, the supremely talented Marty Jannetty might have had an equally impressive career. We’ll never know for sure
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