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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 18, 2017 17:32:33 GMT -5
It's not just American Alpha - the tag division as a whole is pretty much the weakest part of SDL. When the split first came about, it was featured pretty well, but as several feuds have started to develop over the past few months, they just haven't had much time for the tag team scene. You can only do so much with two hours, and SDL has decided to focus much of their attention on the main event and mid-card lately. It'll likely change after WM season. Yeah but in the original brand split both shows were 2 hours and they managed to feature the important guys.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 18, 2017 17:34:13 GMT -5
I feel like SD has to many gimmick Tag Teams Tag Teams have always had gimmicks though.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 18, 2017 17:35:46 GMT -5
I stick by my original thoughts from the first brand split years ago. 1 world, 1 women's and 1 tag team champion that defends across both shows and then the US and IC titles are one to each show brand exclusive. Should make those belts more prestigious and the main belts aren't so over saturated by having two of each in the same company. That way American alpha (or the club depending on who they went with as champs) would travel from show to show and potentially get used more effectively as they would be the focal point of both shows tag rosters. This 100% and remember when Jerisho were the Unified Tag champions? They made the belts feel super important and 2 sets are a complete overkill.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 18, 2017 17:37:04 GMT -5
Hell, the WWE champion hasn't even been there Live for the past two weeks. Smackdown is all kinds of confusing lately As far as I'm aware AJ and Alexa are the only 2 stars to be on every Smackdown since the split. Everyone else has missed weeks.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 18, 2017 17:38:55 GMT -5
American Alpha's main problem is they have no real competition. The heel turn seemed to be a nice refresher for the Usos, but they got lame and stale again surprisingly fast. The rest of the tag division is just jobbers. Good teams, but they just can't be considered a threat with the way they're booked. The whole tag division on Smackdown just seems defeated. All of them just look like they're going through the motions. The main problem with the Smackdown Tag Teams is that they were all buried by the Hype Bros during their monster run last year. How can you take a team seriously if they get beat by a jobber team?
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 18, 2017 17:40:35 GMT -5
There's only one other legitimate tag team on Smackdown - The Usos. They just burned their big tag match on Smackdown with no hype, and interrupted it multiple times with Shane McMahon. That tag scene is a complete mess. Smackdown has been an a steady downhill slope since right after the Rumble, which, interestingly enough, was when it was rumored that Brian James replaced Ryan Ward as head writer. If Road Dogg is in charge of Smackdown then surely he would make the tag division a priority since he was a tag team wrestler.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 18, 2017 17:44:32 GMT -5
I'm fine with them and other top guys not appearing live every week. It makes them more special since their appearances are more spaced out. Reminds me of the 80s and early 90s when we could go weeks before seeing top guys like Taker appear live. That doesn't work in todays era. Important stars need to appear weakly because they are meant to be draws that make you tune in. I'm a huge Wyatt fan and am absolutely pissed that he hasn't appeared in 2 straight weeks. Also American Alpha are new and so are the Tag belts so their current booking is not working.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 18, 2017 17:45:46 GMT -5
All they need is one set of tag belts. Having 2 sets is overkill IMO. Exactly last year New Day were THE Tag Team champions. Now there are red Tag Team champs and Blue Tag Team champs. It's something I hated during the original split aswell.
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Post by The Brain on Mar 18, 2017 17:54:06 GMT -5
All they need is one set of tag belts. Having 2 sets is overkill IMO. Exactly last year New Day were THE Tag Team champions. Now there are red Tag Team champs and Blue Tag Team champs. It's something I hated during the original split aswell. The one positive thing I'll say about those belts in the original split is that at least they looked like real title belts and not like dimes like today's tag belts.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 18, 2017 17:55:14 GMT -5
Exactly last year New Day were THE Tag Team champions. Now there are red Tag Team champs and Blue Tag Team champs. It's something I hated during the original split aswell. The one positive thing I'll say about those belts in the original split is that at least they looked like real title belts and not like dimes like today's tag belts are. Oh I cannot deny that they were awesome looking titles.
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Post by ~ Cymru ~ on Mar 18, 2017 19:14:25 GMT -5
I cant say I miss them, they were great in NXT but havent made the transition very well. Might have something to do with SmackDown's tag division being weaker than wet paper.
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Post by jakksking1 on Mar 19, 2017 7:16:40 GMT -5
Heel Usos should've been SD tag champs and Alpha should've chased them through Mania. It would help give AA some heat with the crowd as they are great at chasing the gold as straight baby faces.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 19, 2017 8:08:27 GMT -5
Heel Usos should've been SD tag champs and Alpha should've chased them through Mania. It would help give AA some heat with the crowd as they are great at chasing the gold as straight baby faces. Heel Uso's should've been a huge hit but after the turn they disappeared and all the hype and heat just died when they returned.
