Im not sick of it, I just accept it for what it is. Further, I think Kozlov and Santino are doing a good job as champions. They get a great crowd reaction, and Santino is showing he can actually wrestle. Look, this isn't Benoit/Angle vs Edge/Mysterio of 2002, but it's passable. On to your teams.
Why would Edge take what little time he has left to step down into the bereft tag division? It makes little sense. What I would like to see is them teaming together as their careers wind down occasionally for nostalgia's sake, becoming a permanent tag team would be a bad thing. This isn't 1999 anymore.
2.) The Hart Foundation (Smith/Kidd)
I didn't like the breakup of this team, and now they're MIA from TV for the most part. I get that they didnt generate crowd reaction(which Santino and Kozlov do), but the crowd may have gotten behind them with heel champions and them chasing the belts. I didn't like their split whatsoever, as it's done nothing for either's career thus far.
I don't think they have the IT factor to be a good heel tag team. Their lackluster feud with the Harts showed that. They're decent and all, but if they can't be a top heel tag time in THIS division, what could they do in a beefed up one?
4.) Evan Bourne & Daniel Bryan
This is a bad idea, as it is taking two of your most popular, up and coming stars and putting them in a division few care about. While Bryan may be as far as he's going in WWE with the United States championship, that isn't a terrible thing, and sure as hell is better then the tag team division. It's a large "step down" into the tag division, and wouldn' be good for Bryan even if it benefitted the division. If they went this route, Bryan would NEED to drop the US Title first, because we saw what a prop it became for Miz when he held the tag titles and the US together. And why mess with a great thing that is Bryan as US Champion?
5.) Christian & Chris Jericho
Jericho isn't active, and we don't know when/if he'll even return. That being said, I think him stepping into the tag division was a one-time thing to help re-invigorate the division that was struggling with its established tag teams in the Colons and Legacy. I wouldn't want to see Jericho back in the tag division if he returns. I know the idea is elevating the belts here, but Jericho is best in personal feuds and flopping between the main event and the upper mid-card. One has to figure his career is winding down as well if he return(see Edge) and spending it in the tag division wouldn't be the best place to do it, IMO.
Im fine wih this. Don' expect either to set the world on fire or re-invigorate the tag eam division, because both are enhancement talent and little more at this point. But they'ld be a nice, permanent team that could possibly do a good job with the belts or chasing them. Sure, this works for me.
7.) Cody Rhodes & Ted Dibiase
This works and doesn't work for me at the same time. They were part of the reason Jericho and Edge were initially brought into the tag team division in the first place, because they weren't cutting it as a top heel tag team. DiBiase is doing nothing, but Rhodes seems like he's about to be elevated quite soon and is doing a great job with his "Dashing" gimmick. As with other, Cody needs to focus on his single's career first and foremost, and if there's time for tagging, go ahead. I still wouldn't mind it, I just wouldn't build the tag division around them as your top heels.
8.) Sheamus & Drew McIntyre
I don't like Drew, but we've already seen him as a tag champion, and he and Cody generated ZERO heat with the belts. This would be a huge step down for Sheamus, one of your top heels, and he's got an impending feud with HHH on the horizon. WWE is missing the boat with making Sheamus look weak, but in no way should be dropped to the tag division, even if it were for him and Drew to doiminate. I wouldn't mind the occasional tagging, as long as both remain focused on single's careers first and foremost.
9.) Jack Swagger & Dolph Ziggler
Nope. Ziggler was JUST ELEVATED into the main event, why the heck would he step back into the lowly tag ranks? I get the idea, elevate the belts, but you have to elevate the superstar as well. Ziggler's going to be in the upper mid-card going forward, so the tag belts would have to be there as well. If not, then Ziggler's a bad idea. As for Swagger, he's been buried, so why not? He couldn't be LESS relevant right now, so a move to the tag division couldnt be a bad thing.
10.) Husky Harris & Sheffield
Harris was just teaming with Joe Hennig(Mike McGuillicutty) until he got punted in the head. They were doing a fine job as a team, with good chemistry. I dont know that Id mess with them, or bring anyone else into the New Nexus, for that matter. Sheffield would work in a tag team, just not with Harris. Id rather see him team with a Justin Gabriel in the Corre.
I don't have a problem with Santino and Kozlov as champions. They're entertaining, and they're crowd pleasing. The crowd pops huge for the Cobra as well. The division needs more challengers, which is why his is possibly the one division/feud Id use on Superstars. Introduce new teams there, and establish them. Plug them on Raw and on Smackdown if you don't have time to get them on the show(s). Superstars is the purely wrestling show anyway, so a tag team could get over massively if they demonstrate they work well together in consistent 10-15 minute matches. Your answer to re-invigorating the tag team division is Superstars. But Santino and Kozlov are doing fine as champions, firm challengers just need to be established and kept together as teams, even if they don't tag together exclusively. The hting you have to understand is, the tag division simply doesn't sell. It may pop the crowd, but it's not a drawing card. It hasn't been in ten years, so there's no reason to get worked up over something that's unlikely to change.
