Prior to creation of the Dream Team, Greg Valentine, managed by
Captain Lou Albano, had won the
WWF Intercontinental Championship from
Tito Santana and was in the middle of a brutal feud with Santana. In the midst of that feud
Jimmy Hart took over Albano's managing duties while Valentine was still the champion. Brutus Beefcake had entered the WWF in 1984 under the management of Johnny Valiant.
The Dream Team Managers Johnny Valiant and Jimmy Hart first put Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake together in May 1985. Early on Beefcake teamed with Valentine to fight off Tito Santana and the
Junkyard Dog, both high ranked contenders for Valentine's Intercontinental title. In Toronto's
Maple Leaf Gardens on April 21, 1985 the Dream Team lost to Santana and
Ricky Steamboat in approximately 15 minutes. The match appears on the WWF's Coliseum Home Video release "Best of the WWF Vol. 4". On July 6, 1985 Santana regained the Intercontinental Title in a steel cage match Not long after Johnny Valiant became the sole manager of the Dream Team as the two started to team more and more regularly. Their initial shots at the tag team champions were unsuccessful but on August 24 at
The Spectrum in
Philadelphia the Dream Team won the tag team titles from the U.S. Express when Beefcake (
storyline) rubbed Luscious Johnny's lit cigar in Windham's eye. Besides defending against the Bulldogs the Dream Team also put the gold on the line against such teams as
The Killer Bees as well as the former champions the US Express (both versions). The Bulldogs remained a constant threat to the Dream Team as 1985 turned to 1986, finally the Dream Team agreed to give the Bulldogs one final tag team title shot at
WrestleMania 2. On April 7, 1986 the two teams met in the Chicago section of WrestleMania broadcast from the
Rosemont Horizon, with the addition of "Prince of Darkness"
Ozzy Osbourne in the Bulldogs’ corner the Dream Team finally ran out of tricks and lost the gold. A running gag on the WWF's weekly television was
Gorilla Monsoon's constant suggestion that the Dream Team never mentally got over the loss at WrestleMania 2, likely in acknowledgement of what many consider the best match on the card that night. Gorilla would always make a point to mention it happened in Chicago's Rosemont Horizon, the location Gorilla himself was stationed at for the event. As the summer passed the Dream Team found themselves facing the Killer Bees and the second version of the US Express instead of challenging for the gold. As 1986 turned to 1987 the Dream Team found themselves feuding with
The Fabulous Rougeaus (
Jaques and
Raymond). The team was also joined by Johnny Valiant's newest addition
Dino Bravo in six-man tag matches. Lack of championship success, not to mention Beefcake feeling muscled out by Bravo, began tension within the team. At
WrestleMania III the Dream Team and the Rougeaus clashed once again with the Dream Team winning due to Dino Bravo's interference. After the match Dino Bravo and Greg Valentine argued with Brutus Beefcake, kicking him off the team. after which they continued the long running feud with the Rougeau brothers splitting matches between them over the summer, often in six man matches with Beefcake joining the Rougeaus to take on Valentine, Bravo and Valiant. The Dream Team also had a couple of shots at the world tag team champions
The Hart Foundation (
Bret Hart and
Jim Neidhart), but did not manage to repeat the success of the original Dream Team. The New Dream Team's last major appearance as a team was at the inaugural
Survivor Series where they took part in a ten team, tag team elimination match. Valentine was pinned by
Paul Roma of
the Young Stallions, eliminating the team from the match. and
Dino Bravo came under the guidance of
Frenchy Martin. Valentine and Bravo would later be teammates in
Randy Savage's ''King's Court'' team at the
Survivor Series (1989), by which time Bravo had joined Valentine under Hart's management. That same night, Beefcake would appear in a different Dream Team, captained by
Dusty Rhodes. Valentine and Bravo would also later team up again up against
The Rockers on a WWF
VHS tape called
WWF Supertape, Volume 2 in 1990. Bravo left the WWF in 1992 after he retired from the sport. Beefcake was released by the company in 1993 and went to WCW. Valentine left the company in 1992 and went to WCW. He returned to WWF in 1993 and left in 1994 and went back to WCW.
Reunion (2003–2013) Valentine and Beefcake reunited for the first time in 16 years on November 1, 2003 defeating
The Powers Of Pain at The Road Warrior Hawk Memorial Show. Then they lost to
Hacksaw Jim Duggan and
Tito Santana at the debut of Power Wrestling Alliance on November 11, 2005 in Dix Hills, New York. On November 9, 2007 they won the BCW Tag Team Championship for Brew City Wrestling defeating Brandon Tatum and Dinn T. Moore. The titles were dropped as they lost to Hardcore Craig and Steve Stone on January 12, 2008. They continued wrestling in the independent circuit. On July 20, 2013 they won the AWF Tag Team Titles and later that year split up.
Aftermath Bravo was murdered on March 10, 1993 at his home in Laval, Quebec at 44. Valiant died after being hit by a car on April 4, 2018. After 2013, Beefcake retired from wrestling in 2015 and Valentine retired from wrestling in 2019. Valentine was inducted in the
WWE Hall of Fame in 2004 and Beefcake was inducted in 2019. ==Championships and accomplishments==