Sign-In
Cart
Together: The History of Tag Team Wrestling
Paperback
FictionWrestlingGeneral World History
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 706
Weight: 2.65
Height: 1.41 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Professional wrestling has always celebrated the individual. But some of its greatest innovations happened when wrestlers stopped standing alone.
Together: The History of Tag-Team Wrestling tells the global history of one of professional wrestling's most enduring forms through 100 teams and more than a century of change.
From the Fabulous Kangaroos and Rikidōzan & Toyonobori to the Fabulous Freebirds, Crush Gals, Midnight Express, Road Warriors, Hart Foundation, Holy Demon Army, Dudley Boyz, New Day, Young Bucks, and beyond, Together follows tag-team wrestling across generations, promotions, countries, and radically different wrestling cultures.
This is not a ranking of the greatest teams or a collection of biographies. Each partnership becomes a window into a larger history: the development of tag-team wrestling itself, the territorial system, lucha libre and puroresu, family dynasties and factions, women's wrestling, television and national expansion, the wrestling wars, the independent revolution, and the modern global business.
Along the way, Together asks a larger question: What changes when the fundamental unit of professional wrestling becomes not an individual, but a relationship?
Partners become rivals. Families become dynasties. Teams become identities capable of surviving changing members, promotions, and generations. Across the United States, Mexico, Japan, Britain, Puerto Rico, Australia, and beyond, the history of tag-team wrestling becomes a history of what wrestlers could accomplish together that they could never accomplish alone.
100 teams. More than a century of wrestling history. One story about what happens when wrestlers stop standing alone.
Together reveals that tag-team wrestling was never simply singles wrestling with more people. It developed a history, language, culture, and logic of its own.
Also from
Lyons, Nick
Also in
Wrestling
This Book Is All Elite: The Inside Story of All Elite Wrestling
Greenberg, Keith Elliot
All Elite Wrestling
Hardcover
Jim Cornette Presents: Behind the Curtain Real Pro Wrestling Stories
Cornette, Jim
Easton, Brandon
Paperback
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Ultimate Guide to Dominating Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts Combat
Paiva, Alexandre
Paperback
Sometimes Wrong But Never in Doubt: How a Cuban Kid from Queens Transformed Wwe
Barrios, George Aldo
Hardcover
The Sambo Encyclopedia: Comprehensive Throws, Holds, and Submission Techniques for All Grappling Styles
Scott, Steve
Paperback
Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Professional Wrestling's New World Order Changed America
Raimondi, Marc
Hardcover
The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport
Sitterson, Aubrey
Moreno, Chris
Paperback
Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling
Langmead, Jon
Hardcover
Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Professional Wrestling's New World Order Changed America
Raimondi, Marc
Paperback
Jiu-Jitsu Strategies and Tactics for Self-Defense: When the Fight Goes to the Ground (Includes Video Tutorials)
O'Connell, Lori
Paperback
Bigger! Better! Badder!: Wrestlemania III and the Year It All Changed
Greenberg, Keith Elliot
Paperback
Circle It, WWE, The Golden Era Facts, Word Search, Puzzle Book (Large Print Edition)
Schumacher, Mark
Lowry Global Media LLC
Clark, Marcell
Paperback
Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War That Changed Pro Wrestling Forever
Hornbaker, Tim
Paperback
The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend
Leen, Jeff
Paperback
Krav Maga - Israeli System of Self-Defense: 100 attack and defense movements.
Nisenbaum, Sergio
Paperback
Shaolin Chin Na Fa. Art of Seizing and Grappling: Instructor's Manual for Police Academy of Zhejiang Province (Shanghai, 1936)
Timofeevich, Andrew
Jin Sheng, Liu
Paperback
The Death of WCW: 10th Anniversary Edition of the Bestselling Classic -- Revised and Expanded
Reynolds, Randy
Alvarez, Bryan
Paperback
Sex, Lies, and Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment
Assael, Shaun
Mooneyham, Mike
Paperback
The Sanchez Family: Mexican American High School and Collegiate Wrestlers from Cheyenne, Wyomin
Iber, Jorge
Hardcover
My Favorite Match: Wwe Superstars Tell the Stories of Their Most Memorable Matches
Robinson, Jon
Paperback
The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity
Levi, Heather
Paperback
WRESTLING (V-Five) The Aviation Training Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
U. S. Navy, Naval Aviation
Paperback
The Sambo Encyclopedia: Comprehensive Throws, Holds, and Submission Techniques for All Grappling Styles
Scott, Steve
Hardcover
Shaolin Chin Na Fa. Art of Seizing and Grappling: Instructor's Manual for Police Academy of Zhejiang Province (Shanghai, 1936)
Jin Sheng, Liu
Timofeevich, Andrew
Hardcover
Faith and Wrestling: How the Role of a Wrestler Mirrors the Christian Life
Fessler, Michael
Paperback
The Ultimate World Wrestling Entertainment Trivia Book
Kelly, Kevin
Mates, Seth
Feigenbaum, Aaron
Paperback
The History of Professional Wrestling: Jim Crockett Promotions & the NWA World Title 1983-1988
Cawthon, Graham
Paperback
Tough Street: From Osage to London to Lehigh, the Remarkable Life of Gerald "Germ" Leeman
Drew, James
Hardcover
Bret Hart: The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be
Martin, Marlow J.
Paperback
Pure Dynamite: The Price You Pay for Wrestling Stardom: 25th Anniversary
Billington, Tom
Coleman, Alison
Paperback
The Zurkhāneh and Its Milieu: A Study of Traditional Athletics in Iran
Rochard, Philippe
Paperback
The Danaher Diaries: Over 100 of John Danaher's Musings on Jiu-Jitsu, Kaizen, Training, and Living
Of the Art, Heroes
Paperback
Say Uncle!: ?Catch-As-Catch-Can and the Roots of Mixed Martial Arts, Pro Wrestling, and Modern Grappling
Shannon, Jake
Paperback
Pugilism 1743 - 1889: A Compendium of Traditional English Bare-Knuckle Boxing and Its Application to Bayonet Fighting
Michell, E. B.
Shaw, Edwin F.
Doran, Bart J.
Paperback
The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant
Hébert, Bertrand
Laprade, Pat
Paperback
Don't Cry in America: A Memoir of Unexpected Journeys, Family Love, and the Sport of Wrestling
Russo, Antonio
Russo Hamilton, Tonya
Hardcover
Don't Cry in America: A Memoir of Unexpected Journeys, Family Love, and the Sport of Wrestling
Russo, Antonio
Russo Hamilton, Tonya
Paperback
The Purler Way: A Path to Excellence for Wrestlers, Parents, and Coaches
Purler, Nick
Scherer, Juliet
Paperback
From Medieval Manuscript to Modern Practice: The Wrestling Techniques of Fiore dei Liberi
Windsor, Guy
Hardcover