A matter of months ago, Tyson Kidd was banished to NXT, serving a sentence in wrestling purgatory, while Cesaro was in WWEs doghouse for daring to say that he felt like Cena/Orton Part 5,000 was boring. Sunday night, the two were the new WWE Tag Team Champions after a really competitive match against the Usos. The match itself didnt get the chance to really develop into something special perhaps a 2/3 falls rematch at WrestleMania would do the trick? but it was good enough to show that Kidd and Cesaro have been working hard behind the scenes to gel as a team. Their deadlift superplex/springboard elbow combo was a thing of beauty. While the Usos still are the best tag team in WWE, theyve established themselves during the past year and dont really need titles to prove it. Having another up-and-coming team hold the titles only helps the tag division. It would be optimistic to hope that this signals some value and attention being placed on tag teams, but weve been down this road before. Perhaps its best to just be happy that Kidd and Cesaro got some gold for now.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
