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Originally Posted by King Jericho
No, I think they shouldn't, but instead of creating a new division they should concertrate on making the tag titles on both brands, a better division with more diversity and depth.
Smackdown was on its way, when they had Eddie and Chavo paired together, but they split up, which is a good thing because Eddie is champ, also they had TWGTT (Haas and Benjamin) which were an awesome team, but obviously they had to get split up some time or another because of there use and look of these guys in the single's division, also the Bashams, imo they aren't bad, they just need more of a push and an angle and they have it, it was on they way when they keep costing people singles matches by swapping places during mid match.
With the exception of The Rock and Sock Connection, DO NOT GIVE THE TITLES TO TWO GUYS WHO AREN'T A TAG TEAM.
When two guys, perfect example Edge and Benoit, win the titles, it makes other, proper tag teams look BAD, when they lose, usually when two guys are partnered together for the first time in a tag match against the champs, they win, which makes the proper team look weak, and causes the division to look weak. In the case of Benoit and Edge, them betting Batista and Flair still makes the division look weak, cos Flair and Batista are in a team.
They need to do what they did before, BRING IN YOUNG TALENT to the tag division, the brought in the Hardys, E+C, Dudleys etc etc, they need to start this again, say York and Matthews from ECW.  |
This is all so true, but then again (and let's concentrate specifically on paragraph 3 here), what are the alternatives on Raw right now? La Resistance v2.07? Hurricane and Rosey? A bunch of others that I can neither remember nor get interested in when they all just get broken up after about two weeks anyway?
Half the problem comes with the way the belts are once again flying around from team to team every week while they try desperately to find a pairing that works long term. It sort of reminds me of 1999 all over again when the belts were changing hands every two weeks and it wasn't until Edge and Christian brought some respectability back to the titles that things slowed down and I started caring again. Same with 2001, except they didn't actually sort things out the next year particularly (unless you count Billy & Chuck's mildly sort of longish title reign, at least compared to everyone else and if you ignore the Rikishi-Rico angle which was pointless and went nowhere).
Actually it's the same on Smackdown. Rikishi and Scotty? Who cares? Rico and Haas? Hey, I like both guys individually (as I do Benoit and Edge) but slapping the belts on them on their first outing as a team (or second, or third... whatever) isn't going to appease me loads. And the Dudleys I've long since stopped caring about and the Bashams are OK but about as over as something else which gets very little reaction.
Frankly, they're better off right now creating some (IE lots - think back to when they had enough guys on their roster to have those huge 10 vs 10 Survivor Series matches) new teams with new guys or guys that have done jack for the last six months and establishing them all as proper tag teams, then giving the most over teams six months with the belts or something. Seriously, are tag team divisions really THAT hard to book? Create some teams, pair them all off in feuds, maybe give some of the heel teams a manager, then have Jesse Ventura talk about how the losers of the next match will drop down the imaginary ladder while the winners will probably get a tag title shot.
On a final note, a lesser man would note that they could be picking up guys who aren't doing anything, creating new teams and revitalising the division, but instead decide that they can't think of anything to do with either Kanyon or Sean O'Haire, but I'm above that so I won't.