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Beer Money: The Cliché Killers

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For decades a dark cloud has forever rested on top of every tag team formed in pro wrestling. That at one point, they would split, feud and move on to possible major singles careers. This all started when Shawn Michaels infamously turned on Marty Jannety and tossed him through Brutus Beefcakes Barber Shop window. Since then, many (and boy do I mean many) tag teams have followed suit in hopes of a star as major as Shawn Michaels emerging from it. Through the years, there have been many failures, but at the same time many successes such as Edge, Christian, Jeff Hardy, Booker T, Scott Steiner, The Miz, and so on with the latest being Bully Ray.

However along came Beer Money. The pairing was originally a makeshift solution for James and Roode who were in midcard limbo back in 2007-2008. Since teaming up, the two never looked back. Becoming 4 time TNA Tag Team Champions as well as the longest reigning. Along the way they headlined various Lockdown PPV's thanks to it's Lethal Lockdown match. Nowadays, for a tag team to headline PPV's is rare. However in an ever rarer moment, Beer Money headlined this weeks No Surrender PPV. SEPARATELY. With Roode securing a title shot at Bound For Glory. TNA's top PPV. The kick? They are still a tag team. No split required. These two reached such a point as a tag team, that they can be considered main event talent without being split. Yeah, maybe I'm jumping the gun and their Barbershop moment may come soon, but it doesn't chance how high on the card they got before said moment came. Beer Money has proven to the wrestling world that there is no need for a team to have a fallout to become main event success.
 
Seriously what is the point of this thread?

With no territories its hard to compare a tag team without other teams to compare them to. Beer Money is good, but eventually a tag team needs to break up. TNA just will not allow it to happen.

Beer Money went on WAY too long in a division that struggled in TNA after awhile. Everyone wants to harp on WWE for throwing teams together, TNA does this too.

Teams make stars, and then those stars go on to be singles stars. Its the ones that aren't over that dont succeed. Marty Jannety was weak and was not over with fans. His singles run was short-lived.

Beer Money needs to break up for a little bit before we will know if they are really good. Hopefully they will get picked up by WWE someday and we will have a better chance of knowing if these guys are HOF material of not.
 
Sorry but it started with Ricky Morton going ham. But I don't think Beer Money is going to do it. TNA is so confused on how on there finishes that they will be best friend in two weeks after they had split.
 
Beer Money doesnt need to break up to be stars. I remember back in 08 watching both guys and thinking hott damn they are going to be awesome one day. There is no reason why they cant stay a cohesive unit while still going after singles glory. Just because The Rockers did one little segment 18yrs ago doesnt mean every good tag team has to follow their Cliche
 
i agree it doesnt look like a spilt is coming but honestly its not needed roode is probably winning the title at BFG so keep him main event and let storm enter a fued with someone else (maybe turn him heel if needed? :shrug:) but honestly i dont think they need to have roode or storm turn on the other one to officaly end the team plus the fact they did this with generation me and 2 weeks later there best friends and that my friends is part of the reason they QUIT the company and i dont blame them
 
To me those that saved tag team wrestling were The World's Greatest Tag Team(Shelton and Benjamin) in the WWE and AMW in TNA. Both teams carried the load all throughout the 2000 era.

Of course Beer Money were monumental too. It would be nice if TNA pulls something intriguing and either have them enter BFG as tag champ or leave as tag champ. Because it would unify them even greater still as the popular wrestling act that they are but it would also cast a doubt in fans' mind that Roode will win the World title with him being tag champ also. They could book him to win the big belt and still be tag champ but they could do this just to add a little suspence to the proceedings.
 
While I hope you're correct I can actually see Roode winning the title at BFG and, in the rematch, angle beating Roode for the title thanks to Storm turning on Roode, thus setting up a Roode Vs Storm series...

I hope I'm wrong but, honestly, the swerve turn is a TNA specialty and, sadly, I think they'll be using it for Beer Money.

Always hated the "Marty Jannetty" term as well, I mean, we don't use the term "Scott Hall" to describe someone who's pissed their chances away do we?
 
While I hope you're correct I can actually see Roode winning the title at BFG and, in the rematch, angle beating Roode for the title thanks to Storm turning on Roode, thus setting up a Roode Vs Storm series...

