7 Reasons The 2016 Dusty Rhodes Classic Won't Be As Good As 2015
4. The Brackets Are Lopsided
When the brackets were announced for the 2015 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, they brought with them a whole lot of intrigue. The second round gave us Enzo & Big Cass against Joe & Balor. Would NXT's most popular team be able to defeat its two biggest stars? The answer was no, but it was intriguing.
Elsewhere, then-NXT Champions The Vaudevillains lost to The Mechanics in the second round, throwing the entire bottom half of the tournament wide open. Rhyno & Corbin eventually came through that half, but before that you could make an argument for Gable & Jordan, The Hype Bros, even Gargaon & Ciampa.
The 2016 brackets look a little lopsided in truth. All the established teams find themselves in the bottom half of the draw. Looking at the top half we have a weird mix of new teams and thrown together ones. Surely it would have been more exciting to space some of the others out a bit, maybe even give the Authors of Pain the top half to establish even more dominance?