I can't believe I'm counting on Cryme Tyme

With the release of Joey Mercury (thus marking the end of MNM) and the dropping of the belts by Cena and Michaels, the status of the Tag Team division in the WWE is right back where it started...the drawing board. Never in recent memory has the Tag Team division been so weak. It appears that the Tag Teams now fall into two clear divisions: fat guys (Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch, for example) and young, athletic guys (Brian Kendrick & Paul London) neither of which are fun to watch or have any noticeable charisma.

Forgive my third 1990s nostalgic post of the day, but you don't need to look too far in the past to find too many good tag teams. Of course, in the late 90s, Hardcore was the name of the game and this spawned such great teams as The Hardy Boyz (thank the Gods of wrestling they're back -- now just get them someone to wrestle), The Dudley Boyz, Edge and Christian, and Chainsaw Charlie & Cactus Jack. You also had the downright solid teams such as The New Age Outlaws, The Acolyte Protection Agency, and the Legion of Doom (old, but still among the best). Enjoyable still were the good teams of the early 90s who, although forced to job later in their careers, were still better than anything we have today (The Smoking Gunns, The Body Donnas, The Bushwackers, The Godwinns). The best part of these teams was not the wrestling (which was excellent) but the way in which each team could energize a crowd and get it excited for a tag match. Now, I always groan when I see a tag team come out, but I don't believed I groaned once during the late 90s when these teams ruled the circuit.

If that wasn't enough, WWE booked a number of "super teams," formed by combining the best singles wrestlers. Among these teams were The Rock & Mankind, The Rock & The Undertaker, The Undertaker & Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker & Kane, Stone Cold Steve Austin & Shawn Michaels, Diesel and Shawn Michaels, and Kane & Mankind. With all of that talent running around, it was hard not to get excited for a simple two-on-two tag match. These days, when a tag match rolls around, its hard not to take a bathroom break instead.