Could the Talent at FCW Save WWE's Tag Team Division?

In the WWE at the moment, the only division less tended to than the Divas division is its tag team division.

We are no longer witnessing the times when countless solid tag teams were there to steal the show and the hearts of millions and gone are the days when the Tag Team championship actually meant something. We no longer have Edge & Christian, The Hardyz or The Dudley Boys and it seems like the WWE simply do not care.

Little effort is put into the dying division and it shows. It has been months since we've seen an actual feud between tag teams and most "teams" nowadays consist of two Superstars who Creative have nothing else for tagging with each other for a couple of months.

No more matching attires, no more tag team finishers, no more hilarious backstage segments. Hell, there aren't even tag team names anymore. Can you believe that there are only two actual tag teams left in the WWE; Santino and Koslov and the Uso's (barely).

It's awful, especially when so many decent tag teams have been prematurely split up, only for half of the team to be Future Endeavoured and the other half to be left to fade into obscurity.

What the real shame is that tag teams create and build stars. Could you imagine Edge without Christian? Christian without Edge?

What about JBL? If it wasn't for APA, he wouldn't have been able to get his name out there and become the multiple World champion he was!

And Shawn Michaels! Him superkicking his Rockers team mate Marty Jannetty through a glass window during The Barber Shop talk show was one of the things that cemented him as a legend today.

The Hart Foundation included two of the WWE's best superstars ever- Bret Hart and Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart.

Look at many current uprising stars. Take John Morrison for example. He got his WWE start as a part of MNM, which truly kickstarted his career. Then later on, the team of Miz & Morrison truly did wonders for both men, helping re-establish John Morrison after being repackaged away from "Johnny Nitro" and showed off The Miz's mic skills.

What would the Attitude Era be if it didn't include all the TLC madness from The Dudleys, E&C and The Hardy Boyz?

I think you get my point.

The fact is, the WWE is terribly underrating tag team wrestling. What they don't understand is that when done right, it is a huge market and really draws people in.

And if they need more inspiration to get the division back together, take one good look at TNA.

While WWE may be better than TNA currently in most aspects, one of the things TNA is doing better is Tag Team wrestling.

Generation Me, Beer Money and the Motor City Machine Guns are three of the best tag teams in the world right now and are one of the few reason left to watch TNA lately, along with an improving women's wrestling division.

While the WWE may not be at all threatened by TNA, why not continue the one-upmanship and rebuild their tag team division? 

While this cannot happen over night, the WWE have the tools to begin as soon as possible and the answer lies over at FCW, their developmental territory.

While there are many instances in which I believe the WWE need to start taking advatange of the talent down there and start calling some new faces up, my focus for this article will be on tag teams.

The tag team division at FCW is very good, which is a shame since it would be so easy for the 'E to take advantage of this by beginning to bring these men up to the main roster.

To begin with, Derrick Bateman and Johnny Curtis, two of the men currently taking part in NXT 4, spent some time in FCW as tag team partners, holding the gold at some point. The two men have great chemistry together, are both very good wrestlers and have the charisma needed to create an E&C like comedy tag team. 

And there are Epico and Hunico, otherwise known as Los Aviadores, two masked men who also work very well together and have a good enough gimmick to be a great draw on the main roster.

Also, with Darren Young already on the main roster with nothing to do and officials high on "Showtime" Percy Watson, why not bring the two men together again as the "South Beach Party Boys" as they were on FCW? Both men are decent in the ring and together, would provide quite an entertaining showing inside and outside the ring.

For anyone who watches the FCW shows, you would know that the quality of the tag team matches is significantly better than that of the Raw/Smackdown ones, especially since most of the teams there don't seem randomly put together and devoid of genuine tag team chemistry.

But, this should not be done like the WWE treated the Dudebusters, a team with genuine potential. Caylen Croft and Trent Barretta were brought up to the WWE as a tag team and were disbanded pretty soon after. Croft was released and Barretta is on Superstars sometimes. The problem was they were given barely any screen time and when they were on Smackdown/Superstars, they were being squashed by Big Show. 

With more matches and actual time to get over with the crowd on the mic and during segments, they could've done pretty well. But I digress.

Hey, even if you're going to randomly place men together, at least spend some time trying to build some chemistry. Like backstage segments, that tag teams don't seem to get anymore (unless they are called Santino and Koslov).

FCW is a great place to begin building tag teams from scratch. Take two of the FCW men and give them a common bond. Begin working with them, making some nice tag team finishers, creating some good in ring chemistry between the two. Hey, here's a crazy idea- give them a name too! At least this way, even when they are brought up to the main roster, the tag team would at least be believable and entertaining.

That's the problem on the main roster, when two men are thrown together, there is no development. It is just a simple case of two mid-card guys teaming up out of the blue one day and becoming tag team champions weeks later. Only to break up once they lose the titles. This is simply not cutting it. 

It just seems downright silly for the WWE to scrap tag team wrestling altogether, especially when it played such a big hand in writing the history of the WWE/F.

As I mentioned earlier, tag teams build stars, even if neither men go on to have too much singles success. 

Maybe the WWE DOES need to start raiding the FCW roster and bring in the tag teams they have there already.

Maybe Vince simply does not care about tag team wrestling and has no intention of doing anything to fix what was once a great division.

Either way, I expect many FCW superstars to be called up to the main roster pretty soon, especially considering all the talent on the main roster that has been lost lately.Why not try bringing in the tag teams too?

-Leva Lies