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295. The Headbangers

The Headbangers were a decent tag team in the fames Attitude Era of the WWE. Mosh and Thrasher took their hybrid Heavy Metal/Goth hybrid to the largest wrestling organization and secured a solid spot and even won the Tag Team Championship. It wasn’t easy, as they were saddled with lame gimmicks before they debuted as the Headbangers, but once they did, they found their niche as both a heel team and face team. Had they not been on a loaded roster, it is possible that they may be held in higher regard.

327. Gino Brito

The son of wrestler Jack Britton, Gino Brito was a French Canadian who managed a solid run in his native Quebec and under the name of Louis Cerdan was a co-holder of the World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Title with Tony “Cannonball” Parisi. Brito would remain a draw in Montreal and run Lutte Internationale, which was the main promotion in the province. Once the promotion folded he would run cards for the WWF in the Montreal territory. This may not equate to a hearty Hall of Fame resume, but he has a lot more exposure to the WWE than most people realize.

286. Sho Funaki

With a decade plus tenure in the WWE and a won/loss record that resembles NBA expansion franchises, Sho Funaki was a great entertainer and a decent worker. Funaki is one of those wrestlers whose winning percentage does not reflect what he did in the ring. Initially a member of Kaientai in Japan, and then in the United States, Funaki was a singles wrestler for years and actually won the Cruiserweight Title with the WWE. He is probably not a Hall of Fame wrestler, but his overall body of work in the WWE is more than most people remember.

375. The Harris Twins

In some ways Ron Harris & Don Harris were a journeyman tag team, but the identical Harris Twins did have a certain level of success in the two largest wrestling promotions in North America. They were at their biggest in the WWE, as Skull & 8-Ball, members of, and then appropriated the name as the Disciples of Apocalypse. In WCW, they were the unfortunately named Patrick and Gerald (a play of Patterson & Brisco in the WWF) as Creative Control, but under their own names they did win the World Championship there. As they were saddled often with silly gimmicks (Creative Control, Blu Twins etc.) it makes sense that they were just themselves, which was not that far from their DOA persona, they would probably have been more successful.