Brodus & Tensai

[#hamler]

From what I saw last night, I actually liked the team for the most part. Brodus Clay and Tensai remind me a lot of one another; both sport a similar build in height and weight, covered in body art and have that monstrous type feeling to them. It’s easy to see why the WWE would pair these two up. It is pretty well known that both Tensai and Brodus have fallen quite a bit since their re-debuts in WWE. They needed something for both of them to do and here, they're killing two birds with one stone. I have said it before; I'm all for pairing the most irrelevant guys on the roster to bring back the shitty tag team division. It gives Brodus a breath of fresh air while making Tensai not look like a total waste of opportunity. I'm interested to see if these two do anything other than comedic skits and throw-away matches as they do have potential.

[WWE4EVA!]

They look like a good team and they have already defeated a well established Team, I could see them holding the Tag Team Championships in the future as long as Wwe does not lose faith in them.

[VictorySauce23]

They are working well together. They are very similar in height and weight. I think that they are next in line for the tag titles. We'll just have to wait and see.

[DirtyD79]

Originally Posted by Jack-Hammer

One thing a lot of us are guilty of at times, me included, is forgetting that just because you're not exactly the top star in the company, or anywhere close to it, doesn't mean you can't be over with fans. Tensai is out there dancing around with Brodus and people are generally enjoying it. It's harmless and as long as WWE doesn't devote a huge amount of time to it, then there's no real problem.

That's the thing a lot of the IWC just doesn't understand about putting together a show. You need solid performers throughout the card. If you got a dull undercard fans are gonna be bored and change the channel by the time the main event comes on. Or they'll skip over the undercard and just tune in for the main event. Neither of which are what you want when you're trying to sell a whole show.

[Mustang Sally]

Originally Posted by DirtyD79

That's the thing a lot of the IWC just doesn't understand about putting together a show. You need solid performers throughout the card. If you got a dull undercard fans are gonna be bored and change the channel by the time the main event comes on. Or they'll skip over the undercard and just tune in for the main event. Neither of which are what you want when you're trying to sell a whole show.

Valid point. Even though the WWE machine calls every performer a superstar, the idea of that being so is ridiculous. If every match on every card qualified as the main event, there would be nothing to compare it to, right? Everyone can't be at the top.

In many ways, it's harder to be a successful mid-carder than main eventer because the lower-card guys don't receive the publicity garnered by the upper-class. Of course, the mid-guys also have a lesser standard to measure up to, so everyone has to work to merit their place in the pecking order.

Now that Brodus Clay's career has been going so long, I see how wrong I was about him. At first, the enormous amount of attention given him made me certain he was being designated as a future champion. Now, though, I don't think that was ever the intention; I believe his career has run the course originally intended for him; an entertainment act with early success for a guy who isn't much of a wrestler. After all the pomp & circumstance ran it's course, the company needed to find a new niche for him. Since he still is nothing more than a crude brawler, Creative found a way for him to change up his act without really changing it at all.....they just gave him a partner to provide some contrast. Fans like the dancing, so it remains. If they ever want to make Tensai and Brodus a more serious team, the next step will be getting rid of the girls.

There's still some room to grow for Brodus....and this pairing apparently also provided salvation for Matt Bloom.

Everything is proceeding as it should.