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RKO were only put together so D-X could beat a convincing team. Pointless.
The two have a degree of exceptional talent of a much diffren't nature to that of Hennig and Windham.
A worthless title. One they didn't defend. A prop to make it look more impressive when D-X beat them.
You can go on about how shit WCW was at the time. But the tag division had more than 3 teams.
So effectively your saying that they were built up to be the second best tag team in WWE at the time, something I have to agree with.
But even then, if the West Texas Redknecks had been in the WWE at the same time they would have just been a team for Rated RKO to go over to make them look like the legitimate biggest threat to Team DX.
Not a tag team as such. Two wrestlers teaming. WTR were an actual tag team. Rated RKO were never goingt o be a long term thing.
True. But if Orton & Edge had been in WCW at that time they'd probably be losing to Hogan & Nash in squash matches.
Also Henning is dead so he couldn't possibly have been one of those wrestlers that they could possibly have fed to Rated RKO. But Edge & Orton could have been. (Pointless I know, but still)
They where on the same page and working together, unlike for example Cena and Batista.
They were enough of a tag team to warrant there own name.
It shouldn't matter if they where two wrestlers teaming, as a team they would go over West Texas Redknecks.
The Rock and Sock Connection, Benoit and Jericho, The Two Man Powertrip, Owen Hart and Yokozuna. Two wrestlers teaming does not mean that that team is good, bad or otherwise.
I know Hennig is dead, I was trying to talk as if it was possible to take a 1999 team and put them into 2006. I probably didn't clarify that very well and I hope I've explained it better here.
True but they where on the same page, they won't be remembered for like arguing and bickering and costing each other the mathup.They didn't work on the same page for long..
A name none the less... If the tournament was who had the less punny name I would graciously give The West Texas Redknecks the nod.A punny name. Thought up in several minutes. .
And I have never once taken away from the credebility of legendary status of either competitor. The West Texas Redknecks was hardly the pinnacle of there careers though. There status would be the kind of thing Orton and Edge thrived upon at that stage in there careers. It would have been a "team to beat to make it look like they were beating the big boys" (another quote from you)How so? This is Curt Henning & Barry Windham after all. It's not like It's Kendall Windham & Bobby Duncham Jr.
In either time period I would still give the nod to Orton and Edge. Edge is a notorious tag team wrestler and Orton understands the buisness and puts on great matches. He still has a long way to go and when he is done he may have an equally brilliant career to look back on like Windham and Hennig, but who knows, this isn't about the future or the past, it is about one team from one time period and one team from another, I give Rated RKO the nod.I knew what you were getting at. I was doing the opposite. A team from 2006 goint to 1999.
True but they where on the same page, they won't be remembered for like arguing and bickering and costing each other the mathup.
A name none the less... If the tournament was who had the less punny name I would graciously give The West Texas Redknecks the nod.
And I have never once taken away from the credebility of legendary status of either competitor. The West Texas Redknecks was hardly the pinnacle of there careers though.
Edge is a notorious tag team wrestler
and Orton understands the buisness and puts on great matches.
They're sill not as much of a cohesive unit
Names are still not important, and you are grossly over-rating me here, I would have come up with a much worse name than Rated RKO. Even if I had though Edge and Orton would STILL beat The West Texas Redknecks.Some thought went into the WTR name. You or I could have come up with Rated RKO..
But have Edge & Orton improved since then though? You could possibly say yes, or you could say that they just get better pushes now.
Rated RKO is hardly the pinnacle of their career either.
I believe Orton is a better partner than Christian, increase the quality of the partner and things SHOULD only improve, this isn't always true but in this case I would argue it is. With Christian, Edge never amounted to anything above the mid-card. When he teamed with Orton he already had his foot in the door of the main event, effectively Rated RKO helped him kick that door open and he has remained there ever since.With Christian, not Orton.
He puts on boring matches.
Why does he understand the buisness? Because he's a next generation wrestler? I'm saying nothing, but hinting strongly.
They where enough of a cohesive unit to win a title, even if it was to make them look good enough to fight DX, it is still more than The West Texas Redknecks acheived.
They are getting getter pushes I would argue. They needed the time they spent as a tag team, all be it short, to cement themselves in the main even though.
Whilst not the pinnacle of there career, or even close, it was the launch pad for them to make the step. But all this isn't important.
I believe Orton is a better partner than Christian, increase the quality of the partner and things SHOULD only improve, this isn't always true but in this case I would argue it is.
With Christian, Edge never amounted to anything above the mid-card.
When he teamed with Orton he already had his foot in the door of the main event, effectively Rated RKO helped him kick that door open and he has remained there ever since.
He puts on solid matches though. Partly and also because by this stage, although still young, Orton had been around in the company enough to earn himself a spot in the main event, whether this was fast tracked by his surname I don't know, but Orton has talent and I would say if he had wanted to be a wrestler he was always going to get there regardless of his surname.
They won the titles off Ric Flair & Roddy Piper. In the days when Flair lost to EVERYBODY.
The Rednecks won a whole tournament to get their tag titles, and had a nice feud with Benoit & Malenko along the way..
I see it as the begining of them rebuilding themselves up to the main event again.It was a step down for two former world champions.
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But you can still see where I'm coming from?Depends. Orton is more successful as a singles wrestler. But Christian is a more successful tag wrestler..
Even so, the point still stands.Why would they at a time when there was Foley, Triple H, Austin, Taker, The Rock & others..
Triple H is the type of wrestler who knows that he is not as good as the likes of Rock, Austin, Cena... he holds down anyone with a bit of talent who might look better than him - thus, I can't argue with this point but I don't think it should take anything away from Edge or Orton as wrestlers.You go from having the feud of the year with cean, to having a mid card feud with D-X. Hardly worth talking about. If HHH hadn't injured himself it would have gone very differently for him.
Just look were both of them were on the Mania card that year. Making up the numbers in a worthless MITB match. Edge only got the Smackdoonw belt in the summer because HBK didn't want to move to Smackdown.
I doubt it. Orton in 2002 was a nobody. Without his name he wouldn't have got the oppertunity. While he might have fallen into wrestling, I doubt he'd be where he is today.
Flair and Piper have more weight to them in terms of name value than Hennig and Windham, regardless of Flairs status or what not beating Flair and Piper is still a big win.
I see it as the begining of them rebuilding themselves up to the main event again.
Even so, the point still stands.
Triple H is the type of wrestler who knows that he is not as good as the likes of Rock, Austin, Cena... he holds down anyone with a bit of talent who might look better than him - thus, I can't argue with this point but I don't think it should take anything away from Edge or Orton as wrestlers.
Either could have been placed on the card somewhere else, they wasn't but thats just how things went, the show wouldn't have been any diffrent with them somewhere else on the card.
Lots of wrestlers start out as nobodys...
So effectively your saying that they were built up to be the second best tag team in WWE at the time, something I have to agree with.
I've contracted the second best STD.