6 WWE Tag Teams not given enough time to flourish

#2. Heavy Machinery

Heavy Machinery will live on forever 💔 https://t.co/hMmAxYvfQL

— Levi (@REALLeviCooper) April 16, 2021

Why did WWE put Heavy Machinery through the worst break-up of all time? What was the reasoning behind this? Otis and Tucker were involved in one of the hottest angles of 2020 thanks to the former's romantic interest in Mandy Rose.

Heavy Machinery was an incredibly popular team in NXT, and that love spread to the rest of the WWE Universe when they came to the main roster. While Otis seemed to be the main star, Tucker proved himself to be a great big man in his own right.

Yet, for some reason, WWE just decided to split the team up. Otis won Money in the Bank in 2020, but Tucker turned on him at Hell in a Cell to cost him the case. The reasoning was generic in the worst way. "He was the star but I was carrying him." Stuff like that.

We didn't even get a real payoff. There was no match after the break up, because Tucker was moved to RAW while SmackDown kept Otis. It felt like WWE's creative team was told right in the middle of Heavy Machinery's run that they were giving up on them. Tucker went on to win the 24/7 Championship twice, but not much else before being released.

Otis? Well, he's working with Chad Gable as part of Alpha Academy. Two WWE stars, leftover from two tag teams that should've been at the top of the world, mishandled for seemingly no reason.

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#1. Former WWE Stars The Ascension

Remember The Ascension? Remember when Konnor and Viktor ran roughshod all over NXT, demolishing any tag team unfortunate enough to stand in their way?

Think back to all those good times and try to forget that WWE buried them immediately upon their debut on the main roster. If you think Karrion Kross going 1-2 in his first three week is bad, it really isn't. Yeah, those losses are unfortunate, but you know what's worse? Every single legendary tag team coming together to call a team "rip-off Road Warriors" and beat them down before their winning streak.

At that point, it didn't matter how many wins they put together. We had JBL consistently calling them "fake" tough guys, claiming the APA, New Age Outlaws and other teams would run through them if given a chance. Considering JBL tended to side with heels while on commentary, it was weird that he was going after Viktor and Konnor like that.

WWE seemed dead set on ruining the image of the former NXT Tag Champions before they could even get off the ground, and that's exactly what they did. Despite their wins, WWE called them losers over and over again. They are, still, the longest reigning NXT Tag Champions of all time. Nobody's come close to their 364 days.

Yet on the main roster they were treated like trash. There was no reasoning behind it, either. Despite sticking together for six years on the main roster, WWE pegged them as nobodies from the word "go." It's really unfortunate, because they could've been a major force to be reckoned with in a tag division that, at that time, was pretty poor.