The tag team division future

[tvcolosi]

Rhodes Scholars broke up, PTP's might be next. Hell No will be gone by Mania..

Shelton Benjamin is out of his ROH deal, and Charlie Haas might get storyline "suspended" in ROH. This seems like we might get a return of TWGTT in the WWE.

I really think they could have some really good matches and make some younger teams better.
Haas/Benjamin vs the PTP's (in they don't break up) The Uso's, Rey and Sin Cara, The Wyatt Family. They could even pull matches out of Brodus/Tensi.

Do you think they will return?
And if they do, who do you want to see them work with?

 

[TheBadGuy92]

I like the idea of TWGTT returning but we all know what would happen..they would win some tag matches against the Uso's on Main Even and Superstars and etc etc..Maybe even win the penny titles. But every tag team made up of smaller guys since the infamous attitude era always get beat down and jobbed to the main even stars. (E.G. Mark Henrys return destroys Rey and Cara and one half of the tag champs DBry) I think we need big monster guy tag teams maybe even with a gimmick? I mean come on, you would never see LOD or even the APA destroyed and made to look weak like that, the tag division needs bonafide bad ass tag teams. Oh and side note i hate when they throw two random mid card floaters together just to give them something to do. WE WANT REAL TAG TEAMS

 

[The Dragon Saga]

Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team may be done, but Charlie Hass isn't returning. His singles career in ROH is only beginning. He turned on Shelton, letting Shelton leave and Hass get over as the one who ended the team. So just to blow that idea out of the water.

There has been no indication Primetime Players will be splitting. If they do Titus O'Neil will be the one who benefits as hes got a great physique, can work decently, has characteristics you can market from his college football days and shows a good level of charisma, but there would be no reason behind breaking them up right now.

Tag team division is fine, WWE can push whoever they want, whenever they want and make them seem relevant. Despite Primo and Epico being pretty boring, if WWE gave them a win on Smackdown or Raw next week they instantly become relevant. It's how WWE works.

 

[Spencesc11]

You have a ton of mid-carders doing nothing so what about these teams

1) Kofi and R-Truth (they were solid and neither seems to be getting a singles push)
2) Dibiase and Rhodes
3) Shelton Benjamin and MVP (this would be a great way to bring these 2 back on TV)
4) Tensaii and B. Clay (this one could be entertaining at least)
5) Sandow and Otunga (this could be a nice heel team until Sandow is more ready for a singles push)

 

[Jack-Hammer]

The tag team division in WWE is ultimately doing fine at this particular point in time. It's taken something of a backseat recently but I'm not all that surprised about that as we're right in the midst of WrestleMania season. Much of the focus of the company is going to be building to the biggest show of the year, especially towards the big money matches of the card.

There's no indication at this time that The Prime Time Players are breaking up. Even if they do, as The Dragon Saga pointed out, Titus O'Neil will probably be the one to benefit. He has the better look, better mic skills and more overall charisma of the two. The Usos are still around and have gotten some good high profile wins, so they're no longer just background players. Mysterio & Sin Cara are still in the midst of things. Team Hell No continues to generate a lot of interest. Kidd & Gabriel would probably still be in the fix of things if Kidd hadn't suffered an injury that'll keep him out for most of the year. At some point in time, I look for The Shield to field a tag team comprised of two of its three members. There are also guys like Kofi, Zack Ryder, Brodus Clay, DiBiase, McGuillicutty and others who aren't doing much right now but could easily be made into relevant tag teams.

I doubt the WGTT will be back in WWE. I think there's a solid chance that Shelton Benjamin could be returning to the WWE. If he does and they keep Benjamin where he truly belongs, namely in the tag team or mid-card scenes, he can be of benefit to the company.

 

[MizMark11]

Well right now the WWE has:

Epico and Primo
Prime Time Players
Hell No
MystCara
The Usos
3MB
The Shield (if you want to count them as a tag team)
Brodus Clay and Tensai
Hornswoggle and Khali (yes, they suck but they are there)

That's 9 times on the main roster alone. Sure, Hell No will break up but that's still 8 teams WWE can use and push right. Plus you still have some teams in NXT that could be used like:

Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey
The Wyatt Family
The Ascension (it would work if they find a new partner for Connor O'Brien, of course)
Jake Carter and Corey Graves could always be reunited if they get called up to WWE

Also if when Tyson Kidd returns, if WWE doesn't partner him up with Justin Gabriel then Leo Kruger could always form a South African team with Gabriel since they were a team years ago.

