10 AEW Wrestlers WWE Should Fear The Most
4. The Young Bucks
Vince McMahon takes such an infuriating, capitalistic approach to tag team wrestling. He has never treated it as a main event concern because a tag team main event dilutes WWE's piece of the cut.
And that is it.
It doesn't matter how rich and astonishing tag team wrestling is. It doesn't matter that tag team wrestling is a breathtakingly creative perpetual motion machine with a format that also incorporates the really good, lasting emotive sh*t.
It dilutes WWE's piece of the cut.
Tag team wrestling draws - not enough for Vince, as has become agonisingly clear over the last 15 years - but it draws. The Young Bucks draw. You need only look at the numbers (helpfully provided by an easily flustered Uncle Dave on most given days) for evidence of that. The Young Bucks draw both fan revenue - and talent wanderlust - in their mastery of a genre WWE cares so little about. On the subject of which, the Revival, clearly, are spending their remaining year bantering f*ck out of WWE's approach to tag team wrestling, and much like fellow NWA disciple Cody, their impending departure may represent a similar paradigm shift.
In the wake of the Wild Card Rule, the RAW doubles division barely exists. Is that better or worse than it existing as a catastrophic embarrassment?