[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by MoFo Dunno why evryone hates 'thrown together tag teams' IMO they are the best kind... Would you rather see boring ass Hart Dynasty or Usos rather than ShowMiz or JeriShow?

The problem isn't so much that everyone hates "thrown together tag teams" just for the sake of hate. It is the idea that THAT is what tag teaming has been reduced to.

Yes, teams like JeriShow or Rated RKO have their place, but as was pointed out before, lots of times this is just to further a main event angle. Once that ride is over, the team goes away. Half the time, they don't even get a "name".

Hart Dynasty was kind of an unfair point of reference. When they showed up, the only "legit" tag teams that were sold to be a unit were them and Cryme Tyme. Pretty much everyone else were singles competitors teaming against the "established" team just for TV time.

Remember the New Age Outlaws? Remember how over they got, mostly from the strength of Road Dogg's mic work? Yeah, they were two singles guys going nowhere, but found new life as one of the most memorable tag teams ever. Forget these IWC fantasies that either nobody will care about two random people forming a team or that if they tagged in the indys and go on to become established singles stars their pairing will be too random. I know I'm jumping to TNA with this, but MCMG and Beer Money disproved both of those. Outside of the IWC, how many people knew the Guns were previously a SUCCESSFUL team just from watching TNA? You just had one guy who was an on/off X-Div talent and another guy who walked around with a freakin' camcorder. Beer Money was kinda thrown together, and look at their success. It wasn't just their workrate, they also made people care. They made people notice. They made their team look the shit. I daresay it is one of the few things TNA got right in at least giving teams a shot at establishing themselves. We'll save the clusterfucks that happen after that for another argument.

Now think about the recently split Ink Inc. Think about how long they were a team, and slowly got themselves over. Now think about the fact that this never would have happened in the 'E. Shannon Moore would have been jobbed off the face of the earth (they proved that when his build and "debut" was spoiled by CM Punk) and Jessie Neal would have been pushed just from his size, exposed as being super green, and possibly future endeavored without these two ever crossing paths.

WWE has plenty of flailing talent that aren't doing anything better. It shouldn't matter if they are an established team or not. Pair them up, make people CARE that they're paired up, and give them a nudge in the right direction (i.e. make the Tag Titles mean something and have them chase it). It couldn't hurt.

Also, try to make more than one or two freakin' teams at a time. You can't have a tag team "division" with just The Usos and Air Boom. It's like having a Divas division and only having Nattie and Beth everynight. Yes, I know that's the better of the workers, but imagine they're the ONLY TWO ladies even on the roster and they have an eternal feud for the piss-break butterfly belt every week. It would get stale quick.