4 tag-teams that will probably break up before the end of 2018 

Over the past two or three months, the WWE has put a renewed focus on tag-team wrestling, especially on Raw.

The Raw main-event scene is currently being dominated by two stables, and the company is doing their best to build up other tag-team and stable acts in the mid-card.

Using tag-team wrestling to tell a story has always been an effective tool because as every wrestling fan knows, tag-teams don't last forever, and a feud between the members is inevitable at some point down the line.

This past week on Raw, the WWE teased a split in The Shield, and also planted the seeds for a split between Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler. On SmackDown, we recently saw Aiden English turn on his partner, Rusev, bringing an end to the popular Rusev Day tag-team.

With the WWE's renewed focus on tag-team wrestling, let's take a look at four teams who are likely to break up before the end of 2018.

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#4: Titus Worldwide

Dana Brooke has already left Titus Worldwide, will Apollo Crews soon follow her?

Titus Worldwide have been floating around in no-man's land ever since the group were formed.

Their most notable contribution, outside of Titus falling over and providing wrestling fans a moment that they will cherish for a lifetime, was a brief feud for with The Bar in 2017 which saw them pick up several victories over the then Raw tag-team champions.

Titus Worldwide have spent the majority of 2018 putting over other tag-teams and occasionally picking up lucky victories in singles matches.

The group has gone as far as it is going to go in the WWE,and it's time for a change, especially for Apollo Crews.

Crews arrived on the main roster with such promise and he has never been allowed to show the WWE universe what he is capable of.

The WWE has been teasing this break-up on television in recent weeks, and having Crews finally break away from Titus and become his own star could do him the world of good. Crews could easily be a babyface mid-carder feuding with the likes of Elias and Baron Corbin, instead of being jobbed out to The Authors of Pain every other week.

#3: Bobby Roode and Chad Gable

Chad Gable has consistently outshone Bobby Roode

While the team of Bobby Roode and Chad Gable are fairly new to Monday nights, the duo feels as though they were thrown together purely to manufacture a Bobby Roode heel turn.

Chad Gable has excelled during the group's recent tag-team matches and the fact that they have been facing The Ascension every other week, instead of progressing up the division, indicates that the WWE has no long-term plans for them.

Instead, Roode will become infuriated by Gable constantly outshining him, and eventually turn on his partner, setting up a brief feud between the two men.

Hopefully, this will see Roode, who has always been a natural heel, rise back up the ranks on Monday nights, while Gable will hopefully do enough to prove that he deserves to be taken seriously as a singles competitor.

#2: Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre

Could Drew McIntyre see the light and leave Dolph Ziggler?

Credit where it is due, Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler have done a lot better than anybody expected when they made their debut on Raw after WrestleMania.

Most fans, myself included, were quick to write the group off as a Shawn Michaels and Diesel tribute act but the duo has proven everybody wrong.

Ziggler has become more relevant than he has been in years, and McIntyre has looked every bit the superstar most fans know he is capable of becoming.

The split between the two men was teased on this week's Raw, and the idea of seeing McIntyre turn on his partner and join The Shield is a mouthwatering prospect.

Given his recent performances, the sky is the limit for Drew McIntyre, and his rise up the card officially begins when he turns on Dolph Ziggler.

#1: The Shield

Is a heel turn on the cards for Dean Ambrose?

The Shield's third run in the company has already been a much bigger success than their failed second attempt from 2017, but it seems unlikely that the group will make it through to WrestleMania 35 as a cohesive unit.

The WWE started to plant the seeds for a potential Shield split on this week's Raw, with Braun, Ziggler, and McIntyre teasing Ambrose about not holding any gold and claiming that Rollins and Reigns didn't care about him.

A double turn with Ambrose and McIntyre is certainly an interesting twist and it could have huge implications for both men's careers in the WWE.

Regardless of how the split goes down, there is every chance that we will see Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, and Roman Reigns squaring up at WrestleMania 35 in six-months time.