jeudi 24 juillet 2014

Is the Tag Team division going downhill?

The Uso's have been feuding with the Wyatt's and they've produced some spectacular matches, but I keep wishing that we'd see something else. I honestly wanted the Wyatt's to win at Battleground, so they could find a new enemy (as the other heel teams haven't been pushed), but then it occured to me...who else is there?



-The Rhodes Brothers: While their vignettes appear on a weekly basis, it doesn't seem like they've done much wrestling lately.



- Rybaxel: The jobbing heel team, who only seems to score a win these days when it's designed to set up a future loss (example: they beat the Rhodes Brothers to set up Stardust, who promptly squashed them. It seems to be happening again with Kofi/Big E). I actually want this team to break up, as I think Ryback would make a bigger singles competitor.



- Kofi/Big E: I'm presuming WWE has a tag team program with these two, possibly setting up the New Nation of Domination. It's unknown whether they will get a push for it, but I presume so.



- Titus/Slater: I'm not sure if these guys will stay together or if they just were paired to job for the relevant tag teams.



Unless I'm forgetting someone, that's it. Of the six teams, only three are treated as relevant. But compare that to just six months ago, where you had.



-Uso's

-Wyatt's

-Rhodes

-Rybaxel

-Shield

-3MB

-Real Americans

-Big Show/Rey Mysterio

- New Age Outlaws

-Los Matadores (one of them is injured now).

-Brodus Clay/Tensai

- R-Truth/Xavier Woods



Furthermore, it seemed like these teams had bigger pushes, like they could have major feuds with whoever was champion at any time.



Also, creative has written themselves into a hole where the tag team belts seem mostly irrelevant in terms of story. The Uso's have primarily been working as bodyguards to the more relevant feuds, spending their screen-time defending Cena, Sheamus and now possibly Jericho. If the Wyatt's won, their belts would be overshadowed by Bray. I guess that's just a problem with this feud, as the Uso/Wyatt confrontations take a backseat to the whomever/Bray storyline (even if they have the better matches).



I stopped watching wrestling around 2003 and only began checking it out again late last year (before TLC), so is this a re-occurring thing? I only remember the days of the Hardy Brothers, Edge/Christian, the Dudley's, etc...but I do remember when each of those teams split up, so maybe I've simply forgotten when the division went downhill during the Attitude era. It just seems kind of sudden that we have a bunch of tag teams which are treated as relevant, but then a few months later, only a handful remain and even fewer as treated as legitimate threats.




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