#3. The Dudley Boyz - Split by the 2002 WWE Draft
The Dudley Boyz are among the few most dominant tag teams in WWE history. Along with The Hardy Boyz and Edge & Christian, they established the WWE Tag Team division in the Attitude Era.
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In the 2002 WWE Draft, Ric Flair got Bubba Ray Dudley to RAW, while Vince McMahon drafted D-Von Dudley to SmackDown. It was a split that was forced, and not one that happened traditionally in WWE, with one partner turning on the other.
Bubba Ray Dudley turned face on RAW, while D-Von Dudley changed his gimmick to the "Reverend", where he had an assistant named Deacon Batista. The latter had his first main roster breakthrough via D-Von Dudley, but other than that, there wasn't much else of note in that run.
They would reunite later that year, perhaps after WWE felt that the break-up was pointless. It was a tag team break-up that failed because not much came of it. Bubba Ray Dudley's best singles run happened in TNA/Impact Wrestling, not in WWE.
