The Standard Tag Team Match is too ‘Status Quo’
To end on a sour note, the main event of Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose vs. Rusev and Alberto Del Rio was an OK if uneventful tag match but its big issue lies in repetition from the past. I’m not saying that having the same match over and over again is a bad thing and the absolutely not of wrestling show rules but this is only a case when there is an evolution of a match. Yeah remember the saying “Bigger, Badder, Better”? This is what these matches should always be becoming
Watching this match brought back memories from a two week period in 2005 of Smackdown main events. You see, one week Batista and Eddie Guerrero teamed up to face Randy Orton and Mr. Kennedy. Then the next week another tag match was booked with the addition of ‘Cowboy’ Bob Orton and Roddy Piper to their respective teams. This added a new dynamic to the match that prevented it from repeating the footnotes of the previous installment.
Point being, the main event match of this Smackdown felt interchangeable, run of the mill, stuff we have already seen before. I blame Theodore Long.
(Quick Thought: For a faction that was introduced with some fanfare the League of Nations has been devoid of being about much of anything).
[Zak Fellows isn’t about much of anything as well.]
How I never noticed the trend with Smackdown main events until 10 years later is baffling.
