1. Give Them The Main Event (When They Deserve It)
Finally, most simply of all: where the tag team championship match deserves the status, give it top billing: make it the main event. The other secondary belts have benefited hugely from this subtle rub. Constantly handing the intercontinental championship to loveable losers like Wade Barrett and Ryback to lose, lose and lose non-title matches again and again and again it removes all credibility from the championship itself. Conversely, when Bret Hart and the British Bulldog main evented Summerslam in 1992 for the intercontinental championship, it was huge. The crowd reaction in the Bulldogs home country was phenomenal. This year, when Bayley and Sasha Banks had probably the WWE match of the year at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn, it was tacitly acknowledged that the company had made a mistake in not having this massive match, with two years of build-up and a huge swell of popular support behind it, run as the legitimate main event. Two months later, NXT Takeover: Respect corrected the error: for the first time, a WWE special event was headlined by the womens championship match (it also happened to be the first ever womens Iron Man match in the companys history, and the longest womens match in the companys history). Now, WWE has a history of having tag team matches headline pay-per-views (look at the main event of the first Wrestlemania), but its usually teams made up of singles stars: cramming the main event with as many main eventers as possible. Why not wait until the tag team title match has such credibility, such a demand from fans, that its booked to main event the show its on? Few could argue that the Edge & Christian/Dudley Boyz/Hardy Boyz feud of yesteryear didnt deserve to main event at least one of the shows it was featured on. In more recent times, Evolution versus the Shield and the Shield versus the Wyatt Family could easily have fronted their various pay-per-view events. When the storyline, the performers and the crowd reaction deserve it, give them the main event. Itll be the final touch to making the WWE tag team division great again.
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