2 WWE Superstars who failed as Seth Rollins' tag team partner and 3 who succeeded

Seth Rollins is set to join forces with Becky Lynch to face Baron Corbin & Lacey Evans in a ‘Winners Take All’ Extreme Rules match for the Universal Championship and Raw Women’s Championship at WWE Extreme Rules on July 14.

WWE’s latest power couple warmed up for the match by defeating Mike & Maria Kanellis on the July 1 episode of Raw, with “The Man” making Mike submit to her Dis-Arm-Her submission move.

Rollins has teamed with 48 different people in televised matches throughout his career, with former Shield colleagues Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose being his most frequent partners, but it remains to be seen whether he will be able to strike up a winning partnership with Lynch – his real-life girlfriend – in the long run.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at two WWE Superstars who failed as the Universal champion’s tag team partner and three who succeeded.

Disclaimer: Statistics in this article were obtained from Cagematch.net. Multi-person tag team matches (e.g. six-man tag and Survivor Series elimination matches) are also included in the stats.

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#5 Succeeded: Roman Reigns

During The Shield’s initial run as a main-roster faction between November 2012 and June 2014, Dean Ambrose mostly competed as a singles competitor while Seth Rollins joined forces with Roman Reigns to take on tag teams including Team Hell No, The Usos and Cody Rhodes & Goldust.

At the same Extreme Rules event that Ambrose defeated Kofi Kingston to win the United States Championship, Rollins & Reigns were victorious against Daniel Bryan & Kane to become WWE Tag Team champions for the first time in their careers.

In six-man tag team matches, all three Shield members usually emerged with the victory, notably at back-to-back PPVs in 2014 against Evolution and in 2019 against Baron Corbin, Bobby Lashley & Drew McIntyre, but Rollins & Reigns were just as impressive as a duo.

Overall, they teamed together in 108 matches on WWE television, winning 64 times (59.3 percent win ratio), losing 38 times and drawing the other six.

#4 Failed: The Big Show

During Seth Rollins’ 2014-16 run as a member of Triple H and Stephanie McMahon’s Authority faction, he teamed with The Big Show against Superstars including Daniel Bryan, John Cena and Roman Reigns.

Their first match together as a tag team in December 2014 ended in defeat against Erick Rowan & Ryback on an episode of SmackDown, and they went on to lose against Reigns & Dolph Ziggler and Reigns & Dean Ambrose over the course of the next month.

In February 2015, they finally picked up their first win as a team when they joined forces with Kane to defeat Rowan, Ryback & Ziggler in a six-man tag team match at Fastlane, but it proved to be their only victory.

Overall, the former Authority members teamed together 12 times on WWE programming, winning only once, with their final defeat coming in September 2015 when they lost a 2-on-2 match against Cena & Sting on Raw.

#3 Succeeded: Jason Jordan

An overall tag team record of one victory in four televised matches does not make for good reading on paper. However, in the context of Seth Rollins and Jason Jordan’s unusual alliance, it is difficult to say that their short-lived partnership was anything but successful.

In December 2017, the obnoxious Jordan had started to gain negative reactions from the WWE Universe, despite his status as a babyface, and he was placed in a storyline with Rollins due to an injury to Dean Ambrose.

It was clear from the very start that the duo would be unable to co-exist as a tag team, especially after Jordan failed to impress alongside Rollins & Ambrose in a losing effort against Samoa Joe & The Bar.

However, on the Christmas Day 2017 episode of Raw, Rollins & Jordan proved their doubters wrong when they surprisingly won the Raw Tag Team titles from The Bar.

They went on to lose their next two matches, including a tag title rematch against The Bar at the 2018 Royal Rumble, but the fact remains that they only teamed up four times and still won the tag titles!

#2 Failed: J&J Security

From 2014-15, WWE Superstars-turned-producers Jamie Noble and Joey Mercury worked as Seth Rollins’ on-screen sidekicks to help him win matches during his time with the Money In The Bank briefcase and the WWE Championship.

The duo, known as J&J Security, often put themselves in harm’s way by receiving spears from Roman Reigns and RKOs from Randy Orton, while they even returned to in-ring action by teaming with Rollins on four occasions.

Their first match as a trio came in November 2014 on Raw, where they lost against Dolph Ziggler & John Cena in a 3-on-2 handicap match. Three months later, on a February 2015 episode of SmackDown, they were unable to pick up the win against Daniel Bryan in a 3-on-1 handicap match.

In the month that followed, they lost another 3-on-1 handicap match against Randy Orton on Raw, while they also teamed with Kane & The Big Show in a losing effort against Reigns & Bryan.

Overall, the team of Rollins and J&J Security lost all four of their matches together.

#1 Succeeded: Dean Ambrose

Although Roman Reigns was originally Seth Rollins’ tag team partner when The Shield debuted on the main roster, Dean Ambrose had more success than “The Big Dog” when he teamed with “The Beastlayer”.

Along with Reigns, the team of Rollins & Ambrose defeated trios including Team Hell No & Ryback, The Wyatt Family and Evolution during their initial 19-month run together as The Shield.

However, as Rollins & Reigns was the dominant trio’s go-to tag-team combination from 2012-14, it was not until they reunited in the summer of 2017 that Rollins & Ambrose began to show what they could do as a duo.

The former WWE champions won the Raw Tag Team Championship on two occasions, defeating Sheamus & Cesaro in August 2017 and Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre in October 2018.

Overall, Rollins & Ambrose joined forces 102 times on WWE television, winning 66 times (64.7 percent win ratio), losing 31 times and drawing the other five.