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

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 in 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 and were initially one of the most popular attractions in the federation. They feuded with Demolition (Ax & Smash) for the WWF World Tag Team Titles. They became the heels in the feud when Mr. Fuji turned on Demolition at Survivor Series 1988 and aligned himself with the Powers of Pain.

They failed to win the titles and were eventually split up in 1990, with the Barbarian being managed by Bobby Heenan, while the Warlord paired up with the Doctor of Style, Slick. The double turn between them and Demolition was seen to many as the catalyst of their sudden loss of popularity and subsequent push down the card.

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

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

They reformed their team in 2005 for Gladiator Championship Wrestling.

• National Wrestling Alliance

• NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ivan Koloff

• World Wide Wrestling Alliance

• WWWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated

• PWI ranked them # 97 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" in 2003.