The Case For WWE Eliminating the Men's and Women's Tag Team Divisions

WWE wants to fix its tag division. 

Here's a solution: 

Get rid of it. 

Too scorching hot a take? 

WWE very clearly doesn't care all that much about tag team wrestling. A shame, but also a reality. So maybe it's time to just rip off the scab and let promotions that actually have an interest handle it. 

Case in point, WWE cut The New Day, which was straight-up silly. Those two modern greats stole the headlines, but the promotion also cut Motor City Machine Guns, the entire Wyatt Sicks stable, Tonga Loa and JC Mateo. 

Granted, this isn't suggesting WWE should just up and cut any other tag-oriented wrestlers and call it a day. But blowing up the division at the top doesn't make room for new teams or help the teams they need to build up. 

Reporting bears this out too. Bryan Alvarez at F4WOnline (h/t Geno Mrosko of Cageside Seats) recently noted that WWE won't be adding outside tag teams, instead relying on the likes of tandems like…Miz and Kit Wilson. 

One more time: Miz and Kit Wilson. 

And there's one major problem. WWE slaps things together in "tag teams" when needed. Those two are comedic Danhausen fodder. That's great, but it's not moving the needle on an actual tag division that has titles up for grabs. 

Look elsewhere on the roster. One set of current tag champs are…Bron Breakker and Austin Theory, which is only a team due to Logan Paul's torn triceps injury. Another? R-Truth and Damian Priest. Cobbled-together, semi-storyline-related pairings that audiences know will eventually blow up because they will betray their partners in some fashion. 

Same story on the women's side. Alexa Bliss-Charlotte Flair is fun, but it's a countdown-to-betrayal timer, not a tag division driver. 

The belts and the divisions as a whole are entirely afterthoughts. And when there are stables and major names in the mix, the divisions largely feel like purgatory for wrestlers who otherwise might not get television time because WWE doesn't have other plans for them. 

If there's one thing other promotions tend to dominate WWE in, it's dedicated tag divisions with title stakes that matter. What's continually odd is that WWE turns around and ends up signing some of these, only to not use them in that manner, almost as if they don't know how, or merely want to rob other promotions of their strengths. 

History says WWE can do it…if it wants. Tag wrestling was a staple of many older fans' childhoods. We're talking the Steiners, Road Warriors, Hart Foundation. It goes on and on and on. 

But as WWE has modernized and chased trends and non-wrestling fans, tag wrestling has been diminished. Now, in the odd Netflix era of endless advertisements and celebrities, WWE has decided to… fix its tag division by firing the top tag teams and potentially bringing back names like Enzo and Cass. 

One could argue NXT has some great tag teams. And it's had some underrated eras in recent times with the likes of American Alpha, DIY, AOP and others. But one can't suggest WWE's tag team focus sticks only in NXT, because that'd put a glass ceiling on how far the teams could climb. 

Much of this loops back to terrible booking by WWE, of course. It's a major problem. See: Jelly Roll everywhere, nonsensical Pat McAfee-Cody Rhodes-Randy Orton stuff. But the tag team division continually gets the worst of it. Would MCMG still be around with proper quality booking? Probably. 

Unfortunately, WWE's booking of tag teams vibes very Money in the Bank briefcase-ish. The promotion is either not interested in it, terrible at it, or some combination of both. 

The reality? WWE perhaps unifies all the tag titles and focuses on building a division that matters. WWE realizes it needs a strong division, brought to you by the same company that just realized it needs house shows as practice reps for its wrestlers. Imagine that. 

What probably should happen? WWE swallows its pride and, rather than begrudgingly keeping it around for the sake of history, leaves it to promotions better equipped for it. 

It would certainly be a new day, indeed.