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WWE is on the road to WrestleMania 37. This year's Showcase of the Immortals will feature a WWE RAW Tag Team Championship match, during which Omos will likely make his WWE in-ring debut.
This week on Monday Night RAW, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods of The New Day defeated Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander of The Hurt Business to become 11-time WWE Tag Team Champions. However, after the match, the new RAW Tag Team Champions were confronted by AJ Styles, along with his bodyguard Omos.
AJ Styles and Omos challenged The New Day to a match at WrestleMania 37 for the RAW Tag Team Championships, to which The New Day accepted. Not only is this a major championship match for WrestleMania 37, but it will also mark Omos' in-ring WWE debut.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at five reasons why AJ Styles and Omos should leave WrestleMania 37 victorious and become the next WWE RAW Tag Team Champions.
#5 Developing Omos into an in-ring WWE Superstar
Ever since Omos made his on-screen WWE debut, it's been clear the young WWE Superstar has a major presence. AJ Styles' bodyguard stands at seven feet three inches tall and weighs 335 lbs. Omos is an old-school professional wrestling attraction that fans could be willing to buy tickets for to witness before their very eyes in-person.
Since becoming AJ Styles' bodyguard on Monday Night RAW, Omos has been carefully positioned and booked to appear larger than life and dominant when assisting his partner during their storylines. WWE Superstars have seen chairs disintegrated, guitars broken and wrestlers intimidated by the giant bodyguard.
However, there is only so much that Omos can do as an intimidating bodyguard standing at ringside. WWE Superstars need to develop, evolve and ultimately step into the ring and compete themselves. Omos' real value in WWE will be as an in-ring performer.
A similar parallel can be drawn between Omos and Kevin Nash in WWE. Nash debuted as Diesel, a bodyguard to Shawn Michaels, in the 1990s. However, Kevin Nash eventually evolved into an in-ring performer, later becoming WWE Champion, Intercontinental Champion and Tag Team Champion. Omos could be on the same trajectory as Kevin Nash.
Therefore, by winning the RAW Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania, Omos will begin regularly competing in tag team matches with AJ Styles. This could prove to be an invaluable learning experience for the giant superstar. The Phenomenal One is one of the greatest in-ring performers of his generation.
By sharing a ring with AJ Styles every single night in tag team matches, Omos will hopefully learn and develop quickly as an in-ring performer, overcoming any inexperience that he may currently have.
#4 Gives AJ Styles a prominent storyline on WWE television post-WrestleMania 37
It goes without saying that AJ Styles is one of the best in-ring performers currently on the WWE roster. An argument could also be made that AJ Styles is one of the best in-ring performers in the history of professional wrestling. He is just that good.
Despite being 44 years of age later this year, AJ Styles is still considered to be a major player and major WWE Superstar on Monday Night RAW. Due to his main event level status and star power, it is important that the former WWE Champion is featured every week on Monday Night RAW in some form or fashion.
AJ Styles being featured in a tag team hasn't really been explored much during his WWE career to date. Styles has been the leader of factions such as The O.C., but Styles has largely remained as a singles talent. But this could all change if Styles and Omos capture the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania 37.
Competing as a tag team with Omos could give AJ Styles a completely new avenue to explore and will allow WWE to feature the former WWE Champion in a light not previously done during his WWE career to date. Should AJ Styles and Omos win the RAW Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania, The Phenomenal One's first reign as a WWE Tag Team Champion would certainly be a major storyline, which is exactly where AJ Styles deserves to be.
#3 Helps bolster the WWE RAW Tag Team division
WWE's booking of tag team wrestling has long been criticized by members of the WWE Universe. Tag Team wrestling requires a different presentation and philosophy to singles wrestling. Unfortunately, it would appear that WWE has little interest in presenting tag team wrestling this way.
Tag teams in WWE often consist of singles wrestlers, who don't have any creative direction from writers, being paired together until they inevitably are broken up into singles wrestlers once again. The days of established, credible tag teams such as The Dudley Boyz, The Hardy Boyz, The Hart Foundation, The British Bulldogs and Demolition appear to be a thing of the past.
Of course, there are exceptions to this, such as the current RAW Tag Team Champions, The New Day. But if you take one look at the Tag Team Division on Monday Night RAW, it is obvious that it is in desperate need of more tag teams.
If AJ Styles and Omos win the RAW Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania 37 it could help breathe new life into the tag team scene on Monday Nights. AJ Styles and Omos as tag team champions would give teams such as The New Day and The Hurt Business fresh, new opponents to face off against and have great matches with.
AJ Styles and Omos as WWE RAW Tag Team Champions could not only breathe new life into Styles' and Omos' respective WWE careers, but it could also help breathe new life into Monday Night RAW's tag team division too.
#2 AJ Styles becomes a WWE Grand Slam champion
AJ Styles has nearly achieved it all during his WWE career. Since making his debut with the promotion at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view in 2016, AJ Styles has won a championship on six seperate occasions.
AJ Styles is a former two-time WWE Champion, three-time United States Champion and one-time Intercontinental Champion. However, a WWE Tag Team Championship is the one championship that has escaped The Phenomenal One during his WWE career so far.
If AJ Styles and Omos become the new RAW Tag Team Champions at WrestleMania 37, AJ Styles will become WWE Grand Slam Champion.
In order to become a WWE Grand Slam Champion, a WWE Superstar must win either the WWE or Universal Championship, the RAW or SmackDown Tag Team Championships and both the Intercontinental and United States Championship.
There are not many accolades left in professional wrestling that AJ Styles has yet to achieve. So it's a safe bet that the former WWE Champion desperately wants to join the ranks of WWE's elite superstars in becoming a Grand Slam champion.
By becoming a WWE Grand Slam Champion, AJ Styles would join the likes of Kurt Angle, Eddie Guerrero, Roman Reigns, Edge, Randy Orton, Daniel Bryan and Seth Rollins, amongst others who have achieved this honor.
If AJ Styles and Omos win the RAW Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania 37, AJ Styles would be making history for a variety of reasons. Therefore, it would certainly be a WrestleMania moment fitting of The Phenomal One.
#1 Build to an eventual feud between AJ Styles and Omos in WWE
Historically in WWE, partnerships, associations and alliances do not end well. The same can likely be said for AJ Styles and Omos. AJ Styles currently has Omos serving as his bodyguard/associate to protect him on Monday Night RAW. In return, AJ Styles also serves as a mentor-like figure to the giant WWE Superstar as he develops his in-ring skills and abilities.
However, the time will come when Omos outgrows the tutelage of the former WWE Champion and decides to step out and carve his own path. This will likely involve some form of physical altercation between AJ Styles and Omos, leading to a match or series of matches, at some point in the future.
To make the eventual implosion of AJ Styles and Omos truly mean something, WWE must create a bond between the two that the WWE Universe in attendance and watching at home can relate to. This comes in the form of AJ Styles and Omos becoming tag team partners. By becoming tag team partners and winning the RAW Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania 37, it increases the bond between the student, Omos, and the teacher, AJ Styles.
It will therefore be even more heartbreaking when either AJ Styles or Omos eventually turn on one or the other. By winning the RAW Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania it sets up the eventual AJ Styles vs Omos match in the future and raises the emotional stakes, which is solid long-term storytelling.
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