dudley boys vs LOD, who has the biggest legacy

[Mr. Artistic guy]

Pretty simple, quite simply the two most accomplished tag teams of all time. Just take hart foundation and any others out of the picture. Which of these two teams deserves, or will be remembered as the number 1 at least for the next couple of generations of superstars?

 

[La Parka]

Well, let me first ask, who treated their opponents better? (I.E, who sold their opponents better, and cooperated to make a good match?)

I voted Dudleys because I heard that the LOD did a lot of showing their opponents up, but if that turns out not to be the case, then in that case I'm not sure.

I do know, however, that it'd probably be a badass match.

 

[harrythem]

The Dudley's have done well in the era where there has, at most, only been 2 or 3 other real tag teams to choose from. The Road Warriors used to burst out to a major reaction and cream opponents in seconds, even as heels, and the fans went mad. They became tag champions all over the world while there was a lot more real tag team competition and were the highest earning tag team of all time (getting real headliner money)

As for treating opponents well, I'm sure there are quite a few cases out there of wrestlers saying they hate Bubba because he treats people like shit in matches.

Any answer except The Warriors is, to me, based more on the TLC matches and their number of title wins, rather then the true legacy as only one of those teams was able to be seen as true main event level talent

 

[realoldskoolfan]

Road Warriors plain and simple. look i get that the Dudleys have 26 tag team titles or whatever it is, but quite frankly who cares? tag team wrestling for all intents and purposes died around 1998-1999. when the Dudleys really hit there stride look at the tag team scene. there was them, the Outlaws, E&C, and the Hardys. not exactly a booming hotbed of tag team wrestling. WCW had virtually nothing on there side for tag teams either. bottom line, tag team wrestling was gone.
now look at the Road Warriors. when they came on the scene in 1982, they changed tag team wrestling and wrestling in general. they helped usher in the 80s era of the "muscle" guy. they brought face paint to the industry. they where one of the first teams to use a tandem finisher move. they were one of the first to use entrance music( the Freebirds and Von Erichs where the first to do this) we could go on and on and on with firsts that the Warriors did. but lets get to the heart of it.
between 1984 and 1990, the Road Warriors at one time or another wrestled in each of the "Big Three", the AWA, the NWA, and the WWF. they were the first and only team to capture each of the 3 recognized World Tag Team Titles from each organization. in that time span, they faced the following teams
The Fabulous Ones
The High Flyers
The Freebirds
The Crusher & Dick The Bruiser
The Koloffs
The Midnight Express
The Andersons
Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez
The Powers of Pain
Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard
The Skyscrapers
The Samoans
The Varsity Club
Demolition
The Hart Foundation
The Rockers
The Rougeaus
The Nasty Boys
Power & Glory
Money Inc.
The Natural Disasters
not to mention all there tours of Japan with multiple tag team title reigns there while facing the top teams of that era over there plus matches against teams like Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff and Lex Luger & Sting. basically where i'm going with this is that any tag team thats meant anything in pro wrestling the last 25 years, the Warriors faced them. they were the TOP TAG TEAM in the golden age of tag team wrestling.
the Dudleys were the top team in an era that really had nothing for tag team wrestling. one of there title reign, there claimed WCW title is a joke considering they never once set foot in WCW. the Dudleys would just be another team in the 80s, never at the level the Warriors are. there contribution to this indusrty will be remembered for years to come. all i think about when i see the Dudleys is two guys with tables.
and the argument that the Warriors didn't sell, well the answer is simple, THATS HOW THEY WERE BOOKED EARLY ON.
they weren't suppose to sell. they were booked to be monsters. later on when they were the face team, show me a match they didn't sell.

