12 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Clash Of Champions 2019
1. One Makeshift Team To Another
So the Raw Tag Team Championship is off the makeshift duo of Seth Rollins & Braun Strowman after a grueling four-week reign.
And while that’s notable, it was another thrown-together team that toppled the champs: Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode, who had never tagged together or even associated with each other onscreen before. This sort of thing is frustrating for multiple reasons, but mainly because it completely disregards any concept of tag-team specialists, as any pairing of singles wrestlers seems capable of winning tag team gold. It also disregards the numerous tag teams on the roster.
Worse, this situation was crafted as a plot point in the WWE Universal Championship feud between Rollins and Ziggler, making the tag titles a prop in another title picture. We’ve seen this done before and it very, very rarely works out well.
And yet, WWE went back to the well and had a makeshift team lose their titles, but this time, it was to another newly formed duo. LAME.