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On this week's episode of SmackDown Live, The Hardy Boyz, unfortunately, had to relinquish their newly won SmackDown Live Tag Team Championships after three weeks due to an untimely injury to Jeff Hardy.
Having won the titles on the night after WrestleMania 35 by defeating former champions Jimmy and Jey, The Usos, it initially seemed like The Hardy Boyz were on course to spearhead the SmackDown Live Tag Team division from the front. But, moments after their remarkable title win, both Jeff and Matt were brutally attacked by the walking behemoth Lars Sullivan.
And shortly afterward, it was being reported that Jeff had suffered a knee injury that would require surgery and finally on tonight's episode of SD Live, The Hardyz officially vacated their straps with brother Jeff revealing that his knee injury was caused due to Sullivan's gruesome attack a few weeks ago.
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With the SmackDown Live Tag Titles now being officially vacated by The Hardy Boyz, it is high time for the tag teams of the blue division to step up their game and capitalize on the situation.
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However, with the likes of The Bar and Sanity being officially disbanded and with The Usos and The Good Brothers being drafted over to Monday Night Raw, SD Live is somewhat in a desperate need of tag teams who could once again shake things up for the tag division.
That being said, let us now take an in-depth look at 5 tag teams who could possibly step up and win the vacated SmackDown Live Tag Team Championships next.
#5. Heavy Machinery
Heavy Machinery is still pretty new to the main roster scene and after being officially drafted to the SmackDown Live roster as part of the Superstar Shake-up, WWE needs to make sure that they capitalize on Otis and Tucker's current momentum and do not let it go to waste, much like they did with the likes of The Revival, Sanity, and The Ascension.
Sure, as many would think, Heavy Machinery currently isn't everyone's favorite tag team but one cannot deny the fact that the duo is very popular with the WWE Universe and are hugely over as well.
And with the SmackDown Live Tag Division in need of more tag teams, now seems like the perfect time for WWE to reward Heavy Machinery with some gold around their waist or they might never get another opportunity as good as this one.
#4. The Street Profits
The current NXT Tag Team Division is filled with absolute superstars and one of the most popular tag teams on the black and gold division is none other than the team of Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins - collectively known as The Street Profits.
The Street Profits haven't had the chance of winning the NXT Tag Team Championships yet, however, that doesn't mean that the duo of Ford and Dawkins are not bound to succeed on the main roster. With the SmackDown Live Tag Team Titles being vacated, this definitely seems like the best time for The Street Profits to join the blue brand and finally add some much-needed depth to the roster as well.
Winning the SD Live Tag Team Titles right off the get-go is also definitely going to be a great start for Ford and Dawkins and will set their main roster careers on the right path as well.
#3. Rusev and Shinsuke Nakamura
By this point, most of us have pretty much realized the fact that both Shinsuke Nakamura and Rusev are two of the very best singles wrestler WWE has to offer, however, both men currently find themselves paired up with each other in a tag team which hasn't really done anything since its inception.
Nakamura and Rusev are two extremely talented wrestlers and as of right now, it looks like WWE does not intend to push either man as singles competitors. Therefore, why not utilize them as a tag team instead?
With the SmackDown Live Tag Team Division now in a desperate need of more tag teams, this seems like the perfect time for WWE to push both Nakamura and Rusev and without a shadow of a doubt, both men should be the first contenders to become the brand new SmackDown Live Tag Team Champions.
A strong run on the tag team division might just be enought to rejuvinate both Nakamura and Rusev's WWE careers before the company could decide to separate them up and have them go their different directions as singles stars once again.
#2. The New Day
For quite some time now, The New Day has been the gatekeeper tag team of the blue brand along with The Usos. However, with the latter now being drafted over to the red brand of Raw, this might be the right period for the former five-time tag team champions to once again step up and rebuild the SmackDown Live Tag Team Division by starting right from the bottom.
The trio of Xavier Woods, Big E, and Kofi Kingston have pretty much held the tag team division in one piece, regardless of the brand they compete in and with Kingston now finally in possession of the WWE Championship, Woods and Big E could very well accompany him and bring more gold to The New Day.
However, with Big E currently out with an injury, The New Day might just have to wait for a while in order to get back into the tag title picture once again, as they wait for their third member to fully recover and get back into the ring once again.
#1. R-Truth and Matt Hardy
Now, in the past, we have seen both Matt Hardy and R-Truth form very odd tag teams in WWE. Truth, at one point of time, was part of a tag team along with Goldust, whereas, Matt Hardy, very recently formed one of the most entertaining tag teams with Bray Wyatt and the duo even captured the Raw Tag Team Championships at one point in time as well.
It is almost safe to say that it was Hardy who very much helped in rejuvenating Wyatt's WWE career and now might be the best time for him to form yet another bizarre but interesting tag team with R-Truth.
After all, both The Hardy Boyz and Truth have their sights on the same enemy, who is none other than Lars Sullivan and on SmackDown Live as we even saw R-Truth coming to The Hardy Boyz's aid as well.
With Jeff Hardy set to spend some more time on the sidelines, maybe it is time for Matt Hardy to pull off yet another genius and form a tag team with R-Truth, as they prepare to battle Lars Sullivan, as well as, challenge for the vacant SmackDown Live Tag Team Championships.
