Friday, March 16, 2007

London & Kendrick, ECW Tag Champions?

If you saw my latest Till My Head Falls Off over at Pulse Wrestling, along with the news from Dave Meltzer that Dusty Rhodes pushed for ECW to add a tag team division, you shouldn't have been surprised by the title of this blog entry. I still feel that WWE should unify the two current (RAW's "World" and Smackdown's "WWE") Tag Team Championships into one set of straps, and I haven't given up on a possible MNM/Hardyz feud eventually happening on Tuesday nights. But Aaron Glazer made a great point: Paul London and Brian Kendrick are a perfect fit for ECW, and just the tag team that can breath some needed life into the brand.

After tonight's Smackdown it's even more apparent that Joey Mercury, Johnny Nitro, Melina Perez, Paul London, Brian Kendrick and Ashley Massaro are at their most exciting when in the ring against each other. London & Kendrick haven't lost a title match since beating MNM almost a year ago -- in fact, they're in the top four WWE tag teams of ALL TIME when it comes to length of their championship reign. MNM, on the other hand, have more of a "star aura" than the HooliganZ, yet seem to be mired in the mid-card until WWE has a workable plan to get at least Nitro into a spot further up on the card.

So why not just pull the trigger and put John Cena and Shawn Michaels' titles on MNM, and then let the new RAW champs go up against the HooliganZ Mania? If they want to include other teams in the mix, I'm fine with it. But there's no reason these four talented workers should be left off the card... and unfortunately right now they absolutely are.

If they DO go forward with 'my plan,' they should put the straps on MNM, have them jump to ECW to stir shit up and feud with the HooliganZ (who would also have to make the jump -- something WWE can easily do within the storylines). At some point, you get Mick Foley involved, playing off of his history with Mercury and Melina, and use Foley as a distraction that causes MNM to drop the belts back to their rivals, break up, and go their separate ways. I donno, it just makes sense to me to have Mercury head over to Smackdown to be in the cruiserweight division or stay in ECW as a midcarder, and Nitro can go over Foley in a big match before either challenging Lashley in ECW or heading back to RAW. But what do I know? Can't hurt to try.

This entry was cross-posted on TheWrestlingBlog.com.

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