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With 2020 finally coming to an end, SK Wrestling is looking back at some of the best acts in wrestling for the year. In this article, we're looking back at the 5 best tag teams in 2020 in WWE. Ever since The Revival (now FTR in AEW) left the company back in May, they made it very well known that the WWE does not know how to book a strong tag team division. The days of The Hardy Boyz, The Dudley Boyz, and Edge and Christian are long gone.
But despite lousy booking or just a general lack of interest in tag team wrestling, some tag teams will shine no matter what position they are put in. With that being said, let's look at the 5 best tag teams from WWE in 2020.
**Note: Both WWE and NXT tag teams will be considered**
5. Breezango
In May of 2019, Tyler Breeze returned to NXT as a full-time competitor. Many fans of Prince Pretty were ecstatic, due to how some viewed Breeze's time on the WWE main roster. Later on that year, Fandango would also make his return to NXT, reuniting with Breeze.
Fandango then had to undergo Tommy John surgery and was forced to be out for 6 months. When Fandango returned, he and Breeze defeated Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch and The Undisputed Era to become the number one contenders for the NXT Tag Team Championships. Breezango was unsuccessful in their championship match, but it was a chance that the group hadn't gotten in WWE.
Following another number one contenders match win, Breezango went on to face Imperium's Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel for the NXT Tag Team Championships. Breezango defeated Aichner and Barthel to become tag team champions, the pair's first championship win in their WWE careers. While their reign only lasted 56 days, it was a terrific redemption story for two fantastic talents.
4. The Miz and John Morrison
In 2007, The Miz and John Morrison were a pretty prevalent tag team in WWE. They held the WWE Tag Team Championship and the World Tag Team Championship before they split in 2009. Morrison left the company in 2012 and went on to have a solid career on the indies and in Impact Wrestling.
In late 2019, Mike Johnson of Pro Wrestling Insider reported that Morrison had re-signed with the WWE, and on the first episode of SmackDown in 2020, Morrison returned and reunited with The Miz.
Miz and Morrison competed in a fatal four-way tag team match against The Revival, Lucha House Party, and Heavy Machinery to determine who would face The New Day for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships at WWE Super ShowDown.
Miz and Morrison went on to defeat The New Day to become the new SmackDown Tag Team Champions, their first WWE tag titles win in almost 11 years.
The two competed in just the second tag team Elimination Chamber match where they successfully defended their titles. At WrestleMania 36, with Miz out due to illness, Morrison defeated Kofi Kingston and Jimmy Uso in a fantastic ladder match to retain the titles.
Miz and Morrison would lose the titles just 50 days into their title reign. Although their reign was short lived, Miz and Morrison have continuously been a major part of big WWE storylines in 2020, and both men are seemingly having a lot of fun together again.
3. Bayley and Sasha Banks
Bayley and Sasha Banks have had a very strange relationship on WWE television. They have continuously teamed up, just to split up again, months down the road. It got to the point where whenever they would team up, WWE fans would bet on how long their friendship would last.
Late in 2019, Bayley (SmackDown Women's Champion at the time) turned heel for the first time in her WWE career by helping Banks beat down Becky Lynch. In June of 2020, Bayley and Sasha Banks defeated Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss to become the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions for the second time in the title's history.
With Bayley being one half of the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, and the SmackDown Women's Champion, she and Banks did extremely well in the spotlight. Bayley showed a more aggressive side that definitely worked for her, and Sasha Banks honed her craft as a top female heel.
Bayley and Banks successfully defended the titles four times over their 120-day reign, but the amount of days isn't as important as the quality of their promos and matches during that time. The friendship even lasted a little longer than previous times, which made the eventual split even more noteworthy.
2. The New Day
It's been a year of ups and downs for The New Day, but they remain one of the top tag teams in WWE today. The New Day entered 2020 holding the SmackDown Tag Team Championships while Xavier Woods was out dealing with an injury. In February, they lost the titles to The Miz and John Morrison, and then failed to regain them at WrestleMania 36.
Just 13 days later, Big E won the titles back in a triple threat match with The Miz and Jey Uso, making The New Day six-time SmackDown Tag Team Champions.
Three months later however, The New Day would again lose the titles, this time to Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro. Shortly after, Kofi Kingston would reveal he needed to miss at least 6 weeks due to injury, and Big E began a singles run.
In October, both Woods and Kingston returned and defeated Nakamura and Cesaro to become seven-time SmackDown Tag Team Champions. As part of the 2020 WWE Draft, Woods and Kingston were drafted to Raw, while Big E was kept on SmackDown. For the first time ever, The New Day had been split between two brands.
The New Day and The Street Profits swapped titles, and The New Day became three-time Raw Tag Team Champions. The New Day would drop the titles to The Hurt Business at TLC, but Big E would defeat Sami Zayn to become the WWE Intercontinental Champion on the Christmas Day episode of SmackDown.
The New Day continues to be one of the best tag teams in the WWE today, and 2020 has proved that no matter what is thrown at them, they seemingly always come out on top.
1. The Street Profits
What a year it has been for Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins. The Street Profits made their debut on the WWE main roster back in July of 2019. In December of 2019, The Street Profits began challenging for the Raw Tag Team Championships, but just couldn't defeat The Viking Raiders for the titles.
Then, in March of 2020, Dawkins and Ford defeated Seth Rollins and Murphy to finally become the new Raw Tag Team Champions. The Street Profits then defended their titles at WrestleMania 36, against Andrade and Angel Garza in a solid tag team match.
Following WrestleMania, the two entered into a feud with The Viking Raiders where, the two teams would compete in various non-wrestling challenges such as basketball, bowling, and ax-throwing. After defeating Ivar and Erik, the Street Profits again defended their titles against Andrade and Garza, twice, succeeding both times.
In the 2020 WWE Draft, The Street Profits were drafted to SmackDown, and the SmackDown Tag Team Champions The New Day (Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston) were drafted to Raw. The two teams swapped belts, making The Street Profits the new SmackDown Tag Team Champions, thus making them only the second team to win the WWE Tag Team Triple Crown (Raw, SmackDown, and NXT Tag Team Championship reigns).
The Street Profits have been very well booked all year, and if fans were allowed in WWE arenas, they would still be a big fan favorite. At the time of this article, The Street Profits have held tag team gold for 295+ days. They were even awarded the Slammy Award for WWE Tag Team of the Year, and they receive number 1 honors for SK Wrestling's top WWE tag team of 2020.
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