10 Radical Ideas That Could Save WWE's Tag Division

8. Stop Having Main Eventers Squash Tag Stars

A nice easy little rule for the company to live by from here on out: simply don€™t book main eventers to squash legitimate tag team specialists in beatdown angles or (god help us) handicap matches. I don€™t care how badly your bright-eyed boy needs a decisive moment in a match to regain some lost heat: it benefits no one to have him destroy an actual working tag team on your roster, given that it relates in no way to the angle that he€™s just taken part in (so he€™s achieved no measure of revenge or gained satisfaction, just taken out his aggression on innocent bystanders), and will make the tag team involved look like fools, which then devalues any feud they€™re involved in after that. Having him win a ten-minute competitive match against someone credible that€™s booked to look solid-to-good against him will do more for his rep than a squash anyway. As an addendum to that €“ two singles stars temporarily teamed to face an actual tag team should have their work cut out for them. The tag team are specialists in this area. The singles stars aren€™t. They should book these matches as showing the singles guys to be damn good who€™re out of their depth in that situation. You don€™t place a gold medal sprinter in a marathon and expect him to outperform trained, experienced marathon runners.