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I think the WWE can rebuild each individual tag team scene with effort.
It just dawned on me that the six men that have ever won a TLC Match is on RAW. Image if that was used to rebuild the tag division? A TLC Match is held at WrestleMania, with the three teams reuniting to decide who should get the World Tag Team Championship shot at Backlash. Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho vs. Edge & Christian vs. Kane & The Hurricane. Edge & Christian win and we are all set for Backlash with William Regal & Tajiri vs. Edge & Christian.
After WrestleMania, however, you have Vince McMahon say that anyone 220lbs or under can leave RAW for SmackDown! so they can access the cruiserweight division. The Hurricane, Tajiri & Simon Dean take Vince up on this, so now we have a vacancy for the World Tag Team Championship.
The RAW scene now has Edge & Christian, Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho & La Resistance, with no champions. Matt Hardy & Rhyno who are jealous that with their part in TLC history went unnoticed form a tag team to add to the RAW ranks. The Shane Twins also debut on RAW. When Steven Richards returns from his injury, he makes a partnership with Val Venis.
At Backlash we see Edge & Christian vs. Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho for the vacant World Tag Team Championship. Matt Hardy & Rhyno interfere with steel chairs, but since they hit Edge & Christian first, the heels push it so that they are named the official winners and the new World Tag Team Champions. You then have tag team feuds spread from there.
So on RAW our tag team scene ends up something like this:
Edge & Christian (Champions)
Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho
Matt Hardy & Rhyno
La Resistance
Val Venis & Steven Richards
The Shane Twins
Chris Masters & Brent Albright (bring up the other Troublesooter)
And in dire emergeancy, Muhammad Hassan & Khosrow Daivari
On SmackDown!, Eddie & Rey have a falling ou, and their match at WrestleMania allows the winner to name a new tag team partner to cary the WWE Tag Team Championship. Eddie Guerrero wins, and he consders a lot of people for the role, including Charlie Haas & Tajiri. He eventually chooses Chavo Guerrero, however, and they reveal the "don't trust a Guerrero" stuff was all planned by them so they can become the ONLY three-time WWE Tag Team Champions in the titles' history.
This pisses off Rey Mysterio AND Paul London (who was screwed by a masked man out of the Crusierweight Championship at WrestleMania, now obviously Eddie). These two men become the first challengers to the reformed Los Guerreros.
The Basham Brothers stick around, as do Rene Dupree & Kenzo Suzuki. Hardcore Holly & Charlie Haas continue their on and off tag team scheme. They also run an angle where Simon Dean loses a match, then in frustration he shoves a bottle of fitness pills down his throat. The pills release so much energy in Simon Dean that he becomes an entity known as "Nova". We then see him strike an allegiance with The Hurricane, and The Justice Legion is born.
Add in Funaki & Akio, Scotty 2 Hotty & Shannon Moore and Nunzio & Tony Mamaluke (keep him under contract after he does the ECW PPV) and you now have:
Los Guerreros (Champions)
Rey Mysterio & Paul London
The Basham Brothers
Rene Dupree & Kenzo Suzuki
Hardcore Holly & Charlie Haas
The Justice Legion (The Hurricane & Nova)
Funaki & Akio (Kaientai? Kyo Dai? Futari no Asskickers?)
Scotty 2 Hotty & Shannon Moore
The Dudley Boyz (Bring them back as the veteran tag team of SmackDown! as the parallell to Edge & Christian)
With some solid booking after that, I think the tag team scene in the WWE would look alright.
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