Anyways, there's no issue with tag teams in the WWE. The only issue is if the writers will use them right.

Edit: And I don't really think WGTT will return. Shelton, yes. Haas, no.

 

[lil bitch Kid]

First of all, the tag division is fine right now in terms of number of teams and talent. Creative just has to do a better job with them. For the record, outside of Hell No, the Usos are easily te most over face tag team. PTP are a great team that need to stop being jobbed every week. Primo and Epico are fine as well, and if there is any truth to Carlito coming back, they could start out with a nice Freebird rule angle. Btw, just because someone says that PTP are breaking up in the forums, doesn't make it real.

Now, some of you really need to pay attention to what is ACTUALLY happening on your TVs:

-Sandow just split out of a tag team with a great gimmick because they want to push him. Why in the hot blue hell would they throw him in with David Hudson-Otunga, who only has a job because of his wife.

-Rhodes going back with Ted makes a tiny bit more sense because there is history, but again, if they wanted Cody to tag, he'd have stayed with Damien.

-Wade Barrett is getting a singles push and Miz is a daw. Give your head a shake.

-please stop suggesting putting guys together just because they are both black. *sigh*

-Ascension spilt because someone got fired. Connor O'Brian is getting pushed to main event in NXT.

-Ryack main events PPVs and hasa hugely over gimmick as a top face. Big E is in a lame bitch-boy bodyguard role. That would not be. "Tremendous" tag team, is would be a black hole of logic.

Finally, there is ultimately nothing wrong with two guys being put together to create a tag team. This whole 'we want real tag teams' argument is fundamentally stupid because 'real tag teams' are created, they don't fall from the sky. Hell No, NAO, Mysticara, 3mb, APA, Kidd/Gabriel, Kofi/Bourne, Kofi/Truth, have been, good, great or tremendous teams where two mid-card guys got together. The thing is tey were madea team by being given a gimmick.

 

[NotJerryMcDevitt]

Just the fact that the WWE is actually featuring tag-teams is a great improvement and one of the promises that Triple H made when he assumed his current position, however it appears that as of right now we have an overwhelming amount of tag-teams that are not fit to headline a division.

Team Hell-No consisted of two major stars that being Daniel Bryan and Kane, who both were able to work this gimmick and craft it into one of the most recognizable teams of the last few years. But the fact that Kane and Bryan are also valuable as separate participants could be this team's undoing due to the fact that sooner or later Kane will either retire or get his last solo run or Daniel Bryan will be in line for another World-Title run.

And this is where Team Rhode Scholars came into the picture, a great team that consisted of two people that were in desperate need of a real platform. Cody Rhodes who was dead in the water and had nothing left in front of him but a feud with his brother and Damien Sandow who finally found his role in the main roster but again it was not meant to be as the powers that be split them up recently (So I heard) in order to make way for a Damien Sandow singles push.

And the division has a huge hole to fill, the only credible contenders for the title and quite frankly the only other interesting team aside from Hell-No is no more and Teams such as The Usos are not in the position to replace them. However that of course could be corrected with a few quick booking decisions and boom we have the Usos as the great force...

We have to come to terms that the WWE has always used Tag-Teams in order to either give people something to do because they are someone's nephew or whatever or in order to weed through the upcoming guys and see what sticks, rather than actually having tag-teams as an established part of the shows.

I will agree that Tag-Teams are more prominentaly featured as of late but that does not mean that the WWE's mentalitly towards them has changed.

It feels more like a marketing measure to me, in order to sacrifice target groups that like Tag-Teams wrestling.

