James Storm in Beer Money or AMW Which Run Was Better?

[MINISTRYrising]

so nobody can say that beer mony and america most wanted were not two of the most successful tag team in tna history. but the question is which off the teams do you think james storm had more success which one did you think was better.

 

[ABMorales787]

1) Sentences start with a capital letter. "So nobody..."

2) Names also start with capital letters. "Beer Money", "America's Most Wanted", "TNA".

3) It's "of" not "off". "Off" is what happens to your TV when you unplug it. It turns "off".

America's Most Wanted were experts at playing second fiddle to Jeff Jarrett and were never more than his foot-soldiers. You can say they had great feuds with Team Canada and Triple X, but outside of that there was very little other than that time Storm tried to take a piss in Team 3D's casket. Beer Money on the other hand were mostly a self-dependant team. Both guys had their own personalities established and rolled with them up until last year's BFG Series. Beer Money is far superior to AMW.

 

[Cereal Killer]

Beer Money of course. AMW had a cool gimmick but Beer Money's was better and and more accomplished. Beer Money played great heels and faces and had great roles in Fortune. Storm's character was more developed as well. I think AMW were to far stuck up Planet Jarrett's you know what.

A lot of teams are good, some are great......Beer Money was great.

 

[Risingtidejc3]

I kind of missed AMW, up until Beer Money started getting better as a tag team. Beer Money was a much better team than AMW, but goddamn those AMW jackets were awesome.

 

[fenfool]

I liked Storm in AMW better...he always seemed like kind of a mascot in Beer Money. I probably enjoyed Beer Money's run as a team better, but if the question is in which team was Storm better, I'd say AMW by a little bit.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

Rolling with AMW all the way. Other than their matches with MCMG, Beer Money didn't really do much of note and yes I'm including their stint in Fourtune. Also, the tag team division was weaker than was back then. Storm Harris had great matches with Triple X, The Naturals, LAX (before they fell off), Team Canada, and The Phenomenal Daniels. I just enjoyed them more than I did Beer Money.

 

[TheWrestlo]

Both teams kicked ass in both tag divisions of NWA/TNA and the regular TNA.

However when you ask "who is the better team?" words are gonna be said and people are gonna hate on each other because one opinion is different from the other.

So lets breakdown each team, starting with..............

America's Most Wanted
6 NWA World Tag Team Championships.
1 NWA Cyberspace Tag Team Championship
2003 Asylum Alliance Tag Team Tournament.
TNA 2004 Match of the year VS. Triple X
2 TNA Tag Team of the Year (2003-2004)
2004 PWI Tag team of the Year
2005 WON Tag Team of the Year
Also most regins as NWA Tag Champs and 3rd Longest combined reign (3rd longest singular reign)

A very impressive record for AMW.... But now lets look at...........

Beer Money Inc.
4 TNA World Tag Team Championships
Team 3D Invitational Tag Team Tournament
TNA Tag Team Championship Series
PWI Tag Team of the Year (2008,2011)
Also Most Reigns as TNA Tag Champs and longest Combined reigns. (Longest Singular Reign.)

With these Impressive records to their names, AMW accomplished more in their career and are the "better team" but considering TNA no longer gives out awards for matches and tag teams, Beer Money could have won those as well.

Winner America's Most Wanted

 

[lil bitch Kid]

In Beer Money, Storm was able to become a star and be remembred. One thing and one thing alone cemented BM as a better team than AMW, and that was the MCMG series. Nothing, AMW did touched that.

 

[wooooo]

They were two different parts of his career, AMW was all about the tag team while Beer Money was more about the individuals.

Can't really pick a favourite as both teams had a different purpose.

 

[Jack-Hammer]

Beer Money in my opinion. Not that AMW wasn't a great team, but it was one of those teams that had a standard tag team feel. What I mean by that is that you always had the sense that one of the wrestlers was in a whole other league when it came to talent than the other one. Most tag teams are like that: you get a sense that one will go onto better things while one generally fades into relative obscurity. That's exactly what happened with America's Most Wanted.

With Beer Money, you had two wrestlers that had not only the chemistry but were on a similar level when it came to ability. That's pretty rare when you think back over the various great tag teams. Once broken up, it's fairly uncommon for both of them to become major singles stars. Roode went onto have the longest World Championship run in TNA history, a title I look for him to win back before too long. Storm has grown into TNA's most over babyface that wasn't a former WWE star, and that's something that TNA has needed for a long time now. I think it's also pretty much guaranteed that James Stormw ill be TNA World Heavyweight Champion again at some point.

If Beer Money were to reunite tomorrow, they'd immediately be the biggest thing going in tag team wrestling. If AMW reunited, a lot of people would be wondering just who the hell Wildcat Chris Harris is, just like they were during his last brief appearance as one of Immortal's flunkies.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

Beer Money in my opinion. Not that AMW wasn't a great team, but it was one of those teams that had a standard tag team feel. What I mean by that is that you always had the sense that one of the wrestlers was in a whole other league when it came to talent than the other one. Most tag teams are like that: you get a sense that one will go onto better things while one generally fades into relative obscurity. That's exactly what happened with America's Most Wanted.

