5 Reasons why WWE split up Rusev & Shinsuke Nakamura

#4 Their tag team record was awful

After joining forces to attack R-Truth on the January 29 episode of SmackDown Live, Rusev & Shinsuke Nakamura defeated The Club’s Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson on February 5 and it looked as though they could go on to have an entertaining run as a tag team.

With Lana by their side, they went on to lose against another new tag team, Aleister Black & Ricochet, on February 26 before falling to defeat again on the Fastlane kickoff show against New Day members Big E & Xavier Woods.

From then on, the tag team’s run of results only got worse as they failed to win any of their three televised matches in the build-up to WrestleMania 35, where they lost a Fatal 4-Way match for The Usos' SmackDown Tag Team titles.

Two more defeats followed in six-man tag team matches, meaning they won just one of their nine matches together.