Hmmm, that doesn't look to promising.
Okay, so I don't actually have a room of people here to poll but what I am gauging is the lack of any sort of reaction for the tag team matches in WWE at the moment. I say at the moment but this is pretty much the case for the last couple of years and I think I've found the reason why...
When I first got into pro-wrestling in the mid-nineties I just took for granted the amount of strong tag teams in the company. To me the tag team titles were prestigious and something to aim for, to any Superstar. I used invest real interest in the tag team matches and found the title matches to be just as enthralling as the singles championship matches.
This was because the company invested just as much interest as I did in these teams, something they don't seem to do today. My question is; When was the last time an up and coming tag team got any real time on the mic?
See in order for us to care about these teams we need to know who they are. Do they think that Hulk Hogan would have been as successful if there was no "What ya gonna do..." speech before he took on the bad guys? Or that The Rock would be the Hollywood movie star he is today without a good ten minutes of promo time every Monday night?
Its the same for the tag teams. I can still remember the Dudley's arriving in the WWE. They would gut a promo before every match, giving the crowd an insight into there characters and devloping real personalities.
It is hard to imagine any team today getting as much promo time as Edge and Christian did, with their five second poses and back stage interactions (the ones with Kurt Angle being particularly memorable). It meant that people care about their TLC matches with the Hardys and the Dudleys because people actually knew who they were cheering for.
The WWE needs to learn from it's on successes and start giving these current teams some real storylines or else it will continue to suffer. While building these teams up, give some credence to the titles by putting them on some monster talent. I am aware that both R-Truth and Kofi-Kingston are successful, I mean former world champions like they have in the past. Take The Rock n' Sock Connection, Undertaker and Big Show or Stone Cold and Triple H. If you have the belts on guys like these then they will matter.
My own favourite would be a team of two men who's interactions of late have probably been the most entertaining on TV over the past few months. Kane and Daniel Bryan would be the classic odd couple tag team but could probably work successfully in the ring too. It's just a suggestion but I think it's better than anything the WWE have come up with recently.
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