Predicting WWE's 9 Champions after WrestleMania 33

WWE RAW Tag Team Champions: Gallows & Anderson

It took almost a full calendar year for Vince to realize, ‘hey, these former NJPW guys are pretty good’.

Ever since the New Day lost the belts, attention towards RAW’s tag team division has dwindled.

Of course, the fault for that rests entirely on the shoulders of WWE’s creative department, who have failed to book any of the regular RAW tag teams outside of the New Day in a way that makes them entertaining and worth watching.

Take the current champions (and most likely champions after WrestleMania), Gallows & Anderson. They debuted on the night after WrestleMania 32 and were white hot at the time. They were one of the most talked-about tag teams in the business, fresh off a successful run in NJPW.

But this is WWE we’re talking about, where having any success outside of the company is taboo because that success didn’t have Vince McMahon’s personal stamp of approval on it.

So Gallows & Anderson ended up losing several high-profile matches and were forced to take part in many abysmal comedy segments (I would like to apologise to anyone reading this for having to remind you of that God-forsaken ‘Old Day’ segment, but it was necessary for argument’s sake here).

By the time Gallows & Anderson won the championships on the Royal Rumble pre-show, the interest in them had dropped significantly. People cared more about the oddball pairing of Sheamus and Cesaro than they did for Gallows & Anderson.

So now that G&A are the tag champions, the only question to ponder is how will WWE treat them? Will WWE give them a monster push that will lead to them dominating the tag team division? Or will Karl Anderson spend the next ten weeks losing via Roll-up to the Shining Stars?

As much as I wish it wasn’t, my money’s on the latter.