Laz
Making dumb observations since 2002
Aaaaand this right here is part of the major fucking problem. Santana and Ortiz are one of the most natural tag teams in the business and have been since they were EYFBO, and the fact that they aren't featured regularly working matches is asinine.
If you have a roster this big, why not focus on tag and trios matches week to week? Tag-centric cards were a focus of puro booking for decades and helped accomplish two key things:
1. Protect the talent.
2. Gauge ability.
You can protect a talent's health AND their gimmick/push by having them work 1/4 (or 1/6) of a match regularly rather than injury AND burnout by having them be 1/2 the equation all the time. Especially if the booking is more about having talents work 15-20 minutes at a time instead of the 3-5 minutes that was the norm for the western audience throughout the 80s and 90s.
It also allows your veteran agents to scout where younger talents still need work while also being able to test future singles pairings. Maybe there's an insane, career-defining matchup that could happen between Penta and Spears, but we'll never know because that bout won't ever get booked the right way because they'll never work each other to test their chemistry.
