10 WWE Tag Teams That Broke Up At The Best Time
9. Jeri-Show
Chris Jericho confounded critics when he replaced injured partner Edge with a rebadged Big Show.
'Y2J' and 'The Rated-R Superstar' were bonded by little more than being p*ssed off working heels when they came together in 2009, and most assumed that Jericho would look for somebody similar when a house show achilles injury took Edge out of the picture completely. It was against these expectations and any reasonable ones that Jeri-Show were such a roaring success.
In a drab year, the pair lit up a sagging doubles division as well as providing effective foil for the revolving door of guest hosts during that particularly putrid period. It all peaked with a feud for the Tag Team Championships with D-Generation X that elevated the maligned titles into a pay-per-view main event slot, and it was at the climax of this angle that the duo were split.
Losing a rematch to Shawn Michaels and Triple H saw Chris Jericho forced off Monday Night Raw completely freeing him up for a SmackDown feud with Edge and leaving Big Show free to carry the replacements legacy on with The Miz has his own short-term replacement. That fans earnestly mourned the end of a makeshift heel unit was an achievement in itself.