The One Tag Team WWE Need To Push In 2019

The Bar Sheamus Cesaro
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Vince McMahon's hatred of tag wrestling is so deeply rooted that it'd be quixotic to assume he's interested in "fixing" the division. He isn't the only major promoter with this flaw (Gedo, NJPW's revered head booker, presents his own duos in the dryest manner imaginable), though the problem is more pronounced in WWE than anywhere else. The past 12 months, as dire as they've been for the Raw division, are the norm, not the exception.

Short of diving into Marvel's Quantum Realm and re-emerging with a prime Edge & Christian, Dudley Boyz, and Hart Foundation, there are no obvious, readymade solutions. Putting The Bar back together when Sheamus recovers from his latest injury is an option, but WWE look set on giving Cesaro another go as a singles act. Elsewhere, the independent scene isn't bursting with an abundance of existing tag teams that could be signed to slot right in, and while NXT's Undisputed Era or Moustache Mountain might be elite, The Viking Raiders' immediate cartoonification doesn't bode well for future call-ups. Managed by Ed Leslie, Trent Seven and Tyler Bate would become The Barbers.

With nothing else to fall back on, WWE must create new tag teams. This doesn't mean aligning ill-fitting allies through nonsensical storylines (see: Rusev and Nakamura), but devising fresh, exciting unions between two characters with compatible personalities and goals, who'd believably align to take on the world.

That means pairing the two best male heels in the company.

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