TNA’s ‘Best of the Tag Teams’ Doesn’t Disappoint

bottgIn the 1980s, when professional wrestling was at its peak in popularity, tag team wrestling, too, was widely admired by fans. Teams like the Road Warriors, the Rock and Roll Express, the Horsemen and the Hart Foundation were just as popular as the singles competitors that appeared on posters on the walls of teenage boys all over the country.

However, in its waning popularity over the past three years or so, Tag Team wrestling in most promotions have started to look like a thing of the past.

One promotion however, Total Nonstop Action, has made Tag Team Wrestling a priority over the past few years and as a result, is probably one of the only promotions left with a healthy roster of teams that fans find exciting. Recently releasing “The Best of the Tag Teams” on DVD, TNA has put over 15 amazing matches from five different teams on one disc, which ultimately ends up being a must own for any wrestling fan who misses the good old days of the sport.

Chronicling the best matches of America’s Most Wanted, Team 3D, The Voodoo Kin Mafia, The Naturals and The Latin-American Exchange, this DVD is living proof that tag team wrestling still has a place in the sport. Other great tag teams appearing in the DVD are AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels, Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal and Team Canada, which all have their own different styles and give the collection of brevity not found in many wrestling compilations today.

Also adding to the multifaceted nature of the DVD are the matched selected, ranging from standard tags, to hardcore matches and six sides of steel blood fests, giving the purists and the hardcore fans exactly what they.

However, while the matches themselves offer plenty of diversity for the eclectic wrestling fan, the amount of finishing moves shown in this DVD is absolutely fantastic. It sees that almost every wrestler featured on the compilation gets to pull off their finisher on more than a few occasions, giving every match a sort of main event feel to it. Watching Homicide pull of the “Gringo Killer” or Team 3D’s finisher through a table a few times is definitely an easy way of gluing an audience to their seats.

With that being said, this DVD has a luster and polish that will make those that could care less about Tag Team Wrestling or the sport as a whole, instant fans.

After watching 210 minutes of some of the best wrestling today, one thing becomes painfully clear, this DVD is a must own. Anyone who misses the days of the Monday Night Wars or just wants to watch some of the most athletes in the world do what they do best owes it to themselves to pick up what is easily one of the best wrestling DVDs out right now.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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