This is day three of five looking at changes the new COO of WWE, Triple H, can implement across the WWE Universe.  Today a look at tag team wrestling.

Quick.  Who are the current WWE tag team champions?  You had to think about it didn’t you?  Michael McGillicutty and David Otunga of New Nexus have held the titles since May and unless you’re a huge fan of Superstars you wouldn’t know.  (Sidenote, does New Nexus even technically exist?  CM Punk isn’t really part of it anymore.  Mason Ryan is injured in some way.  The faction has fallen into this strange limbo world.)  But how would you know about the champions of a division that has no competition.  There’s the Usos and then… who?  Hart Dynasty have split up, and other than Natalya, disappeared from the two big shows.  I guess Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov count as well.  Although it seems they only receive wins and championships when the writers have given up and don’t care about the tag division for an extended amount of time.  Like now.  The only other partnership that is established and should be competing for the titles, Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, is instead fighting over the Intercontinental championship.  A singles title.

WWE has a habit of splitting up tag teams without a plan for the two men in singles status.  Currently see Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel.  Justin may turn heel but what of Heath?  A man without a story.  While they were a good team, and becoming fine wrestlers, there was nothing for the audience to latch onto.  They were booed because of their group alliegiences but otherwise had no heat of their own.

Triple H was part of “the greatest tag team of all time” (according to hype), and one of the actual most impressive tag teams of all time (The Two Man Power Trip).  This, in addition to being such a fan of factions should mean Hunter is a fan of tag team wrestling and will put some new focus on the division.

While there are many teams over the years with real life brothers, fake brothers, long time friends, guys that came through the business together and etc, one of the best ways to form a team is to take two guys who aren’t doing anything else and throw them together.  The legendary tag team of the New Age Outlaws should never have worked.  There was no good reason to put the two men together, and yet WWE creative did and it worked.  Oh, you didn’t know… that it worked?  So hey, Mr. H, take two guys you’re not doing much with and see what happens.  Or even two guys that you are working with.  I’ll throw a couple fantasy booker pairings out there and see how the internet takes it:  Ezekiel Jackson and Mark Henry as a Doom/Road Warriors hybrid, Drew and Sheamus as the Celtic Connection, Tyler Reks and Brodus Clay in a come out of no where ass kicking dominant team.  Hawkins and Ryder of course, Trent Barretta and JTG could be unexpected classic comedy like Booker T and Goldust.  The lists and potential goes on and on.  What is there to lose?  A pairing of two guys that don’t have anything else going on?  Even being on TV that doesn’t click with the audience is better than not being on TV at all.