WWE Elimination Chamber 2017 Results Predictions
3. SmackDown Tag Team Championships: Tag Team Turmoil
For all the improvements SmackDown have made since the Brand Split, their tag team division is still struggling. American Alpha should prove to be excellent champions, but Jason Jordan and Chad Gable are less than a year into their main roster careers and have little in the way of credible opposition.
Instead of copying the women’s division and creating compelling storylines at every level, SmackDown’s writers have left the tag teams to flounder. Thus, they’ve been left with little choice but to throw everyone in the ring at the same time, and that’s exactly what they’ve done. This six-team match should be absolute chaos, but there are just two teams who can realistically win.
The Vaudevillains, Breezango, and Ascension are nowhere near credible enough to take the belts, and Heath Slater & Rhyno’s glory run ran its course a while ago. The Usos therefore stand as the team likeliest to take Alpha’s titles away on Sunday night, but you shouldn’t bet on it. Gable & Jordan are just getting started as a mainline tag team, and they’re ideal cornerstones to build the rest of the division around. Look for them to retain here, then hopefully transition to a feud with The Usos.
Winners: American Alpha.