WWE: Why Can't They Pad the Tag Team Division to Make It Seem More Legitimate?

The world of professional wrestling is full of secrets, but the fact that the WWE’s tag team division sucks isn’t one of them. 

You know it, I know it and even my brother who hasn’t watched wrestling in five years knows that tag team wrestling is nowhere near what it used to be. 

Long gone are the days of the Legion of Doom, the Hart Foundation, the British Bulldogs, the Hardys or Edge and Christian. Instead, we’re left with a tag team division that barely even qualifies as one. 

As the WWE is currently situated, there are really only three legitimate tag teams in the company: The WWE Tag Team Champions Air Boom (Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne), Epico & Primo and the Usos. 

Yeah, that’s about it. 

In my ideal world, the WWE would put a newfound focus on tag team wrestling, because tag team matches can be among some of the most entertaining bouts in all of wrestling when done right. The problem is, the WWE is notorious for just randomly throwing two guys together for the short-term. 

In 2011, we saw the company do it with Awesome Truth (The Miz and R-Truth) and the team of Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger, and back in 2010, we saw it done with Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre. 

That’s like trying to stop a water pipe from leaking by wrapping it with duck tape, though: It may work temporarily, but it’s masking the problem more than it’s fixing it. 

The WWE absolutely must stop throwing tag teams together for a few months and then ripping them apart before they can make any sort of real impact on the tag team division. Of course, one issue with that in today’s WWE is that the roster just isn’t as deep as used it be, so it’s hard to have a formidable mid-card and a formidable tag team division. 

Then, what’s the solution to the WWE’s tag team problem? 

Well, it’s not quite filling the WWE with great tag teams, but my solution is to pad the division with teams that already exist or create new ones that would genuinely make sense. 

While the three tag teams that get any real sort of focus are Air Boom, the Usos and Epico & Primo (though the Usos hardly get any exposure), the WWE does have other teams (or duos) currently on the TV who could at least make the division seem legitimate. 

You’ve got Curt Hawkins and Tyler Reks, Darren Young & JTG and Hunico & Camacho as three teams that, right off the bat, could provide some much needed depth to a tag team division that sorely lacks it. Not to mention, you could pair a number of guys together who actually have some history with each other. 

How about Alberto Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez? What about Yoshi Tatsu and Trent Barretta? Or even former Corre members Ezekiel Jackson and Justin Gabriel? 

Whether the WWE’s tag team division is as deep and talented as it once was or not, that doesn’t mean the company should just completely give up on trying to build a division that is at least somewhat formidable. 

And a very easy way to do that is by actually using the teams the company has. 

I mean, this really isn’t that a hard of a concept to grasp. You have a team, you put that team on TV and you have them compete against other tag teams. 

This is step No. 1 in turning the tag team division around because—forget trying to sign new tag teams for now—if you can’t properly book the tag teams you already have, then bringing up more teams from the indies or FCW probably isn’t going to work. 

The WWE needs to start padding its tag team division with more teams who can provide unique matchups for the WWE Tag Team Champions and actually make them look like they’re champions of a division that means something. 

Right now, Air Boom is holding tag team titles of a division that exists only on paper. 

At least if the tag team division had seven or eight teams (as opposed to three or four), it would appear to matter.

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