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The Tag Team Wrestling Of Today.
Hello to all readers of impactwrestling. I am Damien and I am here today to write to you about wwe's state of tag team wrestling. Now just so you know, when i write, i talk of WWE not TNA nor ROH. It is an opinions and I don't expect you to agree with me. Now i will continue.
Tag Team wrestling has been a big part of wrestling for a number of years now. I think now on all 3 brands random tag team matches are put together so they can link feuds together. I think it is yet another lazy performance on behalf of creative. So in retrospect what I am trying to say is how many tag teams are there currently in the WWE? Hart Dynasty, Cryme Tyme, Legacy, DX, Jeri-show, Round-table or something like that and that is all i can re-call currently working in wwe right now. What ever happened to proper tag team wrestling? Proper tag teams= London and Kendrick, Miz and Morrison, MNM, The Dudleyz (yes i know they are working for TNA but when they were in wwe) Deuce and Domino it goes on.
Now I know that tag teams disband and move onto singles careers but I mean when ever there was a tag team disband there was always other tag teams in the spot. I mean look at the list. There are so many tag teams that have been released disbanded or whatever and now look at the list. Legacy and DX are the only tag teams on Raw. Cryme Tyme and The Hart Dynasty on SD and round-table or something on ECW. Jeri-show appear on all 3 brands.
I don't know how to explain it but it just seems to me that tag team wrestling is stale. There are barely any tag teams compared to years in the past where we we would have fatal-4-way tag team matches for a tag title. It just seems that random tag matches are put together with two different feud being combined with Face A and Heel A in a feud then Face B and Heel B in a feud, well why don't we put them into a tag match. it just annoys me creative is that lazy.
Let me know what you think. And of course I don't expect you to agree with me, so if you don't leave your opinion but don't bash mine because mine is certainly not fact. Thanks for reading
Damien
"ENOUGH SAID!"
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11/6/2009 7:57:00 PM
WWE'S main problem is the lack of storylines in the overall product. One of the areas hardest hit is the tag-team division.Tag- teams divisions are build around 2-3 top tag-teams and several lower tier teams mixed up with team-up pairings. Right now there absolutely real dominant "real" tag team in WWE right now. Jericho/Big Show and DX are single pairings, the rest are lower tier teams. But the lack of actual true tag teams hurts that product. The greatest tag-teams are composed of two wrestlers that were seen as one entity( Road Warriors, Steiner Brothers, Brain Busters, Hardys, Edge and Christian, the Dudleys) with neither star bigger than the other.It would have take several years and a storyline based break up for it to produce a singles star from the team (Micheals, Scott Steiner, Edge, Bret Hart)and sometimes that didn't happened and the teams reformed. In there absence the lower tier teams that proved to be over with the fans moved up and took there place.
Point I'm making is the tag-team division used to be just that...a division. They were separate with their own storylines and history. On occasion did a single pairing would come in and briefly reign (Sting and Luger, Brothers of Destruction, Rock and Sock Connection) but it always came back to the tag-team specialists. It used to be the norm that even the most dominant Superstars in the heavyweight division would have problems against the dominant tag-teams because of lack of chemistry( Austin and Micheals losing to Hart and Bulldog is a good example) but thats not the case anymore cause there is too much stock put in to the top stars in WWE able to beat anyone no matter what type of match tag-team or other wise. As good as Hogan and Savage were in there prime Vince was smart back then not to have them go totally over the Brainbusters( Arn and Tully) because it would have devalue the tag-division while adding nothing to the Mega-Powers push.
As long as Vince doesn't think the Tag-Team divsion can be over then we will continue not to have one. To fix that he needs to Separate the division from the heavyweight division, push main event matches featuring tag-teams, have a good series of feuds between 3-4 top teams, add some contreversey, managers/valets, and have these guys be just tag-team wrestlers..no singles matches unless it is against other tag-team wrestlers.. its not that hard..ROH does it like its suppose to be for it to be an indy promotion.
The NWA years back used to have Tag-team tourneys( like the Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial)that was a big success and helped pushed the careers of LOD, Steiners, Doom, Rock and Roll Express, Midnight Express, Skyscapers, and others. WWE could benefitfrom having a tourney where they put out a call all over the indies for tag-teams. Will they try something so radical remains to be seen.
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11/6/2009 8:10:00 PM
the tag team division is dead..... has been for a long time
Highlanders, The Colons, Jesse and Festus, Cade and Murdock
as well as the others u mentioned have all come and gone over the past few years...
seriously how many times can we see Cryme Tyme v Hart Dynesty???
