WWE: 5 Tag Teams And Factions That Broke Up Too Soon

5. Cryme Tyme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NjjlW2c81Y In the year 2010, the tag team of JTG and Shad Gaspard split up just days after Wrestlemania 26 after just north of 3 years as a tag team. You might say to yourself that 3 years as a tag team is a long time and that Cryme Tyme didn't necessarily split up too soon in that regard. I wholeheartedly disagree. Cryme Tyme in their years of being partners had only competed in a handful of Tag Team Title matches and lost every one of them, despite being a very charismatic tag team that was over with the audience, especially on the heels of their alignment with John Cena in the summer of 2008. Breaking them up without capitalizing on the popularity of the pair was just as big a mistake as having them break up with no real plan for either after the split. If the WWE had kept them together in 2010, they could have made a run at the Tag Team Titles, which were held at the time of their break-up by ShoMiz. The Miz could have talked about how they are choke artists who can't win the big one, and that he and Big Show have only been teaming for a month and are already a better tag team than Cryme Tyme. When the two teams met in a match, everything is seemingly on the line for Cryme Tyme, their future, their dignity as a tag team, and of course their pride. In the end Shad and JTG win and get to celebrate a Tag Team Championship reign. All this could have been done at Wrestlemania 26, which would have been infinitely better than the Tag Title match that did take place (ShoMiz vs. John Morrison and R-Truth). Once Cryme Tyme split, JTG and Shad feuded for a short time, with Shad getting the blow-off victory before subsequently being released from his contract with the WWE. JTG has since done absolutely nothing of importance but still collects a paycheck as a WWE employee. Maybe Shad being released had been planned for a while and the break-up was done to facilitate that, but it sure seems like the plan coming out of the break-up was to push Shad as a heel. Things could have been different; the two were certainly better of as a tandem.