WWE Draft 2016: 5 Things That Will Happen (And 5 That Won't)
8. Tag Teams WON'T Be Split-Up
While there are a surprisingly high number of tag teams currently active in WWE, don’t expect the company to split any of them up in this year’s Draft.
The original WWE Draft in 2002 saw a handful of veteran teams like The Dudley Boyz and APA go their separate ways to explore singles options. It didn’t quite work-out for Bubba Ray and Reverend D-Von, but it proved to be the making of John “Bradshaw” Layfield, who’d go on to achieve immense singles success with a 280-day reign as WWE Champion.
Very few of WWE’s current tag team wrestlers have anything like that kind of outlook. There might be long-term potential in a Big E singles run, but The New Day are one of WWE’s most popular acts at the moment, and there’d be no sense in splitting them at this stage. There’s also an outside chance that WWE will split the Dudleyz and let Bubba harness some of the qualities that made him such a great heel as TNA’s Bully Ray, but what would they do with D-Von?
The rest of WWE’s tag teams are either completely dependent on one another (The Usos, Shining Stars, and Lucha Dragons) or too new to split (Enzo & Big Cass, and The Vaudevillains). All in all, there’s nothing to be gained from cannibalising the tag team division at the moment, and that’s why WWE won’t do it.