Each team fulfills a role or purpose, they are all different and bring something else to the table. Whereas in WWE you had at one point two members of nexus -arrogant young heels, the usos - same, drew and cody - same again. Then you have koztino who are mostly comedy relief, they can work their way through matches but aren't likely to produce any particularly good ones and the heart dynasty who were on the rocks and feuding internally. That was not that long ago when the two companies had the same amounts of teams! But you would never have guessed.
If I list then the specifics of TNA's division. MCMG - young likeable face team with the titles, Gen ME - young cocky heels similar to one of WWE's heel tag teams, Beer Money - more technical with more throws and manoevres and less strikes, also heel... London Brawling - Very technical team able to hold up the promos side of the divison with desmond wolfe being amongst them, and once again heel (starting to look imbalanced), EY and Orlando Jordan - The comedy relief of TNA like Koztino, purely there for laughs so natural faces but also can wrestle better than Koztino, and finally Ink inc. - another face team that are a mixture of high flying with moore and more striking based work with neal, what I refer to as a "filler" tag team, not jobbers but they aren't heading towards titles any time soon, they are there to produce decent matches.
Notice a few things between WWE's division and TNA's? OK firstly, the balance of heels and faces. 3 heel teams, 3 faces. The fact that only one of the face teams is really capable of being successful is useful, it means that you can produce a system whereby the heel teams can feud with them for the belts but if they lose the next heel team can quickly come knocking. And in the process this team can go through OJ and EY, or Ink Inc. to make themselves look dominant. We saw this sytem in place after the best of 5 series between Beer money and MCMG, where London Brawling quickly crept in to make sure there wasn't a week where the tag champs weren't occupied, very good strategy.
So the balance of heel and face, that's an important trait. Another very interesting and watchable feature is the different wrestling styles. The two teams that wrestle most similar to each other are of course MCMG and Gen ME, but as they are on opposed sides, ie heel and face it becomes less important. Other than that London brawling are very technical british style, beer money are a more old school 80s tag teams vibe with big effective moves that win them the match, EY and OJ are just not like anything else quite frankly, MCMG are obviously lightning fast high flyers and brutal strikers, lots of kicks to the head, Gen ME are the same really, and Ink Inc. have that mixture of high flying and more mat based stuff with neal which is different to the rest of the teams.
So they are the first two points, balance of heel v face, and varying wrestling styles. My final point sounds stupid, but they are just better! Better athletes, better promo guys, better wrestlers, better tag teams in general. Sinsterly dashing was lumped together and the two of them had no cohesion at all, you compare that to beer money who got lumped together and formed a dream team purely by accident. No team in WWE, even hart dynasty, could compare to MCMG's style which is very suited to what is popular in the wrestling circuit now and once again they are not only good wrestlers, but a n exceptional TAG TEAM. And look at some of the constituent member for a minute. You've got Robert Roode... a virtual main eventer capable of wrestling very well and doing great promos, Desmon Wolfe who is once again main event material and therefore putting him ina tag team is going to bring the whole division up a lot. Even EY and OJ are generally better wrestlers than Koztino, but probably less entertaining, I personally love both.
The WWE on the otherhand had a team comprised of Nexus, a couple of guys who are, don't get me wrong, good wrestlers (very good in the case of gabriel) but they aren't big names. On the screen they just look like a couple of rookies who are still green. If Vince cared that much about the division he would put bigger names into it like how he had JeriShow last year or DX competing for the tag titles. There isn't a single big name in the WWE tag division, in fact the biggest is Santino and no offence to the guy but that's a bit embarassing for everyone else in the division who might be better wrestlers.
I don't watch TNA xplosion but TNA probably has the potantial to create a new tag team that could look like viable contenders witha snap of the finger, something like amazing red and Brian kendrick and BAM! you've got new number one contenders, WWE can do that but they wouldn't hence why zach ryder is still coasting along on superstars instead of on mainstream television. The only really good tag team WWE has left, the only other tag team WWE has left (and it's shocking to say that) is the Uso's, the Uso's need to win the belts in WWE because god dammit there is nobody else!
TNA's divison gets more TV time, more work in general (empty arena match on reaction, when it was still around) and because everyone has a role, everyone has their own style, everyone is in a more competitive division they need to work harder to stay on top to get picked as the next contenders, and so the quality of matches is thatt high because every team wants to be number one. For me it is a perfect divison because it's like well oiled machine, there isn't a single person out of place, and nothing is done without a good reason. You get supremem matches, great promos and a lot of hungry teams and I don't know what more anybody could ask for.
Personally every time there is a four way tag match on iMPACT, every time they main event I mark out because I know a great match is coming our way. You just couldn't say the same for the other company. Sorry about the long response but TNA's tag teams are something I'm quite passionate about.
