10 Reasons WWE Cares So Much About Tag Team Wrestling Again
7. WWE Always Leans On Tag Teams When They Have Characters Who Are Great Wrestlers That Aren't Over
There was once a time where D'Lo Brown was just that dude in the Nation of Domination who once got Pearl River Plunged on top of a Jeep by Ahmed Johnson. As well, Mark Henry was just a big dude who used to be an Olympic power-lifting babyface, but was now just a dude in a kente cloth decorated singlet. Together, the duo were able to establish themselves (Henry as a comic straight man for the charismatic Brown, and Brown as a multi-tool wrestler able to hide the then in-ring deficiencies apparent in the still new-to-wrestling Mark Henry. Similarly, in WWE at-present there was the example of the now no longer united "Real Americans" team of Cesaro and Jack Swagger. Swagger was a former World Heavyweight Champion who was lacking a certain next gear in the ring, whereas Cesaro had the next gear but lacked a cosign from someone with a legit top-of-the-card background in WWE. In a case of two performers becoming stronger unified than they ever could have been at that moment as singles, similar to Henry and Brown, Cesaro and Swagger worked like a charm and benefited both parties involved.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.