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Post by The Lach is very tired on Jul 29, 2021 7:02:19 GMT -5
The AEW tag team roster runs deeper than any roster I can remember. All of these teams are outside the top five. Jurassic Express, Uno/Grayson, Silver/Reynolds, TH2, Lucha Bros & Chaos Project. Butcher & Blade, Top Flight & Best Friends inactive due to injury, not to mention the more thrown together teams like Men of the Year & Mox/Kingston. You could take the top five ranked teams out of action & still have a viable division.
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Post by eJm on Jul 29, 2021 7:20:22 GMT -5
Closest I could think of would be something like 80s WWF when you have people like Demolition, the Hart Foundation, the British Bulldogs and various other teams coming and going where there was a lot of people who you could believe could at least get a title shot.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 29, 2021 7:26:24 GMT -5
Not in a very long time.
It's not just how stacked with talent they are it's the YOUTH upside to it all. There is so much talent that is gonna be around for years to come it's gonna lead to a very fruitful tag team division even when The Bucks wind down. It's a huge strength of theirs right now.
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Post by polarbearpete on Jul 29, 2021 8:40:28 GMT -5
1990-1991 WWF: Hart Foundation Demolition Legion of Doom Natural Disasters Rockers Colossal Connection Bushwhackers Nasty Boys Powers of Pain
Or right before in 1988-89, where you didn’t have the LOD, Nasty Boys or Natural Disasters but you had the British Bulldogs, Strike Force, the Killer Bees, the Rougeaus, the Young Stallions.
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Post by EP 54 is banned from Collision on Jul 29, 2021 8:51:56 GMT -5
I mean Chikara was stacked with quality tag teams for much of its run, but then it was mostly tag team focused.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Jul 29, 2021 9:19:05 GMT -5
1999-2001 WWF. Acolytes, Hardy’s, Dudleyz, E&C, NAO, Brothers of Destruction, Too Cool, Radicalz were all floating around during that time.
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Post by eJm on Jul 29, 2021 9:20:34 GMT -5
1999-2001 WWF. Acolytes, Hardy’s, Dudleyz, E&C, NAO, Brothers of Destruction, Too Cool, Radicalz were all floating around during that time. Counterpoint: The Headbangers existing.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Jul 29, 2021 9:21:17 GMT -5
1999-2001 WWF. Acolytes, Hardy’s, Dudleyz, E&C, NAO, Brothers of Destruction, Too Cool, Radicalz were all floating around during that time. Counterpoint: The Headbangers existing. And LOD 2000. Lol. You’ve got me there.
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Post by eJm on Jul 29, 2021 9:22:20 GMT -5
Counterpoint: The Headbangers existing. And LOD 2000. Lol. You’ve got me there. I mean, there also was Right to Censor which balances it out.
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Post by MrElijah on Jul 29, 2021 10:10:56 GMT -5
Mid-Late 80s WWF and NWA/JCP
Crockett -Road Warriors -Midnight Express -The Russian Team -Arn & Ole then Arn & Tully -The Fantastics -Rock N'Roll Express -Raging Bull & Rude -The Varsity Club -Doom -Freebirds -Powers of Pain
WWF -The Rockers -Hart Foundation -Fabulous Rougoes -The Bulldogs -Demolition -Arn & Tully -Twin Towers -HTM & The Hammer -Strike Force -Killer Bees -Islanders
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2021 10:14:14 GMT -5
It's pretty easily the most stacked of a major promotion in recent memory. It's stacked enough where they could have a Midcard tag title or trios and have enough teams to make it work.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 29, 2021 16:35:34 GMT -5
It's pretty easily the most stacked of a major promotion in recent memory. It's stacked enough where they could have a Midcard tag title or trios and have enough teams to make it work. And we know the Trios are coming because Khan confirmed them.