I hope I'm wrong but, honestly, the swerve turn is a TNA specialty and, sadly, I think they'll be using it for Beer Money.

Always hated the "Marty Jannetty" term as well, I mean, we don't use the term "Scott Hall" to describe someone who's pissed their chances away do we?

I'd have to agree, it's almost obvious. They planted the seed when AMW were back in the same ring and Storm seemed torn between his former partner and his current, then the BFG series just aggrivates things.

and TNA loves swerves several times a month and think it's compelling, when in reality it's just blatantly obvious

Saying that, it's about time Roode got a singles title run, he's way overdue, and has been going the Triple H type route for so long that being "That Damn Good" it's time for the "My Time" era for Roode
 
we don't use the term "Scott Hall" to describe someone who's pissed their chances away do we?

No, I actually think that is called "Pulling a Hardy" these days...

All jokes aside, I do hope that Roode wins the title and enters into a long title reign that doesn't involve becoming a lacky for Hogan. And as for James Storm I've loved his work for years, and have thought that he should have been pushed in the main events a long time ago.

what I would do though is instead of having a sensational break-up or screw job situation, I'd have Roode win the title but not officially dissolve Beer Money, but sort of put them on the back burner, which naturally happens sometimes in life. while he is focusing on the World title have Storm putting together a pretty decent showing for himself, maybe have him win the Television Championship, while starting to show a little more seriousness. then next year have Storm win the BFG series and face Roode for the title. The eventual match should be based on two friends who are competing to see who is the best, not some petty, little kid "you won the world title, and so now I hate you" bullshit. have the match be a long hard fought match with a lot of back and forth action then have Storm (who I think should win the title in this scenario) win with a quick small package, or some other quick roll up to win the title. after a few seconds on initial shock, Roode grabs the title from the referee as he was about to hand it to Storm, like he is angry, then he hands the title to Storm, they hug and Roode shows his respect before leaving the ring as Storm celebrates his victory to close the show.

not all teams need to have a spectacular and violent end, and not all feuds between friends/former partners needs to be based on anger and hatred. a feud based on mutual respect and competition can be just as compelling to watch, especially when both guys are known for their rule breaking.
 
you have the MCMG of Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin, who are a tag team but have found singles success too. Guess what they are still a team. So who says that a team has to break up? The only reason the Dudleys, Team 3D split, was because they did everything as a tag team and WANTED to see if they could do the individual star thing.
 
It's nice to see that Beer Money hasn't gone down the typical road for a tag team when the company has them embark on singles careers. However, I don't see it lasting.

At some point in time, whether it be through a scheme of Eric Bischoff's to throw Roode off of his game in the hopes of helping Angle retain at BFG or Hogan getting in Storm's ear convincing him to turn on his partner or whatever, I see Roode & Storm eventually having a feud. I won't be at all surprised if James Storm winds up costing, or at least trying to cost, Roode the match against Angle at BFG.
 
I like Beer Money.. probably my second or third favorite tag team of all team behind The New Age Outlaws and The Legion of Doom.

I love how this is being done so far. Robert Roode is going to go on to Bound for Glory to win the belt.

If I was writing the show I'd let Roode carry the title for the rest of the year and feuding with various heels along the wall. Storm would help him out from time to time... and after Roode has had a successful title reign of at least 4-6 months I would have James Storm smash the beer bottle over his head. We all know it's going to happen some day... no better time than when Roode is World Champion.

This leads to heel James Storm vs a face Robert Roode. Let Storm win the title from Roode, BAM!... Two new WORTHY main eventers.
 
Ultimately I'd love to see these guys become a modern version of Ric Flair and Arn Anderson. Roode as the World Championship-obsessed heel and Storm as his "don't give a fuck" enforcer would be awesome. Mess with the champ? Get a beer bottle smashed over your head! The dynamic of almost having to deal with a two-on-one makes it really easy for fans to rally behind whatever face is challenging them as the underdog.

Not only could they do great as a duo, but maybe they could resurrect Fortune as the heel group it should have always been. How about adding Gunner and some X-Division heel? You could even have Flair in the manager role again.
 
