Booker T and Test may not have been the primary focus of The Alliance during the 2001 angle but they were certainly high-profile members of the villain faction. What they were not were a legitimate tag team, making their championship victory over Chris Jericho and The Rock yet another serious misstep in WWE Creative's booking of the titles at that period in time. Worse yet was the fact that they were used primarily as transitional champions, knocking off the supreme babyfaces then turning right around and dropping them to Matt and Jeff Hardy 13 days later. It was another instance of the company's writing staff playing hot potato with the tag titles for no reason other than to create an air of unexpectedness on its programming. Their reign did nothing to help the titles. Instead, it added to the devaluing of the titles, something that was prevalent throughout the first few years of the Millennium.
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