Thread: Is the tag team scene dead?
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Old 10-23-2004, 06:50 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by Mr Sunday Night
The problem with the Tag Team division is that there aren't enough tag teams to cover two brands.

The WWE/World Heavyweight and Intercontinental/United States titles are all good and well because there are more than enough guys to fill the slots in those general areas. However, there is a REASON why the Cruiserweight and Womens Championships are on seperate brands, and that's because there are limited wrestlers for those divisions.

If there were two seperate Cruiserweight divisions for each Brand, it would probably be about 4-5 guys in each division, which would create monotony and a "dead" feeling toward the title scene. The same goes for the Women's Title.

The Tag Titles are no different. There are a limited number of tag teams on the roster (as a whole, RAW and SD), and by seperating them in half, it makes for two very boring areas of each show.

There are only three reasonable alternatives to the current situation.

1) Send the Tag Titles to Smackdown and bring back the Hardcore Title on RAW

-Smackdown is the more wrestling based brand, and focus more on actual wrestling than entertainment, so the Tag Titles would fit very well there. Rhyno/Tajiri, La Resistance, and Hurricane/Rosey could be traded to SD for some of SD's more "hardcore" wrestlers, and the Hardcore Title could be brought back to RAW to replace the missing division.

2) HIRE MORE TAG TEAMS!

-The indy scene is filled with great tag teams that are just waiting to enter the spotlight, so why not take advantage of them? If they hired maybe 5 or 6 more tag teams and sporadically introduced them to their respective brands, the tag scene could heat up quite a bit. The problem isn't in quality, the problem is in quantity, and both brands have very limited tag teams.

3) Shoot Vince McMahon

-Cause he doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
Mr Sunday Night, you just summed up everything I wanted to say, better than I was thinking it. The WWE don't have enough tag teams to really run two tag team divisions, so that's why we should see more of a sport based approach tot he division. If a tag team pick up a win on Velocity, give them a match on SmackDown!. This way you don't have teams like The FBI & The Basham Brothers rotting. Give makeshift tag teams stories. I wouldn't mind seeing Chris Jericho & Steven Richards serve as a tag team, as long as there was motive behind it, or they explained it right.

More tag teams need to be formed in a hurry. That's why I see Eugene Dinsmore & William Regal together in the forseeable future. Rodney Mack should be in a tag team. Maybe with Chuck Palumbo. I can see Chucky P in a "I think I'm black" sort of storyline. This would also give Jazz more storylines in the Women's division. Maven is also not going anywhere, but that could be fixed by puttin ghim in a team with let's say Garrison Cade. I think we should see new tag teams debut together (Like La Resistance did). Mohammad Hassan & Shawn Daivari would make an interesting tag team. I can see Edge & Benoit together as a sort of psychotic Edge tag team that destroy each other as much as their opponents.

The WWE has the tools at their disposal, and their riches can cover anything they can't. Building two tag team divisions of say 8-10 teams isn't that hard.
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