Brian Kendrick & Paul London

[Grimmas]

Discuss here.

[Brandon-E]

Surprised nobody has replied yet. Where would people have these guys in a list of the best tag teams of 2000-2009?

[Grimmas]

Surprised nobody has replied yet. Where would people have these guys in a list of the best tag teams of 2000-2009?

I like them, but MNM, Hardys and Briscoes are easily ahead of them.

[Woof]

Such a hard team to judge, because their time came during a period when WWE cared even less about tag teams than they usually do. They had a surprisingly long reign as champs, but it was on the blue brand and nobody paid much attention to it. Plus they never really got any real angles or mic time. Basically they just had fun X-division style tag matches against the challengers of the month with little long-term consequence. I enjoyed their work, and if they existed in a different time they might have been more, but as it is they were a really good team with zero historical significance.

[Jimmy Redman]

If you care about things like historical significance they're not going to get very far. But in other areas they score high. They were one of the best teams in modern WWE at actually being a full-time team - matching gear, the entrance, the double team moves, the style. It's a minor thing but it does make a team stand out in this day and age. They knew who they were and they wrestled like it - high energy, lots of spots, lots of getting their ass kicked by opponents. Textbook blowjobs.

 

Basically everything from their 2006-07 run worked. The initial MNM feud when they first came in is something I just love so much: the new face team comes in, goes on a roll against the champs, and then wins the belts. Judgment Day 2006 is the match to watch. They had a few SD matches with Regal and Taylor which involve Regal and Taylor beating the shit out of them, if you're into that. There's the 4-way ladder match at Armageddon 2006, of course.

 

If you want, check out their match with Idol Stevens (the future Damien Sandow) and KC James at No Mercy 2006. It's not a blowaway awesome match or anything, just a good, solid PPV defense. But I think it just shows how Londrick were mature enough as a tag team at that point to take two random OVW guys and get that kind of performance out of them.

 

I also can't overstate just how effective JBL was at getting them over on commentary. First commentary run JBL was a completely different guy and he was a real asset to key SD midcard acts at that time. It's easy to say "oh they had a SD title run, who cares?", but JBL and their booking on SD made them seem like the greatest, most exciting team in the world.