10 WWE Tag Team Wrestlers Who Held Their Partners Back
5. Tamina (Nia Jax)
It's hard to hide from the profiling at play in the Nia Jax/Tamina pairing - the shared Samoan heritage of both women was all WWE needed to put them together long before the sniff of an established tag team division existed for either female league on the main roster. It may well have sabotaged a singles career in the process.
With nine years on the main roster under her belt, it's safe to assume the multi-time second fiddle Tamina won't ever break out on her own in the way Jax still might. The former NXT star has appeared on the card of every WrestleMania since her 2016 call-up, and has to her name a slightly problematic 2018 Raw Women's Title reign that started and ended with a bullying storyline worked backwards alongside Alexa Bliss.
Mixed fortunes for the 'Irresistible Force' thus far then, but it's always abundantly clear how keen the company are to ensure she, somehow, eventually gets over as the division's biggest star. And with all cynicism aside for their reasoning, she's as close now to reaching her prime as she's ever been. Her 2019/2020 return from injury should probably rip the plaster off on this split, too.