5 Worst Segments on WWE Television for the Week of June 4
By Broc Flücker
Photo Source: WWE.com
Tag Team Battle Royal
Before the match started we had a promo from the current tag team champions, Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy. I can’t recall a word of anything that was said in this promo and I don’t really care to. The original success of Hardy’s Broken character was how outlandishly different it was from anything in wrestling. Now, in WWE, they’re just another tag team, except they talk funny and laugh a lot.
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This match was all-in-all just saddening to watch. It was a who’s who of wasted potential in Raw’s tag team division with teams like the Revival, Tyler Breeze and Fandango, Apollo Crews and Titus O’Neal, even the Ascension if you want to put them in there. All of these teams were here to play second fiddle to Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas.
Now, I have no problem with giving someone new a shot, and the B Team fit that mold, but I couldn’t help looking at this match and seeing how disappointing Raw’s tag team division is right now. The Revival are all around the best heel tag team you could ask for, Tyler Breeze and Fandango are both very good wrestlers and had a gimmick that was over, but now they’re hardly featured, and where are the Authors of Pain?!
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Not to mention also in this I didn’t like how they handled the team of Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler. Dolph was the first man eliminated, which by rule for this battle royal, eliminated McIntyre as well. I just didn’t quite get the story you’re telling with them. At first I thought it was going to be that Dolph was holding McIntyre back, but they didn’t really show anything pointing to that afterwards. To me, I feel like it would have been better to just not involve them in this match, but we’ll see what happens moving forward with them.