Hmm...I feel stupid for not thinking about this.
Primo and Epico may not be over, but a win against top superstars like Truth and Ziggler, the US Champion, and an upper mid card superstar like Kofi Kingston will make people pay attention and make them actually look like a legitimate tag team.
Don't feel stupid. The last 5 or so years the WWE has conditioned its audience to believe that a championship is not a draw, but the superstars in the match are said "draw." That "idea" makes it extremely difficult to get over new stars. I mean, the only worthwhile tag team feuds over the last several years have featured 2 stars coming together to form super teams.
You mentioned the famous ladder match at WM2000, but what these 3 teams lack is the history that the Hardys, Dudleys and Edge and Christian had. That match was not the start of a feud, those teams had been showcasing their ability for the best part of a year hitherto that match. Sure, something on that scale might be interesting, but will never be an instant classic.
What in the fuck are you talking about? Sure, the Hardyz/E&C had SOME history but that was based off a garbage "Brood/Terri Runnells" storyline. The fact is the majority of the audience did not believe in those 6 men as performers until the Triangle Ladder Match gamble.
A year later, at WM17, those guys were made. I don't even know if Edge & Christian won another Tag Team Championship after TLC2. Didn't Edge go on to win KOTR and the WWE not only split E&C, but gambled on a Hardy Boy split? Sure, the Hardyz split failed, but the WWE damn well tried because those 3 teams were mega over.
Moreover, what Ziggler, Swagger, Truth and Kofi have in common is that they don't need to be in the tag division. They just aren't tag team wrestlers. You can exempt Kofi from that, but then again Air Boom was just a random pairing of mid-carders that luckily worked.
Ziggler is going to go on to main event level one day, and I hope Kofi will do too. Swagger, unfortunately, is destined for mid-card hell, and Truth should stick to being solo, as his gimmick doesn't match Kofi's at all.
Yeah, R-Truth & Kofi don't
"need" to be in the tag team division but where else do they fit at this point? There are very few spots on the card, and I don't understand the negative connotation around being apart of a tag team.
If they were all built-up enough, the WWE's four only legit tag teams could have an AMAZING tag team ladder match. The Colons defending against The Usos, Hawkins and Reks, and Barreta and Kidd. I would love to see that.
Yes, it doesn't have drawing power, but the match itself could get the crowd pumped.
Exactly my point. The wrestlers do not have to draw the audience into the match (that's incorrect in a different context). But no one is buying this PPV based on the Tag Titles. Force feeding does not make stars. Let the concept of the Tag belts being up for grabs and the Ladder Match stipulation help put these talents over. That's exactly what happened at WM2000. THIS is a bonus for the card. The undercard simply does not matter. People will watch for the main events.
The rejuvenation of the tag division needs to be started from the bottom up. They missed a trick by splitting up Gabriel and Slater; they had good chemistry and with a bit of work could have been something spectacular.
What? You act like Gabriel/Slater were over. They most certainly were not. You can't lift a division from the bottom to the top with bottom feeders. Ziggler, Swagger, Kofi, and Truth are not penciled in for a damn thing at Wrestlemania. A Tag Team Championship Match makes a ton of sense.
I'll rest my case on the Triple Threat WWE Tag Team Title match that took place tonight on RAW. It's transparently clear that the WWE has plans for at least these 6 (and maybe Kane) to feature the Tag Championship @ WM.
