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This is New Generation Declassified.

And you're listening to an all-new New Generation Beclassified here exclusively on the home of the two-man power of wrestling podcasting Empire and TMPT Empire and TMPire.com.

If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad.

And every single week, we sit in the chair here to talk a little new generation action.

We go back and look at the glory days, the mid-90s, the World Wrestling Federation's new generation era, an era that we have

definitely dissected and really shed a light on over the last year plus of doing this podcast.

Today, of course, no different this time, sitting in the chair solo, going to talk about the

1996 WWF Tag team championship tournament.

Now before we get into talking about the tournament and the teams and the brackets and the locations

and all that good stuff, we got to take a look at what the new generation tag team scene

looked like.

Probably, and especially to the old school fan,

this is a weaker, weaker tag team division than we had seen in recent years.

Obviously, when you think of the WWF and you think of tag teams, you really think about the probably 1986 to about 1992 era of tag teams.

Maybe even, I'd even go maybe a little earlier than that, maybe 1986 to like 1990 era of

tag teams.

You think about the Heart Foundation, the British Bulldogs, demolition, the rockers,

the fabulous Rujo brothers, the powers of pain.

Then you add in folks like the Legion of Doom, and then there were other side tag teams,

you know, Sheik and Volkov, then Volkov and Zukov, the Bolsheviks, the conquistadors,

not a great team, but still, nonetheless, a team you remember from that era.

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