PWI 2004 Achievement: Tag Team Of The Year

America's Most Wanted, Chris harris and James Storm fought through a number of distractions in 2004 to capture this year's tag team of the year award-- their first.

Their year started off oddly, with Harris and Storm forgoing their partnership in hopes of singles glory. Harris unsuccessfully tried to wrest away the NWA championship from Jeff Jarrett and, later, A.J. Styles, but Raven-- who fueded with Harris through the first five months of the year--prevented Harris from accomplishing his mission. Storm, on the other hand, earned little singles success, but found a willing partner in "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes. As Harris pursued the NWA championship, Storm and Rhodes challenged Kid Kash and Dallas for the NWA tag team title. They failed.

One day after that unsuccessful bid by Storm and Rhodes to become tag team champions, Storm and Harris set aside their individual failures of 2004's first few months and reunited AMW during a taping to TNA Impact. The match? A title match against the two men who had defeated Storm and Rhodes one night earlier--Kid Kash and Dallas. To the surprise of no one, AMW defeated the defending champs and quickly regained their spot as the team to beat in TNA.

"Sure, AMW didnt partner for half the year, but they get my vote anyway," wrote Rick Kent of Union, South Carolina. "What they did, reuniting and immediately beating Kash and Dallas for the belts, proved to me that they're the best team in the sport and that no other team can compare to them. They simply know each other too well to be beaten."

Fans of AMW may be a bit lenient when it comes to their favorite team, but it's hard to ignore thei win-loss record. After recapturing the tag team title, Harris and Storm successfully defended the belts in impressive fashion in matches against Johnny Swinger and Glen Gilberti, Monty Brown and Abyss, and Miyamoto and Nosawa. They only lost the championship because Andy Douglas of The Naturals used one of the title belts to knock out Storm to earn a quick pinfall just as their match was starting--and they probably would've won more titles had Storm not been forced to partner with Christopher Daniels late in the year.

"James Storm captured two NWA titles in 2004, one with Chris Harris and one with Christopher Daniels, but I think we all know that the only true team he was part of was AMW." wrote Samuel Breckenridge of Millington, Tennessee. "Harris and Storm are better than any other combination out there--WWE included."