I hear this argument time and time again when judging tag teams. Why do we judge tag teams more by what they do once they split up than as a tag team? So what if Chris Harris was seen as a lesser talent than Storm? As a team, they were damn awesome and had, in my opinion, the greatest tag team match ever in 2004. I'm not going to diminish Demolition's greatness because they didn't do much once they split.

If Beer Money were to reunite tomorrow, they'd immediately be the biggest thing going in tag team wrestling. If AMW reunited, a lot of people would be wondering just who the hell Wildcat Chris Harris is, just like they were during his last brief appearance as one of Immortal's flunkies.

I guess that would be because Harris and Storm split up six years ago and Beer Money split up not even a year ago. I surmise that would have something to do with it.

 

[Ovaltine]

I liked AMW more than Beer Money. However, I think Storm and Roode are better all round talents than Harris was. Harris had (notice I said HAD) a marketable look, but he was terrible on the mic. It is hard to ever become a huga attraction on wrestling if you aren't solid on the mic. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part to get to the mainevent level a worker needs to be able to talk butts into seats. Storm and Roode are guys who can carry a great match and can work the mic. Harris was a disater on the mic.

 

[GrandSword]

Harris was marked for the World title in TNA. There is no doubt in my mind, the way that Jarrett favoured him and it was Harris who was seen as the top guy out of he and Storm. When AMW broke up Harris won their feud and then moved on but then something happened... was it the fact that Christian Cage and Kurt Angle came into the company and put a glass ceiling on all the 'originals"? I can't say but if Harris kept in shape, and perservere like Storm did instead of moving to the WWE, he might now be running alongside Storm and Roode.

As the question is about James Storm and which team did he have the better run in, I would say Beer Money, because in AMW, Harris was always the "Shawn Michaels" of the team at that time. Where Roode and Storm were on equal footing and Storm was able to take his beer drinking gimmick to another level with his motorised cooler etc.

 

[New Hot Fed]

Harris was marked for the World title in TNA. There is no doubt in my mind, the way that Jarrett favoured him and it was Harris who was seen as the top guy out of he and Storm. When AMW broke up Harris won their feud and then moved on but then something happened... was it the fact that Christian Cage and Kurt Angle came into the company and put a glass ceiling on all the 'originals"? I can't say but if Harris kept in shape, and perservere like Storm did instead of moving to the WWE, he might now be running alongside Storm and Roode.

As the question is about James Storm and which team did he have the better run in, I would say Beer Money, because in AMW, Harris was always the "Shawn Michaels" of the team at that time. Where Roode and Storm were on equal footing and Storm was able to take his beer drinking gimmick to another level with his motorised cooler etc.

Harris started gaining weight because he didn't care anymore because AMW had stayed together way too long. Harris had great potential from everybody that watched wrestling at that time and he got an interesting push at some point where it was him, Ron Killings, AJ and Raven becoming interesting contenders. But when TNA got their national tv deal, Jarrett wanted AMW to reform trying to re-capture their past successes and all these contenders went back to their original roles, AJ went back to the X Division, Raven went back to hardcore matchs, and the Truth formed a clownish face group with Konnan and BG James. It was a clever plan by JJ and many of these never got back to the main event ever again. They faced the glass ceiling. I agree with you that if Harris could only go back to his former shape and have the will to do this and get in wrestling shape he could hang with guys like Storm and Roode. I also saw him a long time ago play the heel in the independant scenes and he could cut a great promo.

 

[The 1-2-3 Killam]

I'll admit, I didn't watch TNA during the time period America's Most Wanted were active, so my input is going to be a little one-sided. I have, however seen the Steel Cage match everyone talks about, as well as all the matches leading up to that, and some that followed.

That being said, with my limited knowledge of AMW, I'm making my decision based off what I perceive to be each teams' greatest rivalry. AMW had Triple X, and one can make a case for a few others. That's the one I know, so that's the one they get. Sorry...about your damn luck.

If that's the case, then I have to give it to Beer Money for their Best-of-Five series with the Motor City Machine Guns. Even though they ended up losing that the final match, the simple fact is that they put on some of the best tag matches I've ever seen, in some of the best match types possible. One feud yielded us a Steel Cage, the Ultimate X, a ladder match, a street fight, and a 2-out-of-3 falls? It's a shame TNA didn't care abotu that more once it got started. It's ridiculous that it ended on a free episode of Impact, and that they cared more about the EV2 tie-in than great wrestling...

Like I said, I really only know Beer Money. But while they were "on", they were REALLY "on".

 

[DirtyD79]

I think Beer Monjey was the better run. In AMW he just seemed like a second fiddle until he turned against Chris Harris. As Beer Money him and Bobby Roode were on more equal footing and they were just much cooler.

 

[HBsam31]

AMW was the more accomplished team, but I think Storm really broke out in Beer Money. I am a fan of both teams, but I really began to notice Storm as a star in Beer Money. To me it was more that team that set the tone for who he is today, and I enjoyed that run better.