10 Radical Ideas That Could Save WWE's Tag Division

10. Craft A Genuine Tag Division

There€™s some deep-seated conviction in the McMahon camp that tag team wrestling is a Southern €˜rasslin€™€™ thing, something that the NWA would push back in the era of Crockett & Watts. They seem sure that tag team wrestling doesn€™t draw, ignoring the examples of The Wild Samoans, The Road Warriors€ even their own New Age Outlaws (which at one point were more over than the rest of D-Generation X), to name only three. History tells us that tag team wrestling can draw€ but the participants need to be genuine tag teams with a constant presence on the big shows. WWE should book a series of high quality, high octane matches featuring the best in their tag department, and run it on RAW in good positions for weeks leading up to a pay-per-view level blow-off naming the winners the number one contenders for the tag team titles. Give the crowd something extraordinary to watch every week featuring the same three teams trading wins and leaving it all in the ring, and they€™ll expect something great at the paying event and become excited about it. That€™s how Edge & Christian, the Dudleyz and the Hardyz got over with the crowds. In more recent times, WWE themselves went a different way, managing to raise anticipation for a Wyatt Family confrontation with The Shield to a fever pitch by establishing both teams as dominant, exciting players at or near the top of the card, and then keeping the two teams away from one another until it was time for them to collide. The crowd went bananas seeing the two three-man teams face off€ sadly, the opportunity was wasted, with the angle mostly teasing The Shield€™s inevitable break-up and the blow-off match taking place on Main Event.