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Post by saneiac on Apr 2, 2022 10:40:35 GMT -5
The one that always springs to mind for worst period for me was the time The Edgeheads were champions for 4 to 6 months and didn't defend the belts a single time.
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Post by MrElijah on Apr 2, 2022 11:28:55 GMT -5
Probably between 2010 to 2012 when Team Hell No won it. And that was the first time in a long time there was an interesting storyline that involved the titles. Looking at the wiki. I have no memory of Cody and Drew being tag champs. But apparently they were. Then David Otunga/Michael McGullicutty…what a barn burner team that was. Air Boom had potential, but all I remember about them is being in that infamous champions photo. But it does get better by the time Team Hell No won, but god that’s a dire list from 2010 to 2012. That Otunga/Regular Joe Hennig team was so bad it even sucked in storyline - Jerry Lawler said the team hadn't proved anything and they really needed to. And why bury them on air? Like, I've never understood this logic.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Apr 2, 2022 11:42:04 GMT -5
The Smoking Gunns, Bodydonnas, and Godwinns period in the mid 90s was bad. In recent times, the Otunga/Axel and Hart Dynasty times were rough. Both teams got made fun of on air. This is it. I recently watched something that had the 96 tag title tournament brackets and.....yikes.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Apr 2, 2022 11:55:47 GMT -5
Probably the period when London and Kendrick had them for a year entirely because there was no one to defend them against, and yet they still weren't considered important enough to get into the video games. How about Deuce n Domino? You couldn't promote the game with them that year cause they weren't in it. The reign of terrors during Londrick and New Day reigns for their era's sucked any amount of life from the division. Speaking of Deuce and Domino, THEY NEVER EVEN HAD ONE VIGNETTE TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO THEY ARE OR ANYTHING! just one night on a random Smackdown you hear this 50's Doo Wop song play all of a sudden during a match entrance and you see two guys and their Valet on Roller Skates come into an arena in a Thunderbird and you can hear both Michael Cole & JBL on Commentary say: Cole: "I've been waiting for this." JBL: Why?!?!" And I was like exactly, why should we have been waiting for this? Nobody put out a vignette about a Tag team coming, Deuce & Domino just suddenly appeared one day and alot of people were like who are they? But I guess it was a product of that time frame cause The Dicks, The Pitbulls (Kash & Noble), KC James & Idol Stevens, Gymini, Basham Brothers, and hell even the Mexicools never got a vignette. They just suddenly appeared on a random Smackdown.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 2, 2022 20:04:09 GMT -5
A lot of the 2010s were rough. An enormous amount of teams that were not teams, either at all, or until they won the tag belts.
This includes gimmicks I enjoyed, like Edge and Jericho, JeriShow and ShowMiz.
A healthy tag division isn't just about how over the champs are. It's also about having an actual division.
In the late 00s through much of the 2010s you could commonly count the actual teams on the roster on one hand some days.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Apr 3, 2022 5:05:54 GMT -5
Probably the period when London and Kendrick had them for a year entirely because there was no one to defend them against, and yet they still weren't considered important enough to get into the video games. Which was extra bullshit because, I'd get it if they were treated with indifference, but fans liked them and they got good reactions, so it was puzzling. What I found really weird about their treatment was that I'm sure I read an interview they did where they talked about how they'd come up with a team name and a gimmick and got all the gear made, and had then gone to the office and were told no. So they'd done all that work of their own volition and were told they could use almost none of it. It would've different if there were actual plans for them but clearly there wasn't.
I remain angry about the time Triple H buried them on Raw too.
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Post by thegame415 on Apr 3, 2022 13:53:57 GMT -5
I'd say late 2000's-early 2010's.
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Post by Andee9001 on Apr 3, 2022 14:28:31 GMT -5
Probably 2009 because the Smackdown tag division was pretty much just Cryme Tyme and The Hart Dynasty with The Straight Edge Society doing there own thing. Raws was just DX, MVP and Mark Henry, Legacy and Jeri-Show. Didn't help they also broke up Miz and Morrison and then Primo and Carlito.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Apr 3, 2022 15:36:28 GMT -5
Air Boom had potential, but all I remember about them is being in that infamous champions photo. I mostly remember Sydal's dumb ass getting suspended while champion and being allowed to come back only to then immediately be suspended a second time. Also they had a poll for the name and for some reason Air Boom won over the far superior Altitude Era. And then they just slotted R-Truth in as Kofi's partner.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Apr 3, 2022 15:37:28 GMT -5
2005's tag scene on Raw was so weak, Hurricane and Rosey had the belts for most of the year. And they broke up within a month of losing them to Cade and Murdoch. The Heartthrobs were a joke. Viscera and Val Venis were a joke. Snitsky and Tomko were thrown together and not given a chance (I actually wanted that team to succeed lol). And Kane and Big Show were given the titles just to give them something to do. It didn't really get better in 2006, either. Snitsky and Goldust only lasted about two months before Dustin got fired. Viscera and Charlie Haas were a random team nobody gave a shit about. The Highlanders were pushed for a bit, but then relegated to jobber status. Cade and Murdoch were jobbers for most of the year. Cryme Tyme were given a solid push, but never the titles. And the Spirit Squad held the belts forever while not defending them, then lost them to Ric Flair and Roddy Piper, rather than an actual tag team on the roster. And then we begin the trend of main eventers getting the gold when they didn't need it, with Edge and Orton. 2007 continued this, with Cena and Michaels, then the Hardys won them and had some good matches with Cade and Murdoch, who took the gold in June. And then... OK, WWE tried, but stuff happened. Cryme Tyme were supposed to get a push, but then got fired. London and Kendrick were slotted in, but management was pissed at London for smiling during the McMahon segment. And none of the other teams lit the world on fire. It wasn't until Cody Rhodes and Bob Holly won them that the scene got interesting again.
