The Milk & Honey Era of Tag Team Wrestling
by Shockage (OWW Genesis, Sr. Administrator)
Oh the milk and honey did flow during the 1980’s, regardless of whether they were title contenders or not, this era of tag teams was treated with dignity; Windham & Rotundo, Sheik & Volkoff, The British Bulldogs, The Hart Foundation, Strike Force, The Killer Bees, The Rougeaus, The Young Stallions, Demolition, The Islanders, The Bolsheviks, The Brain Busters, The Rockers, Martel & Garea, Fuji & Saito, The Moondogs, everyone had a place and a purpose.
One of my favourite tag team rivalries was the Killer Bees/Volkoff & Sheik program from ’86ish-’87, I didn’t start watching wrestling until 1988 but I did catch up with a lot of video tapes dating back to 1984. I guess as a kid I was drawn to the cool KB striped outfits, Volkoff & Sheik’s villainous yet humorous verbal attacks against America, but what really drew me to this feud was the unusual, comedic cheating perpetrated by the Killer Bees.