Matt Hardy Details What WWE MUST Do to Make Their Tag Team Wrestling Great Again

Jason BurgosMon, November 9, 2026 at 1:30 PM UTC

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Tag team wrestling that fans care about has been a hard-to-solve problem for WWE for two decades. One of the legends of the division, Matt Hardy, has offered up some advice to help his former employer make tag team wrestling great again.

Long-time WWE fans remember two peak periods for tag wrestling in the company. There was the mid- to late 1980s when the Hart Foundation, Demolition, the Rockers, and Legion of Doom developed Hall of Fame resumes. Then there was the late 1990s into the early years of the 21st century when the Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boyz, and Edge & Christian took the division to new heights, literally and figuratively.

However, the tag team division in WWE has been unable to recapture that greatness. Sure, the New Day and the Usos had their moments, and there have been a few other teams that were standouts (shout-out to The Bar), but that’s been about it for 20 years.

Tag wrestling being a weakness for WWE has only become a bigger issue as their top rival, AEW, has excelled at promoting their division by creating legendary matches and feuds. That is why Matt Hardy was recently asked about what is wrong with tag wrestling in the industry leader during a recent chat with Casino.org. And his response was fairly simple: Just put real time into making it matter again.

Matt Hardy has a simple fix for WWE’s tag division: REALLY invest in it

“I think any talent who knows what they’re doing and gets the fact that your job is to go out and evoke emotion from fans, I think they can be successful, and they can get over, and they can be popular,” Hardy began by saying.

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“But they have to be invested. The company has to invest in them. They have to give them TV time, and they have to write compelling stories that are going to get people into these tag teams,” he added. “And they just really have to focus. They have to focus time specifically and dedicate it to tag team wrestling.”

A report over the summer suggested that WWE wanted to make a new investment in improving the tag division. With plans to create fresh teams with current members of the roster. However, there still aren’t any ongoing storylines that have helped to draw renewed interest in the men’s side of the division.

It certainly did not help that the company moved on from a pair of legendary teams, New Day and the Motor City Machine Guns, in the spring.

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