Post by MichaelTheMartian on Apr 24, 2015 6:32:17 GMT -5
There was once a time (Well a few on occasions) where the WWE's tag team division was hot, exciting, deep, consitantly giving us good and great matches, hell most recently I could say was after Summerslam 2013 where we had the Shield, Wyatt Family, Uso's, Prime Time Players, Brotherhood, Real American's, Tons of Funk, Los Matadores and 3MB. That's a whopping 8 teams who all had character, a gimmick and were all honestly (excluding Tons of Funk & Matadores) over. All of them would get a reaction of some sort. The Uso's, The Shield & Wyatt's would sell good amounts of merchandise, would put on great matches and were over. But then, Tons of Funk break up for no reason, Real American's break up for a horribly booked Cesaro solo push, The Shield breaks up, Jinder Mahal & Drew McIntyre get released thus ending 3MB, the Wyatt Family splits for no reason and The Brotherhood splits for a horrible feud that lasted no more than 4 weeks. For what? The only one that has worked out is The Shield's split, Swagger isn't doing anything as Cesaro has been put in another team, this time with no character other than stating "facts", Harper & Rowan are doing nothing of note, Rhodes and Goldust are doing nothing of note and the tag team division is now back to square one, with even more bad booking.
Now we have a division consisting of Cesaro/Kidd, The Uso's, Los Matadores, New Day, Prime Time Players, Lucha Dragons and the Ascension.
Cesaro & Kidd while are great wrestlers have no substance and no character to them right now. Last Smackdown they got mic time against two of the biggest babyfaces and did well, so why can't they do stuff like that more often? Have them bash the division every time they're on TV, claiming they're going to keep the belts forever because clearly no team is good enough to beat them. Let Natalya do something other than "supporting her husband", let her be the mouthpiece, let her be there Lana, let her start feuds for them, be their voice of reason. One of the Uso's is injured for a while now so for about 6 months we will be left without the Usos, who were getting stale, every match of theres was the same- get beat down for most of it, hit a superkick or a samoan splash, make the hot tag, clear the house, "WE GOT OUTSELVES A FLYING USO", superkick, tag, Splash, win. That's an Uso match in a nutshell, let them bring up their heritige, how they want to go down as the greatest team of all team and they welcome anybody that thinks they bring it to them. Get Naomi involved, have teams trying to get to the Uso's through Naomi by flirting with her, let heels bad mouth Rikishi, make a tag feud personal! More than just "We want the gold".
The Ascension being bought up should have kept the same gimmick from NXT, straight ass kickers tearing through the division, yet we get a poor man's Road Warriors gimmick, I don't get it. Why change something that got them noticed enough to bring up? Even more baffling to me that nobody mentions is how this Ascension gimmick and name has been used from 2009 down in FCW all the way till today and what do they do after deciding to bring them up? Changing the damn gimmick! It does not make sense to me at all. Now they are up there with being the biggest jokes on the roster as creative has lost all interest in them and they are jobbing on Superstars. New Day's gimmick has been TERRIBLE, has back-lashed with fans but in saying that we are on the verge of hopefully seeing a well executed heel turn, so I won't comment on them because they could prove me wrong within the new week.
Hey PTP are back! They beat the Ascension first match back breaking the Ascensions win streak! Hey! Who cares? Why should we? when a week later nothing was mentioned of it and I don't think they have wrestled on RAW since. They are cutting good promos weekly on the division now which has been good. But why not make a feud about Young being gay? Almost happened with the Real American's as Colter was flirting with mentioning it but never happened. Sure it will get a bit of media back lash, but when they come out with the win a true babyface team could break through that are extremely "Humanised" and relate-able and in turn a heel team could get genuine heat! Lucha Dragons are fun and exciting in the ring, cool, but what do we know about them? How are we meant to get behind them? Even in NXT they sort of popped up, won matches and that's it, never had no character to them! Los Matadores are jobbers and that's fine.
Form a team that has star power and will bring eyes to the division. For instance a team like JeriShow, have BNB want a big man to help him on his quest to become a tag team champion, BNB & Show could work like JeriShow did, hell you can even call them Bad News Bears if it's not copyrighted
Here are things that are needed.
-Characters
-Depth
-Give them time on TV
-Merchandise, who ever thinks there is no money in tag team wrestling clearly don't know the sales numbers of the Hardyz, Shield, Usos, Wyatts, etc. Just put them in a good position on TV to make people want to pay their money for something related to them!
