Monday, January 16, 2012

Epico And Primo Win Tag Titles

I was going to use today to compare Eve/Ryder to AJ/Bryan, but it would seem we have new Tag Team Champions. The titles changed hands at a house show over the weekend. Epico and Primo now have the gold.

If you have no idea who those two are, I don't blame you. If you don't give a damn about them, I still don't blame you. Primo, obviously, has been in the WWE for a few years now. Problem is, he hasn't done much in a while. Even recently, he was not being pushed well. Having these two just pick up the tag titles at a house show will not help them get mega over. And I doubt this will be the start of an awesome push for them. After Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne retained the titles against a team like Ziggler and Swagger a few months ago, it is insulting to have them drop it to two, and no offense here, complete jobbers. I see this as one of those situations where no one involved will benefit too much. Rosa fans might be happy at the chance of seeing her a little more.

What does this mean for that revival of the tag division they were supposedly having? I knew it was just too much hype when it started. Bourne and Kingston were not going to revitalize anything. Even before Bourne's suspension, you could see that there were really not too many good options for the Champions to face. Momentum was already starting to slow. Bourne getting suspended may have brought about the inevitable a little sooner, but he did come back, the WWE did have an opportunity to build a proper feud with the previous Champions and the team that now holds the gold, and the WWE did not do it. Who is the WWE punishing more, Bourne or themselves? I don't have much confidence in Epico and Primo, but I still feel you could have done more in developing them. Having this feud play out on Superstars is garbage. In the end, the tag division is pretty much as crappy as it was a few months ago.

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