How do you improve the TNA tag team division?

[TK The Friendly Robot]

With the talent pool available TNA has the ability to have a much better tag division than they do. How would you personally go about making the division strong and entertaining again?

Here is what I'd do;

Take Bad Influence and Dirty Heels out of the tag title picture for good.

Push The Bro Mans as a underdog face team with heart, lovable idiots who always are on the wrong end of a beating.

Make Wes and Garrett and official tag team with Knox as the body guard of the group. Wes and Garrett would be the egotistical rookies who think they're great when really it's Knox who is getting involved and winning them matches.

Bring in Homicide full time and and after the Bound For Glory series push a L.A.X reunion tour towards the titles, have Chavo work as the manager/mouthpiece of the group to fill the Konnan role.

Have Petey Williams and Eric Young reform Team Canada, they are another team who would get a nostalgia pop however wouldn't need to coast on it as they have the talent and charisma to back it up. Maybe run their reunion tour at the same time as L.A.Xs and have the #1 contendership for the belts hang between these two teams, one must fall while the other rises kind of deal.

Gunner and Storm are a good team but they should go their separate ways as Storm needs to be rebuilt and moved back up the card. Gunner should go back to his old veteran killing ways and put Storm out alongside his new partner Jay Bradley. Push Gunner and Bradley as a fresh, nasty heel team who are just all about hurting people and have them run the division until L.A.X is brought up to dethrone them.

Have Sam Shaw and Rockstar Spud team up as a jobberific squash team for the other teams to go over, even The Bro Mans. Everyone wants to see Spud get punched in the face and Sam Shaw is a good looking guy who is pretty athletic and seems like he could bump around for everyone in the ring.

Bring back Generation Me.

Give the tag title scene some sort of showcase per show, whether it be an interview segment with the champs, a number one contenders match or an angle to advance the title feud. An Impact should not go by where the tag title picture is not focused on.

So that leaves us with seven teams who are already established or who are in the process of being established and not only that but it gets guys like Aries, Roode, Daniels, Storm and Kazarian out of the tag title scene and off doing other things while not leaving too big of a gap where you've not got a tag title scene.

Thoughts?

[The Spelunker!]

I'd be okay with all of this.

Teams:
Aces and Eights
Bro Mans
LAX
Team Canada
Generation Me
Gunner/Bradley
Shaw/Spud

I feel we'd be missing something, but 7 regularly competing teams is a good start. Perhaps sign a tag team off the indies like Irish Airborne, the Osirian Portal, The American Wolves, DCFC, bring in Rhett Titus to reform ANX... Some fresh faces that are either high flying or hard hitting.

[Deleted]

I don't care what Fed it's in but someone needs to put two massive dudes together and just have them wreck everyone for a while, like the Road Warriors in the prime. That hasn't happened in years and I think that it would get over.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

I agree with all that except for three things:

1) I'd release Shaw and Spud rather than make them a team - don't like either of them so they'd be gone
2) I'd keep Bad Influence in the Tag Division (unless they're planning on pushing Daniels as a main eventer which I doubt they are) because they're too damn entertaining to not be a team.
3) I'd release Bischoff and Brisco rather than having them team (I know never gonna happen because of their connections but jesus they suck)

I mean, Garett Bischoff is the better wrestler in that team. GARETT BISCHOFF!

P.S. A Team Canada reunion would make me sooooo happy!

[Deleted]

I think the reason the tag division is jammed up with singles stars is that there's no secondary title, so you're in the title mix or you're in the x-division or you're a jobber or an Aces N' Eight. That's been their way of using the tag titles recently because of a lack of established tag teams. Even when things were hot a few years ago it was pretty much just Gen Me/Machine Guns/Beer Money. Depth has always been an issue.

I like your ideas on forming teams, though involving Wes/Garrett/Gunner would probably hurt my personal enjoyment. LAX, Team Canada, Jesse/Robbie, those all sound really good. Gen Me would be alright but I'd rather them grab another top indy team, or try to get Alex Shelly back and capitalize on Sabin's momentum to kickstart the tag division. I also think Storm is best suited as a tag wrestler, but he needs someone better than the Gunner. Maybe bring back Trevor Murdoch so they can be a redneck buddy team, I don't know.

