8 Things WWE's Tag Division Could Learn From NXT

7. No Breakups

When a tag team has been together for a while in WWE, discussion inevitably turns to their break-up. There's a mentality amongst many wrestling fans that performers should be measured by their ability as a singles competitor rather than their worth as part of a duo. Talk of a Shield breakup was around long before Seth Rollins belted Roman Reigns with a steel chair and there are already those painting Kalisto as a potential singles competitor in the mould of the legendary Rey Mysterio. This talk doesn't exist down in NXT. By and large, teams that are formed down in the developmental territory stay together, at least until they make their way to the main roster. There's no sense that the performers within tag teams are instead being groomed for singles success. With the exception of Jason Jordan and Tye Dillinger and the short-lived French team of Marcus Louis and Sylvester Lefort, there are very few actual tag team splits within the NXT division. WWE should borrow this aspect of NXT's storytelling and place greater emphasis on building tag teams as duos, rather than simply throwing them together in anticipation of future singles runs. Tag team wrestling, done right, is exceptionally entertaining, so it is wrong to treat the tag team division as simply a feeder system for singles stars of the future. The Dudleys never really got prolonged singles runs in WWE and they have been welcomed back as legends, so it seems absurd for WWE to be so quick to break up tag teams.