WWE: How SmackDown Live became the show to watch

Tag Team Wrestling

Tag team wrestling has become such a lost art in WWE that fans wonder if Vince McMahon even cares about it in the first place. It’s led to AEW, who have The Young Bucks as executives, to hammer home the importance of tag teams, while it also led Daniel Bryan to cut biting promos about the tag teams in WWE becoming “a joke”.

Yet SmackDown has been the home to the world’s best tag team wrestling since 2016. The New Day and The Usos, for example, were the absolute best performers in the company in the second half of 2017, single-handedly carrying the Battleground Pay-Per-View before producing an all-time classic inside Hell in a Cell.

The Usos were front-and-center when it came to tag team wrestling on SmackDown before moving to Raw after WrestleMania 35. They were the perfect heels in 2017, shedding their worn-out gimmick in 2016 by viciously injuring Chad Gable and Jason Jordan.

American Alpha, as briefly as they were a tag team, were absolutely brilliant inside the ring. Their title win over Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt was one of the most heart-warming title wins…

…But not quite as heart-warming as the run that unlikely tag team champions Heath Slater and Rhyno had together. Now THAT was beautiful…

But not quite as beautiful as Breezango. I miss the Fashion Files just as much as I miss Talking Smack.