Ranking the SmackDown Live Era Tag Team Champions from worst to best

#4 The Bar

The Bar had won the tag team titles on the 1000th episode of SmackDown

While Sheamus and Cesaro were adversaries at the start point of the SmackDown Live era, by the era’s conclusion, the European stars entrenched themselves as one of the greatest modern era tag teams. Known as The Bar, 'The Celtic Warrior' and 'The Swiss Cyborg' captured the SmackDown Tag Team Championships on the show's 1000th episode.

Their tenure lasted three months and they even represented SmackDown Live at Survivor Series 2018. Their association with The Big Show made their title reign feel special while their feuds with The New Day and The Usos were billed as the year's best. The Bar inevitably lost the titles to Shane McMahon and The Miz at Royal Rumble 2019.

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#3 The Bludgeon Brothers

The Bludgeon Brothers had demolished all the tag teams of the SmackDown Live roster

After the Wyatt Family’s demise, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan found themselves with no proper on-screen characters. It was then that creative repackaged them and launched them as The Bludgeon Brothers. WWE built them up as a dominant team heading into WrestleMania 34 where the duo won the SmackDown Tag Team Championships.

Harper and Rowan ruled the roost on SmackDown Live for the better part of 2018 before dropping the titles to The New Day on a SmackDown episode. They got the better of Team Hell No, The Usos, and The Club during their impressive 135 day reign. WWE had bigger plans for the Bludgeon Brothers, but an untimely injury to Rowan forced the company to revise.