Los Matadores Are Coming

It looks like Primo and Epico are going to be gaining some relevance once more very soon. They are being repackaged and hyped as Los Matadores. The WWE seems to be going high on gimmicks lately. And what does this all mean for the tag division?

First, this isn't the first time this year that someone has been repackaged and re-debuted with a new  gimmick. Fandango? Bray Wyatt? Go back last year to Brodus Clay. You have The Shield debuting with their gimmick as a faction. The buzz off of which of these has motivated the WWE to continue to push new gimmicks? I like gimmicks. I used to feel the WWE lacked interesting gimmicks for some time. And now? I think they are doing too much. Yes, this is creating hype to draw interest, but how about doing better with the people you currently have on the roster? Just focusing on the guys on the roster with some unique gimmicks that debuted with a lot of buzz, where are they now? The WWE has not done a good job of keeping the ball rolling with these guys. They kill their momentum. A lot of fans say that guys like Brodus Clay deserve the depush because they got stale. Well, would they still have gotten stale if the WWE did a better job developing legitimate feuds and storylines for them? Instead of keeping the ball rolling with these guys, the WWE seems to find it easier to just shift focus to others, then run them through the same cycle. For that reason, I cannot get too excited for this new gimmick.

Second, what does this mean for the tag division? Former Tag Team Champions are getting focus again. I know Epico and Primo didn't exactly have a great run with the titles. Nevertheless, they were a part of the revival of the tag division. Is there another revival happening right now? Darren Young's coming out has led to his Titus and him getting a push. I didn't like seeing Jack Swagger lose on Raw like that, but that's another issue. The Usos were getting pushed until recently. Los Matadores will surely be pushed. But there is one big problem. Where are the tag titles? Still on The Shield. Without the Tag Team Champions being involved more with these other teams, all you really have is a bunch of teams with various gimmicks rotating around each other. There is no real direction. The WWE invests in a team to make them look good, pulls the plug to do this for another team, and then repeats. While that is going on, The Shield is leagues above everyone else. If another upper-midcard team does take the titles off them, which is most likely, that won't help matters anytime soon.

And one last thing on something not related. Fans are acting like AJ Lee dropped a "pipe bomb" last night on the cast of Total Divas. If you say something that neckbeards agree with and throw in a few edgy remarks, that is now considered a "pipe bomb" to some people? Okay, I'll keep that in mind. I honestly didn't find anything too shocking about what AJ Lee did. This wouldn't be the first time that a heel diva slammed the extra-curricular activities that other divas were getting. A heel diva has never spoken out against another diva getting a Playboy push? In another note, I may not watch Total Divas or have any desire to, but the show has been a success. More viewers than TNA Impact Wrestling usually gets. Was AJ Lee edgy? A bit. Fact is, just speaking personally, if CM Punk's big promos from 2 years ago didn't make me a fan of the guy, what AJ Lee did this week isn't going to move me. Instead of focusing on a feud between just Natalya and AJ right now, it looks like the WWE will instead be developing something involving AJ and all the cast of Total Divas, not just Natalya.