Ultimately I'd love to see these guys become a modern version of Ric Flair and Arn Anderson. Roode as the World Championship-obsessed heel and Storm as his "don't give a fuck" enforcer would be awesome. Mess with the champ? Get a beer bottle smashed over your head! The dynamic of almost having to deal with a two-on-one makes it really easy for fans to rally behind whatever face is challenging them as the underdog.

Not only could they do great as a duo, but maybe they could resurrect Fortune as the heel group it should have always been. How about adding Gunner and some X-Division heel? You could even have Flair in the manager role again.

I prefered if they were both champion material. Storm is too good to be a lackey.

As for Gunner he could be in there but he's not a X division wrestler. They could hire Mike Knox, team him with Gunner and they could be the group's tag team specialists. While Roode would go for the World title and Storm go for the TV title(for now).

But I think it would be great if Beer Money stays tag champs while going after individual titles.
 
The Hart Foundation didn't break up either. Jim Neidhart just went away.

Depends on your definition of break up, did they fued or did they just stop being a team.

Hart Foundation, Bret was pushed on a singles run and Anvil became a Marty Janetty and they didn't even appear onscreen together anymore
Later on Anvil/Davey Boy came back as heels to support Owen Hart when he won King Of The Ring and fueded with Bret Hart saying held them back, til eventually Bret turned heel aswell and quit WWE.
so they fueded ergo they Split/Broke up at one point

But yeah,
The British Bulldogs never split during there WWF run, Dynamite just got the sack, beyond that they did fued
The Legion Of Doom never split for over 2 decades, they rarely even competed in singles matches at all, they just wrote Hawk off TV
Demolition never split, Axe got the sack for drugs. and when Smash was done with WWF they reunited on the indy curcuit as Demolition
The Killer Bees never split lol. they both just faded to obscurity

probably missing alot of teams over the years, but that's atleaast 4
 
I'm a big fan of Beer Money[couldn't tell, could ya? :)]. And for years, the tag team division has been one that has been overlooked and under utilized. With WWE's lack of focus on tag teams, I believe this is an area where TNA has actually outmatched WWE and proven that fans want to see a great tag division. Yeah, I know. Just one area where TNA has managed to succeed over WWE. But, they've done it so well that tag team wrestling actually matters again.

Enter Beer Money. Initially, I believe TNA just threw them together due to lack of ideas on how to properly use either guy. Which is truly a shame. Bobby Roode and James Storm have both been with TNA since the beginning and have proven time and time again that they are main event material. Both have worked hard and earned their recognition that they are only now starting to get. As far as tag teams go, Beer Money is bar none the best thing going in pro wrestling today. And even though TNA hasn't been focusing as much on their tag division, Beer Money is still accomplishing great things and will continue to do that after splitting up.

I just hope that TNA will actually let them split going their own ways and not do the typical cliche turn. Not every tag team should break apart by one member going heel. It's been done to death already and TNA can break the pattern and do something special with Beer Money. Hopefully, they could still tag together from time to time and still both be in the main events as well. Once TNA realizes that both Roode & Storm deserve to be consistently main eventing, the shows will improve just based on that. Maybe then they can focus on making kickass tag teams that could possibly replace Beer Money and restart that division again.
 
We are in an era where tag teams come and go very quickly. Yes, Beer Money have survived much longer than most modern tag teams.... However I still see a split coming. Unlike most teams though I don't see either one being the Jannetty. TNA will try to create a permanent main eventer out of both guys. Roode will win at Bound For Glory and claim that his friendship with Storm is alive and well. They celebrate together, then suddenly (probably the next Impact) Storm will turn heel and want the belt. Two stars will be made out of the subsequent feud. So, they are still a cliche killer as far as tag teams go because of the attempt to turn both into stars, but I still think the split is inevitable.
 
I agree it seems like the split has to happen eventually. I don't know if they'll do it straight after BFG or have them together for a while, building up Storm on the side unitill his greed takes over and he finally sets his sights on the belt. They have already been playing into this a little but so wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it happened sometime down he road. I won't complain either as this creates 2 main eventers and puts them both in a feud that people will care about.
 

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