Every Stable & Tag Team The British Bulldog Has Been A Part Of, Ranked Worst To Best
"The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith is one of the most decorated wrestlers of all-time to come out of the United Kingdom. The WWE Hall of Famer spent time in Canada with Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling, was a mainstay in the WWE during the late 1980s and 1990s, and even had a decent run in WCW before his untimely death in 2002.
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If he were still alive, one would have to believe Smith would still be involved in wrestling in some capacity. He was a great worker who had plenty of memorable singles matches, most notably beating Bret Hart for the Intercontinental Title in the main event of SummerSlam 1992 at Wembley Stadium. He's most known, however, for his work in tag teams and part of stables.
10 Bulldog And The Mean Street Posse
While Bulldog was involved in plenty of odd one-off pairings throughout his career, we're only counting groups or wrestlers with whom he had at least a few matches with. The Mean Street Posse is one of those groups.
If you're thinking this pairing seems odd or can't remember at all, it's probably for good reason. Bulldog, during his last run with the WWE when he was wearing jeans and worker boots, was paired a handful of times with the Mean Street Posse. He teamed with Rodney, Pete Gas, and Joey Abs on Raw and SmackDown before again teaming with them in a losing effort against Gangrel, Mark Henry, Steve Blackman, and Val Venis at Survivor Series 99.
9 Team Canada
Bulldog, as most people know, was from the UK, but had Canadian connections, having wrestled in Stampede Wrestling and marrying into the Hart family. Thus, he was apparently a suitable addition to the Team Canada foursome at Survivor Series 1997.
Bulldog teamed with Jim Neidhart, Doug Furnas, and Philip Lafon in a victory over Blackman, Goldust, Marc Mero, and Vader. This event, of course, is now infamous for the Montreal Screwjob. Bulldog wrestled Furnas and Lafon a couple of times in his career, but this was the only time they teamed together.
8 Davey Boy Smith & Bruce Hart
Before he became a valued member of the Hart Foundation in WWE, teaming with seemingly every wrestler in the family, Bulldog was a two-time Stampede Wrestling International Tag Team Champion with Bruce Hart.
Bulldog and Hart first won the titles on an April 1, 1982 show from Duke Myers and Kerry Brown. They held the title for 89 days before losing them to Myers and Dynamite Kid, with whom Bulldog later formed an iconic tag team. Bulldog and Hart had a 131-day run with the tag tiles the following year, winning them from the Cuban Assassin and Francisco Flores.
7 Davey Boy Smith & Jim Neidhart
As mentioned, Smith teamed up with Neidhart a couple of times while in WWE with the Hart Foundation. Their four-man tag team match at Survivor Series 97 was the last time they teamed up in WWE as they left the company in part due to the Screwjob and the tension between Hart and McMahon.
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Both wrestlers found themselves in WCW shortly after and teamed up nearly 20 times to mediocre success. They defeated Alex Wright and Disco Inferno on Fall Brawl 98 and previously beat teams like The Public Enemy and Scott and Steve Armstrong.
6 The Allied Powers
The pairing of Bulldog and Lex Luger had immense potential. Both were in great shape and arguably had two of the best looks in WWE in the mid-90s, but were somewhat limited in the ring and had little to no chemistry.
Luger and Bulldog began pairing in 1995 and remained a team for a period of eight months, during which time they played patriotic characters from their native countries, representing the best of England and the US. They primarily appeared on house shows near the end of their run, but started out hot with matches on Raw and beating The Blu Twins (Jacob and Eli) at WrestleMania 11.
5 Camp Cornette
After his partnership with Luger came to an end due to Luger leaving to return to WCW to debut on the premiere episode of Nitro, Bulldog turned heel and joined Camp Cornette, a villainous stable led by heel manager Jim Cornette. Bulldog and Luger were actually supposed to team up to take on King Mabel and Sir Mo on an episode of Raw, but Luger no showed and was replaced by Diesel, on whom Bulldog quickly turned.
Bulldog subsequently served as a substitute for Yokozuna at In Your House 3, teaming with Owen Hart to defend the tag titles against Diesel and Shawn Michaels. Bulldog teamed with Camp Cornette members Hart and Vader at WrestleMania XII to defeat Jake Roberts, Ahmed Johnson, and Yokozuna, who had recently turned face.
4 Davey Boy Smith & Sting
Before he left for WCW following the Montreal Screwjob, Bulldog had an initial run in the company in 1993 when he came in as a red-hot babyface, not long after winning the Intercontinental Title at SummerSlam 92. WCW hoped Bulldog could be a major international attraction and, while that didn't happen, he did have a somewhat memorable partnership with Sting.
Sting and Bulldog feuded with Sid Vicious and Vader before Bulldog was pushed as a singles star. There were rumors Bulldog would even win the WCW Championship - and they even did a fake-out title change at a UK house show - but he was fired less than a year into his run after a bar fight.
3 Owen Hart & The British Bulldog
While Bulldog teamed with Bret a handful of times, they didn't quite have the chemistry or success that he had with the younger Hart. Bulldog and Owen teamed up in WWE a total of 165 times from 1996-97 and held the World Tag Team Championship for an impressive 246 days before losing the belts to Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin on an episode of Raw.
Bulldog and Owen won the titles from The Smoking Gunns at In Your House 10: Mind Games and defended them against plenty of formidable opponents, including Michaels and Sycho Sid, Crush and Faarooq, Mankind and Vader, and The Godwinns.
2 The British Bulldogs
As successful as his partnership was with Owen, Bulldog is best known for teaming with his cousin The Dynamite Kid. The duo were a dominant tag team in the 1980s and had great in-ring chemistry despite their personal differences and the fact they weren't ever really that close behind the scenes.
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Bulldog and Dynamite wrestled together from 1984 to 1990, first pairing in Stampede Wrestling and then in Japan and WWE. They were three-time Stampede International Tag Team Champions and held the WWE World Tag Team Championship for 294 days during 1986-87; interestingly, they surrendered the titles to Bret and Neidhart on an episode of WWF Superstars.
1 Hart Foundation
There's arguably no better period in WWE history than the start of the Attitude Era, when the New Generation was coming to an end and ushering in a new edgier era in which traditional babyfaces like Bret weren't viewed the same by fans. What resulted, with Canadian fans treating Bret and his family-oriented stable the New Hart Foundation like superstars and Americans hating the group, made for incredible TV.
The Hart Foundation consisted of Bret and Owen, Neidhart, Bulldog, and Brian Pillman. They were involved in one of the hottest main events in company history at In Your House: Canadian Stampede, defeating Steve Austin, Ken Shamrock, Goldust, and the Legion of Doom in a 10-man tag main event.
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