The Dream Team (professional wrestling)

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The Dream Team was a successful WWF tag-team from about 1985 to March 1987 consisting of Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine. On Augest 24, 1985, The Dream Team captured the Tag-Team Titles from The US Express (Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham) in Philadelphia, PA. They held the titles until WrestleMania 2 (in Chicago) where they lost to the British Bulldogs. The team was seen several times on Saturday Night's Main Event during their time in the WWF. The last time the original version of the team saw action together was at Wrestlemania III in Pontiac, MI in front of 93,173 fans when they defeated the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers when Dino Bravo interfered with a double ax handle hit from the second rope. When Beefcake got up, he wondered how they won. Bravo, Valentine and their manager, "Lucious" Johnny Valiant (later shortened to Johnny V), left him in the ring. Later in the event, Beefcake came out to Roddy Piper's benefit to aid him in winning a hair-cut match with Adrian Adonis.

After WrestleMania III, Bravo replaced Beefcake and Valiant dubbed the duo of Valentine and Bravo "The New Dream Team", whose success (or lack thereof) paled in comparison to the original Dream Team's peak in late 1985/early 1986. By the end of the year, Valiant would be gone from the WWF and Valentine and Bravo would be split up, placed with other managers and both moved into singles competiton.

Valentine was a former Intercontinental Champion and had a successful career afterwards with The Honky Tonk Man in the tag-team Rhythm & Blues and was an average superstar in singles competition.

Beefcake went on to nearly win the Intercontinental title at Wrestlemania IV and was a main babyface until his parasailing accident cost him a couple years worth of work as he had steel plates and screws put in his head. He went on to team with Hulk Hogan as the Mega Maniacs at Wrestlemania IX and was a regular under several gimmicks in WCW until it was bought by the WWE.