5 WWE Tag Teams from 2018 that are no longer together in 2019

One of the many things that has hurt the WWE tag team division is the ever-changing nature of the division. While most teams come together naturally like The Usos or any other team of brothers, more often than not, teams are comprised of two singles stars.

It might be a big guy/small guy dynamic or it might be two "big-hoss" types like the Authors of Pain or Heavy Machinery. While those are teams that have a better chance of staying together, when two singles stars are paired together in a tag team, that team often has a short shelf life.

The New Day, The Usos and The Bar have been the three top teams of the division for the last four years, but only two of those teams remain. And most of the teams that held the RAW Tag Team titles in the middle of 2018 are also no more.

For one reason or another, several prominent teams from last year are no longer teaming together. Some are for obvious reasons while others were due to unfortunate injuries. Here are five tag teams from 2018 that are no longer together.

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#5 The Bludgeon Brothers

Rowan is currently aligned with the New Daniel Bryan.

In their second pairing together in WWE, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan were known as The Bludgeon Brothers. Both men were a part of the Wyatt Family, but once that faction was split up, all four members went their separate ways and to separate brands.

An injury to Rowan at SummerSlam 2018 forced the duo to drop the titles, but WWE apparently had bigger plans for them beyond SummerSlam. But due to the injury, they dropped the titles and officially disbanded.

Rowan returned at the Royal Rumble this year to aid Daniel Bryan in his match against AJ Styles. Since then, he's been by the side of the Planet's Champion, even winning the SmackDown Tag Team titles after WrestleMania.

Harper, on the other hand, hasn't been on TV. He also had an injury and has healed, but he has not been used by WWE. The talented big man asked for his release earlier this year when it was apparent he would not be used despite being healthy.

#4 Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose

We all know why this team is no more.

As Seth Rollins was embroiled in a feud with Dolph Ziggler over the Intercontinental Championship, he was lacking back up. Drew McIntyre had returned to ally himself with "the Showoff" but Rollins was still alone.

Dean Ambrose balanced the scales when he returned from injury to back his brother before SummerSlam. At the show, Rollins would recapture the title from Ziggler. Throughout the rest of the Summer and early Fall, the two former members of The Shield would oppose McIntyre, Ziggler and occasionally Braun Strowman.

During that feud, they traded the RAW Tag Team titles with each other to add another layer of importance to the feud. On the same night that Roman Reigns announced that he had to relinquish the Universal Championship and take some time off from WWE, Rollins and Ambrose won the titles again. But as we all know, that was the same night that Ambrose turned his back on Rollins.

After that, the two feuded with each other but eventually agreed to reform the Shield once it was evident that Ambrose would not be re-signing with the WWE. And with that, another team that held gold in 2018 was finished as a team.

#3 The Deleter of Worlds

Both men have greatly changed since their pairing last Summer.

Many fans clamored for WWE to bring "Broken" Matt Hardy to the WWE after the character's success in Impact Wrestling. After a long legal battle, it looked bleak. But it was eventually settled and a different version was born in WWE in the guise of "Woken" Matt Hardy. He was still outlandish but laughed incessantly.

One of the first people with which he feuded in his new persona was "The Eater of Worlds", Bray Wyatt. Wyatt had been middling around the company cutting wordy promos that he was unable to back up.

Although the feud was perfect due to the unique nature of both men, it made sense to pair them together after Wyatt was purged of his evil demons. They won the RAW Tag titles over the Summer after beating the B Team, but once again, an injury to Matt Hardy ended both the title reign and the team.

After Hardy was taken off TV in order to deal with an injury, the same happened with Wyatt (albeit for other reasons). He might have also been injured, but a big part of why he was away was to for a repackaging. We've seen his new character and how it'll be presented going forward. Hopefully "The Fiend" doesn't get paired in a one-off tag team that lasts for only a few months.

#2 Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler

Once again, a pairing of two singles' stars didn't last too long.

As mentioned in the second slide, a big reason why both Ambrose and Rollins, as well as Ziggler and McIntyre, won the titles was that they were feuding together. It made sense at the time but in the long term, it hurt the division.

Having so many stars paired together in teams hurt the RAW tag team division once most of those teams disbanded. That left the red brand with the likes of the B Team and The Revival. Since McIntyre has been back in WWE, his only title triumph has been as a member of a tag team.

He later turned on Ziggler shortly after the duo lost the titles. While it did help Ziggler in his ongoing feud with Rollins, it hurt both the tag division and McIntyre. "The Scottish Psychopath" is so much better than being a random tag team champion, but he hasn't captured any gold other than those titles. But here we are weeks away from SummerSlam with another team that held gold on RAW in 2018 no longer aligned with each another.

#1 The Bar

Cesaro is back in singles competition on RAW.

The Bar was one of the "glue" tag teams in the WWE. While it was becoming repetitive with the rotation of the Bar, the Usos and the New Day all trading the titles, the Bar was formed in a different manner than the other two stalwarts of the division.

When he was still the RAW GM, Mick Foley forced both Sheamus and Cesaro to fight each other in a "Best of 7" series. It ended with the two men forming a tag team and one that would go on to win the RAW belts four times and the SmackDown titles once.

They were unsuccessful in capturing the blue brand's titles at WrestleMania. Unfortunately, Sheamus suffered a concussion in a six-man tag team match on the ensuing episode of SmackDown. He has been away from WWE since then but has also suffered from Spinal Stenosis, which also ended the career of Paige.

Cesaro has moved back to RAW to put forth fantastic matches with Ricochet and Aleister Black. He's an underused talent that is relied on to make other stars look better, but he's someone that should have had at least one reign as either WWE or Universal Champion. While there was a whole storyline involving the team's formation, it still counts as a team from previous years that is no longer teaming together in 2019.