10 Best Tag Teams In Wrestling Right Now
10. Sheamus And Cesaro
WWE, for all its faults, is still good at subverting audience expectations.
The Sheamus and Cesaro origin story was panned at first. They'd wrestled before engaging in their inconclusive best of seven series. It felt like creative was just greasing their wheels to keep them spinning in place. The feud - a logical example of 50/50 booking, for once - was a plot device to create a tag team, and it was a good one; the two men were inseparable in quality and have become inseparable as a team.
Their best match - and you get the feeling they could be even better, if not subjected to repetition and baffling booking, a la Extreme Rules - saw them end the "record" reign of The New Day at Roadblock: End Of The Line. This took place when the two men really started to gel. Sheamus dropped Kofi Kingston with a rolling fireman's carry slam before Sheamus, instantly, caved his chest in with a double foot stomp, exhibiting the chemistry of much more tenured duos.
The pairing gets the best out of the curiously disconnected Sheamus. Cesaro is too awesome to truly hate. He's a hoss who can land on his feet following a monkey flip - an athletic freak. But Sheamus is always there to deflate the pops with his bruising power game, which has rarely worked as well in any other context.