10 Reasons WWE Cares So Much About Tag Team Wrestling Again

By Marcus K. Dowling /

7. WWE Always Leans On Tag Teams When They Have Characters Who Are Great Wrestlers That Aren't Over

There was once a time where D'Lo Brown was just that dude in the Nation of Domination who once got Pearl River Plunged on top of a Jeep by Ahmed Johnson. As well, Mark Henry was just a big dude who used to be an Olympic power-lifting babyface, but was now just a dude in a kente cloth decorated singlet. Together, the duo were able to establish themselves (Henry as a comic straight man for the charismatic Brown, and Brown as a multi-tool wrestler able to hide the then in-ring deficiencies apparent in the still new-to-wrestling Mark Henry. Similarly, in WWE at-present there was the example of the now no longer united "Real Americans" team of Cesaro and Jack Swagger. Swagger was a former World Heavyweight Champion who was lacking a certain next gear in the ring, whereas Cesaro had the next gear but lacked a cosign from someone with a legit top-of-the-card background in WWE. In a case of two performers becoming stronger unified than they ever could have been at that moment as singles, similar to Henry and Brown, Cesaro and Swagger worked like a charm and benefited both parties involved.