WWE Tag Team Division Discussion

[PSF]

Do you live in opposite land?

 

Do you have a point?

 

Kids will never give a shit about New Nexus vs Uso's, no matter how good it is when later in the night, they will see their favourite single guys facing the big baddies in a tag team match. I'm sure it would have been the same when I was a kid. I'd be skipping past the Killer Bee's vs Hart Foundation if the Main event of the show was Hogan and Warrior teaming up.

 

Sure during the late nineties their was still a very good tag division, but the tag team main events were only comonly used in the mid to late ninties which is when the tag division started slowly being watered down.

 

Although I agree with most of what Dirty Eddie said there.

[Richie Freebird]

Jim Ross was always class at putting over how well tag teams work together and how unique and exciting their offense can be.

 

Bradshaw used to be quite good at doing this too. The way he used to put over Regal and Dave Taylor as true smash mouth bad arses was really a breath of fresh air in mainstream wrestling. What a guy he was. Best heel commentator since the Brain packed in.

 

I don't think the issue is with their looks, it's with their actual matches. They're even spottier than Daniels. When they work heel, they tone it down, but even then it's still difficult to watch.

 

I think they are absolute quality me, and the second best

[RepoMan]

Big singles stars teaming together has a completely different dynamic to regular tag teams though.

 

You get a completely different style from a team that are together on a constant basis, feuding with similar teams. I don't see why anyone would skip that just because there's a tag team main event instead. That just doesn't make any sense.

[Loki]

I think the key is, as Eddie said, what happens when a top level specialist tag team fights a couple of singles stars.

 

In the era of the Dudleys and so on, the tag team would often come out on top, usually due to miscommunication between the singles stars. I remember teams like that beating teams like Taker/Kane even. They might lose singles matches as relative squashes, but in their specialist field they were the best. TNA still does this with guys like Beer Money.

 

In recent years we've seen singles wrestlers beating tag teams on their own in 2 on 1s. That makes the whole tag division seem weak and secondary.

 

Bringing in even a couple of good tag teams and pushing them as important will raise the whole division - they can put together teams from within their extensive mid/lowcard talent and being them up. I'd also bring back well known teams from the recent past - WGTT, The Colons and so on.

[Dirty Eddie]

I think the key is, as Eddie said, what happens when a top level specialist tag team fights a couple of singles stars.

 

In the era of the Dudleys and so on, the tag team would often come out on top, usually due to miscommunication between the singles stars. I remember teams like that beating teams like Taker/Kane even. They might lose singles matches as relative squashes, but in their specialist field they were the best. TNA still does this with guys like Beer Money.

 

In recent years we've seen singles wrestlers beating tag teams on their own in 2 on 1s. That makes the whole tag division seem weak and secondary.

 

Bringing in even a couple of good tag teams and pushing them as important will raise the whole division - they can put together teams from within their extensive mid/lowcard talent and being them up. I'd also bring back well known teams from the recent past - WGTT, The Colons and so on.

 

 

Exactly, perception is reality; treat the teams as special and they should be seen that way.

 

WWE has fallen into the handicap match jobbers territory with tag teams at various points in the recent past. I recall Batista quishing La Resistance in a two on one, and of course there was Triple H giving pedigrees to both London and Kendrick for a laugh. All that needs to be stopped, unless it's with full-on jobber tag teams (Conquistadors, Job Squad types etc..) but even then, hardly a 'good' idea.

 

I still think a tag team NXT would be a great starting point for a renewed division. Stick 6 or 8 new teams with tag Division 'legends' like Arn Anderson, Ron Simmons, Road Warrior Animal, Sunny, etc... and just see who can get over. Even if you only get 3 new teams over, that's three more than can go straight into the Tag Division as ready-made teams.

[Carbomb]

That's the kind of thing that will get trained out of them, isn't it. I remember a comment HHH made shortly after Punk was first signed in which he said something along the lines of "he's just a small guy who stole a load of Japanese moves", and after some time in development he simplified his offense and fit in perfectly. I'm not saying that the Briscoe's should be on TV now, all I'm saying is that they have a gimmick, which is more than can be said of the current tag champions.

