Every Active WWE Tag Team: Ranked From Worst To Best
A clear pecking order for tag wrestling's mini-revival.
Tag team wrestling is alive and well in 2017.
While it'd be a stretch to call it a full on renaissance, the scene is undergoing something of a resurgence in 2017, even in the sport's biggest promotion. WWE have spent many of the past 15 years undermining their tag division, but the main roster is buzzing with excellent teams at the moment, and they're constantly stealing the show.
Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins' reunion angle has been a Raw highlight, and SmackDown hasn't produced a feud better than The New Day vs. The Usos in 2017. The divisions aren't perfect, but they're a lot healthier than they were six months ago, and much of this is down to the talent pool's depth.
It's a top-heavy group in terms of pushes and prestige, and there's a big gap between the strongest teams and everyone else. Regardless, it's an extremely talented group, and there are great wrestlers at every level of the hierarchy.
Injury robs us of The Revival, Hardy Boyz, and Colons, while the NPC Singh Brothers don't even wrestle on house shows anymore, leaving us with ten active main roster teams. How do they stack up? Let's take a look...
10. The Ascension
The Ascension have been one of WWE's lowliest tag teams from the moment they debuted on the main roster, and none of it is their fault.
They've never been particularly exciting between the ropes, but Konnor and Viktor were immediately thrown into a go-nowhere feud with The New Age Outlaws, throughout which they were routinely buried for not being as good as the Legion Of Doom. They "won" in the end, but The Ascension had no chance of getting over with such a program, and they still haven't.
They are the tag division's bottom rung. The Ascension don't wrestle on TV often, but when they do, it's usually a quick enhancement job. Sometimes the duo will randomly pop up in the Fashion Files, but for the most part, Konnor and Viktor have become a house show act, appearing on SmackDown only when a more popular team need a quick victory.
This is likely their ceiling. Unless WWE throw caution to the wind and repackage them with one of their goofy Southpaw Regional Wrestling gimmicks (Surf Dudes With Attitudes, please), there's no reason to believe The Ascension will ever, ahem, ascend.