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Post by walterharrow on Jul 30, 2021 20:02:47 GMT -5
Its definitely stacked but i personally feel like they need to handle the titles better, especially since the Young Bucks won them
I cant really explain it but it feels like the Bucks have been separate from the tag division (Hell they even defended against two single guys at the last ppv) and that the titles are hardly the focus point anymore. I cant remember any teams cutting promos about becoming champions or anything interesting happening since he Bucks won them. Pride and Powerful have been in an underwhelming feud with FTR, Jurassic Express are away from the title scene stuck feuding with the Hardy Family, Dark Order were the only real challengers but lost their shot, Varsity Blonds were beaten in a throwaway match, and i cant think of any other teams at the minute that are interesting challengers
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Post by dgenerationmc on Jul 30, 2021 20:22:36 GMT -5
I always hold the WWF tag division in 2000 in high regard. It wasn't just The Hardyz, Dudleyz, Edge and Christian fighting over the titles every week. There was a good rotation of capable, over teams (APA, RTC, Too Cool, T&A, Hollys, Radicalz, DX, Los Conquistadores, random thrown together singles guys for both the title picture and secondary feuds. AEW has put together a fantastic division over the past 18 months and the rotating between those teams is admirable, but I wouldn't put over 2000 WWF in terms of coming together well and being fluid.
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Post by slaughterama on Jul 31, 2021 0:30:23 GMT -5
It's stacked for this era, but it's not even invited to the table for the conversation of best divisions when you go back to the golden era. Most of these teams would be lucky to get 5-minute treatments from the Steiners or Bulldogs on TV.
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Post by Bad Moon on Jul 31, 2021 0:56:13 GMT -5
It's stacked for this era, but it's not even invited to the table for the conversation of best divisions when you go back to the golden era. Most of these teams would be lucky to get 5-minute treatments from the Steiners or Bulldogs on TV. That's surely a point in favor of this era and not the 80s though, no? Even the lower rung teams always get a good showing.
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Post by deezy on Jul 31, 2021 1:59:24 GMT -5
It's stacked for this era, but it's not even invited to the table for the conversation of best divisions when you go back to the golden era. Most of these teams would be lucky to get 5-minute treatments from the Steiners or Bulldogs on TV. Amen 💯💯💯
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Post by Dub H on Jul 31, 2021 2:27:52 GMT -5
Yes even when compared to the old daya ,especially since even the lowcard of tagteams.are promising youngmans
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 31, 2021 2:28:58 GMT -5
It's stacked for this era, but it's not even invited to the table for the conversation of best divisions when you go back to the golden era. Most of these teams would be lucky to get 5-minute treatments from the Steiners or Bulldogs on TV. I don't get this take whatsoever. The styles are drastically different as is the overall presentation... so saying they wouldn't "last five minutes" isn't even fair and is quite frankly looking down on a lot of talented wrestlers and teams. The Steiners and The Bulldogs were amazing and deserve all that praise and more... but acting like this era is somehow lesser because the old school book wouldn't have been in their favor is dumb imo. There are a ton of tag teams in AEW that are also extremely talented and extremely over with large crowds... that's kind of what counts here. The Steiners and Bulldogs had to get pushed in order to get over too in their own era.
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Post by Deputy Muscle on Jul 31, 2021 2:48:35 GMT -5
Its definitely stacked but i personally feel like they need to handle the titles better, especially since the Young Bucks won them I cant really explain it but it feels like the Bucks have been separate from the tag division (Hell they even defended against two single guys at the last ppv) and that the titles are hardly the focus point anymore. I cant remember any teams cutting promos about becoming champions or anything interesting happening since he Bucks won them. Pride and Powerful have been in an underwhelming feud with FTR, Jurassic Express are away from the title scene stuck feuding with the Hardy Family, Dark Order were the only real challengers but lost their shot, Varsity Blonds were beaten in a throwaway match, and i cant think of any other teams at the minute that are interesting challengers The Acclaimed and Varsity Blondes are currently engaged in a quality feud on Dark vying for a title shot.
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