WWE Missed Opportunites: WrestleMania Missing Classic Tag Team Title Matches

Throughout its history, WWE has had just about every major tag team that has ever competed in the industry come through its doors.

The Road Warriors, Hart Foundation, Dudley Boyz, Edge and Christian and the Steiner Brothers—they've all been a part of WWE at one time or another.

So how is it that WrestleMania, the biggest event in WWE, has had so few memorable tag team title matches between two teams.

Think back to a classic tag team title match that took place at WrestleMania. What comes to mind? You probably had to think hard for minute.

In the early years of WrestleMania, it seemed like a match for the tag team titles was showcased each year.

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The titles were defended at 14 of the first 15 WrestleMania events. Some of those events even featured multiple tag team matches. Each of those matches featured two teams battling to see who was the best.

That was before WWE adopted a philosophy that dictated tag team matches at WrestleMania needed to feature several teams.

Perhaps WrestleMania 2000's wildly successful Ladder match featuring Edge and Christian, the Hardy Boyz and the Dudley Boyz was what started that.

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Following that event, the next four WrestleManias had tag team title matches that featured more than two teams. WrestleMania 20 had two such matches.

At WrestleMania 21, there was no tag team title match on the card, an indication that tag team wrestling just wasn't a focal point of the company anymore.

The matches at WrestleMania events that did have two teams squaring off for the titles were between makeshift tag teams.

WrestleMania 22 had Chris Masters and Carlito face Big Show and Kane. At WrestleMania 26, it was Big Show and the Miz against John Morrison and R-Truth.

When WrestleMania 28 rolled around, Kane and Daniel Bryan actually had a team name—Team Hell No—but they were put up against Dolph Ziggler and Big E, which seemed more like a way to get each of the four men on the card than anything else.

The one year the company actually put together a compelling match for the tag team titles—WrestleMania 25—it was bumped off the pay-per-view card, and the only people who witnessed it were those in the arena.

Though WWE has made great strides to improve tag team wrestling in recent years, it still misses out when it comes to WrestleMania. There are several legitimate tag teams on the current roster, but that doesn't mean they all need to be in the title match at WrestleMania.

While it is generous on WWE's part to try and get as many Superstars as possible on the WrestleMania card, having a Fatal 4-Way match every year makes the titles look cheap.

Why not select the top two teams at the time and let them set the standard for the rest of the teams on the roster?

It looked like there was a chance for that this year, with a nice feud being built between the Usos and the current tag team champions, Tyson Kidd and Cesaro.

Instead, the New Day and Los Matadores have been randomly inserted into the angle and a four-way match now looks inevitable for WrestleMania 31.

Don't be surprised when that gets added to the WrestleMania pre-show.

WWE has some very good tag teams, both on the current roster and in NXT. It just feels that giving two of them the chance to have a classic tag team match rather than booking a wild, multi-team fracas would make more sense for the biggest event of the year.