Longest running tag team

[jeffofnc]

Ok can someone tell me which 2 men hold the distinction of the longest running tag team in wrestling history?

When Mike Hegstrand(aka Road Warrior Hawk)died it was said that the Road Warriors had had the longest run in wrestling history But I found something a few years later that leads me to differ

Butch Miller and Luke Williams aka The Bushwhackers aka The Sheepeherders started as the Kiwis along with Jonathan Boyd back in the mid 1960's(1965)

Williams and Miller were still doing Indy shows as the Bushwhackers as recently as I believe the mid to late 1990's or maybe beyond which would make their run much longer than the Hawk and Animal

So can anyone tell me if that is right about Miller and Williams or is there a team that has had an even longer run

Thanks

Jeff
PS and I mean as a long continuous tag team Road Warrior Hawk did team with someone else in Japan for awhile

[bobbyryates]

hawk was with kensuke sasaki as the Power Warriors in New Japan.

my bet would be a team like either Black Gordman-Goliath or Miguel Perez-Hurricane Castillo.
bet stevej knows, he wrote the tag team book.

[stevej]

Consecutively, with no truly, truly meaningful breaks, where they were together at least several times a year, no matter the venue, it's Morton and Gibson, 23+ years. No one else is really close.

Bruiser and Crusher, more or less, 20 years would be second in The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams book we did.

Miller and Williams were together but there were a LOT of multi-year breaks before they were the Sheepherders. They did not team regularly until the 1970s (Hawaii and Oregon) as Miller was part of the Australasians with Larry O'Day for years.

If you go by the first team a duo paired up until the last time, there are a lot in the 20-year range (Hennig-Race, Altomare-Albano), but it was not consecutive enough. Bobby is right. Hawk and Animal wrestled together relatively infrequently from about '92 to '96, so that has to be considered. I'd put them on a par with Don & Al Greene, the Gallaghers, Hawk & Hanson, Eddie Sullivan & Rip Tyler for wrestling together, again more or less, for somewhere from 16-20 years, depdnding on how you judge it.

Steve

[ssteward]

Rock N Roll Express started in 1983, so that's 23 years. That has to be at, or near, the top of the list.

Were Butch and Luke really teaming in the 60's?

[ssteward]

well, looks like me and Steve posted the same thing at the same time

[ssteward]

and the thing is about this, we all know that a 10 year record, let alone 23, will probably never be broken given the path that wrestling has taken.

[jeffofnc]

You're right I can't the Highlanders or those clowns Cryme Tyme limpinig down to the ring when they're in their late 40's or 50s's or Edge and Orton either Where or Where have the good tag teams gone

Jeff

[thegreatbolo]

teamed for around ten years.

[dogthuhoops2k]

c'mon people!!! You know the spirit squad...or at least 2 to 3 of them will be around forever!!! You just can't argue with quality like that.

of course I say this tongue in cheek.

I doubt this is gonna happen but if I had to pick a team that maybe should have that kind of career together, I'd pick Storm and Harris: America's Most Wanted.

Of course with things at TNA as they are, Harris will probably end up teaming with Shark Boy, and Storm will team with Norman Smiley or whatever.

But Harris and Storm to me are the best tag team of the last couple of years.