WWE SmackDown has a new breakout tag team heading into 2020

The New Day will face The Revival at TLC after Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson won a tag team elimination match on WWE SmackDown to become the No. 1 contender’s, but they weren’t actually the biggest winners on Friday night.

No, that honor goes to the new tag team of Mustafa Ali and Shorty G, who stole the show on the Dec. 6 episode of WWE SmackDown.

Ali and Shorty G first teamed up in a trios match on Oct. 25 with Roman Reigns as their third partner, and they won their first tag match a couple of weeks ago against two seasoned tag team wrestlers in Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler. (Roode is a former partner of Gable’s.)

But on last night’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Gable and Ali had their breakout performance together.

Shorty G and Ali, The Revival, Heavy Machinery, and The Lucha House Party all competed in a Four-Way Tag Team Elimination Match, and the winners would get to face The New Day at TLC next week on Dec. 15 for the prestigious SmackDown Tag Team Championships.

Heavy Machinery and LHP were eliminated first, leaving The Revival and Ali/G (Sacha Baron Cohen would be proud) as the last two teams standing.

And they KILLED IT.

First, take a look at this way-too-smooth tag team move between Ali and Shorty G. I mean, how is it that these guys have only been teaming for like a month and not a year with chemistry like this? It really goes to show you how amazing Ali is in the ring and how Gable just *gets* tag team wrestling. Gable’s had like three legitimately great tag teams already in his career.

Then there was this awesomeness from Ali. His Tornado DDT should be in a museum somewhere. The Louvre, preferably.

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The Revival won this match, but by the end of it, we were all rooting for Shorty G and Mustafa Ali to face The New Day in a wild TLC battle for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships.

But who’s to say Gable and Ali won’t get their shot? While both men are more than capable of holding singles gold in WWE, the tag team division needs an injection of talent. And these men have provided it. The crowd was going wild for this tag team match on SmackDown despite it not involving a so-called “big name tag team” (really only New Day and The Usos fall under this bracket right now), and that’s because Gable and Ali were that team.

Everyone loves Gable and Ali as individuals, and now they are clicking as a tag team. Don’t be surprised if they win tag titles together before WrestleMania 36, because they have serious potential as a tandem in 2020.