WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions: American Alpha
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If you thought RAW’s tag team division was uninspiring, I’ve got some bad news for fans of the blue brand.
SmackDown’s tag team division has been crippled by a lack of genuine teams. Sure, the tournament to crown the inaugural champions went well, but ever since then, the division has fallen off a cliff. There are no new or exciting teams for fans to care about.
Rhyno & Heath Slater’s awkward pairing gimmick lost relevance months ago. The Wyatt Family is about to implode again, especially since Randy & Bray look to be heading towards a WrestleMania feud.
As for the current champions American Alpha, they’re a great team of two highly talented wrestlers, but their appeal comes from their great matches, which they cannot have without properly-built-up opponents.
On the most recent episode of SmackDown, American Alpha’s open challenge ended up in a nonsensical 5-team brawl that no one in the audience cared about. A few weeks prior to that, American Alpha had defeated one of these jobber teams in less than a minute with three moves.
How does this sort of booking lead to any interest in the division whatsoever?
Given this lack of depth in the division, it doesn’t make sense for anyone other than American Alpha to hold the belts for the time being.
The only other team worthy of even challenging for those belts now is the Revival, and I doubt Triple H wants to send one of his best NXT teams to the main-event roster right now, especially after what has happened to Tyler Breeze, who was once pegged to be a solid hand on the main roster.