Meanwhile, Smackdown had MNM feuding with Holly and Haas for a few months, then Animal and Heidenreich, then the Mexicools (who never got a title run, but should have). Then a random Batista/Rey run, then back to MNM, who feuded with Matt Hardy for two months, before beginning a feud with London and Kendrick, losing the belts and getting split up. Then London and Kendrick had a year-long run where they didn't do much, because Smackdown never had more than one team at a time to challenge them. Deuce and Domino's reign was a big joke, then MVP and Matt only defended them twice before losing them to Miz and Morrison in November.
So that period from 2005-2008 would be my pick for the worst. Neither title scene had anything noteworthy happening and the whole division felt pointless.
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Post by SirLucas on Apr 3, 2022 15:45:59 GMT -5
I remember going to a Smackdown tv taping. At the time, London and Kendrick were going on close to a year as tag team champions. I was flabbergasted to notice not one single piece of merch on them at the souvenir stand. I don't think WWE ever made one t-shirt for them.
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Post by SirLucas on Apr 3, 2022 16:02:30 GMT -5
How about Deuce n Domino? You couldn't promote the game with them that year cause they weren't in it. The reign of terrors during Londrick and New Day reigns for their era's sucked any amount of life from the division. Speaking of Deuce and Domino, THEY NEVER EVEN HAD ONE VIGNETTE TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO THEY ARE OR ANYTHING! just one night on a random Smackdown you hear this 50's Doo Wop song play all of a sudden during a match entrance and you see two guys and their Valet on Roller Skates come into an arena in a Thunderbird and you can hear both Michael Cole & JBL on Commentary say: Cole: "I've been waiting for this." JBL: Why?!?!" And I was like exactly, why should we have been waiting for this? Nobody put out a vignette about a Tag team coming, Deuce & Domino just suddenly appeared one day and alot of people were like who are they? But I guess it was a product of that time frame cause The Dicks, The Pitbulls (Kash & Noble), KC James & Idol Stevens, Gymini, Basham Brothers, and hell even the Mexicools never got a vignette. They just suddenly appeared on a random Smackdown. WOW! The Dicks...talk about an obscure tag team from the Ruthless Aggression era. The only thing that stands out about this tag team is Josh Mathews making a joke at Steve Romero as The Dick were making their entrance of Velocity. Josh said, "there's nothing more that my partner likes than a couple of dicks."
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Apr 3, 2022 16:16:53 GMT -5
I would say 2010-11 was the worst. I mean it hadn't been any good for the previous decade but it seemed like there was at least a little effort. Not much effort but at least a little. In those two years though it came off like they were trying to actively kill the tag division. Like in 2010 I remember literally every legit team they had they would decide to split up for.....reasons? Hart Dynasty and Cryme Tyme were both split. Even lowercard team that most people probably don't even remember like the Dudebusters and Vance Archer and Curt Hawkins were split up like only after a few months together. And it would always be the same aftermath. One gets released and then the other guy gets banished to Superstars and does nothing.
I could understand if you had plans for both of them or even just one of them as a single wrestler. However if you don't then what's the point. They had no teams and plenty of singles wrestlers at the time so even from a roster standpoint it makes no sense in that you are adding depth to one area that doesn't need depth and taking away from another area that greatly needs depth. It was just so stupid. I think by 2011 I think the whole division across two brands was just basically Santino and Kozlov, Gabriel and Slater, and whatever lame New Nexus combination they were using.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Apr 3, 2022 17:02:04 GMT -5
I remember going to a Smackdown tv taping. At the time, London and Kendrick were going on close to a year as tag team champions. I was flabbergasted to notice not one single piece of merch on them at the souvenir stand. I don't think WWE ever made one t-shirt for them. The weird thing too, was they pretty much stole the show on those SD branded ppvs. I paticularly love thier match with the Pit Bulls and the 4 way ladder match.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2022 17:06:33 GMT -5
Kenzo and Renee Dupree. That. When ever that was.
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Post by SirLucas on Apr 3, 2022 17:11:18 GMT -5
I'll add, whenever they changed the belt design to look like a giant penny.
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Post by SirLucas on Apr 3, 2022 17:12:58 GMT -5
I remember going to a Smackdown tv taping. At the time, London and Kendrick were going on close to a year as tag team champions. I was flabbergasted to notice not one single piece of merch on them at the souvenir stand. I don't think WWE ever made one t-shirt for them. The weird thing too, was they pretty much stole the show on those SD branded ppvs. I paticularly love thier match with the Pit Bulls and the 4 way ladder match. Absolutely, those were some of the best matches. But unfortunately, Vince and the rest of WWE creative put zero marketing behind London and Kendrick.
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