[doinktheclowns]

Just wondering who you think are the most successful and impressive singles wrestlers who started their careers or made a name for them selves first as a tag team.

Christian
Edge
Jeff Hardy
Matt Hardy
Bully Ray
Marty Jannetty
Shawn Michaels

Strike me as some of the bigger names.

 

[RatedR IWC Star]

bret hart

 

[Jupiter Jack Daniels]

Shawn Michaels
Bret Hart
Booker T
Sting
Ultimate Warrior
Undertaker
Chris Jericho

 

[Regnes]

I really wouldn't consider Matt Hardy or Marty Jannety to be top guys. Matt was always just Jeff's brother, and Marty was just Shawn's old partner.

 

[paulborklaserheyma]

JBL

 

[Jupiter Jack Daniels]

JBL

JBL started off as a singles wrestler.

 

[Cynic]

Add Sting and Ultimate Warrior, who started out as the Blade Runners tag team in the territories.

 

[LINK]

Bret
HBK

 

[#dealwithit]

It used to be that almost all top guys have had a run in a tag team at some time beforehand in their career before getting their big singles push. But since the big promotions started their own big developmental operations that seems to have died down, as guys like Goldberg, Orton and Cena have gone straight to the top without ever having a run in a tag team. (I know Orton was in Evolution and Cena was paired with Bull Buchanan for a bit, but neither were ever really part of a 'tag division' before getting their singles push, if you catch my drift).

 

[paulborklaserheyma]

JBL started off as a singles wrestler.

Everyone starts off as single then becomes tag-team, don't they?

 

[Cynic]

Everyone starts off as single then becomes tag-team, don't they?

Well in the sense that all wrestlers were living lives before they became wrestlers, at which point they were put in a tag team.

 

[Jupiter Jack Daniels]

Everyone starts off as single then becomes tag-team, don't they?

Then what is the point of this thread if every wrestler starts off as single then becomes tag-team?

You can pretty much kill the thread and say everybody. Fact is not everybody is/was a tag team wrestler. Yeah, JBL was but he was in WWE for 3-4 years before he teamed with Faarooq and he and Windham were a tag team but at that point, Windham was a former WHC.

 

[Punkhead]

Edge
Jeff Hardy
Shawn Michaels
Bret Hart
Billy Gunn

 

[Jupiter Jack Daniels]

Edge
Jeff Hardy
Shawn Michaels
Bret Hart
Billy Gunn

What makes Billy Gunn a top wrestler? He never got out of the mid card.

 

[That Guy]

Just wondering who you think are the most successful and impressive singles wrestlers who started their careers or made a name for them selves first as a tag team.

Christian
Edge
Jeff Hardy
Matt Hardy
Bully Ray
Marty Jannetty
Shawn Michaels

OP, please explain to me how Marty Jannetty was a "Top Wrestler" He never made it in single's competition past the mid card.

 

[Aid]

I would say The Miz as the most recent example in WWE. He was absolutely nothing before joining Morrison on ECW. Sure he was technically a singles competitor on Smackdown for a few months, but he was mostly a jobber and a host until he went to ECW. Their tag team run really helped to propel Miz towards the top.

 

[Hotdiggity11]

Sting and Ultimate Warrior were pretty irrelevant until they were together as the Blade Runners. That's close enough.

 

[Klee]

You can add STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN - the G.O.A.T - to the list!

 

[dazzy666]

bret the hitman hart

 

[The High King]

dan spivey help mark calloway


that waylon mercy and the undertaker to ye younger folks.