Let Slater/Rose team on house shows for a bit to get some chemistry going, just a heel team that will job. Bring up Enzo/Cass soon, they are the new New Age Outlaws, off their mic work alone they will get over, they have CHARACTER, they have a CATCH PHRASE, they aren't the best in the ring but that's what's gold about tag team wrestling, you don't need to be, you WILL improve as you go and can cover each other weaknesses as evident with Reigns in the Shield, Rowan with Harper, etc. Put the Wyatt Family BACK together, give us a reason to care about all the teams. Bring back the Dudleys so we have a veteran team that a team is guaranteed to get a rub wrestling with!
BTW- Cesaro/Kidd please, and I mean please get matching gear! At least wear the same colour scheme on a regular basis! One of my biggest pet peeves, you're the TAG team champions, look like a real tag team then!
Now we have a division consisting of Cesaro/Kidd, The Uso's, Los Matadores, New Day, Prime Time Players, Lucha Dragons and the Ascension.
Cesaro & Kidd while are great wrestlers have no substance and no character to them right now. Last Smackdown they got mic time against two of the biggest babyfaces and did well, so why can't they do stuff like that more often? Have them bash the division every time they're on TV, claiming they're going to keep the belts forever because clearly no team is good enough to beat them. Let Natalya do something other than "supporting her husband", let her be the mouthpiece, let her be there Lana, let her start feuds for them, be their voice of reason. One of the Uso's is injured for a while now so for about 6 months we will be left without the Usos, who were getting stale, every match of theres was the same- get beat down for most of it, hit a superkick or a samoan splash, make the hot tag, clear the house, "WE GOT OUTSELVES A FLYING USO", superkick, tag, Splash, win. That's an Uso match in a nutshell, let them bring up their heritige, how they want to go down as the greatest team of all team and they welcome anybody that thinks they bring it to them. Get Naomi involved, have teams trying to get to the Uso's through Naomi by flirting with her, let heels bad mouth Rikishi, make a tag feud personal! More than just "We want the gold".
The Ascension being bought up should have kept the same gimmick from NXT, straight ass kickers tearing through the division, yet we get a poor man's Road Warriors gimmick, I don't get it. Why change something that got them noticed enough to bring up? Even more baffling to me that nobody mentions is how this Ascension gimmick and name has been used from 2009 down in FCW all the way till today and what do they do after deciding to bring them up? Changing the damn gimmick! It does not make sense to me at all. Now they are up there with being the biggest jokes on the roster as creative has lost all interest in them and they are jobbing on Superstars. New Day's gimmick has been TERRIBLE, has back-lashed with fans but in saying that we are on the verge of hopefully seeing a well executed heel turn, so I won't comment on them because they could prove me wrong within the new week.
Hey PTP are back! They beat the Ascension first match back breaking the Ascensions win streak! Hey! Who cares? Why should we? when a week later nothing was mentioned of it and I don't think they have wrestled on RAW since. They are cutting good promos weekly on the division now which has been good. But why not make a feud about Young being gay? Almost happened with the Real American's as Colter was flirting with mentioning it but never happened. Sure it will get a bit of media back lash, but when they come out with the win a true babyface team could break through that are extremely "Humanised" and relate-able and in turn a heel team could get genuine heat! Lucha Dragons are fun and exciting in the ring, cool, but what do we know about them? How are we meant to get behind them? Even in NXT they sort of popped up, won matches and that's it, never had no character to them! Los Matadores are jobbers and that's fine.
Form a team that has star power and will bring eyes to the division. For instance a team like JeriShow, have BNB want a big man to help him on his quest to become a tag team champion, BNB & Show could work like JeriShow did, hell you can even call them Bad News Bears if it's not copyrighted
Here are things that are needed.
-Characters
-Depth
-Give them time on TV
-Merchandise, who ever thinks there is no money in tag team wrestling clearly don't know the sales numbers of the Hardyz, Shield, Usos, Wyatts, etc. Just put them in a good position on TV to make people want to pay their money for something related to them!
Let Slater/Rose team on house shows for a bit to get some chemistry going, just a heel team that will job. Bring up Enzo/Cass soon, they are the new New Age Outlaws, off their mic work alone they will get over, they have CHARACTER, they have a CATCH PHRASE, they aren't the best in the ring but that's what's gold about tag team wrestling, you don't need to be, you WILL improve as you go and can cover each other weaknesses as evident with Reigns in the Shield, Rowan with Harper, etc. Put the Wyatt Family BACK together, give us a reason to care about all the teams. Bring back the Dudleys so we have a veteran team that a team is guaranteed to get a rub wrestling with!
BTW- Cesaro/Kidd please, and I mean please get matching gear! At least wear the same colour scheme on a regular basis! One of my biggest pet peeves, you're the TAG team champions, look like a real tag team then!