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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Nov 12, 2024 0:10:36 GMT -5
I look back at the WWF tag scene from 1985 - 1989 and one tag team that I feel should have had at least one reign as WWF Tag Champions and never did was the Killer Bees.
I watched old episodes of Superstars, or Challenge, or Prime Time Wrestling, and the Bees were super over with the fans! And they even got the big Survivor Series win along with the Young Stallions in the tag team elimination match.
But they never got the gold. I know they wrestled the Hart Foundation many times for the Tag Titles and lost, but I wonder why Vince felt to go with Santana/Martel as the ones to dethrone the Hart Foundation and not the Killer Bees??
I know even before it was Santana/Martel, the way it was looking was Martel/Zenk to dethrone the Harts, which would have been ridiculous on so many levels.
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Post by hitmancmedge on Nov 12, 2024 7:35:17 GMT -5
I look back at the WWF tag scene from 1985 - 1989 and one tag team that I feel should have had at least one reign as WWF Tag Champions and never did was the Killer Bees.
I watched old episodes of Superstars, or Challenge, or Prime Time Wrestling, and the Bees were super over with the fans! And they even got the big Survivor Series win along with the Young Stallions in the tag team elimination match.
But they never got the gold. I know they wrestled the Hart Foundation many times for the Tag Titles and lost, but I wonder why Vince felt to go with Santana/Martel as the ones to dethrone the Hart Foundation and not the Killer Bees??
I know even before it was Santana/Martel, the way it was looking was Martel/Zenk to dethrone the Harts, which would have been ridiculous on so many levels.
The plan was for the can/am connection to get the gold. I just don’t think he saw the bees at that top team, I think he saw them as the team to get to the team. I think other than one house show loop feud with the harts, they were always the B team or C team in the pecking order. |
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Post by MKSavage on Nov 12, 2024 9:41:24 GMT -5
Yeah, I think Vince liked them, but he wasn't as big on them as other teams he had on his roster. He really wanted Davey Boy and Dynamite Kid to be his top tag team for a while, but then Dynamite got injured and they had to drop the belts. Supposedly, Vince wanted the Bulldogs to drop the belts back to Sheik and Volkoff (who worked with the Bees at WM3), but Dynamite Kid said he would only drop the belts to the Hart Foundation. The Hart's were supposed to be transitional champions but ended up doing better with the belts than Vince thought they would, so they kept them longer than originally planned. Vince was also very high on the Can-Am Connection, they were supposed to get the belts in mid-1987, but then Zenk up and quit right around the time the Hart's were going to drop the belts to them - I heard that was going to happen in the summer of 1987. I believe Strike Force was just a filler tag team for the time being until Vince found his next big team. Then Demolition came along, and Vince put everything behind them. They were his top team from early 1988 thru the summer of 1990. The Bees were a good team, but I think there were better teams ahead of them in the pecking order. And at that time, belts didn't change hands often like they did during the attitude era and later, so they just didn't have a time to get them.
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Post by The Brain on Nov 12, 2024 10:04:33 GMT -5
Solid team during their time but like others have said they just werent on Vince's radar for a run with the belts
Will say though I wasnt a fan of the mask switcheroo stuff. Didnt make sense for a baby team to be doing a heel tactic like that
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