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Post by The Natural Eddy Valintino on Mar 19, 2017 9:04:58 GMT -5
Smackdowns biggest problem is they cant seem to find time for their midcarders. Normally, theres 3 matches on a Smackdown with an occasion 4 match show. Sure they're doing a great job with their main eventers, women division and upper card, but they gotta find something for their tag team division cause right now American Alpha should be a hot act, not an afterthought where people question if they're even champions
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Post by bababooey on Mar 19, 2017 10:48:24 GMT -5
Heel Usos should've been SD tag champs and Alpha should've chased them through Mania. It would help give AA some heat with the crowd as they are great at chasing the gold as straight baby faces. Heel Uso's should've been a huge hit but after the turn they disappeared and all the hype and heat just died when they returned. Also, when the Usos started appearing again they went right back to cutting the same style of promos. They are delivering a different message in the same way. Even though they are saying heelish things, they sound like babyfaces. They should have stayed toned down. That was so cool when they first turned. It was different than what they were doing. Look at Neville as a good example. As a babyface he was flying all over the place and popping the crowd. He was finishing matches with the Red Arrow and wore bright colors. Now he's a heel and his ring work is more ground based. He finishes most matches with the Rings of Saturn and really only busts out the high flying stuff when he needs to. Also his gear is black. The Usos were headed in that direction then kinda went back to their old ways. To be honest, I think the Usos are one of the most overrated teams in WWE and most of the time they just look sloppy in the ring.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 19, 2017 16:29:03 GMT -5
Heel Uso's should've been a huge hit but after the turn they disappeared and all the hype and heat just died when they returned. Also, when the Usos started appearing again they went right back to cutting the same style of promos. They are delivering a different message in the same way. Even though they are saying heelish things, they sound like babyfaces. They should have stayed toned down. That was so cool when they first turned. It was different than what they were doing. Look at Neville as a good example. As a babyface he was flying all over the place and popping the crowd. He was finishing matches with the Red Arrow and wore bright colors. Now he's a heel and his ring work is more ground based. He finishes most matches with the Rings of Saturn and really only busts out the high flying stuff when he needs to. Also his gear is black. The Usos were headed in that direction then kinda went back to their old ways. To be honest, I think the Usos are one of the most overrated teams in WWE and most of the time they just look sloppy in the ring. The only thing that got The Uso's over was their look. When they originally debut they wore a plain ring attire and no one cared about them. Then they switch to colourful gear along with facepaint and they suddenly get mega popular.
My Nephew and his friends idolised The Uso's and thought they were the coolest looking guys on the roster.
Also on Smackdown they were pretty annoyed with AJ for attacking Shane and thats a reaction you would expect from baby faces.
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Post by bigshab421 on Mar 20, 2017 8:45:11 GMT -5
I love Alpha but the problem is they were brought onto SD and hot-shotted way too fast. The reason they got over in NXT is because of the story of persistence of Gable trying to get JJ as his tag partner. The annoying of JJ with the "Ready..willing..and gable" stuff was great and allowed the fans to get behind them.
When they were drafted to SD, they didn't invest in really showing the WWE crowd who these guys were or what made them likable. All they had to do was rehash Gable annoying JJ with his tagline and give them some more comedy bits and I think they'd be mega over by now.
What we have now are just two Olympic style wrestlers who look cheesy af and are pretty generic.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Mar 20, 2017 10:11:54 GMT -5
Smackdown is absolutely far from flawless (though it's still far and away the best weekly TV show the WWE puts on) and the main concern is the tag division. Hopefully things turn around after Mania. I also expect Alpha/Usos to be damn good if they get decent time at Mania.
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Post by The Yes Man on Mar 20, 2017 11:49:18 GMT -5
Also, when the Usos started appearing again they went right back to cutting the same style of promos. They are delivering a different message in the same way. Even though they are saying heelish things, they sound like babyfaces. They should have stayed toned down. That was so cool when they first turned. It was different than what they were doing. Look at Neville as a good example. As a babyface he was flying all over the place and popping the crowd. He was finishing matches with the Red Arrow and wore bright colors. Now he's a heel and his ring work is more ground based. He finishes most matches with the Rings of Saturn and really only busts out the high flying stuff when he needs to. Also his gear is black. The Usos were headed in that direction then kinda went back to their old ways. To be honest, I think the Usos are one of the most overrated teams in WWE and most of the time they just look sloppy in the ring. The only thing that got The Uso's over was their look. When they originally debut they wore a plain ring attire and no one cared about them. Then they switch to colourful gear along with facepaint and they suddenly get mega popular. My Nephew and his friends idolised The Uso's and thought they were the coolest looking guys on the roster. Also on Smackdown they were pretty annoyed with AJ for attacking Shane and thats a reaction you would expect from baby faces.
The Usos being annoyed with AJ was ridiculous when their entire heel gimmick has been thugs who jump people. Like that promo they cut on American Alpha saying they better watch their back because you never know when they'll jump.
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Post by RybackV1 on Mar 20, 2017 12:31:15 GMT -5
Well the Alpha / Usos Tag title match got announced for SDLive tm. Maybe it'll main event again. I doubt they'll wrestle at Mania now.
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