5 Best And 5 Worst Reluctant WWE Tag Team Champions
6. Worst 1. John Cena And David Otunga
This tag team championship pairing has all the makings of an all-time disaster. First, it reminded us of the awful Cena/Nexus storyline where he was forced to join the Nexus, then was fired (but never really left as he appeared on every Raw since his “firing”), then was immediately reinstated. Secondly, it was obvious that David Otunga was completely out of John Cena’s league, so the team was completely one-sided. Cena would have been just as believable sharing the tag team championships with a broom.
This was a particularly brutal chapter of that awful storyline. At Bragging Rights, Cena was already a member of the Nexus, but didn’t have a match at the show. The current champions, Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre (a random pairing in their own right) were scheduled to face a team from The Nexus, and Barrett announced that the team would be John Cena and David Otunga. Cena single-handedly won the belts, and then attacked Otunga with them. The next night on Raw, Cena was forced to lay down for Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel to win the tag team championships. Makes you wonder how Otunga felt about that?
It was an awful team winning a tag team championship as a prop for an all-time awful storyline. This easily takes the top spot for worst reluctant tag team champions.