Grading All Elite Wrestling's first year as a promotion

Tag Team Division: A-

SCU

The AEW Tag Team Division has obviously been the strength of the promotion with the likes of The Young Bucks, Lucha Brothers, SCU, Santana and Ortiz, Best Friends and Jurassic Express. When any two or three of those teams square off, it's usually always an exciting encounter. Most of the early matches have been competed at a breakneck speed, but with the likes of the Dark Order and the Butcher and the Blade, the paces might slow down a bit. The Hybrid 2 and Private Party have also delivered in their spots.

One small complaint is that too many of the same spots are used in all of the matches. Every match is filled with suicide dives, superkicks and enziguri kicks. Private Party has shone brightly in their young career, but they need to learn that they don't have to compete at 100 MPH in every match. There need to be some spots in the match to calm things down, but not an overuse of rest holds like in Randy Orton or Robert Roode matches.

Another nitpick is that since there are about 10 teams on the roster, they've all almost competed against each other. While the matches are usually good when top teams square off, the likes of SCU, The Young Bucks, The Best Friends and The Lucha Brothers have all faced off multiple times.

On the flip side, one thing that AEW has done extremely well with the division is the placement of matches on cards. Putting them as the first match on a pre-show or as the first match on the main card has set the tone for their PPVs. Placing a fast-paced showdown between two singles matches also might pick things up, if a match might have been a slower-paced one.