11. Samoa Joe and Baron Corbin Are (Again) The WWE Tag Team Champions
There was a really awesome moment at the end of last week's NXT program where Baron Corbin and Samoa Joe locked eyes and something very awesome made all of the sense in the world. Samoa Joe's a 15-year in-ring veteran whose body has been ravaged by injury and is pushing 40. He's still capable of excellence though, and deserves his spot in NXT. Baron Corbin's north of 30 too, and is similarly not exactly healthy, but starting to grasp how to be an effective pro wrestler. Joe and Corbin could make an AMAZING tag team for WWE. Joe's the worker and a submission loving bad ass, Corbin's the high impact heavy hitter who has the best-protected finisher in the whole entire company. That's a pairing that, with five years of experience under them, would make for a tandem that would not only look great on TV together, but be a consistent moneymaker, too.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
