10 Positives Heading Into WWE Backlash 2016

10. Tag Team Championship Tournament

At Backlash, we’ll be seeing the finals of a tag team tournament and consequently the crowning of the first-ever SmackDown Tag Team Champions.

As well as being a great thing for the overall card - you can just about guarantee it’s going to be a top-quality match - the fact that they opted to go with a tournament to determine the inaugural champions is another major positive.

Rather than simply throwing the two most popular teams together, staging a tournament will make the eventual final at Backlash feel all the more important, but more crucially than that, it’s dispelled the worries that there weren’t enough tag team to justify an entire SmackDown tag division.

Admittedly they had to call in the Headbangers along the way, but even so; if you’ve got enough bodies for a 16-man, eight-team tournament then that means you’ve got enough for a whole division in my eyes.

Long story short; this format proves that a lack of depth isn’t going to be an issue at Backlash or beyond.