[Glitch]

Isn't the answer obvious? Take two ex-wwe guys and pair them together. Then have them win the belts as they totally bury everybody else(especially if they're indy darlings). Gold.

[jimmyjames]

Put the belts on Bad Influence. They actually bring some excitement and notice to the tag team division. No one cared about fake LAX, people still haven't warmed up to Gunner Storm. You could have tag teams, and not two wrestlers throen together, just because, and have at least one tag team match per Impact.

[ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul]

Hmmm...

FIRE HERNANDEZ!

[________ has left the building]

Bring back GenMe and call them by their more well know name, Young Bucks.
Make Bad Influence the anchor of the division.
Spud and Skidmarks become the lead heel team. Seriously, no one likes them.
Bring in Los Ben Dejos, #KOA, and the Bravado Brothers.
Break up GunStorm. They have no real chemistry besides having beards and love killing things.
Wish Bischoff and Brisco well on their future endeavors.
Reform LAX and keep Chavo far away from him. FAR FAR AWAY.

[kingoftheindies]

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Tag titles very rarely defended on TV. If they are, then they are always the main event, with massive hype directed towards them.

A proper team needs to be the champions.

Said champions are never allowed to loose to 2 single guys.

[SOR]

Honestly I'd just add some teams.

A bunch of indy teams aren't the way to go. Have Chavo find a new partner to take on LAX. Bring back The Young Bucks for a feud with Garrett/Wes, Bring the American Wolves in to make the hardcores happy and also Davey Boy Smith Jr and Lance Hoyt. Finally round it off with a Sting/Magnus team.

So your tag division would be

Chavo/Someone

Daniels/Kazarian

Gunner/Storm

Davey Boy Smith Jr and Lance Hoyt

Roode/Aries as your occasional team

LAX

Sting/Magnus

The American Wolves

The Young Bucks.

Wes/Garrett (Knux as bodyguard who helps them win I like also)

Not a bad division there. Would probably be the top tag division in the United States currently

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

That might be something that would appeal to the TNA audience (I don't pretend to know the mind of casuals anymore) but it would be a pretty sucky tag division to me.

The mismatched Gunner and Storm, the odd couple of Sting and Magnus, the awful Wes/Garett and the heavily overrated American Wolves. Not a big fan of Davey/Hoyt or Chavo/Anyone either.

Like I say it might well appeal to the TNA audience but man that tag division would suck in my opinion. Although at least I'd have the Young Bucks to cheer me up.

[HMARK Center]

We have to be realistic about aspects of this, but there certainly are things that could be done.

By "realistic", I mean that we can't ignore that TNA has focused lately on trimming down the roster. Given the costs of touring, I think it's safe to say they want to keep a stable of guys on hand with full-time deals, but probably rotate most of the lower card talent in and out as needed.

That being the case, and also recognizing the time constraints of one 2 hour show a week, I think it's tough to project bringing in a lot of new talent all at once.

However, why not start out with small steps? An easy step would be to have a lot of TNA's full-time guys in a position where they have guys they can regularly partner with, a sort of "mess with one of us, mess with both of us" kind of set-up. Obviously it'd be easy to have stable-mates do this, but it'd be simple enough to book a couple of singles guys as buddies who could team up at the drop of a hat and not have it feel overly forced or weird.

Next step: do the same thing, but maybe with one guy who's full time, and another guy who kind of rotates in and out regularly for stretches at a time. As mentioned before, a great candidate for this would be a Team Canada reunion of Petey Williams and Eric Young (with Petey playing the straight man to EY's lunatic). I'd include LAX, but I think Homicide is preparing to retire, so unfortunately those days may be numbered.

Finally, bring in at least a couple of full-time teams full-time, with a couple others on the rotation who show up every few months for awhile. Personally, I'd put whatever I could into getting the Young Bucks and the Briscoes, but that can obviously vary by availability and what have you.

Final thing: save doing all of this for right around the end of the BFG Series: when that's on, the World Title is the focus, and it'd be best to wait things out a bit before going back toward fixing the tag division.