AEW and NXT Wednesday Night Wars: 3 winners of night #3

Fans of Tag Team Wrestling

If you’re a regular reader of this site, you’ve probably come across a few of my articles that have decried the WWE main roster for their malpractice in booking the tag team divisions on RAW and SmackDown.

The fact that those shows house teams like The Usos, The New Day, The Viking Raiders, The Revival, and Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson and none of them get brought up in most “best tag team” discussions speaks to how little Vince McMahon cares about the craft.

NXT and AEW, however, have put a bit more effort into their divisions and it was put on display for fans this past Wednesday. Let’s start with what Dynamite did: Despite their two AEW tournament matches not being exactly as advertised, both bouts were very entertaining and proved that the promotion’s dedication to tag team wrestling wasn’t just lip service.

Aside from SCU vs. Best Friends and Jungle Boy & the apparently-polarizing Marko Stunt vs. The Lucha Bros., they also gave Santana & Ortiz a few minutes to wax some jamokes in preparation for their match against the Young Bucks at Full Gear, not to mention the excellent angle where Pentagon took Christopher Daniels out of the tournament with a package piledriver on the entrance ramp, progressing the burgeoning SCU/Lucha Bros feud.

And none of those were even the best tag match of the night! That honor belonged to Danny Burch & Oney Lorcan vs. Fabian Aichner & Marcel Barthel. The match was just as awesome and hard-hitting as the names involved suggest that it was, and the win by the Imperium duo sets them up as potential NXT Tag Team Championship contenders.

If you love tag team wrestling, this was the week for you.