My issue with TNA's Tag Team Division.

[Ragnal]

So, okay, I will admit this. TNA's tag division has numerous tag teams in it. True. They've put on good tag matches. No denying this. And despite it feeling like Team 3D's going after the belts every other month, a lot of teams are getting exposure. Fine. Nobody's going to argue about that.

However, look at most of the teams there. Robert Roode and James Storm were each groomed to someday become World champions, Roode especially. They're now in a tag team. MCMG and Lethal Consequences are big names in the X-Division, but you only really see them in multi-man matches and not too many tag matches. And just recently, Hernandez and Matt Morgan, two guys who back over the summer and part of the fall, were pushed big as main eventers, have formed a tag team.

Is there a pattern here?

Seriously, especially in the case of Hernandez/Morgan and Beer Money, if you don't win the World title five months after your push begins, then you're forced into a tag team. Those teams especially hold pretty good talent, talent that again could have been used for feuds against AJ Styles for the title rather than rehash his old feuds for PPV main events, good as they may be.

Is it only me? Am I the only one who feels while they're using talent for something, it's in the wrong areas of TNA?

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Outside feuding with Team 3D and squashing Raven and Stevie, what has Hernandez and Morgan done to earn a tag title shot? I really hate when single wrestlers are slap together as a tag team that doesn't feel like a natural pairing. TNA booked themselves in a corner when they had that multi tag team feud over the TNA and IWGP tag titles. The MCMG never got a chance to win the big one for what reasons I don't know why.

[Bram wants to 'urt you]

I think that this has as much to do with TNA's wariness of building new Main Eventers/Champions than anything else. They seem to get a little fearful of pushing their own, homegrown talent into the world title race. Think about this; since the TNA World Heavyweight Championship was created, the only two "Originals" to have held the belt have been Joe (whose push to the top came arguably nearly a year after the fans would have actually WANTED him to win the belt) and AJ (who has been with the company since day one).

The other TNA champs have been Angle, Sting and Foley. People who were already viewed as WHC/Main Event calibre before they won the belts.

Unlike the WWE, who pushed JBL, Cena (to name two but there will be others) regardless of what the fans thought, TNA has always felt as if they needed to be certain that the WHC is a wrestler that the fans are 100% behind AND that TNA management are behind. They need to have a little more faith in the actual wrestlers' ability to pick up the ball and run with it imho.

It does seem to be a fall back plan with them, to take people who were seemingly on the path to a WHC shot and then pop them back into the "safety net" of a tag team.

A problem that they don't seem to have with wrestlers in the X-Division. Not sure whether this is simply because they feel that the X-Div is "theirs", so they can do as they please with it, whereas once they get into the World Championship they have to be completely certain that the people in that division are up to the task. Well from this, and many other fan's perspective TNA, they ARE, now give them a shot and let them go for it, it'll pay off in the long run