If Sundays New Day versus Cesaro/Kidd match doesnt encourage WWE to go back to contesting all Tag Team Championship matches as two-out-of-three falls, then something is wrong with the company. The tag title bout was a show-stealer, with all five men (counting Xavier Woods) delivering a collectively awesome performance. The teams hit some incredible moves that exemplified why fans still love tag team wrestling: Tyson Kidd timing Cesaros delayed vertical suplex before helping to force Kofi Kingston to the ground; Kidds catapult into a spinebuster and giant swing/dropkick for the first fall; Big E spearing Cesaro through the ropes and out of the match; Kidd then having no one to tag for the rest of the second fall; and the backbreaker/springboard elbow combo from Cesaro and Kidd. Describing those moves doesnt do them justice. Both teams had fans eating outing of their hands, and its worth a second look. Of course, the finish Xavier Woods sneaking in to steal the final pin after failing to successfully use the Freebird Rule earlier perfectly capped the match, with the fresh man holding down a spent Cesaro. This match showed why a 2/3 falls match still is an awesome tool to break out. Perhaps WWE should revert to the old Saturday Nights Main Event deal for tag title matches and have them always be held under 2/3 falls rules.
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.