All in all I am concerned that the Tag-Team division will rot from within due to a lot of future mix and break ups but still kept on life support in order to cover all bases.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

I'm just smiling at the tag team division scene right now because I knew what was going to happen while everyone was saying that the division was revived. Team Hell No are old news to me and no more Rhodes Scholars. They could have had something with them and/or the Prime Time Players but guess what? They lost ALL the time. Sandow and Rhodes should have won the belts back in October and November but they're trying to milk every last ounce of the Hell No angle that they can. Epico and Primo are basically jobbers which makes me sad inside and Mysterio is being dragged down by the weight of Sin Cara.

I haven't been a fan of the Shield so far. I just don't care about them to be frank, but I hope they take the titles off of Kane and Bryan. Do it for me.

 

[lil bitch Kid]

I could see Brodus Clay and Tensai forming a massively destructive tag-team much like Earthquake and Typhoon.

If the Natural Disasters danced disco with two women after every match......

The thing with the tag division is that it needs to be built around exciting matches. The last time the tag division was really talked about was when E&C and the Hardys started feuding over Terri, which led to a ladder match, then b Hardys got into with the Dudleys which led to tables matches, which led to all 3 doing TLC.

I'm not saying that we need danger to get over, but we need excitement. Teams like the Colons, Mysticara, PTP and the Usos all have it in then to be exciting against each other. When Kidd comes back and him and Gabriel get back they'll fit right in. If Bourne's foot ever gets better, he and Kofi can reform Air Boom.

Hell no should stick around at least until we get another team to replace their spot.

Tensai and Brodus can be a nice big comedy team for 6 months or so, and then, around SS, turn heel and be monsters.

 

[Spencesc11]

1) Reform Rhodes Scholars (neither is ready for a major singles push)
2) Bring back Morrison and pair him with The Miz again. Clearly WWE is not sure if they want Miz to take the US Title from Cesaro so maybe a tag-title run with Morrison would be better
3) Have MVP and Shelton Benjamin return as a team
4) Put Kofi and R-Truth back together
5) Break up the Prime Time Players by having Titus O'Neill drop Darren Young for Big E Langston. Langston and O'Neill Combo could be a monster team
6) Keep Rey and Sin Cara together
7) Bring back Dibiase and pair him with McGillicuty (call them "Million Dollar Perfection") cheezy I know but it makes them credible with reference to their Dads
8) And then with The Shield, Usos, Primo and Epico, and the new Tensaii/B. Clay combo you have more than enough teams to keep it interesting. And if they don't seperate the brands the tag titles should be defended at least once a week on either show to keep the intrigue going.

 

[NotJerryMcDevitt]

I don't even think it's as much about the actual teams but more about managements attitude towards Tag Team wrestling.

Triple H brought Tag Teams back into the major shows and Team Hell-No has become an actual attraction but that is only one team that was given the task of carrying an entire division and the only team that was close was Team Rhode Scholars which as we now all know was abolished for the sake of a Damien Sandow single's run.

 

[Spencesc11]

They are teaming again at house shows so I think maybe the creative team has had a 2nd thought about the break up.

 

[Big Papa Santo]

Rhodes Scholars broke up, PTP's might be next. Hell No will be gone by Mania..

Shelton Benjamin is out of his ROH deal, and Charlie Haas might get storyline "suspended" in ROH. This seems like we might get a return of TWGTT in the WWE.

I really think they could have some really good matches and make some younger teams better.
Haas/Benjamin vs the PTP's (in they don't break up) The Uso's, Rey and Sin Cara, The Wyatt Family. They could even pull matches out of Brodus/Tensi.

Do you think they will return?
And if they do, who do you want to see them work with?

Well I'm pretty sure that Benjamin is working in NJPW. Besides, by the time that he was released by the WWE he had already left a legacy as a singles competitor, so the chances of the WWE bringing him back as a tag team competitor are pretty slim. Also, even if Haas got kayfabe suspended that doesn't give him the right to go to the WWE while he waits out his "suspension". It doesn't matter if he was legitimately suspended, he's still under contract with Ring of Honor. But I'm going to humor you and predict what would happen if these two somehow, someway returned to the WWE.

