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Tag team wresting. Once upon a time, tag teams would main event territories all around the U.S.A, where in some places they were bigger than Singles wrestlers. Now however it seems to be merely a thing for wrestlers who aren’t ready or have nothing else to do. So is tag team wrestling going to die? Or is it making a comeback?

Ricky Morton of the Rock N’ Roll Express has been described by Ric Flair & Chris Jericho, amongst others, as “one of the greatest workers”. Yet he never split up from his partner Robert Gibson, the two went on touring countries until the mid 90’s, just as the tag team divisions began to die down. Many great wrestlers have been spawned from tag teams in the last 10 years, including Edge, Christian and both Hardy’s, who are all coming on as fantastic single competitors in their own right. Yet is tag team wrestling simply viewed as a way for young wrestlers to start? Are their such things as tag team divisions anymore or are they simply viewed as a way of putting single competitors with nothing else to do together?

WWE certainly seems to think so, as surely if the WWE had a true interest in tag team wrestling they would have put most of the credible tag teams on one brand, instead of making the “champions” go to other shows to do so. Surely ECW, a show which has few feuds and little direction would be a perfect match for this? A prime example of their lack of care for the tag team belts is the way in which at Wrestlemania 25, in a match that to their credit the WWE had hyped for weeks, The Tag Team Championship Unification bout (bit of a mouthful) was simply taken off the live broadcast and we were given perhaps a longer match between someone else, no, we were instead “treated” to a overly long performance by Kid Rock. And instead of, as most companies would do, put the titles on the better tag team, they decided to put it on the Colons.

Now no respect to the Colons, they are a fairly good tag team, but why not give it to the team that had a hit internet show in “the Dirt Sheet”, appeared across all 3 brands and was given the largest push seen by anyone inside the WWE in at least 3 years. Of course the reason was to split The Miz and John Morrison in the draft and allow them to thrive as single’s competitors. But why then, when the tag belts were being shown more interest than before, why not wait perhaps two more months and allow them to split and then feud, thus allowing a much easier face turn for John Morrison than the one he is currently being given, which I don’t think the fans are buying into.

But one company that has been recently using their Tag team division is TNA. Beer Money are perhaps one of the best tag teams I have seen of this modern era and with other teams such as LAX, the Motor City Machine Guns and the veterans Team 3D means they have some good established teams with a lot of heat/popularity. Then they announce this Team 3D tag team tournament, introducing 3 new tag teams and they are easily building a strong division. Admittedly some of the better teams went out within the opening rounds, but it was a good plan to increase interest in these new teams. TNA also doesn’t feel the need to split teams for singles pushes. Take Alex Shelley for instance, who won the X Division a few months back, from none other than his very own partner, yet they did not split a successful team as WWE would have done.

Now I am not calling TNA perfect, it has flaws, but one thing I believe it has over WWE is Tag Teams something I believe should always have a place in wrestling, and if WWE chooses to ignore that, then so be it, let’s see what TNA can do.

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