 

[Jack-Hammer]

I give this to the Road Warriors and it's not even close. The Road Warriors reached a level of success that most tag teams can only dream of. Even though they were a tag team, they were still headliners and it wasn't uncommon for them to be main eventing a card. Whether they were carrying around championships or not, the Road Warriors were still the biggest stars in the tag team scene and were among the biggest of the entire roster no matter what company they worked in. LOD was the single most dominant tag team in wrestling during the 1980s and were the most dominant tag team during a time when tag team wrestling was a true force. Let's be honest, tag team wrestling during this decade hasn't exactly been a decade of greatness generally speaking.

The Dudleyz biggest claims to fame generally revolves around TLC matches, which were very exciting and innovative so I give them that. Their other big claim are their various tag team title runs as they always mention them at least once during promos. While having 23 World Tag Team Championship reigns is impressive on the surface, it's not really so much when you look at the actual numbers. The 23 reigns the Dudleyz have had with various World Tag Team Championships equals 1,045 days, which would average out to about 45 days per reign. Not saying that the Dudleyz haven't been a good tag team, they're probably the overall best tag team of this decade generally speaking. However, their title reigns generally aren't that impressive. When it comes to numbers, the LOD title reigns don't total the same length as the Dudleyz but their reigns were generally longer. As World Tag Team Champions, Hawk & Animal's reigns lasted a combined total of 816 days, 400 of which were as AWA World Tag Team Champions.

I just have to give it to the Road Warriors in the end. The only thing the Dudleyz have over them are a greater number of title runs. The Dudleyz have quantity but the LOD has quality and I'll take quality anytime.

 

[Davi323]

Animal and Hawk, no contest. The Road Warriors/LOD dominated when tag teams meant something more than just filler. They wrestled and beat the best tag TEAMs, not just singles guys teaming up with someone temporarily. Tag Team wrestling over the past decade simply can't even hope to touch old school tag team wrestling. Back when tag teams mattered, Animal and Hawk were the dominant tag team.

 

[Dyno Kid]

Yeah I gotta go with the Road Warriors and it's not even close ! The Warriors were to tag team wrestlng what Hogan was to singles wrestling. The Dudleys wouldn't crack my top 20 ever !

 

[GameOver]

The dudley's 2? title reigns were for the most parts against nobodies., as far as tag team royalty goes. Neither of them can talk on the mic for a lick of shit either and there in ring ability is pretty average to boot. bout only thing entertaining was there "Whazzzuuup" or "Get The Tables" bit

They became successfull because they were hardcore fighters which some regions loved and they were a tag team for so long as opposed to many others that went seperate ways to persue singles gold. They do deserve props for trying to keep tag team wrestling alive

Legion of Doom on the other hand, had the look, the in ring ability and the far better gimmick IMO. much better name too and like the Dudleyz they had success all over the world, but unlike the Dudley'z most of there success was during the golden era when there was a lot of excellent Tag Teams who would later become Hall of Famers and Legends.

I voted L.O.D L.O.D L.O.D

 

[Hodgos]

The Road Warriors for sure, but people are seriously underrating the Dudleys. People keep ponting out how the LOD were dominant in an era where the tag team scene was much more lively and there were more teams to contest with, meaning that their title reigns "meant more" than the Dudleys, who had fewer rivials.

This is fair enough, but the flipside is that the Dudleys (along with the Hardys and E&C) deserve serious kudos for their Herculean effort in carrying the WWE's tag team division in the very late 90s and early 2000s. Its pretty impressive when you consider that the tag team roster was incredibly thin, with effectively only 4 real teams (the APA was still around IIRC), but three of those teams were so convincing as "elite" tag teams, and put on such great matches, that they made the titles meaningful. Also, I'm sure people will think I'm either joking or batshit crazy, but if you actually look at their stuff circa 99/2000, they were just as popular with the crowd as the Road Warriors ever were. The crucial difference is that the LOD maintained that level of popularity for two decades, whereas the Dudleys got a bit stale after a few years.

I consider the Dudleys to be the last of the truly great tag teams. But I consider the Road Warriors to be the greatest tag team of all.