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The World's Greatest Tag Team

The World's Greatest Tag Team
Two men, one Caucasian and one African American, are beside each other and both about to exit a wrestling ring with red ropes. The Caucasian male has light brown hair, and is wearing black wrestling tights, with black wrestling boots and black kneepads. The African American wrestler has dyed blond hair, and is wearing white and blue wrestling tights, and matching wrestling boots with black kneepads. The audience is visible in the background of the photo.
Charlie Haas (left) and Shelton Benjamin (right) in 2007
Tag team
Members Kurt Angle (leader)
Shelton Benjamin
Charlie Haas
Paul Heyman (manager)
Name(s) Team Angle
The Best Damn Tag Team Period
The (Self-Proclaimed) World's Greatest Tag Team
Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin
Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team
Heights 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) each
Combined
weight
497 lb (225 kg)
Debut December 26, 2002
Disbanded February 2, 2013
Years active 2002-2013, 2014
Promotions WWE
OVW
PWA
ROH
PdM
JAPW
ROW
Trainer Ohio Valley Wrestling

The World's Greatest Tag Team is a professional wrestling tag team, which also used the name Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team. The team consisted of Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin. Originally formed in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), they started out captained by Kurt Angle, during which time they were known as . They also wrestled for several other independent promotions.

Haas and Benjamin made their debut on the SmackDown! brand in December 2002, and won the WWE Tag Team Championship in February 2003. After losing the championship in May, Haas and Benjamin were fired from Team Angle, and changed their name to The Best Damn Tag Team Period, before settling on The World's Greatest Tag Team. They won the championship back in July, and their second reign lasted for two months. They continued to compete on SmackDown!, until March 2004, when Benjamin was moved to the Raw brand as part of the Draft Lottery.

The team reformed in December 2006 on the Raw brand, and competed against numerous teams, although they were unsuccessful in winning the World Tag Team Championship. The team was split again in November 2007, when Benjamin moved to the ECW brand, but later reformed briefly back on SmackDown in May 2009. In 2010, the team reformed on the independent circuit, and began competing regularly for Ring of Honor (ROH), where they are former two-time ROH World Tag Team Champions.

The tag team made their debut on the December 26, 2002 edition of WWE's SmackDown!. Paul Heyman introduced Benjamin and Haas under the name Team Angle as a "gift" to his top client Kurt Angle. Team Angle quickly involved themselves in a scripted rivalry with Chris Benoit and Edge, defeating them on January 30, 2003 to become the number one contenders for the WWE Tag Team Championship.


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