State of the WWE Tag Team Division = Arrow Pointing Up
Last night on Raw the Tag Team Champions, The New Day, competed in a non-title match against AJ Styles and Chris Jericho. Or should I say Y2AJ… yarf.
For as much as I despise that team name though, watching this match got me thinking about WWE’s tag team division. It was down and out for a long time, no doubt. Look at it now though. The New Day, heel Dudley Boyz, The Usos with soon to be debuts of NXT teams like Enzo Amore and Big Cass, Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson, and American Alpha.
Those are all fresh feuds and point that arrow way up for the future of WWE Tag Team wrestling.
The Taker segment was a waste. For all the hype, it should’ve lasted a lot longer, maybe gave us Taker’s reasons for going along with Vince(though history shows that when Taker works with Vince, a title run is usually in the picture). The fact that such a heavily hyped return was less than five minutes was a gross disappointment and really killed that crowd.
I get that Undertaker doesn’t NEED to come out and do a long promo to sell the match, and that they still have 4.5 weeks to tell the story, but for WWE to so heavily hype his return for such a short segment that really did very little was a stupid move.
The thing I hated most about Raw was every hour started with a boring promo from a McMahon family member. First it was Triple H at 8, Stephanie at 9 and Vince at 10.
It’s such an antiquated & abysmal formula that stays the course, but doesn’t amount to anything special.