WWE: 3 Problems The Superstar Shake-Up Needs To Address
By Brett Grega
3. The Stale and Directionless Men’s Tag Team Divisions
Right now, we seem to be in an unprecedented era of confusion across the men’s tag divisions.
Title opportunities have seemingly been doled out at random, and thrown together teams of main event caliber stars have gone on massive losing streaks. Overall, there’s a general state of disarray that needs to be rectified quickly.
Thankfully, there’s a few easy ways WWE can reset these divisions during the Superstar Shake-Up.
For starters, WWE can break up the feuds which have grown stale in the divisions over the past year.
The Usos really have no business being on SmackDown Live anymore, especially after they dropped the titles to The Hardy Boyz. While a rematch could certainly happen down the line, for now that title change should be used as the impetus to jettison The Usos to Raw where they would have fresh rivalries away from The New Day and The Bar.
Similarly, The Revival have grown stagnant on Monday Night Raw. There’s basically no new teams left for them to feud with, aside from Heavy Machinery I suppose. Fortunately, they too just lost their titles, this time in an incredibly random WrestleMania match.
Really, there’s no way to retcon that angle to make sense, but at least it could be used to free up The Revival and send them to the blue brand where they could feud for the gold in a dream rivalry with Matt and Jeff Hardy.
With two major teams swapping brands, that just leaves WWE some of their more thrown together teams to address.
Shinsuke Nakamura and Rusev have no business teaming together. They’re far better on their own. Make it simple and send one away to Raw.
The same can likely be said for Aleister Black and Ricochet, but I would understand if WWE would be hesitant to break them considering they’ve really only been presented together on the main roster thus far.
At the same time, I would then question why they lost 3 title matches in a single week. Honestly, it’s probably for the best that they just split too.
While tearing up two tag teams may seem like a less than optimal solution for strengthening the tag division, it should free up some room for underutilized or up-and-coming teams like Gallows and Anderson or Heavy Machinery to flourish.
All in all, with two of the top teams switching brands and the separation of two thrown together teams, I think WWE would end up with a far more balanced tag team scene that would now have clear directions and new challengers.