Hello? Is there anything in that empty bucket you call head? For something to be called a tag team division there needs to be quite a few more of actual tag teams available. Why? For the sole reason to make the matches interesting. If you have 4-5 tag teams you basically have 4-5 matches that look almost exactly the same each and every time. You constantly have the same people holding the belts, you constantly have the same people trying to get the belts. How much excitement can the crowd have for a match they seen 500 times already and will see 500 times more? And when the crowd doesn’t react to a tag team, what do you do? You blame the team for the lack of interest from people. With all the respect I have inside me to the performers, there is only SO much they can do. If you have them in the ring 200-300 times a year, there’s a limit to what they can do, the material will get stale, people will begin to say “we’ve seen that”, there will be less and less reaction, there will be silence. But the blame is of course on the wrestlers side, right?
Tag team wrestling has a great history and even today there are some tag teams that work great together. Too bad they won’t work together very long, cause as soon as the officials notice the lack of crowd involvement, they make the stupidest decision possible, they split the team. Of course they could analyze “why it happened?”, change something either in the gimmick or something else, but why bother with using those moronic brains. You get no crowd reaction after your 200th match against the same opponent in a row? Well obviously you don’t work well together, so time to split you up. Bull-fucking-shit.
And while we are on the subject of tag team, do we really need that cookie cutter formula of matches? Copy, paste… times 5000. Here’s the formula: when match starts, the face has an advantage, then the heels dominate, then we get a near-tag for the faces, then heels dominate, then we get a hot tag for the faces. After that, depending on who is meant to win it’s either a hot-tagged face kicking ass and going for the pin, or a heel stopping the pin and winning. Rinse and repeat. I have seen that formula in the works so many times that I can actually call it with 95% timing accuracy. And when you constantly have the same people battling each other, I can even call the moves that are gonna happen 95% of the time.
The state of tag team wrestling in the mainstream… Can’t say it’s non-existing, cause from time to time there are teams that shine for few months, but with lousy, lazy writing and moronic management, everything that’s good, goes to shit very, very fast.
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