Bobby Roode & Austin Aries are the *NEW* TNA World Tag Team Champions

[HBsam31]

I am also mixed about this. I like the two together, but there isn't many opponents for them. I would like to see them feud with Bad Influence, but it would be nice if there were some more face teams. I also am not sure about Roode being put into a tag team again. Don't get me wrong, the tag teams he was in were great, but I just don't want this one to go on too long so he can get back to singles. That being said I still think they make an entertaining team, and I hope putting the belts on them means that the division will get a jump start.

[HamSwissman]

I like it. I'm getting a Two-Man Power Trip feeling from Aries and Roode. I could even see flipping Bad Influence to a babyface/tweener team and having an amazing feud with these two.

[blockanWo]

I thought it was a fantastic match and the swerve was well done. I like someone else said earlier in the thread, got out of my chair and cheered. It was an awesome build up to the pin and I am glad the belts are off Chavo and Hernandez. I would love to see Daniels and Kaz fued with them with Roode and Aries now becoming more of an anti hero type team.

Roode and Aries right now are money. They are the best things in TNA and Im excited to see where this goes.

[Da Big Champ]

I like this as I am a fan of both wrestlers however I hope they still go after all the titles. I can see them both being a type of Miz and Morrison type team where they eventually become best friends. I like the idea of a 2 man power team but both men look like they could also lose which is good for teams that face them. On the whole I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes

[MINISTRYrising]

I think this is a great move by TNA, They are two of the best wrestlers around at the moment and have great chemistry. All TNA need to do now is give them some good compitition to face in the ring and the Tag division will start looking a lot better.

[Papa Pillman]

Originally Posted by Feedback

I think it's silly that Roode and Austin are teaming after they hated each other last year. Bad blood like that doesn't just die without some serious character development.

Their mutual hatred of Hardy was the character development that drove them together. And it's not like there is still not a sense of dissention and one-ups-manship between them, that underlying component where you know that each man still thinks he's better and would stab the other in the back to get what he wants belies their union and makes it more acceptable.

I also find it silly how TNA had booked Roode as their top face for 2011

Roode was only the top babyface in the comapny for about six weeks. The gap between him winning the BFG series at No Surrender, and him turning on Storm shortly after BFG. Roode's whole main event face push was built around him finally ascending to the top and taking the belt off of the heel champ Angle. Roode's drive to be champ which brought him so close to his goal only to see him crushed by not acheiving it, combined with watching his partner get the glory he so strongly felt he deserved lead to a logical heel turn. And he's been the company's top heel ever since. That's been like 16 months ago.

Austin Aries as their top face for 2012

Aries was a heel who the crowd made a face through their reactions to him. There was very little difference between "heel Aries" and "face Aries". He really only toned down the heelish apects of his character for the short stretch between just before Dest-X until just before BFG, roughly three months. And his motivation for starting to stress his more heelish tendencies again was as a result of the fact that he was upset/jealous about the fact that he perceived Hardy to be the favorite in the eyes of both the crowd and the powers backstage. Further illustrating that he was possibly never the top face to begin with.

and now have them both as heels for all of 2013. Obviously, no one wants to see a character get stale, but this type of writing makes people reluctant to cheer for the next top face knowing he's going to "turn on the crowd" at any given moment.

Roode has been a heel for nearly a year and a half. Aries has been a heel this entire latest run with the company apart from about 12 weeks where he merely toned it down. I don't see where they have done some egregious level of flip-flopping that should jeopardize the fanbase's perception of the face/heel dynamic. They have also changed nothing about their character's during their union. In fact Roode's bond with Aries is eerily reminiscent of his "Abs and Calves" bond with Bully, furthering the notion that his character has actually been very consistently booked for an extended period of time, which flies in the face of the point you're trying to make.

Also to quickly address this off-topic...

Originally Posted by MB1025

Hopefully when Sabin gets healthy they can get the Guns back.

Shelley is now under contract with NJPW so don't expect him to make any big returns to any US-based wrestling company anytime in the forseeable future.

[I am Mr. Excitement]

I am also mixed about this. I like the two together, but there isn't many opponents for them.

Joey Ryan and Matt Morgan doesn't ring a bell for you? I think that TNA wants to turn them face even though Aries/Roode both work better as heels. But I think the fans would turn them face if they were fueding with Morgan/Ryan.

[Spinebreaker]

Originally Posted by Feedback

I think it's silly that Roode and Austin are teaming after they hated each other last year. Bad blood like that doesn't just die without some serious character development.

This is wrestling. A guy can be powerbombed through a table by a guy one week and fist-bumping/hugging the next.

Originally Posted by Feedback

now have them both as heels for all of 2013.

*ALL* 40 or so days of 2013?

a few people have mentioned Hernandez & Chavo, & why they haven't really worked... I honestly don't understand WHY TNA thought they *could* work.

They took a second rate Guerrero who's poor on the mic, put him with Hernandez, who always works in tag-teams 'cause he's poor on the mic and create a third rate LAX...

I see a turn for Aries and Roode, probably through a Bad Influence fued.

Overall though, I agree that TNA needs at least 3 more full time tag teams.

[Tesla Tank]

Everyone wants to see them feuding with the rest of the tag division; but remember they're going to be going after the other belts.

Frankly, I'd like to see Aries and King feuding over the X-Division title, or maybe the #1 contenders spot. I don't see Aries being X-champ again, I think it'd be a step back, but I think he could put on some great matches with Kenny King.

As for the tag straps, I think a new team will be the one to eventually bring them down, that's the way the tag titles usually switch hands in TNA. I expect James Storm will have some hand in it, he's not doing much right now.

[Shadows Over Hell]

To be Honest, they could be the most entertaining tag team of all time. Just look at these egomaniacs they are awesome in the ring, awesome in mic skills, awesome in portrayal od characters and awesome in drawing crowd reaction.