Tag Teams in WWE

[Jeritron]

This is why TNA should make tag team wrestling a major focal point. Just because they have more of a tag division than WWE, doesn't mean they make it a big deal. It's not really any more important or higher up the card than it is in WWE.

They should experiment with the idea of making the tag team titles = the world title. It could differentiate the product and offer something WWE doesn't to a group of fans that wants it. Instead of worrying about doing certain things at half of WWE's level, they should do something like this better than them.

For instance, RVD and Jeff Hardy being packaged in a tag team is stupid when they are lower down the card. It's a waste of two huge talents. If they are pushed and treated as equal to world title status, this could mean volumes for them and the tag team division.
WWE did this for a very brief time with the Two Man Power Trip, and their fueds with Taker/Kane and Jericho/Benoit.

RVD/Jeff Hardy vs Beer Money, or a team of Angle/Joe, could main event PPVs.

[DLVH84]

Originally Posted by Jeritron This is why TNA should make tag team wrestling a major focal point. Just because they have more of a tag division than WWE, doesn't mean they make it a big deal. It's not really any more important or higher up the card than it is in WWE. They should experiment with the idea of making the tag team titles = the world title. It could differentiate the product and offer something WWE doesn't to a group of fans that wants it. Instead of worrying about doing certain things at half of WWE's level, they should do something like this better than them. For instance, RVD and Jeff Hardy being packaged in a tag team is stupid when they are lower down the card. It's a waste of two huge talents. If they are pushed and treated as equal to world title status, this could mean volumes for them and the tag team division. WWE did this for a very brief time with the Two Man Power Trip, and their fueds with Taker/Kane and Jericho/Benoit. RVD/Jeff Hardy vs Beer Money, or a team of Angle/Joe, could main event PPVs.

Exactly. As far as Tag Team wrestling goes today, TNA beat WWE by miles. It's just that they have to step it up and make Tag Teams a vocal point, just like the Knockouts and the X-Division.

[tjmidnight420]

Originally Posted by Jeritron This is why TNA should make tag team wrestling a major focal point. Just because they have more of a tag division than WWE, doesn't mean they make it a big deal. It's not really any more important or higher up the card than it is in WWE. They should experiment with the idea of making the tag team titles = the world title. It could differentiate the product and offer something WWE doesn't to a group of fans that wants it. Instead of worrying about doing certain things at half of WWE's level, they should do something like this better than them. For instance, RVD and Jeff Hardy being packaged in a tag team is stupid when they are lower down the card. It's a waste of two huge talents. If they are pushed and treated as equal to world title status, this could mean volumes for them and the tag team division. WWE did this for a very brief time with the Two Man Power Trip, and their fueds with Taker/Kane and Jericho/Benoit. RVD/Jeff Hardy vs Beer Money, or a team of Angle/Joe, could main event PPVs.

Book it... Seriously... I miss tag team wrestling being done right...

[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by Jeritron This is why TNA should make tag team wrestling a major focal point. Just because they have more of a tag division than WWE, doesn't mean they make it a big deal. It's not really any more important or higher up the card than it is in WWE. They should experiment with the idea of making the tag team titles = the world title. It could differentiate the product and offer something WWE doesn't to a group of fans that wants it. Instead of worrying about doing certain things at half of WWE's level, they should do something like this better than them. For instance, RVD and Jeff Hardy being packaged in a tag team is stupid when they are lower down the card. It's a waste of two huge talents. If they are pushed and treated as equal to world title status, this could mean volumes for them and the tag team division. WWE did this for a very brief time with the Two Man Power Trip, and their fueds with Taker/Kane and Jericho/Benoit. RVD/Jeff Hardy vs Beer Money, or a team of Angle/Joe, could main event PPVs.

I agree with this. That's part of the reason I feel the Knockout Division does so well for TNA -- the WWE have such a shitty women's division. As you said, if they don't try and do what the WWE is doing as well as them, look at the vacuum and present what people aren't getting -- things could work out great for them. Then they'd truly be an "alternative" product.

Back in the day, I used to like it how TNA would put their title matches on last. All of them. Sometimes in a funky order, too (I remember a PPV where the X-Division closed, for example). I got the impression that being a champion of anything meant more than not being a champion. This is how you make belts mean something.

I like to think of tag team wrestling as a science. Instead of just knowing one guy (your opponent), you have to know three (your two opponents and your partner). It requires a great mental mastery and an entirely different strategy. I also like the idea of the Tag Team Champions heading up the company with the World Champion. I mean, sure, the World Heavyweight Champion gets the glory for themselves, but the Tag Team Champions can also say "get any two guys, and we can beat them." You are also a World Champion -- you just have a partner and beat two guys instead of one.

If they sign Paul London, and do a Three-Way Ladder Match between Londrick, The Motor City Machine Guns and Generation Me -- you're essentially recreating the excitement Edge & Christian, The Hardys and The Dudleys presented people in 2000-2001. If you want more of a "grounded team," you've got Beer Money, who are amazing (and not without credibility).

The same thing goes for the X-Division. They're trying, but it still feels like they are confusing it for a cruiserweight division. The idea was all about the style the guys would offer. Some smaller guys should be in the TNA World Title scene right now (AJ Styles, for example), but I'd love to see Kurt Angle, Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy step into the X-Division. Angle has said he'd be willing to do it.

If I were in charge of bringing Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy into the company, I would have had them both cut promos about the thing attracting them to TNA is the lifestyle the X-Division represents, and how they want to master that style of wrestling here. The crowd was pretty much begging for Doug Williams vs. Rob Van Dam for the X-Division Title after Williams beat Shannon Moore. If RVD put over winning the X-Division belt as meaning more than being the WWE Champion, it would be huge.

Samoa Joe isn't really doing anything, and with the main event clogged, and if you had some bigger stars in there, Joe returning to the X-Division would not be horrible, either. He is a guy you could make a case for being in the main event, but I'm imagining Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Jeff Hardy for the X-Division Title, and I cannot imagine Samoa Joe being "pissed."