10 WWE Tag Teams That Broke Up At The Best Time
4. The Shield
There are fewer acts from WWE's difficult 2010s as universally adored as The Shield, which surely speaks to the company picking the exact right moment to blow them to bits in 2014.
Seth Rollins brutalising Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns with a steel chair just one night after the group had scored their biggest and most decisisve win was great twist booking and relatively logical too - 'The Game' had seen the cracks earlier in the year that a babyface turn had appeared to paper over. Exploiting that broke the hearts of the audience in such a way that they yearned for healing in the years that followed. There was evidence of this in spades when the company eventually went back to the well.
Reunions between 2017 and 2019 weren't just warmly received - they were positively beloved. Established as headliners in their own right, six-man tag matches became possible pay-per-view main events thanks to the limitless reverence for the iconic trio.