9. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express
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Arn Anderson nicely summed up that if you “ever wanted to start a riot in the ‘80’s, beat up Ricky and Robert.” Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson were both hot with female fans, quite attractive but backed it up with their style, fast as hell and pulling off great stuff like double dropkicks and other moves in perfect tandem. They also created one of the most popular tropes in wrestling as Morton would take amazing amounts of punishment, slammed around hard by the heels before finally making the hot tag to Gibson who’d clean house.
The two would hold gold in Mid-South and the NWA, a fantastic feud with the Midnight Express that spanned years, numerous attacks and trading the belts in matches that sold out arenas across the country. They would split up in the 1990’s with a few revivals afterward and really showcased the great stuff of wrestling in their time period to become one of the hottest teams around.
8. The Brain Busters
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Both men had already shown they were terrific wrestlers in the NWA as singles champs and members of the Four Horsemen. When they were finally united as a regular team in 1987, they immediately took off as a brilliant pairing. Blanchard’s skill and technical abilities mixed with Anderson’s strength, both guys amazing workers and perfect as a team while delivering some of the best promos around to fire fans against them. They would have the NWA World tag titles quickly and hold them for the next year, shocking the wrestling world by then jumping to the WWF.
Paired with Bobby Heenan as the Brainbusters, they succeeded in this new company well, holding the tag titles while facing off against the Rockers, Hart Foundation, Demolition and others. The team would sadly end with Blanchard’s drug addictions ruining a comeback in the NWA and his retirement right afterward. But for this brief time, Blanchard and Anderson were a team that succeeded in the top two promotions in record time and still one of the finest technical pairings wrestling has ever seen.
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