WWE News: Authors of Pain tease main roster debut
What's the story?
Paul Ellering, the manager of the NXT tag team of Akam and Rezar, known as Authors of Pain, recently took to Twitter to tease a main roster debut of the dominant tag team, in a reply to a tweet by Sheamus.
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In case you didn’t know…
Sheamus is currently one-half of the Raw tag team champions known as The Bar, alongside Cesaro. This week on Raw, The Bar defeated The Revival clean, effectively leaving them with no challengers for their Tag Team Titles heading into WrestleMania.
The Authors of Pain debuted on NXT back in June 2016. The dominant tag team won the Dusty Rhodes Classic tournament in November that year by defeating TM61 in the final round, and then went on to win the NXT Tag Team Championships from #DIY.
The AoP are currently set to take on the team of TM61 (or The Mighty) in the first round of the third edition of the Dusty Rhodes Classic tag team tournament on the March 7th edition of NXT.
The heart of the matter
Sheamus recently put out a tweet commenting on how there were no contenders for their titles heading into WrestleMania. He put up an open challenge to any tag team who can step up:
None other than Paul Ellering replied to the tweet, teasing that they would be heading over to challenge The Bar next, after taking care of business over at NXT. Here is the reply by Ellering:
What's next?
There is no official news yet about the opponents for The Bar at New Orleans on April 8th, but it now looks like it might be AoP. They have achieved everything there is to do on NXT and it seems only logical that they move on to the main roster next.
Author's take
There is no doubt that a match between these behemoths would be a great one, given that it is well built up on the road to WrestleMania. Let's just hope that they are given enough time on the WrestleMania card to enable them to put on a classic.