The Way It Was
THOSE WHOSE MEMORIES stretch back far enough may remember a time when tag team wrestling was referred to as “Australian Rules,” due to the commonly held belief that that’s where it originated (file that under all those tournaments in Rio de Janeiro…). So, it feels somehow appropriate that, even though they didn’t themselves originate the term “Australian Rules,” the two men who really and truly popularized tag team wrestling were Australian.
To be sure, tag team wrestling existed before the Fabulous Kangaroos first stepped into a wrestling ring together in 1957. The earliest record of
