On the current Tag Team situation

It is well known that tag teams are treated rather badly in the WWE. 'Real' tag teams like Epico and Primo, The Usos, The Prime Time Players, and also in the past with e.g. The World's Greatest Tag Team (Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin), have always suffered in favour of rather randomly mixed up teams like JeriShow, Show Miz, or as of late Team Hell No. Established singles wrestlers are taking the spotlight from teams that function more than well together and are able to contribute greatly to the in ring performance by working together, as a team.
I am not bashing Team Hell No here, I enjoyed this tag team quite a lot, but I am still glad that the titles are with two people that have been depicted as a team from the very beginning.

But even though the titles have been in the hands of very strong competitors lately, the rest of the tag team scene was either a joke, underrepresented, or depicted as anything but strong.
  • The Prime Time Players, who have quite the chemistry in my eyes, had a long losing streak against Hell No, only functioning as showing off the strength of said team.
  • Team Rhodes Scholars is looking back on a series of losses as well, being split up and reunited, only to have Sandow in a feud with Shemaus, and Rhodes either functioning as cannon fodder for the Irishman or being the jobber to people like Jericho and Miz.
  • The Tons of Funk are the personification of embarrassment. Tensai's development since he returned to the WWE is a joke in itself, a team of dancing heavyweights making everything only worse.
  • Epico and Primo vanished from the screen, not even included in any Number 1 Contenders Matches anymore.
  • Even though 3MB have been rather present, they are - contrary to Tons of Funk -  turned into a joke by the creatives, losing as a team and in single competitions as well.
  • The Usos always showed rather solid matches, sometimes winning, sometimes losing, but overall being no material for the main shows.
Now, things have turned, at least for the Samoan twins. With or without Justin Gabriel - himself part of a tag team on hiatus thanks to Tyson Kidd's injury - they had some victories on Main Event, suddenly returning with a distinctive face paint to the ring and challenging The Shield.
Even though I enjoy them in ring, in my eyes this is all going way too fast. Without any obvious reason, three random tag teams were chosen to participate in a Number 1 Contenders Match, The Usos wining to get a title shot. Sure, they got some victories in the youngest past, but is that enough to give them an actual title shot against a kind of superior formation like The Shield? What about the teams that looked way stronger in the past and are just ignored now? And the rematch for Team Hell No is off the table as well, as it seems.
Things are going too fast without any real steps in between from jobbing Jimmy and Jey to making them disappear to depicting them as strong competitors for Rollins and Reigns.
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