TNA Tag Team Division – Where is it Headed?

June 13^th 2010

About 7 months ago, an article was written here at tnafansite.com about the Tag team division being at its best and several reasons were given why with specific detail. Well since that time, a lot of things have changed including new management on air of TNA, which includes the acquisition of Hulk Hogan as well as various new wrestlers never seen before and previously in the WWE.

Lets look at those same factors that were given in the last article, which can be ready here - http://tnafansite.com/Pages/HomePage.aspx?reviewid=65

Number of Tag Teams in TNA- This number seems to have decreased despite the roster getting much heavier. The teams themselves may still exist but their appearances are much fewer and far between including the favorites that include Motor City Machine Guns, as well as LAX who were comprised of Homicide and Hernandez and was one of the longer-lasting teams.

The teams that were established are random names thrown together like Jeff Hardy and Ken Anderson who are both big names on their own but as a team they don`t have much.

 

One team that has been established in the meantime is the pairing of Shannon Moore and Jesse Neal, who are both

Cooperation and competition among the Top Teams

One thing that was always prevalent in TNA is the willingness for tag teams to help each other out and put each other over. Since about six months ago, this seems to have gone away. It may be due to an uneasiness among the wrestlers and a feeling of insecurity about keeping their jobs since the foundation of TNA has changed so much. This is something that hopefully TNA can work on getting back to where it once was.

Consistency of Strong Storylines

For well over a month until just recently, the tag team titles have been toyed around with as if there is no real storyline or team to place them on. At one point, Morgan and Hernandez were a thriving tag team which were split up due to Hernandez going to wrestle in Mexico while Morgan was left on his own to defend his tag titles looking for a partner each week. However, Morgan went on to lose his tag team titles to a the team of Eric Young and the Hall/Nash combination which was cashed in using Nash`s briefcase that allowed him one tag team title shot.

Since then the only time the tag team title has been defended was when the opponents were already down and either Young or Hall/Nash would literally get in the ring and pin their opponent effortlessly.

This has hurt the credibility of the titles and takes away from the years of work that was put into making the tag division successful.

Quality of the Tag Team Matches in TNA

These aren`t as bad as one would expect based on the other criteria, but one thing that was touched upon earlier is that there are many cases where a team like Hall/Nash and Young would casually walk into the ring and without doing anything pin their opponent to retain their tag team titles.

This takes away once again from the countless matches that tag teams like Beer Money Inc, Team 3D, America`s Most Wanted, the Young Bucks, Hernandez and Morgan, LAX, 3 Live Krew, VKM, Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles, and so many others that put in the time to make the tag team division mean something in TNA.

Overall the tag team situation needs serious improvement, the talent is still there and the hunger and desire to perform is there but it has to be translated into stronger matches, and more consistent storylines.

TNA has taken a lot of steps though to improve itself on other levels including the heavyweight division so it will be interesting to see what they do now to improve the division TNA had been good at in the past and can still do a lot with.

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