Predicting the next 5 tag-team break-ups in WWE

If there’s one thing we should know about modern-day WWE, it’s that loyalty doesn’t count for much. In 2017 alone we’ve seen Kevin Owens, Big Cass, Nia Jax and others attack their best friends and/or tag partners, with the most recent betrayal coming when Mojo Rawley turned against Zack Ryder on SmackDown Live.

Of all the tag teams in WWE right now, the only ones that seem inseparable are The Usos, The New Day, The Ascension, The Revival and The Club.

With that in mind, and with the tag-team rosters more jam-packed than ever on both Raw and SmackDown Live, we take a look into the future to predict the next five tag-team break-ups that will happen in WWE.

#1The Shield

After waiting so long for The Shield to reunite, there was only one question on everyone’s mind when they finally got back together in October: how long until they split up again?

In June 2014, Seth Rollins turned against Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose when he attacked his Shield brothers with a steel chair on Monday Night Raw, bringing an end to the stable's 18 months of dominance in WWE.

Now that they're back together, all the talk surrounding the trio is about who will turn on who next. Will Reigns split them up? Will Ambrose finally turn heel? Or will history repeat itself and will Rollins return to his dastardly ways?

Rumour has it that WWE could be planning a match between Rollins and Ambrose at WrestleMania 34. If that’s the case, expect the Shield reunion to be over sooner rather than later.

#2 Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn

In December 2016, Team Kevin and Chris – or Team Chris and Kevin, if you listen to Kevin Owens – had joined forces and began to wreak havoc everywhere they went on Monday Night Raw.

Fast forward to December 2017 and Team Kevin and Sami – or Team Sami and Kevin, if you listen to Kevin Owens – have joined forces and are wreaking havoc everywhere they go on SmackDown Live.

See a pattern there? Because, sadly for poor Sami, he doesn’t seem to have put the dots together and worked out that his bitter enemy-turned-best friend KO isn’t someone you should stay around for too long.

It’s surely a matter of when, not if, one or both of them decide that the pairing has run its course before they eventually feud with each other again.

#3 Chad Gable & Shelton Benjamin

With the greatest of respect to both Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin, they don’t seem to gel quite as well together as they did with their previous WWE tag partners.

It didn’t work out on the main roster for American Alpha but Gable and Jason Jordan were still one of the most popular tag teams in NXT history, while Benjamin and Charlie Haas were one of the most memorable tag duos of the Ruthless Aggression Era.

Gable and Benjamin were hastily put together after Jordan moved to Raw in July and they have since picked up a series of victories on SmackDown Live, earning them a spot in the Fatal-4-Way match at Clash of Champions for The Usos’ Tag Team titles.

However, if they fail to win the titles, it wouldn’t surprise anyone if they were to split. It’s even been teased in a couple of promos since they were put together that Benjamin is not entirely convinced by Gable, and it’d probably do them both good if they were feuding with each other rather than teaming with each other.

#4 The Zo Train

Enzo Amore created his own faction on 205 Live

Does anybody really buy that Noam Dar, Drew Gulak, Ariya Daivari and Tony Nese are actually happy to do Enzo Amore’s dirty work for him on 205 Live?

The new members of the five-man faction, known as The Zo Train, took turns hitting their finisher on the two-time Cruiserweight champion in September but now, without much explanation, they do everything he says.

With Enzo seemingly moving into a programme with Nia Jax, it surely won't be long before the quartet stops supporting the man who used to trash-talk each and every one of them on Raw just a short time ago.

In fact, if Gulak wins his match against Rich Swann on Raw next week, he’ll become the number one contender for the Cruiserweight Championship. If that happens, The Zo Train could be coming off the tracks in the not-too-distant future.

#5 Heath Slater & Rhyno

For someone who seems to have been around forever, it’s easy to forget that Heath Slater is only 34 and has plenty of years left in him as a WWE Superstar.

While he has sometimes struggled to remain a regular presence on our screens throughout the years, we saw some of Slater’s best work in 2016 when he aligned with Rhyno and the two went on to become the inaugural SmackDown Live Tag Team champions.

However, the unlikely duo hasn't had as much luck in 2017 since being moved to Raw in April’s Superstar Shake-Up, with both men often used on Main Event instead of the company’s flagship show.

Slater & Rhyno haven’t had a major storyline for close to a year on either Raw or SmackDown Live, so don’t be surprised if we see them split in the near future.

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Edited by Rohit Nath