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7 OVW Tag Team Champions That Might Seem Odd Now

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Long before NXT was the developmental branch for WWE, it was Ohio Valley Wrestling. Founded in 1997 by Nightmare Danny Davis, OVW sereved as WWE's farm territory from 2000 until 2008 when it was replaced by Florida Championship Wrestling. During it's partnership with WWE, it created some of WWE's future biggest stars such as John Cena, Brock Lesnar, and Randy Orton. It also featured future WWE tag teams such as MNM, Cryme Tyme, and Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins, who all held the OVW Southern Tag Team Championships. However, now that it's 2016, some of these teams sound weird in hindsight. Here are 7 OVW Tag Team Champions that might seem odd now.
Eugene & Rob Conway
I almost didn't include these two due to the fact that they were a tag team for years, but with the gimmicks they are best known for now, it was just too strange to not include. Eugene was the mentally challenged nephew of Eric Bischoff, while Conway was a typical narcissistic heel who looked like discount Buff Bagwell. They are almost complete polar opposites. Therefore, it might seem even weirder that not only did they win the Tag Team Championships, but they held them 10 TIMES! Granted, none of those reigns were very long, with longest reign being only 56 days. They held the belts for 199 days combined, average less than 20 days a reign. Either way, imagining the two teaming with their most famous gimmicks would be very strange.
Cody Rhodes & Tye Dillinger

While Tye Dillinger might seem like a newer face in WWE and NXT, he actually had a three year run in the company from 2006 to 2009 as both Gavin and Shawn Spears. During his time as Shawn Spears, he formed a tag team with Cody Rhodes and beat The Untouchables (the future Deuce & Domino) for the tag titles and held them 49 days before vacating them. In all honesty, these two would actually make sense as a tag team, as both worked as arrogant heels who thought they were better looking than others. Dashing Cody Rhodes and "The Perfect 10" Tye Dillinger together probably could have meshed well. You could call them "Dashingly Perfect".
Nova & Damien Sandow
Here's another one that could actually work based on how both of these guys did great work as parodies of famous wrestlers. Teaming as the Jersey Shore Crew, Nova and Damien Sandow (under the name Aaron Stevens) beat Adrenaline for the belts and held them for 146 days. Even though they both worked parody gimmicks, it's still weird to think someone from the Blue World Order teamed with someone on the main roster currently.
Rico & John Cena
This has got to be the absolute strangest team on the list, especially considering how differently the careers of both wrestlers turned out. As part of the heel Bolin Services, Rico and John Cena (working as The Prototype) won the vacant titles and held them for 75 before dropping them to the Minnesota Stretching Crew (Brock Lesnar and Shelton Benjamin). Seriously, look at how different their careers turned out. While Rico would go on to be known as the gay stylist for Billy & Chuck, his partner went on to be the biggest star of the modern era and the top guy in WWEfor over a decade. Could you even imagine thse two teaming now a days. Maybe Cena would have better fashion sense. Seriously dude, jorts?
Paul Burchill & Wade Barrett

 While the two Brits teaming might not seem weird on paper, However, the fact that the two never were never on the main roster at the same time makes this weird. During his return to OVW, Burchill teamed with Barrett (then Stu Sanders) to beat Colt Cabana & Charles Evans for the belts and held them for 56 days. I could have seen this team working well together on the main roster, and could have been the basis for a new stable in WWE. Add guys like Regal and McIntyre and you've got a group right there.
Colt Cabana & Tye Dillinger
Tye Dillinger's back on the list, only this time he's got a much stranger tag partner. As Shawn Spears again, Dillinger teamed with Cabana to win the vacant titles in 2007 and held them for 42 days. The team never actually lost the belts, instead breaking up as champions and deciding who gets the titles in a ladder match, which Cabana won. Considering how Dillinger plays a arrogant showman now and Cabana is primarily a comedic wrestler, this team seems a little strange.
Tyson Tomko & Kevin Thorn
Tyson Tomko has primarily been used as a heavy during his career, acting as the big guy to protect a smaller wrestler, such as Christian. However, he once held the OVW Southern Tag Team Championships with...a vampire. That's right, ECW's Kevin Thorn. As part of the Disciples of Synn, Travis Bane (Tomko) and Seven (Thorn) won the vacant titles in 2003 and held them for 50 days before dropping them to the APA. Just the thought of these two teaming is weird. It's not like they have conflicting gimmicks, it's just that...one guy was a vampire...and the other isn't.
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