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Legendary WWE Tag Team Shockingly Reunite In Another Promotion

By Lyle Kilbane • Published Nov 25, 2025 09:50 EST
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There was a shock reunion for one WWE Hall of Fame tag team, but not in the promotion where they made their name together.

The Attitude Era saw the rise of tag team wrestling in WWE, with The Dudley Boyz, Hardy Boyz, and Edge & Christian redefining the genre through their iconic TLC matches. But they were not the only teams making waves in the company.

Too Cool won legions of fans through their dancing antics while partnered up with Rikishi, the New Age Outlaws introduced their own brand of anarchy before joining DX, and Bradshaw and Faarooq teamed up to form one of the most fondly remembered teams of all time.

Bradshaw and Faarooq were stuck in midcard purgatory when they banded together, initially as The Acolytes of the evil Jackal. The Jackal was not long for WWE, but decades later, he leads an ever-expanding family in AEW, and so The Acolytes began following The Undertaker, as his henchmen in the Ministry of Darkness.

It wasn’t until that group split and The Acolytes began playing poker backstage in their own drinking den that their popularity really took off. Rebranding as the Acolytes Protection Agency, the two brawlers were guns for hire to other WWE stars. Between 1999 and 2001, The APA captured the WWE Tag Team Championship on three occasions before they split for good when the real-life Ron Simmons retired from the ring in 2004.

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Now at the Wildkat Sports Revolution Rumble, Bradshaw reunited with Ron Simmons. Simmons was handed a chair by his former partner before Bradshaw dropped one of the talents in the ring with a Clothesline From Hell.