8 Tag Teams That Deserve One More WWE Run

On the August 23rd edition of SmackDown Live, The Headbangers made their long-awaited return to WWE, showing up for the first time in close to two decades to take part in the SmackDown Tag Team Championship Tournament. Although they were unsuccessful in beating the duo of Heath Slater and Rhyno, they looked decent in defeat and appeared to be interested in returning to the blue brand full-time.

The Headbangers aren't the only old-school tag team to resurface in recent years. In 2014, The New Age Outlaws reunited and joined WWE's tag team ranks, quickly recapturing the WWE Tag Team Championship for a sixth time and mixing it up with the rest of the roster. The Dudley Boyz, another Attitude Era tandem, also came back last year to cross paths with the talent of tomorrow and contested a series of solid matches with The New Day, The Usos and Enzo Amore and Big Cass.

While WWE has a slew of stellar tag teams right now, they are divided between Raw and SmackDown Live because of the Brand Split. The respective divisions aren't strong on their own and could use all the help they can get. These eight once-successful tag teams wouldn't have to be back as active members of the roster year-round, but there is little question they do deserve at least one more run with the company.

Could it be any more obvious that WWE is desperately trying to recreate the same magic Goldust had with Booker T now with R-Truth?

What is painfully apparent is that it isn't working, and while they are fine for undercard comedy fodder, they will never find themselves in tag title contention, unlike Goldust and Booker. Although the five-time WCW Champion was hesitant to join forces with Goldust at first, the unlikely pairing quickly rose to prominence in the tag team ranks on Raw and became World Tag Team champions together by the tail end of 2002.

Sadly, their entertaining run as a tandem was cut short when Booker started to gain traction as a babyface and WWE then decided to split them up in time for WrestleMania XIX. While Booker went on to contend for the World Heavyweight Championship at The Show of Shows, Goldust was released from the company a few months later.

Thus, their stint was never explored for as long as it deserved to be and they have some unfinished business to attend to. But now that they both find themselves in WWE once again, nothing is stopping from them from reuniting one last time. Goldust is in the twilight of his career and Booker hasn't wrestled a televised match in over four years, but he has to have at least one or two more matches left in him.

And if he does, they should be alongside The Bizarre One.