5 Most tragic WWE tag team breakups
Tag team matches have always been an exciting prospect for the sake of combined wrestling and perfect chemistry between two wrestlers with different styles. But the relationship and the mentality of individual superstars in the group sometimes turn sour. Some of these alliances have a limited shelf life, and sooner or later one member might turn against the other. Tag Team breakups have been a common storytelling trope to further singles acts.
Although some of the tag teams like D-Generation X and Brothers of Destruction have re-grouped even after their breakups, other teams haven’t had that fair luck. Tag teams like Stone Cold and Mick Foley’s comical face Dude Love could have gone to great heights, but they had to vacate the Tag Titles because of Austin’s neck injury. Popular tag team, MNM also fizzled out due to Mercury’s injury while Nitro moved to ECW and renamed himself as John Morrison.
Let us take a look at the 5 most heart-breaking tag team breakups.
#5 Jeri-KO
The pair of Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens went from a comedic patch-up to one of the most serious, dominant forces on the show. From the mid-2016 to early 2017, the duo had some serious matches against dominant tag-team partners. Owens won the Universal Championship by defeating Big Cass, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins with the help of Triple H.
Owens defended the title against Rollins and Reigns on consecutive nights on RAW. Both matches came to an end when Jericho distracted the opponents and Owens took the opportunity to get the win. This created tension between the two as the two had different views.
On the first episode of RAW in February, Owens was challenged by Goldberg for the Universal Championship at Fastlane, which was accepted by Jericho, much to Owen’s dismay. On the next episode, Jericho organized ‘The Festival of Friendship’. To his surprise, Owens turned on Jericho and brutally attacked, him marking an end to their friendship.