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Yea, to get the Tag Belts to matter you need a truly great tag team. And that doesn't mean just a pairing of two great wrestlers who are already over. It means a team thats got its own identity as a unit other than individuals, and that works well together.
This is why the Tag Division was arguably the draw in many cases around 2000-2001. This was thanks to The Hardys The Dudleys and E&C all together creating a great thing. They had great support from teams like APA and Too Cool as well. Plus the TLC matches didn't hurt things.
It also isn't beyond possibility for a great tag team to carry the division alone and make the belts worth a damn without a great division. But it takes a lot of. This was done by the NAO.
This is what made tag team wrestling great, diverse teams in a large division that were TEAMS and not teamups. It's hard to say when this could come again, but I doubt it happening with brand extension. BE hurts tag team wrestling more than any other aspect simply by nature. In tag team wrestling its a specific type of wrestling thats unique to itself and the tag titles represent the pinnacle of the entire division.
This is hard to achieve with 2 sets of belts. With other titles you can easily support their divisions because its singles wrestling and they're just different titles. Most of all tho, its the splitting of what would normally be one division into two identical divisions, only half as powerful.
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