10 Questions Every WWE Tag Team Should Ask Each Other

Have you ever thought about what goes into being a WWE tag team? Beyond simply looking at it as “me and my partner vs. you and your partner”? Tag team wrestling is exponentially more complicated than singles competition, in the sense that your success is tied to another person. 

You can lose without being pinned or even being in the ring during every tag team match. You have to watch your own back as well as somebody else’s, fighting off multiple opponents who are always looking to take you or your trusted confidant out of the equation. There’s a lot to account for every time a tag team steps into the squared circle.

Understanding that, being a part of a tag team should be considered a big deal. You are literally tethering your success in the industry to another man. To be a part of a tag team there needs to be unconditional trust. There needs to be familiarity. There needs to be unfiltered communication. The moment you feel like you can’t communicate with your tag team partner, you might as well call it quits.

To build a successful tag team, it’s safe to assume that partners need to ask each other some very important questions. Here are the 10 questions that every tag team should ask one another before they ever step foot in a wrestling ring!

This is the wrestling version of popping the question. If your partner says yes, you are essentially married. Everything you do, everything you say, and everything you are is now connected to your tag team partner. Most don’t think about it, but this is how every tag team must start. 

Somebody has to propose it. Whether you’re the best of friends, former enemies, brothers or two random fellas that meet in an arena one day, somebody has to ask “do you want to be my tag team partner?” before you become a tag team.

Now if you’re brothers like The Usos or the Hardy Boys, it’s an easy question to answer. Of course you want to work with your brother who you love, trust and presumably have chemistry with. For best friends, the answer is likely yes, but with a little more apprehension. 

They say it’s hard to be roommates with your best friend, so being in a tag team could ruin the entire relationship. Then there are those that aren’t best friends or relatives, just simply two athletes that figure pooling their resources will help them make it. In the short term these pairs are hot commodities, but much like Hollywood couples, they tend to flame out spectacularly in the end.

What’s funny is to think about all the tag teams that weren’t. For as many times as partners said yes to becoming a tandem, there have to be dozens of superstars that turned down the “Tag Team Proposal”.