10 Worst WWE Tag Team Champions Ever
David Otunga has much to answer for.
WWE's tag divisions are in a great place at the moment.
With The Usos and New Day highlighting SmackDown and teams like The Bar and the reunited Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose upholding their end of the bargain on Raw, the company is awash with great duos. Their matches regularly steal the show, with several deserving commendation during year-end awards season, and the trend looks set to continue heading into 2018.
It'd be remiss to call this a full-on revival, but the scene is far healthier than it was a year ago, and the current situation is a vast improvement on the way WWE usually promote tag wrestling.
A thriving duos division used to be pivotal to any successful promotion, but Vince McMahon often shows little regard for this side of the sport. His company regularly treat tag wrestling like an afterthought, greatly diminishing their titles' prestige by tossing reigns at dozens of half-baked, thrown-together tandems, hiding their matches on undercards, and booking champions like glorified jobbers.
Dozens of unworthy duos have held WWE's tag belts over the years, with their reigns failing through poor booking, illogical storytelling, and the performers' own deficiencies. Here are the worst of the worst.
10. Deuce 'N Domino
Wearing plain white tees, black trousers, and more hair product than Grease's entire male cast, Deuce 'N Domino were a heavily gimmicked act that would've floundered in a different era, but prospered through a lack of competition in 2007.
Deuce, Domino, and manager Cherry struggled to get over with the crowd, and their cheesy act barely drew a reaction whenever they emerged, but that didn't stop WWE from pushing them. Deuce 'N Domino ended Paul London and Brian Kendrick's record-breaking 331-day as WWE Tag Team Champions on an April '07 episode of SmackDown, and held the gold for over four months. They rarely impressed, though, and clunky matches against thrown-together teams like Eugene & Shannon Moore and a bizarre Jimmy Snuka/Sgt. Slaughter combination dragged the division down.
Deuce 'N Domino are saved by the fact that they were a legitimate tag team and not two randomly paired singles wrestlers, but they were abysmal between the ropes, never got over, and lasted just a year on television. They split in June 2008, with Domino and Cherry given their marching orders a few months later, and Deuce following them out of the company the next year.