Glass Hand Dissolving: 200 Matches Update

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I've watched 200 matches for this project thus far and figured it would be a good time to check in on where things stand. Obviously, I've written about the teams and the matches in the individual posts, so this is just going to be a ranking and a tier system of the 20 teams so far. In 100 more matches, we'll check back again and update. 


Great Tag Teams

Akira Taue & Jumbo Tsuruta

The Funks

Los Gringos Locos

Buddy Rose & Doug Somers

Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen

Villanos

The Fantastics

The Highflyers


Very Good Tag Teams

Demolition

MNM

Rey Mysterio Jr. & Billy Kidman

North-South Connection

Nick Bockwinkel & Masa Saito

Money Inc.

The Enforcers

British Bulldogs

AMW

Mr. Fuji and Masa Saito

Bobby Eaton & Sweet Brown Sugar

The Briscoe Brothers

Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi


Pretty Good Tag Teams

Faces of Fear

Nightmares

The Rat Pack

Owen Hart & Yokozuna

Los Brazos

Dynamic Duo

Ole & Arn Anderson

Blue Bloods (Regal & Eaton)

Marcus Bagwell & 2 Cold Scorpio

Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas


Good Tag Teams

Genichiro Tenru & Ashura Hara

Brian Pillman & The Z-Man

The Lightning Express

Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki

The Armstrongs (Scott & Steve)

William Regal & Dave Taylor

Tracy Smothers & Little Guido


Teams I Don't Like

Sabu and RVD

LCO

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