 The team was formed in August 1995 when Scott Antol signed a WCW contract and was placed with " tag team specialist " Marcus Alexander Bagwell . In the process , both men changed their ring names , Antol changing his last name to " Riggs " and Bagwell shortening his name to simply Marcus Bagwell . Once together , they both wore short shorts and leather vests ( later wrestling tights and suspenders ) to the ring and began clapping their hands over their head in time with their entrance music , which sang their praises between choruses of the team name being repeated over and over . They wrestled on the first episode of Nitro , defeating World Tag Team Champions Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck in a non @-@ title match . Their first major appearance together came at the Fall Brawl pay @-@ per @-@ view , where they defeated The Nasty Boys in a match that aired on Main Event . Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine stated that the team " work [ ed ] well as a unit and could soon challenge for the belts " . Bagwell commented on the team in a scripted interview , saying that he believed that his previous tag teams had failed because they were in a rush to win the title belts and that he planned to work slowly toward a title victory with Riggs . 
