10 Recent Tag Team Splits That Ruined Each Member’s Career

10. The Prime Time Players

When The New Day's mammoth 483 day reign with the WWE Tag Team Titles came to a close in December 2016, it ended a lingering discussion on the last pair to hold the belts before them.

Becoming more of a weird trivia note rather than a duo etched in history by virtue of their victory, the Prime Time Players had traded the titles with Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods already before the talented trio embarked on their incredible stint following their SummerSlam 2015 victory.

By the time Cesaro and Sheamus unseated The New Day, Darren Young and Titus O'Neil had long separated, but neither had remotely enjoyed success on a par with their relatively preferable times together.

Forming out of necessity on the morbidly entertaining NXT Redemption in 2012, Young and O'Neil had only just finished fighting one another in a seemingly endless feud before O'Neil turned heel immediately after their blowoff match. Forging a common bond, the pair ended up on the main roster, but faltered quickly and separated in 2013 after a beleaguered year. The subsequent feud sucked, and a Young ACL tear halting proceedings ultimately favoured both.

If their first rancid post-split feud hadn't highlighted how much better they were as a unit, the second one confirmed it. Reforming in 2015, the pair won, then successfully defended the titles on consecutive pay-per-views, but a second severance (alongside several deeply unrewarding matches) in 2016 killed the team for good.