America's Team (professional wrestling)

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America's Team was a professional wrestling tag team in Jim Crockett Promotions in the mid-1980's.

[edit] History

America's Team was formed when "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes and "America's Heartthrob" Magnum T.A. started teaming up to fight the Four Horsemen and the Russian Team in Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985. They never won tag team gold but were one of the more dominant tag teams in the promotion until 1986, when Magnum's career was ended in a car wreck.

Their matches against the Russians and Horsemen are legendary. They had some rather ingenious moments against the Midnight Express and their manager Jim Cornette that saw them wear masks as "The James Gang" to fool the Midnight Express and drag Cornette behind their pickup truck out of the TBS studio in Atlanta, Georgia in another incident.

They were probably the top two baby-faces in the area at the time so they didn't really need to win any tag team titles to be on top. After Magnum's injury, Nikita Koloff turned face and joined Rhodes as The Super Powers.