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11/6/2009 10:05:00 PM
The blame goes on everyone including the fans. We don't want to see a good tag team or a good midcarder, all we talk about is "this guy needs to be pushed to the main event." Even if a good tag team comes, there'll be a blog calling for a guy to go solo and be pushed. This culture is in the company and it's in the fans. Not saying that guys shouldn't be pushed, but if you want a real tag division, you have to actually keep teams together to build importance and get other teams over.
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11/6/2009 10:17:00 PM
When u consider tag team division ,greed is also something that needs to be looked at.Whenever there's a promising guy in a tag team ,u know when it comes to the draft lottery show,Vince will break the team and put the promising guy on a different show.This happens every year ,the tag teams just don't last cause Vince would rather have more singles wrestlers .Some guys r just better off being in a tag team ,but this breakup eventually ruins their careers,Jesse and Festus being prime examples.
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11/6/2009 10:39:00 PM
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Originally Posted by HBKisGOD
When u consider tag team division ,greed is also something that needs to be looked at.Whenever there's a promising guy in a tag team ,u know when it comes to the draft lottery show,Vince will break the team and put the promising guy on a different show.This happens every year ,the tag teams just don't last cause Vince would rather have more singles wrestlers .Some guys r just better off being in a tag team ,but this breakup eventually ruins their careers,Jesse and Festus being prime examples.
Don't put the blame solely on Vince. The fans are guilty of this also. Alot of fans always want to see a single's push.
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11/6/2009 11:56:00 PM
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Some guys r just better off being in a tag team ,but this breakup eventually ruins their careers,Jesse and Festus being prime examples.
I don't think we can quite say Ray Gordy and Drew Hankinson have had their career's ruined yet. Hankinson is only 25 and Gordy is 30. At the moment Hankinson is being prepared for another push (apparently) and Gordy is still getting on TV every now and then. With Hayes having a lot of pull I would not count out Gordy yet.....even if he gets released for a while.
There needs to be more tag teams, granted, but as long as Big Show and Jericho are Champions, only another big name tag team (eg DX) is going to be able to beat them. I would imagine the only two scenarios that are on offer are: 1. One of Show or Jericho turns on the other , deliberately dropping the belt, or 2. Somehow they are stripped of the belts or one or the other vacates. Mark Henry and MVP are only tagging as creative has nothing for them since they stopped Henry's push, DX won't last and neither will Show and Jericho. I would think they will run some kind of tag team lottery tournament creating a bunch of new teams in the next few months......that's the logical thing to do. WWE's problem is that they are overflowing with talent......they want to showcase each individual every match......every 3-5 years we have a period like this, it will sort itself out in the end
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11/8/2009 5:29:00 AM
I like the way that the tag team division is being portrayed... The tag team belts should be held by main event stars, it makes the belts that much more important. The only two teams who could defeat Jericho & Big Show are DX and MVP & Mark Henry. Teams like Cryme Tyme and The Hart Dynasty should only be challengers until they prove themselves worthy of at least mid-card status.
A lot of people were pissed when Miz & Morrison broke up but now they are both shining stars on seperate shows. If they reformed as a tag team, they would be worthy to fued with the tag teams I mentioned before.
Giving the tag titles to established main eventers would also help for storylines in the future. Jericho and Big Show could go their seperate ways or they could begin a feud that actually has some history behind it. Just think of Rated RKO... Edge and Randy Orton could even build a feud off of the history they had as tag team champions.
The decision to give Edge and Jericho the tag titles was made so that they could appear on any show... which means help out RAW. Edge got injured so Jericho has been the only addition to the RAW roster. It would be nice to see other main eventers on raw or smackdown when one of the brands is struggling.
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11/8/2009 9:45:00 AM
I can sorta agree with you Injustice but I'd much rather see the mid card guys with the titles. I wouldn't mind seeing MVP & Mark Henry vs. Legacy for the tag team titles. They would benefit more than Jericho and Big Show. Why do main event guys like DX need the tag titles?
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11/8/2009 1:25:00 PM
Well first off, DX have never won the titles... so its just a matter of time, and one reason why Cena retains at SS
I'm fine with how the tag division is at the moment... the belts a rightly unified and held by the stongest team.... holding off competiton. The harts are too green, DX are boring as fu##, MVP & Henry are fine but not champions and Cryme Tyme are fu##ing horrible! I really like Legacy and think they should've been champions again by now.... but that will come.
I like Monkie's idea of holding a tournament of sorts. It would also be a great time to form new teams like Shamus & Finlay....
Oh and having the tag champions and champions to be, involved in the WWE and World title matches just makes the divisions stronger. DX won't win.... niether will JeriShow... just temporary big names to throw in the mix to sell one of the 'big four' PPVs... and then they will feud with each other. well thats the logical way to book such events, but Vince doesn't do logic!
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