Re-Thinking the TNA Tag Team Division

josh210

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It was just a months ago when chavo and hernandez won the tag team championship(they are still a great traditional big man/skill guy team)but the tag team division doesnt have the same spark as it used to be because joey ryan and morgan doesnt fit to be champions,kazarian and daniels is entertaining champs but that is it 3 tag teams competing for the titles and one tag team isnt even fit to be champs so what new teams do you think tna needs?I have for example like the pope and doug williams.


So what is yours and who does tna needs for the tag team division?
 
What's to think?

Look, any division needs three things to be relevant.

1. TV time
2. Solid performers
3. Solid matches/storylines

That's about it. If you have those three you have yourself a division worth a fuck.

However, the thing that whizzes by people's heads is perhaps the fact that in order for TNA to push the tag division, the tag division needs to have shown an ability to be an asset for the TV show in the past. It needs to show that if TNA undergoes such a push, it will reap some kind of reward from it aside from giving a bunch of people on the Internet a stiffy.

Fact is, TNA has never truly had a major successfull period in order to assess whether the tag division contributed to that. Numbers wise, it's always been average at best. I'm only basing this on TV ratings and perhaps attendance, I'm not privy of their PPV information even though considering their overall popularity, the economic situation in the USA as well as the rest of the world and the fact that 'wrestling' is not the first thing on people's minds anymore, I'll say they're not exactly sky high.

Thus - TNA feels that there is no reason to push the tag division. There is no basis for this action, there is no proof that hiring more talent, making creative work harder and come up with EXTRA storylines specifically designed for the tag division and chop off a chunk of TV precious TV time that could be used for someone who DOES draw SOMETHING, will do jack shit for the show.

Therefore - the tag division is where it is right now. It's not good, it's not bad, it's just there occasionally for those who enjoy it.

Truth of the matter is that tag wrestling was cool in the late 90's because of four teams (Hardy Boyz, Team 3-D, Edge & Christian, Jericho and Benoit) and a bunch of stuff you find in your garage like a ladder and a table. People were fans of that, not the concept of tag team wrestling.

There is nothing exciting about someone smacking someone else's hand so he enters the ring. There is nothing exciting about two dudes walking down the ramp together. There is nothing exciting about one partner breaking the pin-fall or any other tag-team triviality we've seen a million times.

The reason why tag-team wrestling was good in the late 90's (and prior to the that in some extent) was because the dudes were talented and the writing was fun. Does this prove then that tag team wrestling is the ultimate money sucking machine? Absolutely not. All it proves is that it's not divisions that draw money and people, it's good ... fucking ... television.

Focus on that, TNA. The minute you have that, you can scrap the Knockouts, scrap the Tag Division, scrap the X-Division and stand in shock and awe ... as nothing changes. The divisions are there to add variety, not quality. If you didn't have quality in the first place, everything else is rendered obsolete.

"Oh, you have 15 kinds of cow shit? How delightful!"

It doesn't work like that.
 
New blood. Period.

Problem is, TNA is heavily focused right now on their main event scene, with a number of high profile singles feuds dominating the air right now between Austin Aries, Bobby Roode, James Storm, Jeff Hardy, Bully Ray, the Aces and Eights angle, Hulk Hogan, etc.

The reason the tag division is in the shape it's in is due to graduations from it into singles careers. Devon, Bully Ray, James Storm, Bobby Roode, etc. were all once mainstays that have moved on. The key to "fixing" the division is going to come by means of new blood/bodies, not new teams. You can put all the WWE-like these-guys-aren't-doing-shit-so-let's-make-them-a-tag-team teams together, but it won't actually push the division any, because no one has any vested interest in watching teams who everyone understands are only a team because creative had nothing else for them. I don't think the air time exists to boost the division in the first place, but if TNA managed to find the means for it, I'd be looking at an influx of new performers. Sign Rhett Titus and re-form the All-Night Express. Poach the Briscoe Brothers from ROH. Do what you can to try and convince TWGTT to ditch ROH for TNA, etc.
 
I'm on board for some ROH tag teams to take their talents to North Beach (Orlando), but they have their own talent they could use to make a once again respectable tag team division.

A few years back they had some pretty solid teams. Team 3D, Beer Money, Motor City Machine Guns, LAX, hell even Lethal Consequences and British Invasion. Team 3D went in completely opposite directions, and both are doing quite alright for themselves. Beer Money obviously produced two main event talents. MCMG have had the worst luck with injuries, otherwise they'd always be main players for the belts. Sabin and Shelley have been one of the best tag teams in all of wrestling for a while. LAX had a few different successful tag teams, and by that I mean Hernandez has partnered with four guys in TNA, and won gold with all four.

As far as the current status of tag teams, you have:
Daniels and Kaz
Hernandez and Chavo
Robbie and Robbie
Ryan and Morgan
Gunner and Kash

As far as future tag teams,
Bring back British Invasion
King Mo and Kenny King
I'm sure Aces and Eights has a tag team
Briscoe and Bischoff
Put D'Angelo Dinero with anybody

It could really use a boost from ROH, but if you need some more tag teams, TNA already has options at their fingertips. They just need more television time, and maybe a better storyline.
 
I would love to see Charlie Haas get his release from ROH as well and him and Shelton take a run in TNA. Wishful thinking, I know, but I salivate over the prospect of Daniels and Kaz vs WGTT. When Sabin gets healthy, depending on whether or not Shelley signs with the E, MCMG could come back. You never know....

The bottom line is that 18 months ago the tag division in TNA was talked about and envied, and the E had, well, tag belts. Now, the E has put some effort into tag teams, and it shows. TNA has to remember what REALLY separated them from the E: the X division and tag wrestling. That is where their bread was buttered for years and in an attempt to be the E junior, they got away from this. They need to put effort back into these. TNA needs to stop trying to make main eventers and let guys be stars.

Also, can we PLEASE stop suggesting pairing guys together just because they are black? I mean Kenny King and King Mo. Please don't say it's because they both have king in their names.....
 

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