6. Whatever Happened To Tag Team Wrestling?
As WWE, of all promotions, should know, sticking two random wrestlers together does not a decent tag team make. OK, it worked for The Hart Foundation, but they were a special case. WWE keeps chucking an endless cavalcade of these frankenteams at us, like Mizdow and Rybaxel, without giving much thought to the fact that tag team wrestling and singles wrestling are two entirely different animals. Tag team matches are a vital part of any wrestling card, if only because they break up the monotony of singles contests. During the late 90s/early 2000s, WWE fielded some of the greatest teams ever seen in pro wrestling. Teams like The Hardy Boyz, Edge & Christian, The Dudley Boyz, Team Angle, Los Guerreros and Too Cool all made tag team wrestling enormous fun to watch. Today, however, aside from The Usos, how many genuinely good tag teams are really illuminating the WWE? The company should take a look at The Wolves in TNA and try to remember what a real tag team looks and feels like. Lest we forget, WWE was once home to The British Bulldogs, The Killer Bees, The Rockers, The Hart Foundation, The Legion of Doom, Demolition, The Natural Disasters and many, many more great teams; lets get back to teams like that.
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