#Harlem heat

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Tag Team: The Definition of Greatness by Andrew the Artist

Connecticut based artist Andrew Chavers Jr posted this amazing piece that showcases some of the greatest tag teams from the WWF/WWE on March 21st, 2023. We get some of wrestlings finest from multiple eras such as (top to bottom) Legion of Doom, The Hart Foundation, Harlem Heat, D-Generation X’s Billy Gunn and Road Dogg, The Rockers, The Hardy Boys, The Dudley Boyz and The Outsiders all who are…

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WCW Saturday Night Legion of Doom vs Harlem Heat

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What if Harlem Heat and Harlem Heat 2000 got together. Well, in Myverse they are. Midnight isn't on the picture but she's in the stable (with Sharmell)

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Harlem heat had DRIP

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Pro Wrestling Illustrated: 1995 THE YEAR IN WRESTLING. March 1996

TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR: HARLEM HEAT 22,863 votes

Harlem Heat won their first WCW World tag team title in December 1994. Since then, they’ve lost and regained those belts three times. Indeed, it’s been a tumultuous year for our Tag Team of the Year.

For brothers Booker T and Stevie Ray, it has been the kind of year they completely expected. The brothers have always been determined to make their many detractors look like know-nothings.

“A lot of people,” said Booker, “they like to pass themselves off as experts. Those are the ones who said my brother and me were too slow and too dumb. Well, these belts didn’t appear around our waists by magic. These experts need to take another look at themselves and us!”

Booker and Stevie are both excellent athletes. They enjoy executing spinning kicks and leaping from the top rope. They are not scientific masters, but thanks to Sherri Martel, they have used their talents as well as any tag team ever has. 

“Honestly they didn’t impress me at all the first time I looked at them,” said Marcus Bagwell. “I saw two big guys without much skill. I figured Patriot and I wouldn’t have much trouble with them. All they did was take the World tag team title from us.”

That was Harlem Heat’s first World title victory. At Slamboree ‘95, they lost the belts to The Nasty Boys. Then they regained them a few weeks later, There they regained them a few weeks later. Their second title reign was ended by Bunkhouse Bunk and Dick Slater. They won the belts back from Bunk and Slater at Fall Brawl. One night later, they lost them to Bagwell and Scotty Riggs. Nine days later, they regained them yet again.

“At first, I wanted to accuse them of being inconsistent,” wrote Paul Natale of Bangor, Maine. “But then I realized it takes guts and heart to keep rebounding like that and beat four different teams to win the title four times.”

Harlem Heat did all this while fighting the perception that they would just be ordinary contenders if not for Martel. Stevie Ray won’t have it.

“Sister Sherri knows her stuff,” he allowed. “But this all came from me and Booker. We’re champions today because we set out to be champions a long time ago. We’re better than champions. We’re the Tag Team of the Year! We finally got respect!”

No argument there.

RUNNERS-UP

THE SMOKIN’ GUNNS: 15,302 votes

First runner-up:  The Gunns, one of the sport’s quickest duos, won their first WWF tag title when they defeated The Kid and Bob Holly one night after the Royal Rumble. After losing the belts to Owen Hart and Yokozuna, they used a feud with Jacob and Eli Blue to work their way back into contention. Their efforts bore fruit. In September, the Gunns regained the title. 

OWEN HART AND YOKOZUNA: 13,283 votes

Second runner-up: Call them wrestling’s odd couple. Who would have expected a skilled 227-pound mat technician to mesh so well with a massive 568-pound sumo star? During their five-month run as WWF World tag team champions, Owen and Yoko must have surprised even themselves. They learned to put their individual egos aside and may have been the year’s most feared twosome.

RICK AND SCOTT STEINER: 10,021 votes

Third runner-up: The brothers Steiner are still a top-fight tag team, but they didn’t win any titles this year; we suspect their high finish in the voting came mainly as a result of name recognition. The Steiners were big stars in New Japan, though, and have been competing and winning regularly in ECW over the past few months. The fans haven't forgotten them.

VOTES FOR OTHERS (14,921)

Some of the top vote-getters who did not capture a runner-up spot include: Tony Anthony and Tracey Smothers, Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs, Bunkhouse Buck and Dick Slater, Bobby Eaton and Lord Steven Regal, The Gangstas, The Heavenly Bodies, PG-13, Public Enemy, Raven and Stevie Richards, and Al Snow and Unibomb.