Well, they would probably just bring these two back to feud with up and coming teams like The Uso's, Primo & Epico, or the Primetime Players and eventually put the tag belts on them, give the two a credible reign, and then make them drop the belts to a new tag team to put that team over and give them credibility. With the belts gone, history would repeat itself and Haas would fade into obscurity with Shelton winning multiple mid-card titles and becoming a mainstay in the mid-card division, staying there forever, with creative never realizing Benjamin's true potential. So if they could somehow sign both of these men and follow through with my aforementioned ideas, then I see no problem with them coming back.

 

[SCP88]

I really miss the rub that AW gave the tag division last year. Even though the teaming with PTP was very natural, he actually made me interested in Primo and Epico. I think the remaining tag teams like The Uso's and Primo and Epico could use a mouthpiece to get over in the future. PTP doesn't need one, but they need more mic time and can actually transition to face rather easily. I feel those three teams can carry the division if played right. Add in Kidd and Gabriel and those are 4 teams that can really go in the ring.

 

[TWJC: The Beginning]

I like Tensai and Brodus. They're big and fun. Being if means the Internet hates you, but Tensai will help Brodus out, great worker. Could do a lot of fun stuff with the smaller guys.

The rest of the division is fun too. The ones that look like ey're splitting are splitting because they can draw more as singles.

 

[LODemolition]

I think the only way they can justify splitting up Rhodes Scholars is if Cody wrestles Goldust at Mania.

Until Kidd returns, I'd like to see Kofi become Gabriel's new partner. Kofi is never going to get past the mid card anyway. At least not without a major character change. These 2 would be a very exciting team to watch.

Miz and Morrison would be a welcomed reunion in my book. This might be the only way to get Miz over as a face, which they've looked very desperate at attempting the past couple months.


I like Prime Time Players, but if they're not going to get a title run, go ahead and push O'Neill as a singles wrestler. I think he can have a great future by himself.

Keep Mysterio and Sin Cara. I for one do not want to see them in a match against one another at Mania. I just don't care who the best luchador is and Rey is probably best suited for tag team matches in his older age and subpar shape.

Teaming up DiBiase and Hennig is a great idea to make them both relevant after looking hopeless for as long as I can remember.

Tensai and Brodus as a team is better than what each had going on their own, so I support this team.

The Usos and Epico & Primo can put on some decent matches. I wouldn't be against an eventual title reign for The Usos.

Ambrose and Rollins should be the next champs IMO. Give some matches on a regular basis and build up their feud with Hell No even more before lettin them dethrone the champions.

Break up Hell No after a rematch or 2 with The Shield. They've gone as far as they can go as a team. Time for them to go their own ways and hopefully see Daniel Bryan be pushed in the World Title picture again.

 

[TempestH]

- Start pushing the Usos and the Colons
- Pair Zack Ryder back up with Curt Hawkins. Neither of them are going to get a big singles push any time soon.
- When Evan Bourne returns, pair him back up with Kofi.
- Pair Miz back up with Alex Riley. WWE likes to pretend that Miz is still important, but we all know that he isn't going to be in the hunt for a major title anytime soon, and we know that he's not taking the U.S. Title from Cesaro because despite Miz's depush, the U.S. Title is beneath him. Riley deserves a push simply because he's over and he's improved in the ring.

Also, don't break up tag teams to facilitate singles pushes. Most of the singles wrestlers are only going to be wrestling in tag matches every other week anyway. If you want to push someone like Titus O'Neil to singles championships, just give him the push but keep Darren Young around to run interference for him.

 

[RobstarEWN]

The tag-team division is very different today however as it has steadily become more of an after thought for WWE creative and officials. The tag-team belts no longer look prestigious but instead have been turned into bronze consolation prizes for members of the roster who at one point had potential to make it to the main event but since there is nothing else for them and WWE cant take them of air as some people have grown accustomed to them so they give them the tag belts as a way of keeping them in the loop ( yes that was all about Kofi and Truth). These titles are rarely defended though, there is no space on Raw for them to defend the titles apparently and they are lucky to get squeezed into a PPV instead of being sent to the pre-show. Looking at the Tag-team division now it's surprising to remember that the three way TLC match at Wrestle-Mania was for these titles.