10 Tag Team Wrestlers Who Left Their Partner For Better Things

Whilst the WWE have gifted us with great stables in recent years, the tag team division has seen better days. It is painstakingly obvious that WWE creative devotes very little time to tag wrestling anymore; subjecting fans to an extremely thin division, with very few storylines and undesirable, makeshift title matches that lack any form of build up or rivalry. Put it this way, The Hardy Boyz, The Dudley Boyz and Edge & Christian, offered us potentially the greatest tag match of all time in a Tables, Ladders & Chairs thriller at WrestleMania X-Seven. Yet, if you closed your eyes and pictured RybAxel, Los Matadores and The Usos competing in the same bout, you€™d probably struggle to reopen them. It is a great shame that the tag division is in such a sad state, because it was a style of wrestling that once had a variety of huge benefits. It was a process that allowed the company time to determine if a rookie wrestler had star potential, as fans familiarised themselves with the individual. Nowadays, wrestlers often debut with either a gimmick that has a limited time period or very little character at all; resulting in a large roster of mid-card wrestlers and a less naturally progressive push to the top. Here is a list of ten great wrestlers that have benefitted from starting in the business alongside a tag team partner, before developing into highly successful individual performers...
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