Things sure do move quickly in the modern era, huh? Just a week after forming an official team, Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne (officially named Air Boom thanks to a Twitter poll) defeated David Otunga and Michael McGillicutty (Curtis Axel) for the WWE Tag Team Titles on the August 22nd 2011 Raw. The two high-flyers were certainly an improvement on the previous champs, that much is for sure. Match quality increased and fans responded to Air Boom's matches. They were exciting and seemed to have so much more purpose in the tag division after going nowhere fast in the singles ranks. PPV title defences against Awesome Truth (R-Truth and The Miz) and Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger seemed to signal that WWE were serious about giving them at least a semi-decent push. And then Bourne went and spoiled it all by doing something stupid like failing a wellness test on November 1st. Upon return from his thirty-day layoff, it was clear that the team had lost a lot of the momentum they had built up over the past couple of months. They were quickly jobbed out to Primo and Epico and then split up in mid-January when Bourne failed yet another wellness test and Kofi began teaming with R-Truth. Because R-Truh was less of a wellness concern than Evan Bourne, apparently. You can't really blame WWE for this one but it's still a case of a tag team being broken up way before it was due.
