THTRobtaylor
Once & Future Wrestlezone Columnist
The biggest issue with all this is that for all NXT has done, the "solution" being proposed and the current state of play still involves teams of solos thrown together.
Sheamus and Cesaro are counter productive, just as that era of endless thrown together teams like Rated RKO, Jerishow and the like were. Putting Sami and Dillinger together is worse... You have The Fashion Police, who are basically the same (although they have at least embraced the idea they are a permanent team now) and these are the teams mainly being featured.
Meanwhile you have several teams on NXT who can move up now... Authors of Pain, Heavy Machinery and SaNity can all be on the main roster NOW along with The Revival, Club, Hardyz, New Day, Rowan and Harper and Usos...
The problem is WWE wants NXT as a "brand" of its own, so they won't asset strip it of teams which is again, counter productive. To my mind, if you are a dedicated tag team and good at it then you are "in demand" and thus moved up faster. Solo guys have to wait for the right spot, but teams shouldn't ever need to as there is ALWAYS a spot for feud for them on the main roster.
It's the age old problem though... Once Bret and Shawn got to be the biggest guys in the company, no one was ever happy being a tag specialist... it's always a stepping stone and every team is more about what star can they spin off from it rather than the team being great.
For a while it looked like WWE had turned that around, but Enzo and Cass proved that WWE doesn't care about decent teams, they want the star from it. Just as they will put Jeff into singles the first chance they get (and Matt if they can get the gimmick) and sooner rather than later Cesaro and Sheamus will split too... Even with SaNity...you just know they are trying to make Killian Dain something down the line, rather than SaNity the next great team.
At this point, the titles are almost immaterial...
Sheamus and Cesaro are counter productive, just as that era of endless thrown together teams like Rated RKO, Jerishow and the like were. Putting Sami and Dillinger together is worse... You have The Fashion Police, who are basically the same (although they have at least embraced the idea they are a permanent team now) and these are the teams mainly being featured.
Meanwhile you have several teams on NXT who can move up now... Authors of Pain, Heavy Machinery and SaNity can all be on the main roster NOW along with The Revival, Club, Hardyz, New Day, Rowan and Harper and Usos...
The problem is WWE wants NXT as a "brand" of its own, so they won't asset strip it of teams which is again, counter productive. To my mind, if you are a dedicated tag team and good at it then you are "in demand" and thus moved up faster. Solo guys have to wait for the right spot, but teams shouldn't ever need to as there is ALWAYS a spot for feud for them on the main roster.
It's the age old problem though... Once Bret and Shawn got to be the biggest guys in the company, no one was ever happy being a tag specialist... it's always a stepping stone and every team is more about what star can they spin off from it rather than the team being great.
For a while it looked like WWE had turned that around, but Enzo and Cass proved that WWE doesn't care about decent teams, they want the star from it. Just as they will put Jeff into singles the first chance they get (and Matt if they can get the gimmick) and sooner rather than later Cesaro and Sheamus will split too... Even with SaNity...you just know they are trying to make Killian Dain something down the line, rather than SaNity the next great team.
At this point, the titles are almost immaterial...