Ranking Each WWE Tag Team Break-Up of 2017

2017 was a year of tag team break ups for WWE. With the year’s end days away its time to rank each split from worst to best.

8. The Golden Truth

Goldust and R-Truth began teaming together after months of back and forth of trying to get the team together. It looked to be trying to capture the magic of Booker T and Goldust, but they never did reach those heights. The Golden Truth didn’t get many wins as a team. This was even stated by Kurt Angle when they asked him for an opportunity. They did seem to gain new life before their break up, but that died when Goldust turned on his partner. Now neither man is doing anything important after a series of match ups.

7. The Vaudevillains

The main roster run for the team of Aiden English and Simon Gotch was simply lackluster. A prime example of NXT Champions not having the best transition to the main roster. The two were never a threat in the division, so no one really cared when Simon Gotch exited the company. Many thought Aiden wasn’t too far off from leaving himself, but what puts this ahead of the Golden Truth, however, is that it lead to Aiden English forging a team with Rusev, which is becoming one of the best parts of SmackdownLive.

6. American Alpha

One of the more successful teams to transition from NXT to the main roster, Gable and Jordan were able to capture the SmackdownLive Tag Team Championships before they split. Kurt Angle announced that Jason Jordan was his son, sending him to RAW while Gable stayed on the blue brand. Both members have found themselves in other tag teams since they’ve separated, with Jordan winning the RAW Tag Team Championships with Seth Rollins, and Gable in prime contention for the titles with Shelton Benjamin. Both have seemingly benefited from their off-screen fallout, but with no pay off to speak of it brings this break up down.

5. The Hype Bros

The most recent addition to this list, Mojo Rawley  turned on his friend Zack Ryder after a devastating loss to the Bludgeon Brothers. While the team never held tag team gold, they were number one contenders before Ryder came down with injury. Mojo’s Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal win set up the split months in advance, and it took months before Mojo finally snapped on his hype brother. We’ll have to wait and see where both men go from here, but for now it isn’t the worst we’ve seen.

4. Enzo and Cass

This break up was inevitable, with Cass being seven foot tall and Enzo having little wrestling acumen. That split came earlier this year when Cass was revealed to have been attacking Enzo on multiple occasions. There was a mystery about who had done it before the confession, and a few minor twists kept it interesting. However, the proceeding feud between the two was nothing special, and ended abruptly with Cass being injured. Add on to that the fact the team won no championships together, and you have a break up that didn’t create much of an impact.

3. Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt

It is easy to forget how interesting the Orton/Wyatt/Harper storyline was before WrestleMania 33, but it was a highlight of the end of SmackdownLive’s “Golden Era.” Arguably the moment the rivalry began to lose its luster was when Orton turned on Wyatt by burning down his compound, but many point it to the removal of Luke Harper in the WWE Championship match at WrestleMania. The feud didn’t do much for either man as Wyatt would lose yet again and Orton would go on to lose his championship to Jinder Mahal.

2. JeriKO

For a good portion of 2016 Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho were the stars of Monday Night RAW. Throughout all our laughs, though, we knew there would come a time Owens would betray Y2J. This would lead to some decent matches between the two, but also Kevin Owen’s loss to Goldberg at Fastlane. However, let us not forget the Festival of Friendship, where the betrayal took place. It was one of the best segments of 2017 and is the main reason this is so high on the list.

1. DIY

The emotional journey we went on with these two men was like nothing we have ever seen. From amazing matches with the Revival and Authors of Pain, to the battle they fought against each other in the Cruiserweight Classic. While the turn itself was speculated upon, it didn’t take away from the moment. Gargano is now in contention for the NXT Championship, which may lead to him winning the gold, and defending his title and honor against his former friend.