Evolution vs. Shield Highlights Value of Tag Team Wrestling in WWE

By Erik Beaston

Three years ago, tag team wrestling in WWE was dead.

Sure, there were champions and the title were traded from one duo to the next, but the art form that teams such as the Midnight Express, the Rock and Roll Express, the Road Warriors, the Rockers, the Hart Foundation and the British Bulldogs had revolutionized and made one of the most popular aspects of the sport had essentially died a slow and miserable death.

Vince McMahon had decided that there was greater value in singles stars and that the pursuit of the next Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan or John Cena was far more important than getting the most out of the talented Superstars he had at his disposal.

Rather than remembering the positive effect tag teams had on his promotion during the late 1980s, McMahon would simply throw together two recognizable stars with nothing else better to do and put the titles on them for no real rhyme or reason.

That style of booking should be referred to as the "Kane and Big Show Solution" in honor of the two Superstars most typically stuck in that scenario
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