 

Oh yeah, I'd agree with that. Not sure why, but I somehow got the impression you meant they should be signed and put on TV straight away. Apologies.

 

Side note: "McGillicutty & Otunga" sounds a little like "Mulligan & O'Hare". Give them bizarre folk singer gimmicks, and watch them make a ton of cash. It's money, I tell you. Would've been better if we could've had (Blackjack) Mulligan & (Sean) O'Haire, but you can't have everything.

[Loki]

You know, I've been looking back through the history of the tag belts (both ones) to find some decent tag teams from the last decade, and it's an unbelievably poor record. Once you get past the era of Benoit/Angle and Los Guerreros, it just drops away to utter shite. No teams that lasted more than a year or so. No wonder they've practically abandoned it.

[Vito]

Oh yeah, I'd agree with that. Not sure why, but I somehow got the impression you meant they should be signed and put on TV straight away. Apologies.

No way! I'm not one of those people who thinks that [indy guy #239847] should be brought in and become WWE Champion on his first night. All I'm saying is that The Briscoe's have potential and would be a worthwhile investment should the WWE begin hoovering up tag teams.

 

Aside from The Kings, The Briscoe's and Beer Money I can't think of many teams who could be worth signing. The original LAX could have been worth a look as they were insanely over in TNA at one point, I know a lot of people had a problem with Homicide's height but he was still taller than Mysterio, and Konnan delivered some blistering promos as their manager. I like big-guy-small-guy tag teams.

[PSF]

You know, I've been looking back through the history of the tag belts (both ones) to find some decent tag teams from the last decade, and it's an unbelievably poor record. Once you get past the era of Benoit/Angle and Los Guerreros, it just drops away to utter shite. No teams that lasted more than a year or so. No wonder they've practically abandoned it.

 

It really is. I don't even remember some of them ever having the titles.

 

I challenge anyone to finish this without cheating, don't care what the time limit is, it can't be done!

 

http://www.sporcle.com/games/BigHugsHighFi...ftagchampspart2

[Dirty Eddie]

MNM with Melina were a great heel tag team, and Miz & Morrison became a great team for general all-around entertainment.

 

These days I actually quite like the Uno's, though that may only be because they are the only WWE team a name and proper matching gear!

 

KOW are a great signing, I just hope WWE does them justice.

[Richie Freebird]

Side note: "McGillicutty & Otunga" sounds a little like "Mulligan & O'Hare". Give them bizarre folk singer gimmicks, and watch them make a ton of cash. It's money, I tell you.

 

Only if the cover Hennig

[RepoMan]

MNM with Melina were a great heel tag team, and Miz & Morrison became a great team for general all-around entertainment.

 

These days I actually quite like the Uno's, though that may only be because they are the only WWE team a name and proper matching gear!

 

KOW are a great signing, I just hope WWE does them justice.

I assume you mean the Usos, unless there's a group named after the game, which could be cool ..

[Dirty Eddie]

I assume you mean the Usos, unless there's a group named after the game, which could be cool ..

Haha, do'h! I even edited that for another typo.

 

I just tried the quiz posted above, I got 103 out of 151. Mostly missing people from the later half of the decade. Forgot all about the Spirit Squad, so i guess job well done WWE, on that front.

[PSF]

Haha, do'h! I even edited that for another typo.

 

I just tried the quiz posted above, I got 103 out of 151. Mostly missing people from the later half of the decade. Forgot all about the Spirit Squad, so i guess job well done WWE, on that front.

 

Anyone that can name all four of Cena's tag reigns will impress me tbh, I may have got two if I really thought about it.

[Vito]

I challenge anyone to finish this without cheating, don't care what the time limit is, it can't be done!

 

http://www.sporcle.com/games/BigHugsHighFi...ftagchampspart2

I got 105 out of 151.

 

I spent absolutely ages trying to figure out who had tagged with Billy Gunn in '02 and Goodfather in '00, turns out it was Chuck Palumbo and Bull Buchanan. I totally forgot about Too Cool too.