Valiant Brothers The Valiant Brothers were a professional wrestling tag team of storyline brothers " Handsome " Jimmy Valiant , " Luscious " Johnny Valiant , and " Gentleman " Jerry Valiant . The team wrestled for National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) , World Wide Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Federation ( WWWF / WWF ) and World Wrestling Association ( WWA ) . History . Jimmy and Johnny . World Wrestling Association ( 1974 ) . Jimmy Valiant and Johnny Valiant formed a tag team in World Wrestling Association as storyline brothers . They began wrestling together as heels . They debuted as a team on January 5 , 1974 when they defeated Dick the Bruiser and Bruno Sammartino to win the WWA World Tag Team Championship . The titles were held up after a match against Bruiser and Sammartino on January 25 . On February 7 , they defeated Bruiser and Sammartino in a rematch to win the titles , a second time . They became the most popular heel tag team in WWA during their second reign . Their tenure with WWA ended after they lost the tag titles to Wilbur Snyder and Pepper Gomez on May 4 . World Wide Wrestling Federation ( 1974 - 1975 ) . Jimmy and Johnny signed with Vincent J . McMahon ' s World Wide Wrestling Federation ( WWWF ) in May 1974 and debuted there around that same time . Their biggest success as a tag team came when they defeated Tony Garea and Dean Ho to win the WWWF World Tag Team Championship on May 8 , 1974 edition of " All Star Wrestling " . Valiants quickly became a dominant heel tag team as they went on to successfully defend their titles throughout the entire year . They held and defended the titles for over a year before losing them to Dominic DeNucci and Victor Rivera on May 13 , 1975 . This made Valiant Brothers , the longest reigning champions of their era with a reign of 370 days before the record was broken , fourteen years later by Demolition ( Ax and Smash ) , who reigned as tag team champions for 470 days . After losing the titles , Valiants battled against the likes of Tony Garea , Dean Ho , Chief Jay Strongbow and Haystacks Calhoun . National Wrestling Alliance ( 1976 - 1978 ) . In 1976 , Jimmy and Johnny left WWWF and joined National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) where they toured NWA territories . They debuted in Georgia Championship Wrestling ( GCW ) in the summer of 1976 . On July 16 , 1976 , they defeated Dean Ho and Ken Mantell to win the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship . On September 10 , they lost the titles to Porkchop Cash and Tom Jones . They joined San Francisco , California based NWA San Francisco where they defeated Royal Kangaroos ( Jonathan Boyd and Norman Frederick Charles III ) on December 4 , 1976 . They lost the titles to Pat Patterson and Pepper Gomez on February 9 , 1977 . Later that same year , they joined Championship Wrestling from Florida ( CWF ) . In January 1978 , they were awarded the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship . On January 25 , 1978 , they lost the titles to Florida natives Mike Graham and Steve Keirn . Jerry and Johnny . World Wide Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Federation ( 1978 - 1979 ) . In 1978 , Valiant Brothers returned to WWWF but Jimmy retired and was replaced by " brother " Jerry Valiant . Jerry and Johnny began wrestling in the tag team division while Jimmy became their manager . In March 1979 , the promotion was renamed World Wrestling Federation , dropping ' Wide ' from the name . On March 24 , 1979 edition of " Championship Wrestling " , Jerry and Johnny defeated Larry Zbyzsko and Tony Garea to win the WWF Tag Team Championship . This second version of Valiant Brothers was also successful but Jerry could not achieve the popularity which Jimmy had achieved . Jerry and Johnny lost the titles to Ivan Putski and Tito Santana on October 22 . After unsuccessful attempts in winning back the titles from Putski and Santana , Valiant Brothers broke up in the new year 1980 , putting an end to the team . Aftermath . Jimmy and Johnny were inducted into the 1996 Hall of Fame by Owen Hart and British Bulldog . All the three Valiant Brothers , have reunited one time in the independent circuit during the 2000s .