10 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About NXT
2. Dismal Tag Team Division
AEW's Women's division is objectively not great, but it is improving.
It's perceived as the one scene on Wednesday nights that drags everything down, but that's only because NXT's Tag Team division is so thin that it barely features. It's a sort of addition by subtraction on NXT's part; AEW's missteps have brought the issues into focus, where NXT has largely ignored the doubles division or masked its weaknesses by parachuting Imperium and the Revival from NXT UK and the main roster, respectively, and throwing together Keith Lee and Dominick Dijakovic as a temporary unit. AEW's Women's division is as bad as NXT's Tag Team division, and that is some indictment.
It feels like AEW's Women's division is unfairly targeted by those, put off by AEW's big talk, who have taken on the old Alex Ferguson mentality. They want to see AEW knocked off their f*cking perch, but at least they are struggling atop it under the glare of critique.
Is there a single combination of tag teams that feels even remotely worthy of a TakeOver?
The Undisputed ERA, in any form, are among the globe's greatest tag teams. That's it. That's the division.
The Forgotten Sons needed a ladder (again) and a multi-man layout to become halfway interesting. Breezango are fun, and could make for sentimental favourites at best. Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch are tremendously fun, and credible, but they aren't stars, per se. The Singh Brothers are a joke team, if they're even in NXT.
NXT is getting away with it, almost, but come February, much work needs to be done.