Powers of Pain

The Powers of Pain were a professional wrestling tag team in the late 1980's.

History

The Barbarian and The Warlord were put together as a tag team called the Powers of Pain by Ivan Koloff and Paul Jones in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in late 1987.

Jones and Koloff put them together to feud with the Road Warriors. They laid the Road Warriors out during a bench press contest between the teams and won the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Titles (with Koloff) from the Warriors and Dusty Rhodes.

They feuded for months and then left the NWA while still champions when they refused to do scaffold matches win which they would have to fall off the scaffold into the ring.

They went to the WWF in June 1988 and were faces managed by The Baron. They feuded with "Demolition" (Ax & Smash) for the WWF World Tag Team Titles. They became the heels in the feud when Manager Mr. Fuji turned on Demolition and they fired The Baron to take him on.

They failed to win the titles and were eventually split up in 1989.

They won the WWWA Tag Team Titles together on the independent circuit in the early 1990's and teamed as the "Super Assassins" in masks for Col. Rob Parker in WCW in the 1990's.

They filmed a "shoot interview" in 2004 with RF Video talking about their careers.