This is one item that is beyond WWEs control, but that doesnt make it any less frustrating or detrimental to the product. On paper, WWE should have a vibrant tag team division, with numerous duos vying for the WWE Tag Team Championships. In reality, however, some of the companys most viable teams have been shelved due to injuries. The biggest blow came at WrestleMania XXXI this spring when Jey Uso dislocated his shoulder, knocking WWEs best tag team out of action for about six months. The Usos held tag team gold for much of 2014 and had been the backbone of the division. More recently, Tyson Kidd went down with a serious neck injury, disbanding his partnership with Cesaro. The former tag champs werent in the title picture at the time, but they were a reliable duo that could always carry a solid match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbEUGA8q6nU The injury bug also hit Erick Rowan, who had just reunited with Luke Harper and looked to be building up as a bruising team, complete with a new tandem finisher, The Way (the Dudley Boys 3D).
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
